This ensures that the sports betting and online casino operator’s players will gain access to Yggdrasil’s igaming portfolio, including titles featuring the supplier’s proprietary game engagement mechanics and exclusive content from the YG Masters program. 

The deal sees the relationship between Tipsport and Yggdrasil strengthened, with its content already live with the operator in the Czech Republic. 

“Launching in yet another key regulated market is a huge achievement for us as we continue to implement our growth strategy in Europe and beyond,” Björn Krantz, chief of global market operations at Yggdrasil, said of the extended partnership.

“We have had a very successful partnership with Tipsport in the Czech Republic and are thrilled to extend this collaboration to Slovakia. Our content has resonated well with Tipsport’s customers and we are confident it will also appeal to Slovakian players.” 

Tipsport has offered land-based and online sports betting in Slovakia for many years, but recently launched an online casino following updated 2019 national gambling legislation allowing the vertical to be introduced by all licence holders. 

Tomas Chyle, online casino manager at Tipsport, said: “Yggdrasil’s portfolio offers a wide range of immersive, innovative and engaging games that have great appeal to our customer base. 

“We are very excited to extend our partnership as we grow our brand in Slovakia and by offering Yggdrasil’s content, we significantly strengthen our fledgling casino offering.”

Earlier this week, Yggdrasil published the sixth episode of its What’s Up Ygg podcast series, stating that a package of tools and interfaces from the group is handling a lot of the ‘heavy lifting’ for game developers looking to bring new adaptations of their titles to market.

Kicking off discussions, Yggdrasil CEO Fredrik Elmqvist talked listeners through the thought process behind GATI, as he explained why the supplier chose to take on much of the ‘heavy lifting’ for studio game developers.

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The former, founded in 2004, is to gain the entire portfolio of Synot Games via the SBTech platform, building on a “strong” foundation within the market.

As a result Getsbet.ro is providing players with a selection of titles chosen “as they are popular with the Romanian gaming community,” including the adventurous Archaeologist in Book of Secrets, the mysteries of alchemy in Alchemist’s Gold, and the elf’s precious spins in Moonlight Fortune. 

“Establishing new opportunities with our games on the Romanian market is one of the many important steps towards our goal. I am happy to see that our games are liked by the player base in Romania, and that we have yet again confirmed our strong hold on the market. [It is] another important partner gained that will be using the outstanding portfolio of inhouse made games that we provide.” stated Martina Hrabinská, CCO of Synot Games.

Furthermore, Synot has also extended its ongoing cooperation with Tipsport, after launching its titles on the Czech market through the firm’s online casino portals Tipsport.cz and Chance.cz. 

Established in the town of Beroun, Tipsport is to gain in excess of 40 games including “player favourites” such as Respin Joker, calls of the wild in Hunter’s Spirit, multiplying wilds in Joker’s five, and Joker 40.

“After the successful launch on Tipsport SK, we have decided to continue our cooperation further and expand it to the next country,” added Ivan Kodaj, CEO of Synot Games.

“We are pleased to partner with one of the top Czech online casinos such as Tipsport CZ. Both companies value experience, reliability and innovation. I believe that our steady growth in our partnership will bring more benefits to both sides in time.”

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Aiming to gain increased market share across the continent via a number of agreements across numerous jurisdictions, Synot lauds the operator as “the most dynamic and fastest growing operator on local market”.

“With each passing day since the new online gambling legislation in Slovakia we are getting a stronger foothold on the local market,” commented Ivan Kodaj, CEO of Synot Games.

“We are looking forward to this partnership as it is close to our home development team. Synot Games is proud to provide top-rated games to the Slovak players on Tipsport.sk. We also believe that this partnership will prosper well and open new doors for further cooperation.” 

To begin a total of 15 online casino titles have been released via Tipsport’s online portal, such as Respin Joker, Book of Secrets, Fruit Awards. 

Other previously released games integrated are Blazing Ice, Fruits ‘n’ Fire, Gem-O-Rama, Golden Myth, Hell Mania, Alchemist’s Gold, Fire Witch, Dragons of Fortune, Hunter’s Spirit, Joker 40, Joker’s Five, Moonlight Fortune and Vampire Bride.

Last month Yggdrasil lauded “another important milestone” after linking up with Tipsport, with the operator being labelled a “perfect partner” as the content developer made its first move on the Czech market.

“This year Tipsport SK has already surpassed one of its main rivals in market share and our aim is to become Nr. 1 by the end of the year. Popular, high quality titles of Synot Games are very important element in this bold endeavour.” added Martin Tabák, director of Tipsport SK.

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Tipsport customers gain access to Yggdrasil titles including Luca Maniacs and Valley of the Gods, as well as the hit Vikings trilogy.

The integration marks Yggdrasil’s debut in the Czech market, which introduced a new Gambling Act in 2017, regulating real-money igaming. In 2018, the online gambling market there is estimated to have been worth nearly €500m.

Fredrik Elmqvist, CEO at Yggdrasil, said: “Going live with Tipsport is another important milestone for us as we continue to implement our growing regulated markets strategy.

“As the country’s largest operator, Tipsport is the perfect partner for us and we are looking forward to working together.”

Jiří Švarc, online casino director at Tipsport, said: “Adding Yggdrasil’s games to our expanding offering is very exciting, and we are confident our customers will enjoy the engaging and immersive content they provide.”

The operator will also be able to use Yggdrasil’s in-game promotional tool Boost, which enhances the player experience via in-game tournaments, prize drops and missions.

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OneTouch, who specialise in portrait first mobile play “an area few games developers have mastered,” states that it is also in the process of finalising plans to launch its first portrait-enabled mobile slot games following the opening of a new studio in Kiev, Ukraine.

Matthew Rochman, head of OneTouch, commented: “BetConstruct is a company we have been eager to work with for some time, having built a fantastic reputation in the industry with some great products.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with them, and we’re delighted to be able to offer our expanding range of table games and future slot products to their growing customer base.”

Under the terms of the new agreement BetConstruct is to offer customers OneTouch’s entire portfolio of mobile table game titles, including no commission Baccarat, along with sic bo, roulette, blackjack and Russian poker.

Each of these is to be targeted towards both established and emerging gaming markets, encapsulating Asia and Eastern Europe, with its debut range of mobile first slots set to be released in the coming months.

This marks the latest addition to BetConstruct’s client roster, which sees the software and platform developer and provider offer a range of solutions and products to in excess of 250 global online and land-based sports betting and gaming brands, including the Betsson Group, Interwetten and Tipsport.

Edgar Mkrtchyan, gaming group product manager at BetConstruct, believes the new addition is to be of great benefit moving forward: “OneTouch’s games are an exciting addition to the BetConstruct family. The game developer demonstrated a great performance in a number of emerging markets, and is now ready to provide an outstanding mobile experience in our state-of-the-art casino.”

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The organisation’s first branded game launch has been added to by fresh entries into a number of global markets, in addition to a duo of Scandinavian deals, including inking deals with ATG and Svenska Spel ahead of Swedish re-regulation next year.

Commenting on the firm’s Q3 manoeuvres Fredrik Elmqvist, Yggdrasil CEO and founder, commented: “During the quarter we signed several high-profile customers, and our very first social gaming partnership in Asia through a deal with Taiwanese operator XSG.

“In Europe we signed, among others, Tipsport in the Czech Republic, Intralot in Italy and became certified in Spain – all important building blocks of our long-term strategy and commitment to expand our regulated market footprint.

“I am also thrilled to announce that we have signed with ATG and Svenska Spel in Sweden, and Veikkaus in Finland after the close of the quarter.

“We have also established a local presence in the highly important UK market, to improve our commercial reach to new candidates for our YGS Masters program.”

Total operating revenues for the period saw a 62 per cent increase to SEK 71.5m (€6.8m), contributing to FY figures of SEK 195.8m (€18.8m), a 66 per cent rise.

Earnings (EBIT) increased by 26 per cent year-on-year, reaching SEK 19.3m (€1.8m) from 2017’s SEK 15.3m (€1.4m), the margin did however fall to 27 per cent from the previous years 35 per cent.

Elmqvist explained: “On behalf of the whole team at Yggdrasil I am pleased to announce yet another eventful quarter, characterised by continued expansion and signing of several new partnerships.

“End user activity measured by player rounds reached 1,534 million during the quarter, representing an uptick of 51% from the same period last year.

“Revenues for the quarter grew by 62% compared to 2017 to MSEK 72 and EBIT by 26% to MSEK 19, representing an EBIT margin of 27% while being in a high growth mode.

“We continued to fully emphasise our expansional focus by making investments for the future, both in the business and into new products.”

Adding: “With the first nine months of the year behind us I am excited on the opportunities and challenges ahead.

“We continue to put full emphasis on growth and making investments into the organisation to stay at the forefront as a true industry innovator and to pave the way for our continued journey.”

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The global agreement sees the duo combine to cover multiple regulated markets, with Yggdrasil’s portfolio of video slots also coming complete with its range of in-game promotional tools.

Amongst those is Boost, allowing for promotions to be run from within the game client, offering maximum cross-sell opportunities and “superior player experience” by using in-game tournaments and leaderboards, configurable cash races and gamification features to boost retention and engagement.

Fredrik Elmqvist, Yggdrasil chief executive officer, stated: “We’re delighted to partner with BetVictor, one of the biggest brand names in the betting and gaming sector.

“There is significant demand from leading operators for our innovative content that keeps getting better and better, and we’re really looking forward to working with BetVictor.”

This latest moves comes amidst a busy period for the online content developer, which has see deals agreed alongside Nektan and Genting sandwich its maiden entry into the Czech Republic with Tipsport.

Most recently Yggdrasil also reported a strong set of financial results in what Elmqvist described as “another eventful quarter,” with revenues rising to SEK66.7m (€6.4m).

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Tipsport boasts more than 1,000 retail outlets and a rapidly growing online offering, which will add Yggdrasil content in the coming months, as well as in-game promotional tool Boost.

Yggdrasil gaming content is now live in a number of regulated and newly regulated markets including the UK, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Belgium and Denmark, with its games also due to launch in Spain.

Fredrik Elmqvist, CEO of Yggdrasil, said: “In February this year we signed a deal to enter Spain, one of Europe’s fastest-growing and most exciting jurisdictions, and today we’re announcing our entry into the Czech Republic with leading brand Tipsport.

“As part of our long-term strategy we are committed to expanding our regulated market footprint. If we feel an environment is right for our leading games and promotional tools, then we will enter it with the best possible partners. We’re exctited to be going live with Tipsport and fostering a long-term partnership.”

Jakob Lorentzon, head of online casino at Tipsport, added: “We are delighted to be partnering with such an innovative and dynamic business as Yggdrasil.

“Their games perform very well in regulated markets and we are very much looking forward to offering them to our large and expanding customer base.”

The Czech Republic’s online regulated market came into force in January last year, following the introduction of the country’s new Gambling Act. The market generated €1.58bn in gross win in 2017 with online contributing €380m.

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Two new titles from Play’n Go – MultiFruit81 and Sweet27 – will soon be added to the portfolio, having been specifically designed for the Czech market. Play’n Go is also providing its Game Account Toolkit, enabling smoother third-party integration and content addition.

Johan Törnqvist, CEO at Play’n Go, said: “We’re pleased with the start we’ve made with Tipsport and the integration of our unique GAT platform.

“Its ability to handle the heavy load of data processing, as well as other tools key to commercial success, provides the foundation from which all major operators can benefit.

“Critical to the solution provided to Tipsport is GAT’s ability to offer alternate wallet solutions to operators, reducing technical barriers and unlocking the full potential of their existing systems. This allows them to fully leverage their existing customer base as well as enter new markets.

Jakob Lorentzon, Tipsport’s director of online casino, said: “Play’n Go’s gaming solutions stood out in what was a very competitive selection process.

“Ultimately, their flexible GAT platform was the logical choice as it complements our existing back-office operations.”

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