Here are some of the top stories in mobile and online gaming that we’ve been monitoring in recent days.
International Game Technology and DoubleDown Casino have produced and now released the first-ever Social Casino Index. So, what is a social casino index exactly? In this case, the U.S. Social Casino Index is based on more than six million people who play DoubleDown Casino games on Facebook online or on a mobile device every month.
A thought-provoking new report from the Associated Press is directing the spotlight toward the changing marketing demands incumbent upon Las Vegas tourism officials. “Baby boomers are suckers for appeals to their narcissism. Generation Xers can’t stand their parents. And millennials want to feel like do-gooders,” the report explains, clearly defining the divergent groups that marketing must target.
News out of the Garden State at this hour confirms that the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has suspended the review of PokerStars’ application for an online gambling license.
Although online gambling is not yet legal nationwide, most expect that to change well before the end of this decade. Moving incrementally slower toward that prospetive eventuality, a congressional hearing on the state of online gambling took place in the nation’s capitol today.
Ahead of the weekend, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act of 2013 by a commanding bipartisan vote of 325 to 91. Proponents contend that the bill will curtail the antics of “patent trolls,” individuals and entities that purchase patents and sue entrepreneurs for their “infringement.”
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