Online bingo has become surprisingly popular among the younger generations. What was once thought to be a game only for senior citizens to play, largely because not much skill or memory is needed, is now increasing in popularity among the youth. As a result, William Hill has launched a new, interactive online bingo website.

The website is called Ruby Bingo and it is powered by Playtech software. The new online gambling website features seven different bingo rooms. One exciting feature of the bingo site is its interactivity. The software has a variety of chat and social networking features. Players are able to create personal profiles complete with bios, photos and more. While playing the bingo games they are able to use real-time chat to communicate with and talk trash with other bingo players. Yes, you can now trash talk during a bingo game!

William Hill is hoping to create a new gaming experience for fans of online bingo with a website that features a more social atmosphere. Playing bingo at a land-based bingo hall is often more about social interaction than actually playing the game. Online bingo websites have always missed out on that social interaction, but with the in-depth profiles and chat features, Ruby Bingo aims to recreate that social experience.

There are also monetary incentives for joining the new bingo website. Right now players who buy one bingo game get a second game for free. In addition, new players can receive £16 free as a welcome bonus as well as an ongoing 10% off weekly bonus.

When MTV first launched in 1981, it was a station devoted to playing music videos by hot and up-and-coming artists. Then the station, whose acronym used to mean Music Television, became nothing but a mindless pop culture channel, more likely to have a show about annoying teenagers or a dating show than actually have any music. Now they are evolving again, as the network enters the online gambling market.

Though they started in the U.S., MTV is now global. The UK and Ireland branches of the network now have signed a deal with 888.com to bring an MTV-brand online casino to the people. The deal is a clear move to attract a younger audience to the online gambling market, since people of a certain age would once do anything that MTV says is cool. Therefore, 888 is hoping to use MTV’s influence to bring youth to a new site to play online bingo.

Yes, you read that correctly. They are tapping MTV’s influence on younger demographics for an online bingo site. What, no pinochle? An MTV online poker room sounds like a great marketing idea, but to me MTV doesn’t really scream bingo. I can picture the old, cool MTV trashing a bingo hall. I can see Dan Cortese or Adam Sandler wrecking a bingo hall and tearing up the place, making fun of everyone there. Somehow I can’t imagine Daisy Fuentes standing by a pool in Cancun telling the Spring Breakers that once they check into their hotel room for the night, they should log onto an online bingo site.

I know that MTV lost their edge a long time ago and they lost most people’s respect when their lone music video show, TRL, played only parts of songs while fans talked over them by giving shout-outs. Still, it hurts me to see MTV like this. I realize that it’s been a long time since anyone has said “I want my MTV,” but are they so out of it that they’re sponsoring bingo?

To be fair, bingo is more popular among young crowds than it once was, especially online bingo. The online casino is trying to increase that trend, bringing more youth to the game. It’s a risky move, though. Selling a cooler game, like poker or blackjack, would be an easier trick for them and MTV.

The MTV online bingo website will launch in August and will be promoted on MTV’s channels and websites in the UK and Ireland. If this had happened 20 years ago, you could almost guarantee success, but today when MTV does something, does anyone really care? I doubt it, but maybe if the bingo hall offers “money for nothing and chicks for free” we can have this discussion again.

With the Christmas shopping season right around the corner, people could use a little extra cash. I get extra cash by brining a guitar and an empty hat to the street corner and playing for spare change. If you’re either a really good musician or a really pathetic person, you can actually make decent money that way. I usually do pretty well. But I’ve never really that I was a great musician… Anyway, if you don’t want to start busking then you might want to head over to JackpotCity for some bingo games.

JackpotCity online casino is giving away some goodies to their online bingo players this month. All bingo players have the chance to win £350 worth of shopping vouchers. Oh yeah. That’s what I’m talking about. You can buy a lot of Snuggies for that money. To be eligible for the prize drawing, all you have to do is deposit and wager at least £10 on bingo or other casino games this month. Every time you do, you will be given a ticket to the big bingo game in December. You can do this as often as you want and play as many tickets in the bingo game as you want. The more tickets you have, the better your chances are at winning the prize.

Even if you don’t win the grand prize of the £350 of free Christmas presents, you can still walk away happy. The second prize is £100 in Bingo Bonus money and the third prize is £50 of Bingo Bonus Money. Whatever is on your Christmas shopping list, the holidays will be a lot more stressful if you have an extra £350 tucked away in your stocking.

To have a chance to win the £350 prize, visit JackpotCity online casino today and get your game on.

All Slots Casino has one of the leading mobile casinos, thanks to a large number of mobile web applications that can be played on any smartphone. They already had a good number of slots and poker games. Now there is a new game for the bingo fans out there.

Bingo Bonanza is the new game and it’s sure to be a hit among bingo lovers. The game offers the chance to win some pretty good money, with players able to win up to 20,000 times their bet. The gameplay of Bingo Bonanza is kind of unique, in that it plays more like a lottery draw than a bingo game. In the game, six balls are drawn and to win, the player needs to match at least 2 of the balls.

One of the best features of the game, and one that I wish was included in all online games, is a feature where the player can control the speed of the game. If the normal mode is too slow and the player wants to speed up the game, they can put the game in Turbo Mode, where the animations are accelerated and you can get in more games in the same amount of time. I’ve played quite a few online blackjack games that I wish had this option.

It’s another example of All Slots Casino’s commitment to innovation. In order to keep customers happy, they are offering not only a new bingo game, but one that can be played on a cell phone, has a unique gameplay, and can be modified to play fast or normal speed depending on the player’s wish.

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William Hill, the popular online casino and sports book, has a few big promotions going on right now. Whether you want to play poker or bingo, William Hill has a little something for you.

Though most people hate Mondays, it is the perfect day for playing online bingo at William Hill. The website helps you start your work week in a positive way by giving players a 10% bonus for playing bingo. The bonus is automatically deposited into the players’ account for every 90-ball bingo ticket purchased. With the 10% bonus, players will be able to play even more bingo, which would make my grandma happy. Yeah, I know young people play online bingo, too, but my grandma really does love it. I wasn’t making fun. William Hill is also offering Deal or No Deal Bingo, a fun bingo variant based on the popular TV game show.

For players who are more into poker, William Hill can hook you up as well. Right now anyone who signs up for William Hill Poker and makes a deposit will get a 100% matching bonus of up to £400. More money to play poker with is a good thing. If you’re good at poker, it allows you to win more money. If you suck at poker, it lets you play for longer before you lose everything. So it’s a win-win situation.

“But wait,” you say,” why would I play poker if I don’t know what I’m doing?” That’s a good question. You shouldn’t. That’s why William Hill is also offering its members a free course that teaches you how to play poker. The Poker School offers tips, advice and strategies, helping members become more skilled at one of the most skilled of games.

So if you feel like playing bingo or poker, or you just want o learn how to be a better poker player, William Hill has what you need.

The exclusively Swedish Svenskabingo.com has quickly become a well-recognized site on the Swedish Bingo community’s radar. However, the online bingo market is still dominated by other sites like Svenska Spel, Jackpot Joy and Ladbrokes to name a few. Svenska is hoping to change all of that with a new television ad campaign.

The ads target Swedish online bingo players, focusing on the idea of Svenskabingo being a bingo site created just for them. Like the online bingo’s site, the ads themselves are a colorful mix of live action and animation and emphasizes the social aspect of the all-Swedish language site.

Thomas Pedersen, Manager of Svenska Bingo, said of the campaign that he “hopes that the advert will cement Svenskabingo’s position at the forefront of the online gaming market in Sweden, and bring attention to our attempt to offer a targeted alternative to the imported multi-national bingo sites which make up a large proportion of the net bingo available to Swedish speakers.”

When the site launched in April, then Manager of Svenskabingo, Philippa Hellberg said, “Our goal is to create a safe, trustworthy yet highly entertaining environment for all our players. We are passionate about bingo and aim to make Svenska Bingo one of Sweden’s most popular bingo sites.”

She also urged Swedish affiliate marketers to get in on the action and promote the site, “We have an excellent and very generous affiliate programme and our affiliate software is excellent and built specially for the Virtue Fusion platform. We are confident we can beat any deal in the Swedish market.”

What can I say? It’s a slow news day.

According to the UK’s Sunday Times, PartyGaming has agreed to a deal to purchase online bingo giant Cashcade. The deal, which would be officially announced within the next two days, is reportedly worth £100 million, with an initial £75 million in guaranteed money and up to £25 million depending on how the bingo site fares in 2009 and 2010. The expectations are that the site will fare very well, since Cashcade is the UK’s number-one online bingo site in terms of number of players.

Cashcade is owner of popular online bingo companies Foxy Bingo, Mirror Bingo and Cheeky Bingo. Cashcade’s companies make up 23% of the online bingo market share, making them a popular, though pricey, company for acquisition after they announced they were for sale earlier in the year.

Until it is officially announced, though, and the contract is signed, no one should assume anything. After all, until last week everyone assumed online casino 888.com was going to buy Cashcade, but they pulled out of the bidding war when the stakes got too high. And as for the Sunday Times‘ reporting, I have no experience with the newspaper to know how credible they are, but the likes of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather have led to a general distrust of the media. Of course, we want you to know that you can trust us nice folks at GamblingReview. We’re different. In any case, the deal is said to be announced within the next two days and GamblingReview will update you when it happens.

These days it seems you can’t throw a rock without hitting a story about something cool NetPlay is doing in the world of online and live gambling. Their latest venture is the announcement of the first UK’s first live, interactive television casino with broadcasting group STV.

“NetPlayTV is uniquely positioned to offer terrestrial broadcasters sustainable, fully regulated, revenue-generating programming. We believe demand from the broadcasters for these services will increase significantly over the coming months,” NetPlay CEO Martin Higginson said.

STV is the largest commercial broadcaster in Scotland reaches over four million viewers per month. Programming will begin in August of 2009 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturtday nights. Those tuning in will be able to place real-time cash bets on live games of blackjack, roulette, and bingo.

After the recent reclassification of gambling on television as “teleshopping” public broadcasters have been permitted to air live gaming between midnight and 6am.

This announcement comes less than a month since NetPlay announced alliances with media giant Playtech and European retail casino operator Stanleybet.

Gigi Levy, the CEO of online casino 888.com, has announced that they will not buy Cashcade, a popular UK online bingo firm. The two parties have been in negotiations for the past three months, but according to Levy, the deal fell through because the price tag was too high. There has been speculation that no deal was made due to a lack of settlement between 888.com and the US government. Levy denies this claim, stating that they had enough bank financing to get the deal done but “we just didn’t want to pay the price they were asking for.”

 888 was believed to be the front-runner in the Cashcade bidding war, but with them out of the picture, PartyGaming and an undisclosed company will continue bidding for the firm. According to Levy, those companies “are more interested in it and are willing to pay more for it.”

 888 may have decided against purchasing Cashcade, but they will still carry their games despite a change in ownership. Gashcade, the parent company of Foxy Bingo, has a binding contract with 888 that will keep their games on Globalcom Limited, which was bought by 888 in 2007, for at least the next two years.

 Unlike competitors PartyGaming and Sportingbet, 888 has not settled with the US government regarding activities that took place, now considered illegal, before the passing the the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). By settling, the companies gained immunity from prosecution of pre-UIGEA offenses. There has been speculation that a lack of a settlement would hinder 888’s ability to purchase Cashcade, but that has been denied by Levy.

Bingo is no longer solely a way for cat ladies to kill time between “The Golden Girls” marathons in TV Land. Great Britain is seeing a whole new crop of wealthy young professionals playing the game. To be honest, I’ve never really understood British taste. After all, James Blunt is a megastar in England. And I’ll just say it now. I think the American version of “The Office” is funnier. There, I said it.

 Research group Mintel has found that during the last ten years, players under 45 years of age now make up 62% of the country’s bingo players. Players 18 to 24 years old now account for 700,000 of Britain’s 3.5 million bingo players. The most obvious reason for this shift toward younger players is the Internet. Online bingo sites have been springing up over the last decade and younger users are more likely to embrace the new technology. Older users, who are still trying to grasp the idea that you can talk on a phone that isn’t connected to the wall, are still sticking to the traditional bingo halls.

 Research has shown that younger users enjoy playing online bingo because of its simplicity. You can kill time, and maybe even earn a little money, without having to learn a whole lot of rules or strategy. Online bingo is also a good interactive game, with plenty of time for chatting and trash talking between called out numbers. Some can even use Twitter to keep friends and family up to date: “@JBluntFan It’s a 5. I don’t have a five. Damn. One more for Bingo!”

 With this trend expected to continue, more online gaming sites may add bingo to their game selection. In addition, sites that already offer bingo may decide to tailor the experience to a younger demographic, with chat rooms, 3-D animation and better graphics. It seems that a bingo revolution is in process.