We’ve seen many a bingo advert in our time around the online bingo scene; from the very first commercial by Think Bingo to the epic big budget offerings of Bingo Godz, it has all passed by our eyes. However, whilst there have been a few to date that have had us shaking our heads in […]
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Riva Bingo Hall In Cardiff For Sale
Exterior of Riva Bingo Another bingo hall may be the latest to join the demolition pile. The old Riva Bingo club in Agate Street, Cardiff is up for auction on Thursday 24th of October. The venue opened in 1913 as a cinema, and although initially a small venue with only 750 seats, it was expanded […]
Bingo Hotpot – A Tasty Dish?
With over 350 different brands online currently in the world of bingo it is quite a task to come up with a name for a new site (as you will know if you have watched Jake Yapp’s Bingo Brainstorm). It’s not surprising then that we see some quite odd brands making their way into the […]
Blackwood Top Ten Bingo To Close
As of this week another bingo hall has bitten the dust. Top Ten Bingo in Blackwood, South Wales has been purchased by Picturedrome Cinemas, who are going to restore the venue to its original use as a cinema. Located on the High Street in Blackwood the bingo hall has been going full time since 1998, […]
Not Quite Worshipping The Bingo Godz
When we first heard that a new brand was set to be launched by the big names behind Cashcade we were really excited and rightly so. After all, these big bingo brains took Foxy Bingo to epic heights and it continues to be a brand on every player’s lips. However we are finding ourselves a […]
Big Gala Bingo Sell Off?
Gala Coral may be selling their Gala Bingo clubs in an effort to ‘clean up’ their operation. Whilst this summer has been one of the best for the past twenty years or so, the bad news for bingo clubs is that numbers have been down during an uncharacteristic run of ‘beer garden weather’. While we’ve […]
We Want Bingo Free Text
Yesterday my telephone pinged with a message from We Want Bingo, a brand that I signed up to a while ago to review. I usually delete this type of text but being told that I had up to £1,000 free in my account certainly piqued my interest! Off I went to the URL shown in […]
Back To Online Bingo After The Summer
We had a fantastic summer this year, the best I can remember for a while, and that happened to fall at the same time as the explosion in mobile bingo. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have spent the summer sitting in the sun, playing at your favourite site from your mobile. However, now the […]
Fierce Bingo Closing
On October 15th, 2013 Fierce Bingo is going to close its virtual doors, just six months after opening! Is this a record? The site is one of many that chose to open as part of the Dragonfish network but was the only site to date who were quite so specific with the demographic that they […]
Showreel Bingo Advertising On Television
As all of our readers will know by know we have a brand on the 15 Network (Tidy Bingo). There are ten other brands on the network, one of which is Showreel Bingo and it is this site that is only the second to start advertising their wares on television. The first brand was Quiz […]
