In a recent online bingo incident that made the news, a 16 year old won £180 and boasted about it on his Twitter account, which resulted in much controversy.
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Some of your favourite online bingo sites are probably powered by Dragonfish, a software network that partners with and runs a host of bingo sites. Read more...

Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP, Tom Greatrex, might not play bingo online or in the land-based halls, but he has been publically backing the industry for some time. He has been a fast supporter due to his perception that the land based bingo halls have acted as a community centre in his area where people can come together for clean honest fun and socialising. Read more...

Anyone involved in the online bingo industry has been keeping an eye on the 2011 Online Bingo Summit for news snippets and details. Read more...

It comes as no surprise that the US government’s policy of banning its populace from playing online bingo for cash is becoming increasingly unpopular. When their federal government closed down several of the biggest names in the bingo industry, the move was hardly met with unanimous approval and those initial grumbles appear to be growing. Read more...

Dragonfish Bingo has recently released its May newsletter which covered an important security development for those who play online bingo. Back in April they introduced a clever new protection system for players who felt that they should take some time off without the risk of giving in to temptation. Read more...

It seems that playing bingo online may be the safer option these days, as incidents of criminal raids and activities outside of land based halls are not decreasing in frequency. Read more...

If you think the only bingo bonuses you see are the ones that yourself and other players win, think again because it’s recently been discovered that online bingo sites are far more generous than we knew. As a new facet to the online gambling world, many sites have begun to sponsor and support different charities in a bid to spread the goodwill the industry is experiencing. Read more...

Reports have surfaced claiming that Johnston Press has offered journalists and staff free online bingo tickets for their site, Bingo Today, to supplement their income. Read more...

If you like to play online bingo you’ll know that the industry is highly competitive, which is why sites are pulling out all the stops when it comes to being the most popular. Foxy Bingo is one such site and, having recently launched their own fragrance, Furrever , they’ve taken the competition to a whole new level. Read more...

If you read bingo reviews today, you’ll know that the industry is exploding online as more and more people become part of the trend. Read more...

Land and net based bingo halls are enjoying record-breaking participation increases as statistics report a surge in people deciding to play online bingo. It seems that expectations regarding online bingo interfering with land based bingo halls were woefully incorrect and that the opposite is taking place. Read more...

Playing online bingo has been a top activity for many over the last few years and interest in the game continues to pick up. Owners of top bingo sites across the UK will now converge once again for the sixth annual Online Bingo Summit to be held in London at the beginning of June. Read more...

If you’ve ever thought of playing online bingo, there’s more incentive than ever it seems as Karen Taylor, 36-year-old mother of three, has catapulted to fame after showing her interest and sending in a picture of herself for a competition. Read more...

Trinity Mirror national publishers reported a nine percent fall in revenue because of a decline in their paid facilities such as online bingo. Read more...

Chris Moyles was the most recent UK celebrity to show off his love of bingo. Although he has not admitted to playing online bingo, he turned up at a bingo hall in Carlisle recently. Read more...

Gala Coral is currently in talks with software company Playtech regarding technology for its online bingo, casino games and sports betting companies. Read more...

Did you play bingo online this weekend? If so, you are part of the few that followed the plan set out by most of the major bingo portals. Read more...

Mecca Bingo, a major provider of both land based and online bingo recently rejected a takeover by Malaysian investor Quek Leng Chan.

Parent company of Mecca Bingo, Rank, is listed on the stock exchange, so the investor with the greatest amount of shares can control the company. Guoco Group Ltd, run by Leng Chan, had recently increased its share to 40 percent. Read more...

Big things are happening with the online bingo community lately and the prize money seems to be getting more and more impressive with each passing event. The Joy Pot game, which was hosted at Wink Bingo on 29th April this year, ended in an incredible triumph for local Joy of Bingo player ‘Polgara52’. Read more...

There has never been a better time than now to register and play bingo online. Why? Industry experts believe that bingo players will not have access to the fantastic deals, promotions and sign up bonuses in the future. Read more...

Are you still looking for an excuse to play online bingo? Look no further. Since bingo made its appearance in the 16th century, one of the biggest drawcards was the social aspect. People went to bingo halls, churches and other venues to have some fun and meet new people. Read more...

This past Mother’s Day went off with a bang as a record number of women took to their respective online bingo communities to celebrate their special day. This is just the latest in an increasing amount of attention that this pastime has received, not only during special events, but during any average day as well. Online bingo is a trend verging on becoming a phenomenon, and millions of players the world over are flocking into its digital halls in order to take part. Read more...

Online bingo really became established back in 1996 with a game called 'Bingo Zone'. Back in those days, in order to play the participants actually had to provide some personal demographics and were then hounded by targeted ads based on the information they had submitted. Fortunately we’ve all become a little more ‘net savvy’ since those days and it takes a uniquely backward provider to attempt a similar feat. Read more...

Not surprisingly the name says it all. Online Bingo is played via the internet and has grown to serious proportions in the US as well as the UK. According to statistics taken in the industry, we're talking about a gross gaming yield of nearly a billion US dollars. What's more is that it's shown stable growth despite the economic factors of the time, an impressive feat indeed. Read more...

When bingo player Rochelle Olson sued comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, or rather his alias Bruno, she had no idea that the outcome would end up with her being ordered to pay the funny man’s legal expenses. After a lengthy court battle, judges ruled in favour of Cohen and Olson was left to pick up the costs.
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A fight at a bingo hall in Charlotte, North Carolina ended in disaster when two players were wounded. The fight broke out over a dispute about a game, which caused one player to pull out a knife, wounding two other players in the process. Doris Deese and her son Curtis were at R & L Beach Bingo on Wilkinson Boulevard when the fight broke out.
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An astounding £5 million plus in unclaimed lottery prizes has been sitting at the UK National Lottery since November 2009, as no winners have come forward to claim their prizes. With huge prizes that reach well into the triple digits, this comes as a shock to many. What makes someone not claim a win, and how are winners able to lose out on such a huge windfall?
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As online bingo sites step up their bingo promotions and offers, casinos are also starting to get in on the rewards, resulting in an overlap between the two.
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Pensioners in a North Whales council estate have been battling to play bingo after an eight foot fence was erected in place of the shortcut they had been using to get to Llanddulas Royal British Legion, where they enjoy regular bingo games. Now these old age pensioners have to endure a 200 yard uphill walk through the estate, or miss out on their favourite pastime.
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While bingo players have nearly always consisted of more women than men, lately there has been an increase of male players as more sites begin to target a broader audience. Gone are the overly pink and girly sites that cater to the female masses; in their place are sites that have a toned down neutral look, with darker greys, blacks, whites and purples rather than the pastel pinks seen before.
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A recent charity event hosted bingo games in Brewton, Alabama, to raise money for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life event. The games gave players a chance to enjoy a few rounds of bingo, with proceeds going to a highly worthwhile cause.
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The bingo game has had a total revival over the past year or two, with new clubs for the young, trendy and fashionable opening up across the US and the UK. These clubs offer a winning combination of bingo and partying, allowing players to play a few rounds of bingo before enjoying a few drinks and some dancing, with some of the world’s top DJ’s spinning the beats.
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A recent online bingo advert for a leading UK bingo group has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for racist connotations and stigmatisation. The advert depicts a white man in a suit and a black man in a floral shirt, both sitting around a campfire on a beach. The black man plays a ukulele and repeats in song everything that the white man says.
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The bingo player hailed as ‘Britain’s most shameless woman’ is asking for more benefits, after claims have emerged that she has spent most of her current benefits on bingo and electronic gaming machines. Julie Potten, a 38 year old Kent resident, receives £92 a week for incapacity benefits due to her mood swings.
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A recent bingo hall arson report has been linked to other fires that have been purposefully set in the past few weeks. The arson incident took place in the town of Beaumont in the United States, where a fire was started in a shed in the back of the hall. Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident but officials have not disclosed the damage caused.
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Yet another crime has occurred at a bingo hall, this time in the parking lot of the Bingo Palace in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In an incident that rocked this sleepy US town to its core, a woman was robbed at gun point as she was getting out of her car when arriving at her local hall. Grand Forks Police Sgt.
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One of the worst crimes a bingo player can commit is that of theft within the game. In Masaryktown, Brooksville an unnamed female was arrested for the heinous crime of cheque forgery in her local Masaryktown bingo hall. When Amanda Thomas strolled into the halls of the Masaryktown Community Centre, she went straight for the cashier with two packs of bingo cards.
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Bingo machines have now been banned across California, after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a preliminary injunction that had previously permitted the machines to operate in the state.
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Many players have been deeply saddened to see bingo halls across the country having been reduced to rubble. Continuous development across many towns and cities has seen a number of classic Art Deco buildings that were once cinemas or theatres, and were reinvented as bingo halls in the 1960’s and 1970’s, now demolished to make way for sky-rise apartments and office blocks.
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New Indian bingo game show National Bingo Night on the Colors network has received the country’s highest opening television viewers rating of any debuting celebrity show in the country. Hosted by popular Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan, the show received a rating of 5.1 by the TV rating agency TAM Media Research.
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Popular directory and portal Bingostreet has opened nominations for their Online Bingo Site of the Year for 2009, which allows players to choose their favourites from the nominees who make the grade for being the best of the best.
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