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Fantasy football supplier 20SHOTS signs contract renewal with BoyleSports
UK B2B free-to-play game supplier 20SHOTS has secured a contract extension to supply its flagship football jackpot game Fantasy5 to leading sports and casino operator BoyleSports.
The renewal comes after BoyleSports successfully integrated the free-to-play fantasy football game for last year’s Premier League season.
Commenting on the renewal, Aimee Prendergast, marketing director at BoyleSports, said: “We have found Fantasy5 to be a great retention and engagement tool for our players and we look forward to continuing our partnership with 20SHOTS.”
This year’s competition went live on BoyleSports.com on 3 August, just in time for the beginning of the Premier League season, and is available to all of the operator’s UK and Ireland players. BoyleSports hosts the popular fantasy football game under its own branding and has a separate Fantasy5 player pool to the B2C offering of 20SHOTS.
Fantasy5 users choose five players to beat their fantasy points targets in five weekly games, with BoyleSports offering a weekly jackpot of £5,000 to any player who gets all five picks right. The jackpot is shared if more than one player is successful.
20SHOTS co-founder and CEO Jacob Kalms said the contract renewal represented another strong endorsement of the company.
“We have recently announced some exciting new deals and we have others in the works, but BoyleSports was our very first operator partner and we see its continuing confidence in 20SHOTS as a strong demonstration of the strength of our game and technology.
“We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with BoyleSports. It was very successful last year, and we believe Fantasy5 will continue to complement its other products very well.”
NetBet Mexico and popular online gaming provider Octoplay have announced an agreement that will make Octoplay’s games available for NetBet Mexico customers to enjoy.
Despite only being founded in 2022, Octoplay has rapidly established itself as an influential member of the iGaming industry, developing multiple entertaining and popular slots such as Lollicat, Eternal Clash, and Shaolin Panda Chaos Reels – which are among the flagship new Octoplay titles being made available to NetBet Mexico customers.
NetBet Mexico’s PR manager, Claudia Georgevici, said: “Selective partnering is a key tool at NetBet as it helps us to filter out the best companies to join forces with. Despite their young age, Octoplay have shown their commitment to creating enjoyable titles, and we look forward to our players experiencing their creativity for themselves.”
The full range of new Octoplay titles can be found online at the NetBet Mexico website.
The CT Lottery has launched its iLottery platform. Players can participate in the fun of online lottery and their favorite draw games by visiting ctilottery.org or by downloading the CT Lottery mobile app on the iOS platform (Android app to follow next month). The app comes with exciting new features that allow players to personalize their lottery experience, such as saving favorite numbers and wagers, grouping preferred games for easy purchasing, and setting limits for wagering and time spent on the app. Along with these features, the CT Lottery mobile app will still include the ability to view winning numbers, scan lottery tickets purchased at retail to check if they have won, and much more.
With the new launch, Connecticut becomes the 11th state to offer online Lottery sales.
“iLottery gives Connecticut residents a convenient and secure way to play lottery games, whether choosing the every-four-minutes speed of KENO, the huge, life changing jackpots available through Powerball and Mega Millions, or the twice-a-day Play3 & Play4. In addition to our 2800 retailer locations, iLottery allows you to pretty much play anytime and anywhere you are. Lottery scratch tickets are only available in retail so be sure to shop retail too,” Greg Smith, President and CEO of the CT Lottery, said.
The games that will be available through iLottery are KENO, Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life, Lotto, Cash5, and Play3 and Play4.
Kansspelautoriteit, the Dutch gaming authority, has stated that it will utilise investigative findings to improve the duty of care at gaming halls across the Netherlands.
Throughout December 2023 and January 2024, KSA inspectors visited 20 gaming facilities across the country to investigate how duty of care was being implemented.
Sharing its findings, the gaming authority noted that the majority of gaming halls paid attention to duty of care, but added that its implementation could be improved upon in certain areas.
The KSA stated that gaming halls have taken steps to meet the duty of care requirements in the KOA Act, including preventing and limiting gambling addiction as much as possible, but the “practice is not always sufficiently in line with the expressed good intentions and what is included in the policy”.
“It is striking that the personal circumstances and playing behaviour of regular players are (more or less) known. But there is sometimes a lack of actually addressing players, registering signals and interventions and intervening in the arcades examined,” said the authority.
Long playing times were regarded by all gaming halls as a “worrying signal”, but monitoring methods were not always elaborated and not a single venue investigated applied a maximum playing time, which the KSA stated was “particularly important at arcades that are open 24 hours, because there is no natural “stopping moment” for players”.
The KSA revealed that playing on multiple machines and reserving slot machines was allowed at all gaming halls visited, which while not prohibited, can be a factor in excessive gaming behaviour.
Other excessive gaming behaviour – visiting for a long time and/or with great regularity and a high number of debit card transactions per visit – was not sufficiently monitored by several venues.
Letters were sent by the KSA to the gaming halls following inspections, citing specific improvement points for each location.
The authority concluded: “Guidance will follow later this year for all permit holders, containing an elaboration of the points identified and more specific attention to the duty of care of arcades. The KSA will then monitor compliance with this more strictly.”
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