News in brief: fund's Playtech share tips 10%; Nexway-Deutsche Telekom deal; GoWild; Virgin; Visionary... 19/01/2010
MUTUAL FUND Fidelity International has increased its stake in Playtech to 10%, the latter company announced in a market update yesterday. Playtech was notified of Fidelity's purchase of a further 0.01% stake in the company, which took its overall holding to 24,031,139 shares, on Thursday last week.
Digital distribution business Nexway Games has signed a supply deal with Gamesload, the games platform of Deutsche Telekom. The deal will see Nexway deliver the technical platform for Gamesload to strengthen its recently launched European online sales operations, which offers over 1,500 games titles. The deal excludes Austria, Germany and Switzerland, where Gamesload runs its own online shop.
Virgin Casino has added four more GTech G2 side games: Triple Chance Hi Lo, Casino Dice, Spin Win, Aces High, Bingo Keno Extreme. The games were developed by Dynamite Idea, one of four companies acquired by lottery industry giant GTech to form egaming division GTech G2 along with Boss Media, Finsoft, and St Minver. As reported on EGRmagazine.com, GTech G2 also renewed its deal with Virgin Poker to supply the site with its games software and player management system in November.
GoWild Casino has launched the new Hellboy slot game released by Microgaming this month, together with new games Arctic Fortune Video Slot and the Robot Butler Video Slot.
Live dealer provider Visionary iGaming has launched new game Live Blackjack Early Payout, a version of multi-hand live blackjack.
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Posted: 19/01/2010
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