As our readers are aware, we have our very own pay to play brand called Tidy Bingo. It’s a site that we have poured ourselves into since its launch in August 2013. We’ve always been proud of the site, and our ethos of being about the player is more than apparent when you visit. However, […]
Category: Opinion Editorial
Gala Sell All Its Land Based Bingo Halls
Over the years we’ve followed the ebb and flow of the retail industry’s biggest players. There’s been a number of purchases and sales, but this latest move from Gala is possibly one of the biggest we’ve seen here. In one fell swoop Gala has sold its entire portfolio of high-street bingo halls. That’s 130 halls […]
Charity Bingo Up To Its Old Tricks Again
Regular readers here at Playing Bingo will know that for some time now we have had an issue with Charity Bingo and their inability to keep their players informed of the donations being made to charity. The whole ethos of the site, its unique selling point is that they donate £1 to charity for every […]
Rogers Bingo To Close On 1st November 2015
When Rogers Bingo first opened in the summer of 2011 we remember being quite excited about the new brand. It was the first to launch from Cladstone Limited and one that brought something new to the online bingo marketplace. However, whilst it was good to see another brand open using proprietary software, the actual gaming […]
New Face Of Bingo?
One of the biggest problems with the offline bingo industry over the past few years has been the perceived ageing of its population of players. Whether the real or not, the perception is there, of players sporting horn rimmed glasses, their bingo wings flapping in strip-lit garish halls, and this may be enough to put […]
Charity Bingo Take Note And Update Pages
Often when we address certain issues around the world of online bingo it can appear that our concerns fall on deaf ears. However, on some occasions these issues are serious enough that the ‘offender’ sits up, takes note and acts quickly to rectify the situation. This is the case with Charity Bingo who have now […]
The Evolution Of The Bingo Chat Room
Online bingo has been around for a great many years now, and for those of us who have played from the very start there have been many changes as the industry has grown and evolved. While back in the early 2000s there were only a handful of bingo sites, all with cosy, manned chat rooms, […]
Shocking Bingo Statistics
I have been shocked to read that ‘One in three married women are addicted to online bingo’. I am not shocked by the headline, more dismayed that drivel such as this gets published in the first place. The headline comes from a press release on journalism.co.uk which publicises a ‘survey’ by a portal called New […]
Which Bingo, Sanderson Jones And The ASA
In my role as a bingo journalist and site owner I get to attend many different events throughout the year and on Tuesday evening it was the turn of the Which Bingo Awards 2015. None other than Mr Winner himself, Sanderson Jones, hosted the event and a great time was had by all. The venue […]
Bingo Cocaine Moral Panic
Lock up your daughters, and if they do escape, pray, pray, pray, that they don’t end up in a bingo hall! Because if they do, they’re probably going there to score a bag of Bolivian marching powder from Dotty Doris the dealer. Really? Well, not exactly, but, after an ‘investigation’ by The Sun newspaper, a […]
