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25.08.2011, Gaming Industry News (GIN). Gaming Industry News is the weekly e-news service from ICE Totally Gaming

Huge EiG cost savings about to close ONLINE EiG's organisers have announced that the special team offers available to attend the Milan-based online gaming conference (19-22 September) will close on Friday 26th August. The offers, which have been available to licensed B2C operators, offer savings of up to 8,995EURO with operators receiving ten full conference passes for the price of five. Those purchasing three full conference passes get two free - a saving of 3,598EURO. Companies buying five expo hall only passes get a further five free, a saving of 3,495EURO. For more details and to register, visit www.eigexpo.com/dm2


Further networking opportunities introduced for Totally iGaming Week

TOTALLY iGAMING WEEK Already offering its delegates three nights of fun social events, Totally iGaming Week has added another great networking opportunity to its schedule. Given the global success of the speed dating phenomenon, it is only logical that the first morning of EiG begins with speed networking in the Expo hall, providing the perfect opportunity to quickly meet up with people to follow up with during or after the event, and for businesses to get their message across to the maximum amount of attendees. Totally iGaming Week, taking place in Milan on 19-22 September, incorporates the EiG, EiG Design & Development, Combating Cybercrime in Gaming and GamingLaw.eu conferences.

Top CEOs to identify iGaming's future winners at EiG EiG A panel of top CEOs has been assembled by the organisers of EiG to identify the future winners in the newly regulated, consolidating and increasing localised iGaming market. The panel, which includes bwin.party's Norbert Teufelberger, Betsson's Magnus Silfverberg and William Hill Online's Henry Birch, will ask if it is moving away from a .com industry to a place where localised legislation is the only way forward, and explore whether it is listed or private companies, global players or local brands and .com or .country operators that have the strategies to prosper. The panel will also look at the emergence of new gaming brands from the consumer and mainstream media sectors to see if they can become the top players of the future and present the main challenge to traditional gaming brands. EiG takes place at Milan's MIC Centre on 19-22 September. For more information please visit: www.eigexpo.com

Stay one step ahead of mobile fraudsters at Combating Cybercrime In Gaming CYBERCRIME Mark Gibson, Chair of AIME Mobile Betting and Gaming Forum, is to clarify how to stay one step ahead of mobile fraudsters at Combating Cybercrime In Gaming, the definitive guide to protecting businesses players and reputations from online criminals that is running in conjunction with EiG Totally Gaming. Gibson will look at public connections, new codes and different user habits to explore the new security challenges that mobile gaming creates. Examining those challenges he will identify the potential weaknesses that fraudsters might exploit and forecast likely areas of criminal activity. Combating Cybercrime In Gaming takes place on 19-20 September during Totally iGaming Week. For more information please click here.

Assess the convergence of gaming, media and sports sectors at GamingLaw.eu GAMINGLAW.EU EiG's GamingLaw.eu Entertainment, Sports and iGaming Conference, the definitive guide to opportunities and partnerships being formed from the European convergence of media, sports, telecoms and iGaming, has brought together three experts from the Italian market to analyse the marrying of the gaming, media, sports and telecom sectors. Endemol Italy's Cosimo Solazzo, Mediaset's Giorgio Giovetti and Sinisi Ceschini Mancini's Quirino Mancini will discuss whether a regulated market such as Italy's provides the ideal platform to integrate the three ever-converging gaming, media and sports sectors and assess the appetite that the big Italian media and telecoms groups have for gaming. The GamingLaw.eu Entertainment, Sports and iGaming Conference takes place in Milan on 19 and 20 September. For more information please click here.

Industry gets fully behind Totally Gaming Awards AWARDS Kate Chambers, Portfolio Director responsible for Clarion Events' gaming division, has confirmed the organisation has been 'highly encouraged' by the response it has received to the Totally Gaming Awards, which were announced last week. She stated: "We have had a long list of companies wanting to enter the awards, enquiries from sponsors and from those wanting to host clients and colleagues at the Awards' prestigious venue, 8 Northumberland Avenue. As is the case with everything we undertake, we are working with the industry on the project in particular the European Casino Association and the National Casino Industry Forum. The Totally Gaming Awards will be a fantastic way of raising the curtain on the world's most comprehensive b2b gaming event and a great addition to ICE week." For further information on how to participate in the Totally Gaming Awards, contact: charlotte.cowdrey@clarionevents.com

Macau gaming boom nearly quintuples MGM China profit CASINO Surging gaming revenue in Macau has almost quintupled MGM China's net profit in the first half of 2011. The casino operator's net profit for the six months ending June 30 was HK$1.9bn, a 380 per cent increase on the HK$397.3m it recorded in the first half of 2010. In what is its first half-year statement since listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange on June 3, MGM China also revealed that its operating revenue was HK$9.86bn, up 95 per cent from HK$5.06bn a year earlier. MGM China is one of six licensed casino operators in Macau, where gaming revenue has seen a 45 per cent year-on-year increase over the first half of 2011.

Gaming machine manufacturer registers giant B3 revenue jump STREET A UK games developer is reporting what it is describing as 'remarkable' income figures during the first four weeks of operating the new £2 stake on B3 gaming machines. London-based Project has compiled play data covering a statistically relevant sample of its Mega Bars model which show a 32 per cent uplift in income over the first four weeks of operating the £2 stake compared to the previous four weeks at £1. The like-for-like comparisons also show an increase in VTP (Value Total Play) and in the overall number of games played. Managing Director Tony Boulton said: "This is great news for low stake gaming in Britain. The average stake for our sample stands at £1.55 and we are really delighted at the response and the speed in which players have accepted £2."

New investors in negotiations to buy Full Tilt Poker ONLINE Pocket Kings, the owner of Full Tilt Poker, has begun negotiations with new potential investors regarding the sale of the Full Tilt Poker brand and its assets. In a statement, it said that the exclusivity period for negotiations with the original interested party had expired, and although discussions with that party were still ongoing it is now talking with other investors. Full Tilt Poker apologised for its lack of communication with its customers over the last month and a half, identifying the difficulty of dealing with the implications of Black Friday (the day several online poker firms were indicted by US authorities) and the requirement for confidentiality during negotiations for its sale as mitigating factors.

Sportingbet's Centrebet takeover approved by Australian court BETTING Online bookmaker Sportingbet's proposed takeover of Centrebet has been approved by the Federal Court of Australia. The takeover is now all but certain, following its approval last week by Centrebet's shareholders and performance rightholders. The court orders in respect of the takeover were lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission this week and have now become effective. Centrebet shares have also been suspended and the company will be removed from the official list of the Australian Securities Exchange on or shortly after 31 August, at which point it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sportingbet.

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