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Q&A: Matthew Cullen, President, RocketPlay
The Betfair veteran discusses why he feels his new venture RocketPlay has cracked the code for socialising sports betting and explains the company’s Zynga partnership. Social Casino Intelligence...
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Opinion: The Second-screen Experience
RocketPlay president and chief business development officer Matthew Cullen explains how his company’s Sports Casino offering aims to use the second-screen experience to enhance customer engagement –...
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Opinion: The gambling guy’s guide to social casino
The ascending crop of social casino games may seem similar to those used by established egaming sites that often pre-date Facebook and the iPhone, but there are some key differentiating factors, beJig...
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Playing for matchsticks
Plumbee producer Dave Wright discusses his transition from real-money into social casino, and shares the insights he has gained from the sector so far. When I told former colleagues at my previous...
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Opinion: A poker school for the masses
Cmedia’s Oliver Crane explains how the company has turned a traffic generation business model into a successful social casino operation with the launch of the Soda Poker brand. For anyone having...
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Opinion: The real opportunity for the successful social casino developer
Odobo’s Ashley Lang explains how games developers have a new opportunity to leverage their success in social and casual gaming by producing content for the regulated real-money gambling industry....
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The Eastern front
Dr Serkan Toto explains why the Japanese market is slowly but surely embracing gambling-style games as its core card battle games begin to see signs of decline. The US$5 billion social gaming market...
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Opinion: A fair deal for social poker
Idle Games CEO Jeff Hyman explains the reasons why the industry should do more to protect consumers One of the biggest and most persistent customer complaints about free-to-play poker is that the game...
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Social Gamification – A social meta-game framework
Blue Bat Games CEO Kenny Huang discusses the importance of gamification in social casino titles Morgan Stanley ‘s recent report “Social Gambling, Click Here to Play” indicates social casinos will...
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Q&A: Ken Murphy, vice president of studios, GameHouse
GameHouse’s Ken Murphy discusses the challenge of transitioning from casual gaming to social casino Social Casino Intelligence (SCi): Do you feel that casual gaming companies have struggled to...
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Q&A: Gerard Cunningham, CEO, Koolbit
Koolbit CEO Gerard Cunningham discusses how the growth of the real-money sector and mobile has influenced the company’s business strategy Social Casino Intelligence (SCi): After founding Betfair USA,...
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Opinion: A passage to India
George Oborne, CEO of India Bet, explains how the nascent social gaming market is shaping up in India Indian society has changed rapidly over the past decade with huge social and economic changes...
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Opinion: The big picture
International Social Games Coalition chief executive Luc Delany talks about the myth of the ‘unregulated social gambling market’ A s the chief executive of the Internation-al Social Games Coalition...
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Opinion: Why there’s more to Asia than China
Scott Lambert, founder and CEO of The Manx Entertainment Group, talks about in which Asian countries social gaming is set for growth Developers and business-people do themselves a great disservice by...
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Opinion: A fast moving industry
Luc Delany, CEO of the International Social Games Association, discusses the work of the new industry body and some of the key regulatory issues in the social games sector today One of my favourite...
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Q&A: Josh Hartwell, CEO, Mobile Deluxe
Josh Hartwell, CEO of Mobile Deluxe, discusses the opportunities that stem from being a mobile-first game developer Social Casino Intelligence (SCi): Can you tell us a bit more about Mobile Deluxe and...
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Q&A: Igor Karev, CEO, Tatem Games
Tatem Games CEO Igor Karev speaks to Social Casino Intelligence following the mobile games developer launching its first social casino title Tower Slots on Facebook Social Casino Intelligence (SCi):...
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Opinion: The OFT and in-app purchases
Luc Delany, CEO of the International Social Games Association, delves into the OFT’s investigation into the impact of in-app-purchases The freemium business model is integral to the social games...
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Q&A: Andrew Hughes, CEO, AbZorba Games
Andrew Hughes, co-founder and chief executive of AbZorba Games, discusses the company’s recent successes and real-money ambitions Social Casino Intelligence (SCi): AbZorba has had a successful spell...
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Opinion: Best Practice
Chief executive of the ISGA, Luc Delany, discusses the recent launch of the representative body’s best practice principles and its upcoming industry research The International Social Games Association...
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