Month: December 2024

The company, Blask, which focuses on crunching big data and leverages AI solutions to support partners, will prove invaluable to BetBlocker’s efforts to further strengthen safeguards related to player safety and consumer protection in gambling.

Bringing AI and RG Together to Tackle Gambling Harm

This partnership is a two-way street as Blask will also benefit from BetBlocker’s expertise and strengthen its analytics. Meanwhile, BetBlocker will improve its self-exclusion solution based on the AI experts’ insights and ability to comprehensively identify behavior and support players.

Commenting on this opportunity, Blask CEO Max Tesla hailed the chance to see his company work closely with BetBlocker and share its commitment to address gambling-related harm and help problem gamblers, making a real difference in the process.

“We are thrilled to partner with BetBlocker in our mission to use technology to create a more ethical way of doing things within the iGaming industry,” said Tesla.

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Addiction Switzerland, an organization tasked with monitoring gambling and addiction levels, has been running annual surveys to help establish changes in the nation’s gambling behavior. In 2018, an estimated 25% of 1,395 people interviewed said that they would gamble online weekly. This number has since increased to 30% as of 2021, the organization said, with the data collated with the help of a regional addiction association from the Western part of the country.

Switzerland Sees an Increase Number of Gambling Addicts Grow

The numbers, revealed on Thursday, have confirmed a worry that Addiction Switzerland has had for a while, specifically that the availability of gambling products would lead to more cases of pathological gambling. The data argue that 5.2% of the people who gamble can be classified as such, up from 2.3% in 2018. In other words, even though online gambling activity has increased by 5%, the rate of problem gambling has increased by more than 50%.

Addiction Switzerland has more data to offer on who is the most impacted…

After recently expanding its audience via Livespins, online and mobile casino software provider iSoftBet has added another title to its Hold & Win series, with its new slot, Plunderin’ Pirates: Hold & Win, a high seas adventure with Respins, Booty Boosters and Explosive Modifiers!

Aided by an impressive collection of features, bountiful riches await players in this 5-reel, 3-row, 20 paylines video slot, where the pirate captain takes his place at the helm as the game’s highest paying symbol. Under the captain, there are J, Q, K and A low pays, while parrots, monkeys, female and male pirates comprise the premiums in the medium volatility spinner. Earning 4x to 10x the bet means you landed five matching premium symbols. Wilds substitute for all symbols except for gold coins.

In-game modifiers:

In order to trigger the Hold & Win Respins bonus, you’ll have to land at least five gold coins, and when you do, the game will award three initial respins. For each new symbol that lands, the respins will be reset to three. What’s more, individual Boodty Busters can appear during the feature and will activate one of the modifiers.

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Logan Paul is back in the WWE. The YouTube star signed a new deal with the company preparing for a match against his Wrestlemania tag team partner, former WWE Champion, The Miz. A match is in the works for this year’s Summerslam event.

WWE made the announcement Thursday, with interim CEO Stephanie McMahon and Triple H at the star’s side. It’s unlikely Paul will be a weekly on-screen talent but will likely be a part-time performer who makes appearances at WWE’s bigger events, such as Summerslam and Wrestlemania.

ESPN is reporting that the contract will continue into 2023, possibly ending at next year’s Wrestlemania. Paul made his WWE debut last year alongside Sami Zayn to much of the WWE fanbase’s chagrin. He teamed up with The Miz against Rey Mysterio and his son at this year’s Wrestlemania and managed to pick up the win together.

It’s been a chaotic few weeks for WWE as Vince McMahon had to step down as chairman due to hush money, which also involves senior official John Laurinaitis in the scandal as well.

Paul is without controversy, obviously, but with sliding ratings and a rising injured list, WWE signing him to a short-term deal wouldn’t be the worst…

Diablo IV’s Urn of Bargaining season blessing is intended to make it so players find more gold in their pockets, but while that is technically true, it also makes some of the most common ways players spend their gold even more expensive.

As part of Diablo IV Season 1, players who work their way through the game’s battle pass periodically unlock Smoldering Ash. This currency can be used to upgrade various seasonal blessings that grant extra benefits over the course of the season, such as more experience gained from killing monsters, or, in the case of the Urn of Bargaining blessing, earning more gold from vendoring items.