The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Feels like an age ago that I last spoke of the Underground Rebel Bingo Club, and how retail bingo could take some pointers from their anarchic, non-traditional take on bingo. I was searching around for something else and our paths crossed again, and I was amazed to see how far […]
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Schoolgirl Giggles Over Bald Knob Bingo
A lot of my free time, and even some of the time that should be spent doing other things, is spent looking for all things bingo related and some of the things I find literally have me giggling like a school girl. The latest was a new piece from Post Crescent that was simply titled […]
Webcam Gaming From BingoCams
Click here to play atBingoCams When it comes to online bingo brands we as players are used to seeing a lot of the “same old, same old” but with a different lick of virtual paint. Very few sites offer innovation in their bingo offering but Bingocams brings something different to the table with their webcam […]
Tax Changes And A New Look Bingo Association Site
The dust might have had time to settle on Tuesday’s Budget, but the bingo industry is likely to be ruing the changes made to the tax regime for a long time to come. Most notable is Machine Games Duty (MGD) which will be hitting operators in their most profitable area of business, a further tax […]
Some Highlights From The Last Two Years
Whilst it’s great to be back, there’s a lot of stuff that we’ve missed the last couple of years in the bingo world. I thought I’d mention a few things that have struck me in my absence, but that I’ve not had the platform here to celebrate / moan about. Here’s a few things that […]
Back In Business, The Return Of Playing Bingo
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, […]
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. […]
