Yggdrasil said its games are now available at South African operators Lucky Fish and Bet Set Win through integrations facilitated by Intelligent Gaming. The offering includes Yggdrasil releases and titles from studios in its YGG Masters programme.
The integrations add Yggdrasil and partner-studio games to two South African betting and casino platforms.
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Yggdrasil partnered with Codere Italia in Italy, with its games integrated through Microgame, according to the report. The roundup also describes releases of new titles by several suppliers, without naming commercial counterparties for those launches.
It was reported that Yggdrasil made its games available in Michigan and New Jersey through Caesars Entertainment’s online casinos. Aristocrat Interactive enabled the integration, which marks Yggdrasil’s first US online casino entry.
SOFTSWISS hosted a LinkedIn Live panel on the economics of launching in African iGaming markets, with South Africa as the main case, the company said. Panellists said licensing is among the smaller costs, with localisation, certification, BEE requirements, payments and marketing taking most spending, and provincial approvals taking three to 12 months.
Light & Wonder announced gaming systems agreements with Seneca Resorts & Casinos in New York and Deadwood Gulch Gaming Resort in South Dakota. Seneca selected the supplier after an RFP and will modernise systems across three resorts; Deadwood Gulch chose it to replace its existing system.
France's competition authority has approved Banijay's planned acquisition of casino operator Joa without conditions. The review, the authority's first of a gambling transaction spanning online and land-based operations, focused mainly on poker and concluded that the deal was unlikely to restrict competition. The authority said its assessment did not account for possible future legalisation of online casino games.