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PacificNet, Inc. a provider of gaming and mobile game technology, e-commerce, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in China, has announced that its PacificNet Games (www.PactGames.com) subsidiary has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with Spin³ (www.spin3.com), a division of Spiral Solutions Ltd, and a leading provider of mobile gaming solutions powered by Microgaming (www.microgaming.com), the world’s largest online gaming software provider.

Through this agreement, PacificNet Games will utilize Spin³’s extensive line of interactive, wireless gaming products in multiple Asian markets including Cambodia, China, the Philippines and Macau. The combined offering includes mobile, web, and station based gaming, which contains Spin³’s OnCash™ patent-pending cash and distribution chain management system, as well as online games provided by Microgaming including slots, video poker, RNG table games, and live dealer games.

“We are more than excited to partner with Spin³ to expand our online business in one of the fastest-growing gaming markets in the world,” said Eugene Ng, Online Gaming Director of PacificNet Games. “We make the profit sharing model a lot easier to enter into due to the relatively low investment costs required to establish mobile and online gaming operations. Our regional casino partners are eager to go online and let their players continue gaming from anywhere at any time.”

“The Asian market for mobile and online gambling has a tremendous potential for growth,” said Matti Zinder, Head of Spin³. “Our OnCash offering is particularly suited for the diverse economies across the region. For existing and new customers, OnCash is an easy solution that overcomes a wide range of payment issues. We are very pleased to enter into a partnership with a company as well-known and established as PacificNet, and to extend our combined offering throughout Asia.”

Spin³’s OnCash™ system enables land-based casinos to instantly expand their business online while maintaining customers’ current payment processing methods. Players pay for credits and receive play-for-real casino games on their mobile phones, and a secure user login for an online casino powered by Microgaming. OnCash also includes a unique back-office management system, which includes multi-level network and credit management modules to provide an effective way of managing multi-tier distribution networks with full control over the amount of credits managed by each level in the network.

PacificNet Games‘ multi-player gaming machines are widely accepted in some of the most popular casinos in Macau, including SJM, Casino Lisboa, Galaxy Casino, Holiday Inn Macau, Greek Mythology, and Jai-Alai Casino, as well as in the Philippines.

Tags: Microgaming, PacificNet Games, Spin3

Ujogo, a free online poker site, has announced the first free poker application on Facebook Platform to offer prizes and rewards combined with full Facebook Platform integration. Ujogo has reconfigured its fast and slick application to seamlessly tap into the ultimate online network of users and fully leverage the Facebook Platform features.

With the new integration, users will now be able to play free, fun and highly competitive poker, including multi-table tournaments, for actual prizes in the fast and realistic Ujogo environment, without leaving the site. In contrast, most free online poker applications do not offer prizes as an incentive, and consequently, the quality of play is generally not very high.

To showcase its free-to-enter multi-table tournaments within the Facebook Platform, Ujogo will feature a week of daily $100 prize tournaments within the next month.

“With the positive feedback we’ve received on our initial launch of Ujogo in July ‘07, it was just a natural evolution for us to extend our more compelling free poker application to one of the fastest growing, integrated social communities around,” said Eric Gonzales, Ujogo’s CEO.

“Our players appreciate how prizes at stake improve the quality and competitiveness of play in our free, non-gambling platform, and the popularity of interactive features at Ujogo.com made us realize that utilizing an online networking environment would be a natural fit.”

Two time ladies’ World Series of Poker champ Susie Isaacs plays regularly at Ujogo and commented:

“I became a devoted on-line poker player in 2004 and 2005 when I took two years off from playing live poker to write four books. I tried free sites but it was not rewarding.”

“I play to win but I want to win more than accolades. Along came Ujogo and I was saved! Ujogo is a free site but we play for prizes, gift certificates, and eventually I have heard, buy-ins to major tournaments. When I win on Ujogo, I win! Risk versus reward is my old way of thinking. Today on Ujogo it is no risk and great rewards! The more I play, the more I realize that Ujogo is becoming like a social poker club. I like that!”

To start playing at Ujogo within Facebook Platform, simply search for “Ujogo,” invite your friends to join if you wish, and jump into a game.

No additional registration is required since players are already registered on the site. All players receive a sign-up bonus of Ujogo Points, which can be redeemed for valuable items at the Ujogo Store.

Additional Ujogo Points are earned with every hand played, as well as for referring friends, achieving monthly leaderboard status, and hitting jackpot hands.

Ujogo investors include Longstreet Ventures.

www.ujogo.com

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Tags: Facebook, Longstreet Ventures, Ujogo

Mobile gambling solutions provider Spin³ is using software from Microgaming to power its first British slot machine game for mobile. Pub Fruity is the twelfth game in Spin³’s portfolio of games and is based on the highly popular British fruit machine, the three-reel and one payline.  Pub Fruity slot machine game is a real milestone in mobile casino gaming, as it incorporates advanced sound effects, 3D simulation and two bonus feature games.

Pub Fruity was developed specifically for mobile handsets to recreate that fruit machine feeling that British gamers so enjoy. The game’s graphics feature a variety of traditional pub paraphernalia including frothing pints and a pretty bartender, as well as reel spinning, winning combination and jackpot sound effects.

Matti Zinder, Head of Spin³, says: “Spin³ is committed to driving the development of mobile casino solutions including localised games for targeted markets. We’ve done this with Baccarat for the Asian market and now we’re proud to launch this British-flavoured game. ”

“We have taken the classic fruit machine game and coupled it with the most advanced sound and graphic capabilities of mobile phones. Pub Fruity sets a new standard in mobile casino games as this version is practically on par with the popular online game from Microgaming that bears the same name. The result is a true pub gaming experience on your handset.”

Spin3 is Spiral Solutions wireless casino gaming division, founded when Spiral bought Ki-Bi card technology from Zone-IP to provide mobile gambling platforms to existing online and offline gambling companies. Leading customers/partners include Ladbrokes, 777mobile.com, Casino.dk, intertops.com, CellCity, Royal Vegas, Microgaming, Wireless Studios and 3Line.

www.spin3.com 

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Tags: 3Line, 777mobile.com, Casino.dk, CellCity, intertops.com, Ladbrokes, Microgaming, Royal Vegas, Spin3, Spiral Solutions, Wireless Studios

I read a story recently where a guy recalls walking down a London street and passing a casino. This was not a casino ‘US Style’ with entertainment, tuxedos, packed with high-rollers and pazzazz. Oh no, this was a typical London casino with scraggy carpets, a few games machines and a £1 max table. In the window was a cardboard sign saying ‘Free Soup and Bread Roll’ - a soup kitchen and casino all in one! Was this a generous offer or a synical ploy to keep their punters alive just long enough to fleece them of their last coin?

Anyway, if we combine the thrill of a casino with a broadband connection and a billion delusional people carrying a high density of greed genes and a dangerous level of financial market knowledge (i.e. none) what do we get? Opportunity that’s what we get.

Betfair (The Sporting Exchange Limited), has created Tradefair, a new home for the financial bettor and trader. The portal is a binaries trading exchange and traditional spread betting site.

Betfair revenues have seen exceptional growth: 2004:£60m, 2005:£107m, 2006:£144m, 2007:£181m

Investors include Balderton Capital (Benchmark Capital), Softbank and Index Ventures

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Tags: Balderton Capital, Benchmark Capital, Betfair, Index Ventures, Softbank, The Sporting Exchange Limited, Tradefair

Visiware, publisher of the interactive channel Playin’TV, have announced the launch of a range of games on FOXTEL, Australia’s leading subscription television platform.

A range of Playin’TV games are available to FOXTEL subscribers through the Casino Sport genre on FOXTEL’s interactive games portal, GAMESWORLD.

The Playin’TV games are available for $1AUD per game on a single play basis from today, and from early 2008, for $6.95AUD per month, subscribers can have unlimited access to all the Playin’TV games in the Casino Sport genre.

This new genre on FOXTEL GAMESWORLD will offer various Playin’TV games, and will include at least 5 games that will be updated on a weekly basis.

“We are very happy to propose this offer to Foxtel subscribers who will be able to play our games with no limits on time and at a great monthly rate,” declares Frédéric Fellague, Head Marketing of Visiware. “From a strategic point of view this new offer completes our presence in Oceania where Playin’TV is already broadcasted via Austar in Australia and Sky TV in New Zealand. Additionally, the GamesWorld portal will also be carried via the Australian cable operator Optus which increases the presence of our games even more in this market.”

www.visiware.com

Tags: Austar, foxtel, Sky TV, Visiware