Online Casino and Gambling News: 2010..

The Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming today launches its latest flagship video slot, Hellboy. Licensed from Dark Horse Comics, the game introduces the iconic action hero to the world of online slots. Created by Mike Mignola, Hellboy is popular with fans, appearing in comic books, DVDs and on the big screen.

The major UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes plc has announced that its 52-year-old CEO, Chris Bell is departing after almost 20 years with the company. Bell, who joined Ladbrokes in 1991, will leave in the summer by mutual agreement, the company statement revealed, adding that Bell's successor, who will come from within the group, will be named Tuesday.

ICAP Ocean Tomo has announced that it has been engaged to sell a patent portfolio of Server Based Gaming technology owned by Legal iGaming Inc. The portfolio contains 6 issued U.S. patents and 24 pending domestic and foreign patent applications.

Making its debut on the Internet this week at RTG powered online casinos is an entertaining new progressive slot branded Wok & Roll (an identity shared appropriately with prominent Asian restaurants). The new offering has a culinary theme that serves up free games and has two jackpots on the menu to spice things up.

Crossing swords with 1st Technology can be an expensive experience. Readers will recall the acrimonious and controversial legal clashes over Internet gambling patents that saw 1st Technology LLC and the Bodog online gambling group clash two years ago, with serious consequences for the Bodog brand that were resolved only later in a settlement.

If the run of successful industry legal actions against the state of Kentucky continues, January 21st will be a date to celebrate. That's when the Kentucky Supreme Court is due to publish a decision that will hopefully end the long-running attempt by Governor Steve Beshear's outsourced lawyers to seize international domain names belonging to foreign online gambling entities.

Incredible as it may seem in these challenging financial times, the United States Treasury still lacks an Under Secretary of the Treasury...and critics are blaming it on Internet gambling's arch-foe, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl.

The Irish and international sports broadcaster Setanta has revealed that it plans to enter the online gambling sector in collaboration with the French Internet gambling operator ChilliGaming. Serving some 600,000 households, Setanta makes for a powerful partner.

GTech G2, the online gambling group that includes Boss Media, Dynamite Idea, Finsoft and St Minver, has launched a major update to its instant games casino inventory that brings the portfolio to 53 games.

Online gambling software developer and turnkey provider Cryptologic has signed a three year deal with Realex Payments to support its card processing requirements across a growing customer base.