Online Casino and Gambling News: October 2008

Party Casino launches Terminator slot

The future's most dangerous humanoid is back this week with the launch of Party Casino's very own T800 video slot The Terminator. The new game is the latest movie themed slot to be debuted on PartyCasino.com and joins a collection of games that reads like a list of Hollywood’s greatest movies.

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Independent study explores Bermuda becoming gaming jurisdiction

Speculation on whether the North Atlantic island government of Bermuda will decide to offer regulation and licensing to online gambling companies has resurfaced this week in an article in The Royal Gazette, which examines the revenue possibilities using other island ventures in the field as a benchmark.

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King Kong leads Cryptologic's seven latest games

The movie industry's most famous giant ape headlines the latest seven game releases from gambling software provider CryptoLogic Limited this week as the company unveils branded slot games based on Merian C. Cooper's King Kong and the popular Casinomeister Internet gambling information portal, as well as new European Blackjack and upgraded European Roulette software and other innovations.

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Kentucky officials attempting to make money out of domain seizure debacle

Further disclosures in the attempt by the state of Kentucky to seize international domain names became public this week following moves by the Interactive Gaming Council and the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association to challenge county court Judge Thomas Wingate's findings.

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Free poker league challenges N.Y. State

Another American gambling legal tussle is imminent, this time in New York state where Missouri-based Free Poker Experience LLC has filed suit against the state in an effort to clarify regional laws on gambling with particular reference to bar poker leagues.

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French online gambling tax rates still undecided

French gambling industry executives and other parties interested in the possible regulation of Internet gambling in France assembled last week in Paris to discuss issues and listen to the latest progress report from French government officials responsible for driving the project and drafting proposed regulations. The gathering attracted some 400 delegates - twice the number that attended a similar event last year, indicating growing interest in the future regulatory and tax regime in a tough economic climate.

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Proposed Australian gambling amendments don't go far enough say Greens

Gambling - and pokie machines in particular, remain under the spotlight in the Australian state of New South Wales as Parliament debates curbs on pokie machine gambling following a review of the Gambling Machines Act. Gaming minister Kevin Greene has proposed a ban on credit card cash withdrawals from ATM machines in (land) gaming venues, a reduced cap on the maximum allowed poker machines by 5000 and streamlining forfeiture procedures in cases of illegality.

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Australian Internet fans critical of proposed ISP filtering

A groundswell of opposition to Australian government plans to study an ISP ban on Internet gambling and other 'undesirable' websites seems to be gathering momentum in the Australian media, with several newspapers publishing posts and letters from citizens protesting that the Internet should not be censored.

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iMEGA writ seeks higher court intervention in Kentucky domains case

The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association has now confirmed that it has petitioned the Kentucky Court of Appeals for a writ of mandamus as reported earlier by InfoPowa News. This type of order is normally used to enlist the aid of a superior court in instructing a lower court to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.

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Germany's Tipp24 loses constitutional appeal

Tipp24 AG's appeal to the German Federal Constitutional Court on restrictions to its business activities created by the State Treaty on Gaming has failed, according to a statement from the company this week.

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