Former standout NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, known as Beast Mode, has opened an apparel store in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Beast Mode brand is imprinted on T-shirts, hats, and more, including keychains and COVID-19 masks. Some of the items are labeled “Beast Mode,” while others include expressions associated with

A group advocating for smoke-free workplaces is reaching out to Major League Baseball for help in snuffing out smoking in Nevada casinos.

The Berkeley, Calif.-based Americans for Nonsmokers Rights has contacted MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and the Oakland Athletics. Their goal is to extinguish smoking in Nevada’s gambling halls, according to the Las Vegas Review-Jour

Casinos fully open, poker rooms closed

The two casinos in Massachusetts that have table games – Encore Boston Harbor and MGM Springfield – have been fully reopened for a couple of months, but neither has brought back poker. And according to one of them, it’s possible they may never.

In a statement late last week, an Encore Boston Harbor spokesperson said that it was an “if and when” situation when it comes to the poker room, not a “when.”

If and when poker should return to Encore, it will likely be at a reduced capacity.”

“Based on current market conditions and the resulting need t

Pennsylvania gaming revenue totaled just shy of $3.875 billion in the 2020/21 fiscal year. It’s easily the highest yearly mark in the decade-long history of the state gaming industry with legal slot machines and table games. 

According to data supplied today by the Pennsylvania Gaming Contro

More often than not, sequels leave us wondering why they even tried. Now and then, there are these genius creators though, like those of the Bad Boys sequels. NetEnt seems to have tapped into the realm of genius with their newest video slot, a sequel to their classic – Starburst.

Starburst XXXtreme launched on the 15th of July 2021, and it glistens with gravity-defying changes.

At first glance, one may believe that nothing has changed, but take a closer look. For starters, you might notice the “Activate XXXtreme Spins” button and that they marked the 9 fixed winning lines on the side of the g

The China casino blacklist of gaming resort destinations that the People’s Republic wants its citizens to avoid has expanded. But to where remains unknown.

Chinese officials in August of 2020 first announced the formation of a so-called blacklist of countries that market gambling to its mainland residents. Gambling is prohibited in China, the two exceptions being the state

In the race to win one of Japan’s coming trio of integrated casino resort licenses and American gambling giant MGM Resorts International is reportedly set to propose building a $9.1 billion development in partnership with local financial services firm Orix Corporation. Although most gambling is currently illegal in Japan, the coalition government of former Prime […]

Monday marks a new era in Pennsylvania gaming. Denise Smyler will take over as chairperson of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. She is succeeding David Barasch, whose six-year stint as PGCB chair ended last week.

China’s most recent crackdown on online fraud and gambling is causing havoc on its border with Myanmar (Burma). That’s amid a COVID-19 outbreak in that country, The South China Morning Post reports.

Myanmar’s semi-autonomous border regions of Muse, Kokang, Wa State, and Mong La have been doing a brisk trade in illegal online casino gaming, telecoms fraud, and internet scamming. This has  largely been perpetrated by Chinese ex-pats o

Gaming stocks are enduring punishment as US equity markets tumble Monday thanks to escalating investor fears regarding the impact of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. This is the latest sign that graming stocks are out of favor with market participants.

A recent quarterly survey by investment bank Stifel covering six groups across the consumer discretionary — where casino eq