Strong growth in revenue failed to offset the impact of growing costs for Scientific Games in 2018, with the gaming solutions provider’s loss for the period growing to $352.4m (£269.3m/€310.1m). Revenue for the 12 months ended December 31, 2018 was up 9.1% year-on-year, with a marginal decline in gaming revenue - down 0.7% to $1.8bn - offset by strong growth in the social and digital divisions.

Igaming platform and software provider GAN has said that it expects revenue for 2018 to come in ahead of market expectations after the business was boosted by a strong performance in the second half of the year.

Penn National Gaming has completed the acquisition Las Vegas-based social bingo games developer Absolute Games

Aristocrat Leisure has today (Thursday) entered a binding agreement to acquire social gaming company Big Fish Games for $990m (€833.9m)

PokerStars has opted to relaunch its ‘PokerStars Play’ social gaming service in select markets around the world.

Amaya-owned online gaming brand PokerStars has launched ‘Casino Rush’, a new mobile gaming application that offers free-to-play poker, casino and slots.

Social gaming start-up Playtrex has launched a new social poker game in the form of ‘Wild Poker’.

Caesars Entertainment Corporation has expanded its presence in the land-based social gaming sector through a partnership with Gamblit Gaming.

Brazilian social gaming company Gamesmart has entered into a distribution deal with Ortiz Gaming.