Recently the iGaming Affiliate Awards (earlier called the CAP Awards) took place in London. It is an annual ceremony which calls leaders and innovators of the online gaming industry. iGB Affiliate, organizers of the iGaming Affiliate events and publishers of iGB Affiliate Magazine hosted the award. The ceremony ran before London Affiliate Conference, the largest annual exhibition and conference in the industry.

Award winners are determined based on customers’ vote and by a final committee. This year over 4,000 people gave their vote for one or the other payment system. That was the largest number in the history of the Awards. The vote for payments methods is the number one priority by affiliates. And for the third consecutive year NETELLER e-wallet was recognized the Best Payment System for Affiliates affiliate industry. To name the best payment system the following factors were taken into consideration: timely payment, customer service, problem solving, and usability of the method.

NETELLER is the leading e-payment for the affiliate industry. It is a brand of NEOVIA Financial Plc, the independent world e-payments business. Dan Starr, Executive Vice President for NEOVIA Financial said: “NETELLER is number 1 because affiliates love fast and secure payments, coupled with a broad array of withdrawal features, including the Net+ prepaid card.” He added that they were proud to get the award for the third consecutive year. This award is sure to be a testament to that the company does its best to serve the affiliates market.

The award crowned the whole week of news concerning NEOVIA at IGE 2010. Some of them were the news about contracts with BSkyB’s SKyBet, BeatYa!, SEGA Games, GWBet and YouWin.

NETELLER is part of the NEOVIA Payment Suite which includes the NETBANX gateway as well as Net+ prepaid cards. Using NETBANX merchants can accept a card and non-card payment via multiple channels such as online, mail order, telephone order, contact centers, and automated telephone systems. NETELLER allows consumers to transfer funds online securely and merchants to increase consumer lifetime proceeds. With the help of Net+T prepaid cards merchants can extend consumer loyalty and lifetimes.

This month Sloto’Cash, the flagman casino of Rival Gaming, launches a new video slot, Wacky Wedding. February is the month of love and romance since we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day and the slot with the wedding theme is the ideal gift for the holiday. The slot is all about wedding so there are champagne bottles, rings, cakes, bridesmaids on the reels. And you know no wedding can do without the groom and bride so they are also see on the screen. At the beginning of the slot there is a short flash intro where you see a nervous bridegroom, the jealous bridesmaid, and a mother-in-law and the beautiful bride.

This is a 5 reel, 20 paylines video slot with free spins and bonus round. Every 3 symbols line up from the leftmost reel on the screen get a payout. When the symbols create a winning combination they become alive and you will see the groom trying to escape, the elderly gentleman flirting with the girls, etc.

Wedding attributes play an important role in the slot. The Wedding Cake is the wild. Appearing on the middle reel, it expands across the reels thereby giving a chance to increase the winnings.

The champagne bottle is the scatter, 3 or more scatters will give up to 75 free spins. Three or more Bouquets trigger the Toss the Bouquet bonus round where the player will see 5 ladies or one guy and should decide who the bride will throw her bouquet to thereby determining the bonus prize.

Many people associate February with love and romance. It is not surprising since we celebrate the most romantic holiday St. Valentine’s Day. In February shops sells lots of toy hearts, angels, post cards and other things connected with the holiday. Online casinos also offer a wide range of promotions with regard to Valentine’s Day. Thus, Go Casino has announced two online tournaments in February.

One of the tournaments is going to be held between February 5 and February 9. They do not announce it as a Valentine’s Day event, it is just one of the Weekend Madness online tournaments that regularly runs at Go Online Casino. But the game that is selected for the event proves that the tournament is anticipation to the major Valentine’s Day tournament. 50,000 Guaranteed Weekend Madness is played on Love Bugs, one of the very popular Vegas Technology slots. Playing the slot players take on a journey to Venice, the charming city of love. You will see the bugs which are in love taking a romantic ride in a gondola. The slot is full of flowers, necklaces, chocolates, rings, hearts, perfume; everything that goes with St. Valentine’s Day. The buy in and rebuy are $12.99 each. The guaranteed prize pool is $50k, of which $30k is in casino credits and the rest is in loyalty points.

The Valentines Week-Long $75,000 Guaranteed Freeroll starts on February 12 and ends on February 19. There is no entry fee and anyone can join the tournament without any investment. The rebuy will cost $14.14. The game for the tourney is Cupid’s Arrow, ideal slot just for Valentine’s Day. Totally romantic slot made in shocking pink color. All symbols that we associate with love are found here. Flowers, teddy bears, Valentine’s Day cards, kisses, rings, chocolate are on the reels. There is an exciting bonus game where players should open gift boxes until they find a busted heart.

Go Casino has not forgotten Groundhog Day and hosts the tournament on February 2. It is called Groundhog Day $15,000 Guaranteed tournament. It runs till February 5. Both the entry fee and the rebuys are $8.99. The tournament is played on the Dynasty slot.

Chocolate Consulting, a specialist consultant for the online gambling industry, and VeriSign, an Internet security expert, have announced the launch of some products protecting gaming operators from high costs and damage of reputation that can be caused by account takeover and Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

One of the products is VIP (VeriSign Identity Protection). VIP is a real time authentication system developed to protect players’ accounts. The system also protects online operates from the costs connected with the losses and costs for investigations which are carried by operators in order to eliminate account fraud. Players open real money online casinos accounts and if these accounts are hacked into the funds can disappear and of course, customers stop trusting that online casino. So, many believe that VIP is a strategic approach to earning the customer’s trust linked to higher loyalty and lifetime proceeds figures. VIP is a proven technology that is used worldwide in different online spheres.

Phil D’Angio, Director of Business Development for VeriSign EMEA, said: “Trust is the cornerstone of customer relationships. VIP creates the trust fabric for players and operators so that they can optimize re-load, pay-out, account management, and VIP services with their customers.” He also noted that VIP fights the constantly growing account takeover fraud. D’Angio added that ‘this combined value proposition of security and customer trust is uniquely positioned in the gaming community’ and that they are glad to take it to market working together with Chocolate. VIP is easily adapted for mobile phones.

The two companies will also offer VeriSign’s Internet Defense Network (VIDN). This product prevents Distributed Denial of Service or DDOS attacks. You know, the online gaming operators lose millions of dollars for a few hours of downtime. VIDN is a success in DDOS prevention services. VIDN has the intelligent detection as well as the remediation capabilities.

VeriSign and Chocolate Consulting sponsor the International Gaming Expo 2010 in London.

32Red award winning online casino changed its welcome bonus. To be in the vanguard of the online gambling industry the casino updated the amount together with the claiming system, giving new players a more generous and easier start to get online casino experience.

32Red has raised the welcome bonus up to £320 for free, the fact that it is a 320% match bonus makes this bonus much more attractive and lavish. So if you make a £10 or more first deposit your deposit will be instantly increased by 320%. The maximum bonus available is £320 – the money you will get for a £100 deposit! With this bonus you are sure to get more fun, enjoy yourself and of course, help win more as a regular player once joined 32Red.

32Red has something more to offer besides a 320% welcome bonus. There are weekly and monthly promotions for existing casino players. Look through the 32Red website to find everything the casino offers its customers. Thus, in January a £32 Sales bonus is available. To know all details of an extra promotion you can read the information provided on the site.

There is a fixed set of bonuses that are standard at 32Red. The casino offers the players the loyalty program known as Red Rubies, here you get loyalty points then redeemed for free casino chips. There is an opportunity to get double points if you play selected online slots on Tuesday, this promotion is called Ruby Tuesday. The online casino doesn’t forget about high rollers, there is the exclusive Club Rouge and where wealthy bonuses and other luxuries are offered.

If you have any queries about any of the casino promotion you may contact customer support and they are sure to answer all your questions.

First time since the beginning of the year Microgaming casinos have a jackpot that is worth speaking about in the new year of 2010. LotsaLoot online slot jackpot has already been hit three times in 2010. Last Saturday, the LotsaLoot jackpot paid the largest sum since the New Year started.

LotsaLoot slot is one of the most popular games which you can play on the Microgaming Jackpot Network. It is one of the most frequently hit jackpot, it is hit somewhere once every 4 days on average. The player who won last brought home $61,441, more than the previous one of 2010 who won $41,607.

LotsaLoot has several ways for to be hit. A player can choose a 3 reel, 5 payline slot or a 5 reel, 25 payline video slot. To qualify for the progressive jackpot, the player must play a minimum $2.50 bet per spin.

LotsaLoot slot machine is one of the progressive slot machines available in the online casinos powered by one of the leading software developers, Microgaming. The most famous and popular games are Mega Moolah, King Cashalot, Major Millions, Triple Sevens, Fruit Fiesta. Microgaming online casinos also offer their customers progressive jackpots on other games including blackjack, roulette, cuberstud poker.

Thus, any player has a chance to hit a jackpot at any online casino and change his life. At the point Mega Moolah is more than $1,800,000.

Last week Playtech signed a great deal with New York based Scientific Games (NASDAQ: SGMS), thereby this leading online software company showed the world its readiness to re-enter the American online gaming market when the latter becomes regulated. Moreover, the result of this deal is the rise in the Playtech shares by 11%.

These partnerships are a combination of Playtech’s top-notch B2B gaming software, considerable portfolio of products and many years of experience of Scientific Games known for providing added value, turnkey solutions to (B2G) gaming operators sponsored by government. One of the components of the agreement is a 50/50 joint venture called Sciplay, which will deliver the latest cutting-edge online technology to government-backed lottery online operators.

Sciplay will target the US lottery markets. It will provide customers with a wide range of internet gaming products such as instant games, poker, casino, skill games bingo, and sports on a single platform. The company will deliver marketing, promotional, advertising, operational and customer support services. Everything will meet the regulatory requirements and will have responsible gaming safeguards.

By mutual agreement between Playtech and Scientific Games, Richard M. Weil was appointed as managing director of Sciplay. Before Weil had held a position of Vice President of International Sales at Scientific Games and then had served as President of Fun Technologies.

The second component of the agreement is a strategic partnership concerning fixed odds betting and video lottery gaming terminals and systems development. SG is a leader in gaming terminals and systems for gaming environments regulated by government. At the moment Scientific Games within its owned subsidiaries, The Global Draw and Games Media, operates nearly 18,000 gaming machines all over the world. According to the agreement, Playtech through its subsidiary, Videobet, will provide gaming terminal software for SG. One of the assignments on this point is upgrading of the 13,500 fixed odds betting terminals of The Global Draw in the UK to the Videobet platform. As soon as these agreements are put into effect Videobet will be the top technology provider for the UK online gaming market.

Mor Weizer, Playtech’s CEO, and Mike Chambrello, CEO of SG, commented together, “This is an important step for both companies. We have highly complementary skill-sets allied with a global reach and this partnership provides the opportunity to leverage off this combined know-how to maximum effect.” They believed that customers would benefit from the comprehensive content, the complex player management systems and the age-old gaming industry experience of the two companies.

Soon we will celebrate Valentine’s Day, the day when everything seems to breathe love. Crazy Slots online casino is going to launch the impressive online Slot Tournaments and is sure not to disappoint its customers with more than $425,000 in Guaranteed Prizes.

The casino starts with a $75,000 Guaranteed Free Entry Slot Tournament that will begin at 8PM (ET) on February 12th. During the Tournament the participants will play Cupid’s Arrow slot. The 1st prize winner will win $15,000 and everyone who get places from the second to 1000th will get money prizes. This is a week-long tournament so it ends on February 19th, 2010.

As it is clear from the title, it is a freeroll, a tournament with a free entry. To take part in the tournament you should have a real money account to play, depositing is not necessary. So you have a fantastic opportunity to get real Tournament experience without risking your money. But if your balance is below $20, you have to re-load for $14.14, which will allow you to play with $300.

Your starting balance will be $100. The main aim is to have as much money as you can on your balance as high as you can at the end of the tournament. Your ranking will be at the bottom on left of the screen.

The tournament is interesting for any player first of all due to the fact that it is a chance to win real money without paying a penny.

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Five new games have been added to Virgin Casino’s game portfolio. These are GTech G2 side games, basing on the Electrocoin Bar X Magic launched in the casino in November, 2009.

This time the casino offers its customers Triple Chance Hi Lo, Casino Dice, Aces High, Spin Win and Bingo, Keno Extreme. These new games are evolved at Dynamite Idea, one of the i-gaming companies that is now a part of GTech G2. Dynamite Idea is a professional developer of innovative and unique online betting games such as hi lo, dice, number and live games.

Simon Burridge, the chief executive of Virgin Games, commented this event, “We have found our players like the instant gratification of side games. They are quick and easy to play and they integrate well with our back end systems.”

Commercial director of GTech G2, Leigh Nissim said “I’m delighted that we are widening our relationship with Virgin to include the supply of games as well as poker”. He also added that this new aspect of their relationship demonstrated a key strength of GTech G2. The company can provide their customers with a wide range of online gaming products.