Las Vegas Sands will open its third hotel in Macao this week, this time managed by the Four Seasons chain and including a retail store area and a casino. The new casino, that will open exactly a year after the opening of the Venetian, will have approximately 170 gaming tables and 210 slots, as well as a separate entrance to the hotel and a retail mall.

The hotel will have 360 rooms, all of them exquisitely decorated and equipped with high-end technology; five restaurants that will serve gourmet food prepared by renowned chefs; two bars with a wide variety of drinks and a spa.

Ritzio International informed that the company has become the largest gaming provider in Byelorussia. According to the figures released by representatives of the company, about 1,300 of its slot machines are offered in more than 27 gaming clubs.

The company entered the Byelorussian market with its gaming club brand Volcano in November 2006, opening the first club in Minsk. Since then, it has established a series of high-end gaming venues with 40 slot machines, electronic roulette and a well-trained and friendly staff.

Cantor Gaming has recently signed a deal to theme video slots based on comic book characters. The first series to be interpreted is the popular, cult-classic comic book magazine, named Heavy Metal, where several of the characters will come to life and appear on the reels of the online video slots world.

Three online casinos in Argentina, formoapuestas.com.ar, vcapuestas.com.ar and ar.888.com are at risk of being shut down by the police. This is due to the fact that in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, online gambling is prohibited.

The UK government has decided to reverse the changes made last September to the regulations that limit the number of slot machines allowed in bingo rooms. Pursuant to the new legislation, the maximum number of gaming machines was reduced from eight to four, which represented losses for the already ailing bingo industry.

Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe, who recently promised to help the industry, has sponsored the annulment of the modifications in an attempt to silence the criticism of bingo operators, who accused him of acting too slowly.

Across the globe, online gambling is accepted and played by a high percentage of the population, with a few exceptions. Norway, having recently legalized online gambling, is yet another country that is enjoying the advantages that this legalization has to offer.

Recent statistics shown by the Norwegian Gambling Commission reveal that there has been an increase of 6 percent in the income of the online gambling industry during 2007. During this year, approximately 244,000 Norwegians gambled online.

International horce tracks announced that they will have slot machines for those who aren’t too fond of horse racing, giving them the opportunity of betting on different types of games.

Gaming systems provider Cyberview Tech recently confirmed that it was purchased by global slot machines manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT) for a total of 76 million dollar. This is part of IGT’s strategy to increase its product portfolio and its presence in the English market.

Through the agreement, Cyberview will transfer to IGT the copyright of its products, and will distribute 34.7 million Pounds among its shareholders. “The operation benefits both parties,” commented Seamus McGill, CEO of Cyberview.

The online slots site, Belle Rock Entertainment, begun their online slots tournament about two weeks ago and it will end in less than a week. The overall prize awarded is $35,000.

The tournament has three different parts; the daily free $500 Adventure FreeRoll given out ran from the 9th of May until the 18th. The maximum amount of winners per day was 25, of whom each received $10 and also they automatically were able to participate in the $5,000 Adventure Semi-Final that took place from the 19th to the 24th.

Despite the strong objections of the opposition party, the government of Goa is ready to vote the permission for floating casinos to be opened in the port of Panaji.

The opposition party -drawing a morality line- has stated that it will not allow the installation of more casinos and will hold back the licenses that have been given to casinos that are already operating.