Gaming professionals planning their annual visit to ICE Totally Gaming will need to allocate some additional time on the show floor. The world’s biggest business-to-business gaming technology event will be that much bigger in 2017, thanks to an additional 1,945 sqm of net space.

Berlin – EiG 2015 last month set a new benchmark for the iGaming industry event as a record number of countries and attendees gathered at Arena Berlin for three days of spectacular insight and unrivalled networking opportunities.

An independent audit undertaken by BPA has confirmed that attendance at ICE Totally Gaming 2015 fell just three short of 25,500. The audited figure of 25,497 represented an 8% increase on 2014 and was 15% up on 2013, vindicating the decision to relocate to the purpose-built ExCeL Centre situated next to London’s financial…

London – ‚One of the biggest campaigns ever undertaken in support of a gaming exhibition‘ is how Jo Mayer, Marketing Director responsible for ICE described the multi-media campaign which has been created for February’s event taking place at the ExCeL Centre in London (3-5 February). The ICE 2015 Discover creative will appear in over…

The financial daily ‚De Tijd‘ reports that 2007 was a record year for Belgium’s nine casinos as annual turnover rose by EUR 15 million to EUR 115 million. The rise in turnover continues the trend that started in 2004 when annual turnover at the country’s casinos was just EUR 43 million. The opening of a new casino in Brussels has been a major contributory factor to the big rise in turnover.

The Court of Final Appeal of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has sentenced former SAR Secretary for Public Works and Transport Ao Man Long to 27 years in jail. The 51-year-old official is guilty of 57 of the 76 charges, which include corruption, money laundering, abuse of power and related crimes. In his over two-hour long readout of a summary of the verdict on Wednesday, TUI President Sam Hou Fai said in light of Ao’s bribery cases and related illicit activities of money laundering…

Global Gaming Expo 2007 attracted a record 30,173 gaming professionals from 99 countries around the world, a 5 % increase in attendance over last year, according to official audited attendance figures released by G2E organizers Reed Exhibitions and the American Gaming Association (AGA). G2E 2007, the world’s premier trade show and conference event for the gaming industry, was held November 13-15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Following a year that featured the weakest growth in 16 years, the French casino industry rebounded last fiscal year to set a new record with gross gaming revenue of 2.71 billion euros. That figure, recorded by 193 casinos, was an increase of 2.16 % over the previous fiscal year. In 2004-2005, the increase was a mere 1.33 percent. Ironically, the government released those figures just before New Year’s Eve, which featured a strike at seven casinos and disturbances at 30 others.

The size and scale of the 2008 International Casino Exhibition will outstrip all previous shows by some considerable measure, offering visitors a wider selection of new products and ideas than ever before, as the London Show continues to break all records.

Berlin (Reuters) – Millions of people are crowding into German shops to fill out lottery forms in hopes of winning Wednesday’s record 43 million euro (30.6 million pounds) jackpot. Lottery officials said on Tuesday that thousands of foreigners from neighbouring countries France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Switzerland were also streaming across the border to buy tickets.

Nearly 22 million people visited the Chinese enclave of Macau during the first ten months of 2007. According to the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau, the figure was close to the total amount for 2006. The Statistics and Census Bureau also said that they expected upwards of 26 million visitors by the end of the year.

(Bloomberg) — Sky City Entertainment Group Ltd. headed for a record one-day gain on New Zealand’s stock exchange, valuing the nation’s largest casino operator at about USD 1.8 billion, after saying it received a takeover offer. The price indicated by the suitor, which Sky City declined to name, would be a „significant premium,“ the Auckland-based company said before trading began today.