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By:  David Clifton, Director, Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited

By: Natalia Pakhomovska, Partner, head of IP&T practice at Kyiv office of DLA Piper & Ivan Shatov, Associate, IP&T practice at Kyiv office of DLA Piper

Interview with Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of Global Social Responsibility for Hard Rock International by: Victor H. Royer

Casino Life magazine recently had the opportunity to interview Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of Global Social Responsibility for Hard Rock International, which is the first US-based gaming company to develop its own fully-immersive, branded casino-and-player interactive program for responsible gaming, called the PlayersEdge.

Casino’s story is one of success despite the odds. Russian casinos began to flourish in the nineties but as the millennium kicked in they became prolific. As of 2002, Russia was host to 58 casinos (30 in Moscow alone), 2,000 gambling parlours and as many as 70,000 slot machines that were loosely regulated and beginning to cause social problems. The Russian government, led by Vladimir Putin, identified this and acted decisively.

What Does the Future of Online Casinos Look Like?

As a section of gaming, online casinos have consistently stood as some of the most progressive. From the early days of running over 56k connections to the modern age of smartphone adoption, whenever a leap in technology was made, online casinos would soon be there to follow.

While US gaming groups are focusing on placing their bids for the upcoming Integrated Resort (IR) in Japan, one outlier, to name Hard Rock Casinos, is looking to position itself in the Spanish market.

With the results for the gambling industry in the country consistently improving since 2008, Hard Rock Casinos may be up to a very lucrative investment. The proposed €2 billion project Hard Rock Entertainment World was approved in May 2018.

If you love playing online slots or are new to the game, then you may have heard of the term RTP and wondered what it means to you as a player. If you are new to the game, RTP simply means a return to player and this is quite a significant feature of online gambling.

To move with the times, some of the biggest slot machine providers have decided to focus on skill-based products. The idea is not new and industry experts have been aware of the concept for years.

The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) industry expo held in Las Vegas on October 14 shed more light on skill-based products designed to appeal to a younger customer base, but there are still a few wrinkles.

The global gambling market is now worth over 40 billion US dollars. In fact, in 2018, this industry’s revenue has reached a value of 449.3 billion US dollars with a growth rate or CAGR of 4.1 percent. It is expected that the industry will be worth over 550 billion US dollars by 2022 with a CAGR of 5.9 percent.