Opera Bingo only have three clubs, so for two to pay out fairly big wins in the space of a week is good going. The first win was last Sunday at Opera Bingo in Whitehaven, when a lucky lady won £28,500. Then, last Tuesday, a £23,000 jackpot was scooped at Workington Opera Bingo, another Cumbria […]
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Slough Gala Bingo Gallery, New Lost Halls And Club Finder Additions
The exterior of Slough Gala Bingo For those of you with an interest in the halls we feature at the site, I’d like to highlight some of the new galleries and pages recently added. Kicking off are a collection of photographs kindly provided by Charles Jenkins, providing a great record of the decor, fittings and […]
Gamesys In Virgin Games Buy Out
Virgin Bingo has been around for quite some time and since launch the brand has gone through several changes. Owned wholly by Richard Branson and rebranded to Virgin Games, it offers the whole gaming experience from one platform with bingo, side games and an online casino all rolled into one. However, now we hear that […]
iCANN gTLD Draw Result For String ‘bingo’
On 17th December the prioritisation draw for the new gTLD’s (Generic Top Level Domains) took place after applicants paid a fee of $100 to be allocated a priority number. This number determined the order in which applications travel through the remaining stages of the validation process for iCANN. Details of the bingo relevance for this […]
Bash Gaming Set To Gross $55 Million
The company behind the popular Bingo Bash game on Facebook is set to gross $55 million this year as their virtual gaming platform goes from strength to strength. BitRhymes created the Bingo Bash game and it’s become so popular that they have renamed their entire company Bash Gaming, giving the brand far more recognition with […]
Dragonfish Brands Set To Go Mobile
Dragonfish, the largest network of bingo brands online today, have announced that during H1 (the first half) of 2013 that they will be launching their network on mobile. The app is reported to have been built using HTML5 and will be available on iPads, iPhones (iOS devices) and Android. When the product first launches it […]
Prisoners Win Bingo Cash
It has been announced today that an inquiry is to be launched after it was reported that prisoners in some of Britain’s most high profile jails have been given cash prizes for playing bingo games while incarcerated. The inquiry will centre on activities in Wakefield Prison and other top security jails, where some of the […]
Is Online Bingo Really Sexist?
As our readers will know we often take a look at the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to read up on opinion about all things bingo. A recent trawl through Twitter revealed a tweet that really got the cogs turning upstairs. The tweet came from David Hall and said “I take it online […]
Forbidden Bingo Names
When it comes to naming a child there are certain names that people tend to steer clear of for obvious reasons. For example, how many babies to you hear of today being called Adolf? Surely the same principle can be applied to bingo brand names? We thought so which lead to us taking a look […]
St Minver/G2 Gtech UK Network Diminishing
Whilst doing a few updates to the content on our pages we stumbled upon the closure of Cheggers Bingo and Metro Bingo, two brands that were previously part of the St Minver/G2 Gtech network. Since the change in product from Parlay Entertainment to the new G2 Gtech software we have seen a number of brands […]
