This section is the site’s news desk, and it works to one rule. The take that is correct beats the take that is quickest. We would rather publish a day after the headlines with the context and the caveats than race to rewrite someone’s press release, so the coverage here tends to arrive second and hold up better.
The beat is weighted on purpose. Most of it is UK regulatory news, because that is where honest reporting is scarcest and matters most. Gambling Commission settlements get named to the operator rather than left vague. Duty and levy changes get explained for the brands you actually play at, not kept abstract. Around that sits US and Canada market news, where regulated play is opening unevenly and the picture moves month to month. Every post is bylined, written to our published editorial standards, and corrected in the open when we get something wrong. We have run independently since 2011.
Online bingo brought in £147.8m in gross gambling yield from British players in the year to March 2026. A year earlier it was £171.4m, on
Online Bingo Down 13.8% as UK Bingo Halls Grow 8%: UKGC Data Read More »
Eight million dollars. New York’s Attorney General announced the figure on 9 September 2026, and the company paying it is VGW. You may not know
New York’s $8m VGW Deal: Who Can Still Redeem Sweeps Coins Read More »
Six months ago Playtech told analysts it was reviewing whether Sun Bingo could carry on under a 40% tax rate. On Wednesday it published its
Sun Bingo Revenue Falls €4.5m, Playtech Silent on Its Review Read More »
A bingo prize is usually not paid for by the bingo site. It is paid for by the people playing that game, out of the
One Bingo Network Publishes Its Rake. It Reaches 68% Read More »
Nine Mecca clubs shut in the year to June. The forty-one still trading took £143.0m in like-for-like net gaming revenue, and the biggest single line
80% of Mecca’s Mainstage Bingo Spend Is Now on Tablets Read More »
Over a quarter of the consumer complaints reaching the Gambling Commission’s contact centre are about identity verification. That figure is the regulator’s own, published on
A Quarter of UKGC Complaints Are ID Checks. Bingo Terms Show Why Read More »
On 28 July three British bingo sites changed hands. Not the brands, which kept their names and their web addresses. The company holding the gambling
Three Bingo Sites Changed Operator. Exclusions Didn’t Move Read More »
Local councils are being handed a tool they have never had: a way to establish, ahead of any application, that new gambling premises in a
New Council Gambling Veto Covers Bingo Clubs, Not Casinos Read More »
You may never have heard of Evolution, but if you have ever clicked the casino tab at your bingo site, you have almost certainly played
Evolution’s £4.75m UKGC Settlement: Six Unlicensed Sites Read More »
Two long-running US-facing gambling sites, Casino Castle and Bingo Village, have ceased operations. There was no announcement to players and there still isn’t one: both
Casino Castle and Bingo Village Quietly Shut Down Read More »
Flutter has put the first hard number on what April’s tax rise is costing the companies behind Britain’s biggest bingo sites. In its second-quarter results,
Tombola’s Owner Says the UK’s 40% Tax Will Cost It $320m Read More »
The most argued-about change in British gambling regulation finally has dates and numbers attached, and a paper trail worth reading. Financial risk assessments, the checks
UKGC Affordability Checks Explained: First Trigger Is £5,000 Read More »