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Esports October 31, 2025
DATA.BET Teams Up with Entain’s Estonian Brands to Spearhead Esports Product DATA.BET, a provider of cutting-edge esports betting technology and odds, has signed a new deal with Entain NCE, strengthening the latter’s esports footprint in the Baltics, and specifically, Estonia. The partnership covers the Optibet and Klondaika brands and provides them with access to advanced esports betting coverage, along with DATA.BET’s signature solutions, including Odds Feed, […]
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Esports October 20, 2025
BC.GAME Esports Signs Legendary CS2 Player Denis “⁠electroNic⁠” Sharipov BC.GAME Esports, the competitive gaming arm of BC.GAME, a crypto-native entertainment platform, has announced the signing of legendary player Denis “⁠electroNic⁠” Sharipov to its Counter-Strike 2 team. The new acquisition means electroNic will be reunited with another modern legend in CS esports, Oleksandr ”s1mple⁠” Kostyliev. Both spent nearly six years playing together on Natus Vincere, […]
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Esports August 11, 2025
Better Collective Separates Esports Reporting as Results Remain Strong Better Collective continues to focus on the esports segment, with the company now moving to report results tied to the competitive video gaming sector separately from the rest of its Q2 2025 earnings. This is a move designed to streamline its operations, and follows a split of Better Collective’s businesses into three major pillars, to […]
Esports September 29, 2025
New UK Report Underlines the Hidden Dangers of Skins Gambling The UK could be gearing up to take a harsher stance on skin gambling, with research exposing the magnitude of the problem and its particular impact on younger players. The recently published comprehensive report from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has raised significant alarm, finding that a substantial number of underage players […]
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Esports July 25, 2025
Stake Becomes Global Sponsor for Team Vitality’s CS2 Squad Team Vitality has revealed that it has signed a multi-year deal with global sports betting and gaming leader Stake. The latter has become the esports organization’s official sponsor for the men’s Counter-Strike 2 team. This partnership further establishes Stake.com as a forward-thinking brand that embraces innovation. The company has several prominent partnerships with Ultimate Fighting […]
Esports September 15, 2025
Esports Team ECSTATIC Joins Forces with Gamban, Rejecting Gambling Deals Gamban, an award-winning gambling blocking service, has joined forces with the esports team ECSTATIC, becoming its new partner and main sponsor. The team celebrated the tie-up, saying that it wishes to champion safer gambling and “create meaningful impact.” ECSTATIC Rejects Gambling Sponsorships The partnership was announced on September 12, with ECSTATIC, a professional Counter-Strike 2 […]
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Esports July 23, 2025
CS2 Pro S1mple Eyes Gambling Streams, Prompting Twitch Gambling Rules Discourse Popular Counter-Strike professional player and streamer Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyljev alluded to a career change after his contract with the team Na’Vi ends, suggesting that he may become a gambling streamer. However, this also raised the question about the relationship between Twitch and casino-like video game mechanics such as opening cases or loot boxes. S1mple’s Comments Once […]
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Can the Gambling Industry Be Sustainable? The gambling industry, like any other, has the potential to be sustainable, if it is managed and regulated properly. But what does ‘sustainability’ actually mean? Let’s first try to agree on its meaning before finding out whether it can indeed be sustainable. Sustainability is not the same as corporate social responsibility or ESG (environmental social […]
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The Power of Influencers and How They Are Transforming the iGaming Industry It’s no secret that influencers are becoming increasingly important for brands in any industry, the iGaming industry included. Whether you think this is true or not, there is something special about influencers. Jimmy Donaldson, perhaps more known as Mr Beast, is one of the most known influencers today. Surpassing over 120 million subscribers on YouTube, […]
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iGaming’s Regulated Future with Johan Törnqvist As the company behind blockbuster slot games including Book of Dead, Play’n GO titles are enjoyed by online casino players in more than 25 regulated markets around the world, including the UK. Chief executive and co-founder Johan Törnqvist explains why sensible regulation is the only way to ensure a sustainable and safe future. Q: Why […]
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Responsible Gambling: Where Business Meets Ethics I founded the harm minimisation gambling charity, BetBlocker. The investment to develop the software came straight out of the small business I owned at the time. It later was broken off as a charity because the service became very popular, and the business could not sustain the continued growth of a free service. We did […]
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Stronger Together: Raising Awareness of Safer Gambling The theme of this year’s ICE London event is Stronger Together, which could not be more apt when referring to the ongoing challenge we face in raising awareness of safer gambling and reducing gambling harms. Gordon Moody is a charity founded over 50 years ago by the Reverend Gordon Moody himself. Mr Moody had already […]
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GamCare and Consumer Protection Q: Are gambling companies overall getting better at protecting consumers? What we have seen over the past few years is more investment and resources being applied to player protection. Yet we know there is still a long way to go. In 2021, we conducted a survey with YouGov, and it was clear that the public […]
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Striking the Balance between Player Freedom and Consumer Protection Getting the right balance between player freedom and consumer protection arguably remains the holy grail of the gambling industry. I’ve always felt that having what I call a ‘healthy tension’ between regulators and industry is needed to ensure industry continues to raise standards in responsible and safer gambling whilst allowing industry freedoms to innovate and […]
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Esports Roundtable: Sergey Tsukanov and Dinos Stranomitis Talk Esports, Data, and the Future Today we sit down to talk with Dinos Stranomitis, COO and Co-Founder of Altenar, and Sergey Tsukanov, Head of Sportsbook at BETBY to discuss the ever-more important phenomenon of esports and how it ties traditional sports betting experience. Data plays an important part in monetizing and tapping into the esports vertical and both executives agree. […]
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GamblingNews Talks Regulation with GeoComply SVP Operations, Gaming Chad Kornett (Podcast #19) GamblingNews and GeoComply’s Senior Vice President Operations, Gaming Chad Kornett, explore how the company is making sure gaming operators function within the limits established by regulators. Compliance with regulations ranks at the top of the list of priorities for gaming regulators. This is true in any jurisdiction, particularly in the US. The structure of the […]
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GamblingNews and Steven Salz of Rivalry Discuss the Future of Gaming (Podcast #12) GamblingNews and Steven Salz, the co-founder and CEO of sports betting and sports media company Rivalry, had a chance to come together on a recent podcast. The Canada-based company is making serious inroads in the industry, bringing new levels of innovation to the gaming experience as the online segment continues to grow. Having recently launched […]
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GamblingNews Talks the Future of Esports with Oliver Niner of PandaScore (Podcast #8) GamblingNews recently sat down for a podcast with Oliver Niner, PandaScore’s head of sales and an expert in commercial strategy. Niner has a strong background in the gaming industry, with a great deal of experience in business development. His skills have become highly beneficial to PandaScore’s growth and he continues to help shape the company’s […]
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GamblingNews Discusses iGaming Cybersecurity with Hedgehog Security (Podcast #5) The GamblingNews podcasts are delivering a wealth of knowledge on various aspects of the gambling industry and one aspect that can never be overlooked is security. We invited Peter Bassill, the founder and CEO of Hedgehog Security, to sit down with us to discuss how the company is helping gaming operators around the world ensure […]