You’d be forgiven for thinking the site had gone the way of the dodo the last couple of years. I’m as shocked it’s taken as long myself. The old blog shut down in April 2010, due to Blogger removing support for FTP publishing. My aim was to take the opportunity to build a new blog, […]
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New Hall History Piece – The Kingston Gala
After a long break, Ian Grundy has returned with another fascinating insight into a grand old bingo hall, illustrated with Ian’s wonderful photographs. This latest piece looks at the development of the monstrously huge Kinston-Upon-Thames Gala Bingo hall. The hall started out as a church and was a theatre / cinema for a time before […]
4th Online Bingo Summit 2009 Coverage
Yes, you read that right – coverage from last year’s event, now live on the site. Ok, I know this should have been up about 10 months ago, but it’s been a busy 10 months and I’ve only just gotten around to finishing. I thought I’d better get it up ahead of the 5th Annual […]
End Of An Era For Playing Bingo
Today marks a sad day for me here at Playing Bingo, and the end of an era. This will be the last news post I can make via my favourite old blogging platform Blogger.com. They foolishly decided to remove the ability for users like me to publish our blogs to our own self-hosted websites. So, […]
Virtue Fusion CEO Bob McCulloch On The Online Bingo Summit
Keeping things Online Bingo Summit related, Bullet Business sent over this interview with Bob McCulloch, the CEO of the recently purchased Virtue Fusion, for my money one of the top 3 bingo solutions out there. He talks about the growth in the market, the future of the industry and what makes the event so important. […]
Early Bird Bonus For The 5th Online Bingo Summit
You’ll have to excuse the lack of action around these parts recently, there’s a couple of big things happening at the moment that are affecting my ability to post here. First up, Blogger dropped a bombshell that they would no longer be supporting FTP publishing to external sites from the end of March. As the […]
Playtech Snap Up Virtue Fusion
Online bingo has been rife with takeovers and buyouts recently, and this latest one sees one of the best online bingo providers bought by a wider gaming operator who’s bingo offering is far from satisfactory. Virtue Fusion have in the last couple of years become one of my favourite bingo platforms, powering some of the […]
Bingoport.co.uk 2010 Player’s Choice Awards
The evening of Friday the 29th January saw the 2nd Bingoport.co.uk Player’s Choice Awards, held during the 2010 London Affiliate Conference. I was able to attend last year’s event, but due to the pending birth of our 2nd child, I had to miss this event. But fear not, I sent along my colleague to follow […]
Battlefield Bingo From Gala Bingo
If you’ve read our scholarly and in-depth article on the early history of Bingo in the UK, like myself you were no doubt surprised to learn that bingo was played by British troops in the trenches of World War I. The game proved and excellent morale booster and social event for the entrenched soldiers, despite […]
Major Licensing Changes In The Future For Online Bingo
If you’ve not spotted it already, there’s some potentially massive news from the Government today, that could literally change the look of online bingo in the near future. The Minister for Culture, Media and Sport Gerry Sutcliffe today released a statement about his plans to undertake a review of the current licensing system for remote […]
