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The new community style and progressive games for April 2015 are Ainsworth—5 Star Jackpots™, Bally—FRIENDS™, and IGT—Sherlock Holmes™ Duo Wheel Video Slots.

This month's new Class II games are Cadillac Jack—Gold Dragon Red Dragon™, IGT—Diamond Queen™, Rocket Gaming Systems—Whale Tales™, Video Gaming Technologies—Ruby’s Hot Red Cabaret™ and WMS—Colossal Reels™ The Amazing Cashini™.

Baha Mar, the Caribbean’s newest destination resort, was making the final finishing touches to welcome guests to its New Riviera in Nassau beginning March 27. Reservations opened earlier in the year at BahaMar.com for Baha Mar Casino & Hotel, Rosewood at Baha Mar and SLS Lux at Baha Mar...

This month, a wave of positive change comes to the world of Internet gaming. For years, card issuers have utilized unique Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) to identify Internet gaming-related transactions to enable financial institutions to protect themselves from unwanted regulatory scrutiny...

My brother, John Red-Horse, a retired university professor, will turn 80 soon, and I love to hear him tell stories about the ’60s when he spent time with the American Indian Movement (AIM) and was an early activist for the protection of tribal rights. He tells one story of a speech he heard by the...

For the last decade the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) has remained vigilant on the issue of Internet gaming and the many possibilities that may come with its legalization. The debate over Internet gaming has begun anew in the 134th Congress, and NIGA continues to advocate, ensuring that...

The law firm of Dickinson Wright continues to bolster its growing gaming practice through a recent expansion in the Silver State, adding three Nevada-based gaming specialists and giving its legal team even more depth in the complex global gaming arena. Dickinson Wright, headquartered in Detroit, boasts...

For four decades, John Acres has been a disruptive innovator in the gaming industry. Now the man who brought the industry player tracking and bonusing is focused on a new frontier through his company’s groundbreaking Kai mobile system that marries technology, marketing and customer service...

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Union Gaming Analytics (UGA) Index of Gaming Operators. The UGA Index for the period ending Feb. 28, 2015, was down 0.24 percent sequentially to 100.13 from 100.36 at Jan. 31, 2015. As an illustrative example, if an investor bought $100,000 of the...

After reporting a relatively flat performance in the first month of 2015, the AGEM Index increased 10.82 points (+5.9 percent) month-to-month in February 2015, reaching a composite index of 192.71. The latest month represents the highest monthly gain reported since the index rose...