The public face of ATEI, ICE and ICEi, collectively known throughout the international gaming, gambling and i-gaming sectors as 'The London Show', has undergone something of a makeover with the introduction of three bold and contemporary logos. The designs, according to organisers Clarion ATE, have been developed 'to complement each other and reflect the changing dynamic of the London showcase'.

City analysts fear the rush to build a new network of casinos across the UK could initially lead to oversupply. In the past few days Britain's operators have made applications to build more than 90 new casinos to add to the 140 already operating.

When Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson learnt that his company had hit the jackpot in the Singapore IR race, it wasn't through his lieutenants. The 72-year-old CEO of Sands had switched off his phone and gone to sleep when president William Weidner tried to break the good news to him at 2.15am last Friday.

Providence - Voters are closer to deciding whether Rhode Island should have a casino to compete with those in neighboring Connecticut. The Senate Constitutional and Gaming Issues Committee approved on a 6 to 3 vote yesterday a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for the Narragansett Indian Tribe to build a casino in West Warwick.

Joliet - The Empress Casino and Harrah's Joliet Casino & Hotel are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Tuesday to stop a new casino tax that would send money to the horse racing industry. The Joliet casinos, along with Hollywood Casino in Aurora and the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, contend they were unconstitutionally singled out to pay the tax in order to get political support from downstate legislators to pass the law authorizing the tax.

Hong Kong (AP) - Las Vegas gaming mogul Steve Wynn Tuesday successfully made a USD 10.1 million bid for a Chinese vase from the Ming dynasty, the highest price ever paid for porcelain from that period.

Even as the triumphant Las Vegas Sands' camp popped the champagne after bagging Singapore's first casino site on Friday, its bruised rivals nursed their wounds and counted their losses over a sombre weekend. Rebuffed in Marina Bay, the alliance of Harrah's Entertainment and Keppel Land appears less enthusiastic over bidding for Singapore's second integrated resort (IR) licence in Sentosa.

The Government's process of choosing the location for the UK's one Las Vegas-style supercasino could be heading for a legal quagmire. Some of the eight councils whose venues were shortlisted have already tied up with a major casino operator and property developer to build and run the sites if they win the coveted licence - but these agreements may have to be expensively unwound when the contract is awarded.

Sky City will move from 50 per cent to 100 per cent ownership of the Village Sky City Cinemas operation in New Zealand. Sky City will also buy Village's 25 per cent holding in Rialto Cinemas, taking its holding to 50 per cent, and Village's 33.3 per cent interest in Village Cinemas Fiji, taking the Sky City interest to 66.7 per cent.

The latest Taxing Measures Regulations (7/2005 Act of Dec.23, 2005) for the Community of Madrid that approved legal guidelines to install betting machines in bars, has provoked great unrest in business and machine operator circles; upto now, the B-type gaming machines had the sole right of installation and exploitation of these appliances.

Harrah's Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Loveman says he is getting pretty excited about his company's planned transformation of the center Strip. After meeting Loveman last week in his offices at Caesars Palace, it is clear the professorial executive believes the project will stand apart from some of the other big developments that are planned or being built on the Strip.

Bookmakers have installed Blackpool as firm favourites to be awarded the coveted one-and-only regional casino licence ahead of its big city rivals. But Steve Weaver, Chief Executive of Blackpool Council, is playing down the "favourites" tag – as Blackpool will have to topple the city giants. He says much work is needed to be done to convince the Casino Advisory Panel – the independent body now studying Blackpool's bid alongside those from Manchester, Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Dome, Newcastle, Sheffield, Cardiff and Glasgow - before it makes its recommendation to the Government by the end of the year.