: Gareth Wong on the 3Gs - Gambling, Gamebling & Gaming and click here for his presentation on the convergence of leisure and remote gambing gambling industry given at the European iGaming Expo.
: From UK Gambling Blog -
Some figures have predicted that java-based gambling will reach £4bn by 2008. This is bigger than the market for both mobile lottery tickets and betting
As gaming site, Gamesindustry.biz reports:
Mobile games provider, Million-2-1 continues to expand its java-based mobile offering with a new range of fixed-odds games including a Dice game and Hi-Lo - available as both Play-4-Fun and Play-4-Real. They'll follow this up with a horse racing game and a balls/numbers game.
Million-2-1 use a very simple interface and their low-stake games from just a penny have helped them hook into a willing audience. They allow players to 'top up' their accounts from between £3 to £15 maximum per day
In the meantime, the week Zone4Play and Interactive TV Gaming Channel, Avago, announced a tie-up with '3' - the 3G service from Hutchison to offer a Play-4-Real Money fixed odds games on their platform. Zone4Play will provide the games whilst Avago lends its brand name to the service. Zone4Play have had a deal with DITG, Avago's parent group, to provide play-4-fun and play-4-real games to both mobiles and Interactive TV for 18 months.
: Mobvision launches Arabian Night mobile casino suite of mobile gambling games.
: Cometa Games enters the mobile gambling space:
“The mobile gambling market is evolving incredibly quickly,” says Rob Anderson, the Managing Director of Cometa Games. “However, the issue of quality, both in terms of the games themselves and the underlying technology is one which has yet to be addressed. Many of the gambling games on the market are simply not much fun to play. This has serious long-term implications for the usage of these titles and for the market as a whole. Cometa has a great deal of experience in developing titles with real gameplay and far greater appeal outside the immediate gambling function to ensure players return to play time after time.”
The company has also created the Arcadia™ platform to enable the creation, provision and management of gambling games and services. A comprehensive and highly optimised mobile gambling solution, Arcadia™ ensures that players can compete at their own pace without waiting for connections or establishing dedicated open line. Highly secure, with the ability to integrate seamlessly into existing software, Arcadia™ is the first dedicated mobile gambling platform created with the quality of gameplay in mind.
“The whole mobile gaming experience is built upon convenience and access,” says Anderson. “If players cannot access a service, use it and achieve something within a very short space of time, then they're not going to come back as often as they might. Allowing them to enter, play and enjoy our games as quickly as possible in a completely secure environment means that the infrastructure becomes transparent to the consumer. Having to wait for a connection to be established for each and every spin cuts down the amount of time the user actually spends playing. Arcadia™ allows the player to play at speeds of up to 1000 games per hour, ensuring even the fastest players are not left waiting as their mobile tries to connect. Cometa is committed to making the whole gambling experience as seamless and enjoyable for the consumer as it possibly can be.”
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