Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment

Mark Rosa has been appointed as senior vice president and chief information officer of Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment to oversee strategic business decisions related to technology across all MGE properties.

Announcing the newest member of its executive leadership team via the strategic promotion, Mohegan is aiming to further sustain and enhance the brand’s growth and development throughout the United States and internationally.

“As we continue on this path of strategic development, it has been our mission to build the best executive team in the industry.

“With igaming and mobile technology driving the casino industry today, Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment is honoured to welcome Mark Rosa into the fold where he will manage the increased use of cutting-edge technology that will better position the MGE enterprise for growth and expansion in the coming years.” – Mario Kontomerkos, CEO of Mohegan.

NetGaming

Natalya Ovchinnikova has joined creative casino games studio NetGaming as head of product, bringing almost a decade of industry experience including management spells at companies such as NetEnt and Yggdrasil.

Further strengthening the firm’s senior management team, Ovchinnikova will be charged with overseeing the production process for NetGaming’s slot portfolio, with the company planning to release a mixture of branded and original content every month throughout 2020.

“We are absolutely delighted to have Natalya on board. With a fantastic track-record of achieving consistent results, her extensive and successful industry experience speaks for itself. I am pleased to be working with Natalya again.” – Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO at NetGaming.

National Council on Problem Gambling

Joel Simon has been welcomed on-board by the National Council on Problem Gambling in the role of communications manager where he will implement the organisation’s external communications, including public awareness and outreach efforts.

Prior to joining the NCPG, Joel served as the marketing and communications coordinator at National Integrated Health Associates in Washington DC. He has also contributed to writing and designing projects for various national and international nonprofits.

“NCPG is thrilled to have Joel join our team. He brings valuable skills in digital media and project management. We look forward to deploying his expertise to increase public awareness about problem gambling and help NCPG grow,” – Keith Whyte, executive director of NCPG.

Aruze Gaming

Aruza Gaming America has confirmed the appointment of Simon Burgess to the role of senior vice president of finance and accounting, leading all core finance and accounting functions, including the development of a longer-term financial strategy.

Burgess brings in excess of 25 years of progressive financial planning and analysis, operations, business process improvement, marketing, and business development experience within the gaming and lottery industry to Aruze.

“We are excited to bring Simon on board in this new role. We anticipate his implementation of strategy to ensure we achieve and exceed our operational and strategic objectives in being a market leader.

“Simon has a tremendous wealth of knowledge about the gaming industry as a whole, and brings a distinctly technology-driven focus.” – Rob Ziems, president and global chief legal officer of Aruze.

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Although the locations where Netgaming’s content will be made available are yet to be disclosed, it was confirmed that the studio’s slot content will be brought to Caesars’ players in the US by H2 2025. 

Caesars’ digital platforms include Caesars Palace Online Casino and Caesars Sportsbook & Casino, which between them have gaming offerings in US states such as New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. 

Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO of NetGaming, commented: “We are thrilled to partner with Caesars, one of the most respected and prestigious brands in the gaming industry. 

“This agreement represents a significant milestone for NetGaming, as it allows us to reach a broader audience and showcase our great games that stand out for their innovation, quality, and player engagement.”

As a result of the collaboration, players with access to Caesars’ platforms in permitted states will be able to place bets on Netgaming slots such as Wicked Wins – Fortune Pick, Zeus’s Thunderbolt 5000, and American Wonder Reels.

“NetGaming offers an impressive variety of titles that we believe will resonate well with our players,” added Matt Sunderland, Senior Vice President, and Chief iGaming Officer at Caesars Digital. 

“We’re committed to putting our players first and integrations like these add to our ambitions of offering them an elevated online casino experience they can’t find anywhere else.”

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The partnership will see NetGaming’s full roster of slot content integrated into BetMGM’s Ontarian igaming platform as the supplier continues to bolster its position in the North American market. 

Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO of NetGaming, commented: “We are thrilled to enter the Ontario igaming market with BetMGM. This move is a testament to our ongoing efforts to expand our footprint in regulated markets and bring our top-tier gaming content, such as Wicked Wins – Fortune Pick, Zeus’s Thunderbolt 5000 and Fireball Inferno, to new audiences. 

The deal builds on an existing collaboration between the studio and BetMGM, coming shortly after NetGaming secured its debut in New Jersey, reaching the state’s players for the first time via BetMGM’s online casino platform. 

“Ontario is a dynamic and rapidly growing market, and we are excited to offer players in the region a unique and thrilling gaming experience,” added Deshmukh. 

The slot provider has announced that “over the coming months”, it will plan to offer its igaming portfolio to more online casino brands in the Canadian province, extending the reach of its slots, table games and “non-traditional” content. 

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Through the agreement, NetGaming’s slot portfolio will be made exclusively available for BetMGM online casino players in Michigan before being rolled out in all states where the operator has an igaming presence.

Titles from the developer coming to the online casino include 3 Wild Jokers, Skulls Gone Wild, and the Shelby Online Video Slot – a collaboration between NetGaming and the car manufacturer Carrol Shelby.

Commenting on the partnership, Oliver Bartlett, Director of Gaming at BetMGM, said: “At BetMGM we’re driven to offer players more choices and the most entertaining, fresh and exclusive content available on the market.

“We’re thrilled to be working with NetGaming, as they have an exciting portfolio of games that will appeal to our customers in Michigan and beyond.”

BetMGM’s online casino includes over 150 titles and a progressive jackpot network that has awarded over $100m in 2022.

Meanwhile, NetGaming continues to expand its reach as last month, it agreed to a similar online casino content deal with Novibet, which saw the developer’s titles launch online in Greece for the first time.

“We are thrilled to launch in Michigan with BetMGM. It’s a testament to our hard work over many years,” added Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO of NetGaming.

“Securing a long-term deal with the top igaming operator in the US is extremely exciting and we look forward to working with BetMGM to deliver entertaining games. This is just the beginning of our relationship with BetMGM, as we intend to launch our content across the country, as more states regulate.”

Last month, BetMGM reported that it is on the “path to profitability” after achieving positive EBITDA for the second quarter. The brand expects to hit near the upper end of its fiscal year 2023 revenue guidance.

In an H1 2023 trading update, the jointly owned MGM Resorts International and Entain operator declared net revenue for the period of $944m, including a same-state growth of 25 per cent from digital operations.

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Through the deal, NetGaming’s portfolio of games will be distributed across several markets across the globe where Novibet operates, as well as bringing the casino content developer’s titles online in Greece for the first time.

Commenting on the agreement, Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO at NetGaming, said: “I am delighted to see NetGaming games on Novibet. We are proud to partner with one of the top operators in Greece.

“It has been a great collaboration so far and we are looking forward to growing our business with Novibet. 

“With this launch, we add another key regulated market to the growing list of markets we support, including the UK, Georgia, Belgium, Michigan and more to follow.”

Bringing titles that offer a variety of themes, gameplay and mechanics, initial NetGaming games that will be made available to Novibet customers include 3 Wild Jokers, Juicy Gold 100, and Lucky Vault.

Additional new releases will be added to the offering throughout the year, as well as the developer’s full back catalogue.

Foteini Matthaiou, Casino Product & CRM Director at Novibet, added: “We are thrilled to announce our exclusive content deal with NetGaming, for our Greek offering. This partnership marks a significant milestone for Novibet as we further solidify our position as a leading player in the industry, internationally. 

“By joining forces with NetGaming, we are excited to bring an unparalleled selection of innovative and captivating gaming content to our esteemed players. This collaboration aligns perfectly with our commitment to delivering the highest quality entertainment and elevating the gaming experience for our customers.

“We are confident that this exclusive content deal will offer our members an unforgettable entertainment journey filled with excitement and endless possibilities.”

Novibet also recently joined the Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming ahead of the market’s regulation.

IBJR was founded earlier this year in March with a goal to help create a ‘sustainable Brazilian market’ by contributing to the country’s gambling market’s development ahead of sports betting being regulated by its government.

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This will permit the online casino content developer to supply its digital gaming suite to operators in the state, which will initially see players gain access to a trio of games. 3 Wild Jokers, Aped, Juicy Gold 100 and Casino Punks will be the first to become available, with an added suite of titles to become available during the remainder of the year.

Despite this issuance representing NetGaming’s maiden first US state licence, the supplier does assert that many more applications are currently underway.

NetGaming currently provides content under MGA, UK and Curacao licences, with certifications also gained in Georgia and Belarus. 

Furthermore, the group has also secured a licence in Greece, and vows to launch in the market soon alongside “one of the biggest operators”.

Pallavi Deshmukh, NetGaming’s CEO, said: “We are thrilled to receive the licence. The licensing process in the US is arduous and is a big undertaking. We worked relentlessly to ensure all the i’s were dotted and the t’s were crossed.

“For a start-up to receive an igaming licence in the US is no small feat. I am incredibly proud of our team, who are my strength. We can’t wait to go live with our launch partner.”

Last month, the Michigan regulator reported yet another igaming revenue record through November, with the $145.43m figure surpassing the previous record of $141m that was set just one month earlier. 

In total, Michigan commercial and tribal operators reported online gaming and sports betting revenue of $186.27m, which represented a slight 2.1 per cent drop month-on-month from $190.2m.

For the year-to-date, igaming revenue through the close of November came in at $1.3bn, while online sports betting tracked $188.8m.

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Green Machine Supreme – High 5 Games 

High 5 Games is offering instant cash prizes with its latest dollar-themed release. As a 5×5 reel slot, this title has no paylines as all wins are given with a “what you see is what you get mechanic”. 

In Green Machine Supreme, symbols land on the reels in the form of cash values, with bronze, silver and gold variants. 

Free spins scatters can appear showcasing between one and five free spins that will be awarded to the player when landing on the reels. During the free spins bonus, additional scatters can land to award further free turns.

Red, cyan, blue, orange and purple jackpot symbols can appear on reels one, two, three, four and five respectively. These symbols will present an enhanced jackpot prize ranging from x20 to x1000 the player’s bet at the start of the game, however these prices can be further enhanced by the game’s Spin-crease feature.

With Spin-crease, points are accumulated with every winning bet, as 20 Spin-crease points become multiplied by the winning bet amount. After collecting so many points, the value of the aforementioned jackpot and bronze, silver and gold symbols increase slightly. 

Spin-crease levels can increase many times to take a player from winning x1,000 their stake from the highest-value jackpot symbol to winning x1,250 after collecting over 250 million Spin-crease points.

Zombie aPOPalypse – AvatarUX

AvatarUX tasks players with surviving a zombie apocalypse in its new slot title that uses a Multipop mechanic to provide cascading wins. Players can win up to x20,000 their stake on a 5×4 reel set with 6250-winways.

“We’re incredibly excited to launch Zombie aPOPalypse, our first title incorporating the MultiPop mechanic,” commented Nicola Longmuir, CEO at AvatarUX.

“We are working hard to further expand our games portfolio with innovative and entertaining titles and with big multipliers able to land on every spin, and a pays-both-ways mechanic, we feel this game has plenty to get players excited about as spooky season commences.”

For this title, every winning symbol’s place on the reels gains a multiplier border, enhancing the cell for any additional cascading wins that occur in the same place. 

With each consecutive cascading win, these multipliers will increase by one to multiply the value of any winning combinations that land in that cell. The multipliers will disappear when the cascading symbols no longer result in a win.

If these multipliers make it up to x5, they will no longer increase with the next cascading win, but will become infectious and cause other cells to have multipliers.

Landing three, four or five scatters will award 10, 12 or 15 free spins. Once these have been triggered, players have the option to gamble their free spins to obtain a few more. To do this, players must spin a wheel to see if they land on a value higher than the spins they had already won. However, the wheel can land on zero, causing the player to lose the entirety of their free turns. 

During the free spins feature, the reel set expands to become 5×5 while cell multipliers can increase all the way to x10. These multipliers stay active during the entirety of the free spins in this game mode. 

Captain’s Quest, Treasure Island – Betsoft

Hit the high seas with Betsoft’s latest release that hopes to have players hooked. As a 5×3 reel, 10-payline slot, Captain’s Quest offers players the chance to win up to x25,280 their preferred stake.

Anastasia Bauer, Head of Account Management at Betsoft Gaming, stated: ’The very big win potential of x25,280 max bet, married to the amazingly detailed pirate theme, makes this a uniquely immersive slot from Betsoft. 

“Captain’s Quest, Treasure Island is designed to absorb players’ attention, much the way a great film does, by putting the player literally at the centre of the game. We are expecting a very positive response from our players to this new release.”

Landing three wild reels on the same spin will activate a free spins feature. With this game mode, 10 free spins are initially awarded to the player as the nudging wilds gain multiplier abilities.

The wilds that landed to trigger the feature will turn the reels they landed in into treasure reels, meaning every time another wild lands on the same reel a multiplier value will increase by one. 

Any win that includes a wild on these treasure reels will be multiplied by these values, accumulating each reels multiplier and adding them together. For example if reels one, two and three had multipliers of x2, x4 and x3, then the win would be multiplied by two, then four, and then three to result in a much bigger multiplier.

Wild Buccaneers Megaways – Four Leaf Gaming

With another pirate-themed title, Four Leaf Gaming introduces players to a trusty crew of animal shipmates in its latest slot title. Players can win up to x50,000 their stake on a six reel set with varying rows between two and seven. 

Across the top of the reels there is a treasure trail. This bonus feature awards prizes that get progressively better with every cascading win. This treasure trail always starts as a x1 multiplier for the first payout on every spin, but can offer wild features, free spins and up to x64 multipliers for consecutive wins.

Landing four scatters will award 10 free spins, however landing any additional scatters will add an extra two spins each. The treasure trail is persistent throughout these free spins, meaning it will continue to award progressive prizes for the entirety of the bonus rounds.

After the free spins bonus, players have the option to enter the fortune maker game mode. In this feature, players must gamble either half or all of their free spins winnings to select one of 16 treasure chests each round.

Some chests contain evil skulls and crossbones that end the game while others contain tokens to take you to the next round. The further players get in this game mode, the higher a multiplier gets. 

Players can exit the game at any time to apply their current multiplier value to the free spins payout they obtained earlier. Multipliers range from x1.3 at the start of the game all the way to x1,800 if you can select all the good chests.

Casino Punks – Netgaming

Netgaming has turned to popular cryptocurrency NFTs with the release of its new slot title that displays a trading chart of varying multipliers. This title is a 3×3 reel slot that offers the players a chance to win up to x2,900 their stake. 

Low value symbols in the game come in the form of CryptoPunk-style pixelated cigarettes, caps, bowler hats, sunglasses and dollars. Next up, red-haired and pharaoh punks depict the medium value symbols. A pink Mohawk pink represents the highest-paying symbol for this title, offering x5. 

Bonus text symbols can also drop onto the reels, triggering a free spins feature and a payout of x10 if three land on the reels at once. Additionally, golden punk wilds are available. These wilds substitute for all symbols and also offer a payout of x10 if three land on a winning payline.

This title contains a #WAGMI (We’re all going to make it) multiplier at the bottom of the reel set that can be applicable for any win.This multiplier can decrease or increase on each spin between a range of x1 to x15, multiplying any winning payout with the value it showcases at the time of each spin.

Landing three bonus symbols awards five pink free spins and landing an additional three bonuses during these free turns will award an extra five spins.

When punk free spins are awarded, players can gamble to gain up to 12 free spins by trying to land a spinning wheel’s marker in the green section of the wheel. 

These gambles are 50/50 as there are equal parts green to red on the spinning wheel.

During the free spins, the #WAGMI multiplier range increases to be between x5 and x100, enhancing the win potential. 

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As part of the link-up, NetGaming’s complete catalogue of slots, such as 3 Wild Jokers, Dragon Fortress -Battle of the Castle, Skulls Gone Wild, MTV Pimp My Ride and Shelby Online, will become accessible to Livespins’ streamers.

“It is great to have NetGaming integrated into the Livespins platform and for our streamers to be able to access even more premium content for their broadcasts to players,” explained Michael Pedersen, CCO at Livespins.

“Content plays a huge part in the success of a stream, so it is vital that we continue to onboard the best providers in the business and NetGaming certainly hits the standard of content Livespins, our streamers and, of course, players are seeking.

“Together, we can continue to socially charge the online casino space and deliver new, thrilling and compelling experiences to players.”

Moreover, the partnership between the two entities is said to allow the slot studio to “drive awareness” of its games to an “entirely new audience” of online casino players.

Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO at NetGaming, added: “Slot streaming is a big business that is only going to get bigger, and this partnership with Livespins allows us to leverage this to introduce our games to new player audiences.

“The Livespins platform is as innovative as it is disruptive, and we are thrilled to be joining its revolution of the online casino space. We now look forward to seeing streamers and players enjoy the thrills and spills our games have been designed to deliver, and of course to bet behind the action.”

Livespins’ platform includes a bet behind feature that allows players to back their favourite streamers in real-time. This also creates a group bet and a shared experience with each player able to choose their bet and number of spins.

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The certification, provided to the company for its commitment in promoting and championing diversity, equity and inclusion, offers assurances that NetGaming offers a “safe and nurturing environment” for all its team members, who are encouraged to bring their true selves to work. 

Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO at NetGaming, expressed: “We are very proud and honoured to engage with Pride 365. DEI is intrinsic to NetGaming, discrimination at any level is not part of our nature. 

“Receiving certification from Pride 365 reaffirms our approach and makes it official. We are looking forward to working with Pride 365 and associating ourselves with the exciting projects they are part of.”

NetGaming stated that the values promoted by DEI are “inherent” to the company’s culture and emphasised its continued target to bring individuals with unique skill sets and backgrounds to create value in the sector. 

Furthermore, the supplier further condemned the instances of injustice or hostility towards those who are different. 

“Pride 365 are thrilled for NetGaming to make a real step towards inclusion and have become industry leaders as the first Pride 365 Certified organisation of this type,” stated Pride 365, COO, George Mizel. “Demonstrating that they are not just willing to say they are supportive of the LGBT+ community but actually show it.”

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The link-up between the two companies will see 888casino players experience NetGaming’s games, including 3 Wild Jokers, Skulls Gone Wild and Mansa Musa Golden Journey, as well as upcoming releases from the supplier. 

“I am thrilled to see NetGaming games on 888casino,” explained Pallavi Deshmukh, CEO at NetGaming. “We are proud to partner with one of our industry’s most successful companies.

“This great news follows the recent successes of 3 Wild Jokers and the launch of Aped, a Mutant Ape NFT-themed slot. The 888 partnership is extra special as they are our first FTSE 250 customer!”

The partnership will cover the UK and a wide range of international jurisdictions serviced from 888’s Malta Gaming Authority licence. 

Talya Benyamini, VP B2C Casino at 888casino, added: ”888casino is a world-leading casino brand, and one of our key pillars is content leadership.

“Adding great games like those by NetGaming gives even more incredible choices for our players, and we are really excited to work with the team to bring these exciting titles into some of our main markets.”

The partnership between the two follows on from NetGaming’s release of its NFT-themed slot title, from the Mutant Ape Yacht Club, entitled APED, which also claimed SlotBeats’ Slot of the Week.

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