"Crash" won best picture over the expected favorite "Brokeback Mountain." Featuring an incredible cast in crisscrossing story lines, “Crash” displaced the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had been awarded most other important Hollywood prizes.

Macao city, placed in the south cost of China, is quickly becoming more and more considered as a real Asian pearl due to its amazing casinos and deluxe hotels, only accessed by the richest people all over the world.

Classified by many people as a better place than Las Vegas, Macao is now planning to build the world’s first underwater casino, something that will surely increase the city’s international fame as an entertainment center.

A new mobile gambling service was released in the United Kingdom by Partouche, the European casino chain. This service was developed by mobile gaming firm Probability games, and offers a wide range of games, such as blackjack, roulette, video poker, hi-lo, slot machines and bingo, among others.

According to an article published by NetImperative.com, “mobile users over 18 years old can sign up the service using any mobile network. Users enter their name and address and can download any of the Partouche games to their mobile to start playing”.

Century Casinos' partner in the project is the Westmead Business Group Limited, owner and operator of the Airport House and the Aerodrome Hotel in Croydon. The project will comprise a Large Casino (as defined in the UK Gambling Act 2005) with a customer area of at least 16,000 square feet for a minimum of 30 gaming tables and 150 slot machines, an expansion of the hotel to 150 rooms, two restaurants and several bars, a health club, an events and conference center for 300 guests, the existing airport museum as well as fully serviced office suites...

PartyGaming saw its shares surge 16.5% yesterday as it hinted that online blackjack had the potential to grow as explosively as online poker.

The group - owner of Party Poker, the world's biggest internet poker site - introduced blackjack in October. The game has quickly surpassed roulette as the site's most popular non-poker game and news of the rapid take-off prompted across-the-board profit upgrades by analysts...

A whole generation is growing up using cell phones, BlackBerries and playing hand-held computer games.

Come mid-2006, casinos will be able to offer the small devices to allow customers to play the slots, blackjack, craps or baccarat while they're in lounges, swimming pools or restaurants.

The state Gaming Control Board on Tuesday held its final public hearing on a regulation to allow operation of "mobile gaming systems" in casinos...

Las Vegas Sands Corp., owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, is seeking $2.5 billion of loans to expand in the Chinese city of Macau, which may become the world's largest gambling center by revenue this year.

The financing, the largest for the region's gaming industry, will help pay for a Venetian hotel, casino resort and other projects in the Cotai Strip in Macau, the company said in a statement on PRNewswire today. The financing is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of next year...

Donald Trump is selling his Indiana riverboat casino for $253 million and plans to invest the proceeds in the crowded Atlantic City, N.J., market.

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., which emerged from bankruptcy in May, said Friday it is selling Trump Indiana Inc. to Las Vegas-based Majestic Star Casino. Trump plans to invest $227 million from the sale in its three Atlantic City properties.

Pinon Plaza owner Clark Russell says he has sold the casino he built from the ground up to Jacobs Entertainment Inc., a national gambling corporation, for $14.5 million.

The announcement came as a surprise to the Best Western Pinon Plaza Resort employees because of a confidentiality agreement between the seller and buyer.

Large casinos will be coming to Philadelphia in the next two years, but will they be good for the city?

A panel led by Management professor Bernard Anderson and Center City District Director Paul Levy, two of the chairs of the Philadelphia Gaming Advisory Taskforce, attempted to answer this question in front of about 20 students and Philadelphia residents on Tuesday.