5349 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Biggest Gaming Business Busts of 2016: Who Fell This Year and How Far
David Baazov was the golden boy of online gambling at the beginning of 2016. The Amaya founder, CEO and chairman had transformed his company from a relatively obscure gaming software provider into one of the biggest online gambling companies in the world....
Skill Gaming Machines Targeting the Millennial Slowly Debut at US Casinos
Skill gaming machines are being rolled out across American land-based casinos in an effort to attract the millennial demographic. Growing tired of pure luck-based formats, casinos are being forced to modify their offerings as Baby Boomers and Generation X continues to age,...
Best and Worst Gaming Industry Buyouts and Sell-Offs of 2016
The gaming industry in 2016 had its own version of Monopoly going, with buyouts, sell-offs, mergers, and acquisitions being the name of the game. Gambling's power players shook up business interests and realigned companies for the future. Billions of dollars were exchanged,...
Match-Fixing Scandals That Made for Ugly Headlines in 2016
2016 was still young, the Christmas tinsel barely packed up, before tennis found itself engulfed in a huge match-fixing scandal. In early January, documents passed to the BBC and Buzzfeed News by anonymous whistleblowers reported that 16 players, all of which had...
Bitcoin Finds Its Place in the World in 2016, Sort Of
This was the year that Bitcoins grew up, or at least hit adolescence. Once considered subversive, the decentralized digital currency continued to gain mainstream acceptance throughout 2016. It even became a payment mechanism for legitimate goods and services, rather than a shady...
Daily Fantasy Sports in 2016: A Year of Wins, Losses, and a Mega-Merger
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) once again endured a stormy year in 2016. The emerging online betting market geared towards sports fanatics encountered plenty of controversy and scandal for the second straight year, but DFS also scored its own share of victories. And...
Strangest Gaming Bedfellows of 2016: Match Ups We Never Saw Coming (But Sometimes Saw Going)
No question, 2016 saw some strange partnerships, interesting deals, and all kinds of dramatic decisions hit the headlines when it came to the gaming industry worldwide. From the weird (an Australian billionaire gaming mogul and his overly dramatic diva) to the downright...
The 2016 Rio Olympics: Scandal, Triumph, and Bad Choices All Around
The 2016 Rio Olympics had all the ingredients for a memorable Summer Games, and memorable it was. Even before the games started, a swarm of issues plagued the host city of Rio de Janeiro. As Rio scrambled to finish arena and stadium...
The 2016 Caesars Bankruptcy Proceedings That Seemingly Would Never End
The bankruptcy of Caesars main operating unit, CEOC, was already a year old by the beginning of 2016 and apparently going nowhere fast. CEOC filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2015 in a bid to reorganize the lion’s share of its...
Atlantic City Betting on College Students to Spur Revitalization
Atlantic City locals are hoping a satellite campus being built by Stockton University will help reenergize the beachfront community and bring a new sense of optimism to the region. The gaming capital of the East Coast is struggling to retain that title...
