Industry News Archive Page 9

Take me away to Margaritaville, the Margaritaville Casino that is. The famed singer songwriter has struck a deal with Harrah’s Entertainment to create the Margaritaville Casino & Resort. Though Buffet earned his fortune...

Powerhouse gaming company MGM MIRAGE is looking both north and south on the Las Vegas Strip as it stakes out territory for future development. The company announced this week that its investing in an already under...

Now that Columbia Sussex is the official owners of casino resort properties once operated by Aztar, from which it acquired two Tropicana resorts as well as others in January, it’s looking to change its corporate identity...

Trump Entertainment Resorts is still awash in debt as the company still can’t turn a profit in the United States’ second most lucrative gaming market.

A political squabble between the Oneida Indian Nation, New York State and the Department of Interior is putting the future in jeopardy of the Turning Stone Casino and Resort in Verona, a town in upstate NY.

It hasn’t even opened yet, but the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, at Las Vegas Sands Corp. property, is booking a slew of events for the huge mega-resort to be located in the Chinese province.

Pennsylvania is continuing to tighten the screws on the Atlantic City gaming market with the approval this week of a new video blackjack game from shuffle Master. The game was approved by the state’s gaming regulators...

By all accounts Atlantic City casino executives should be sitting pretty. After all the city has gone through an incredible transformation that’s turned the seaside town into a true multi day resort destination.

If you thought the Hooters Casino Hotel was just for 25 year old guys, you’d be wrong. The casino resort, which is located just off the Las Vegas Strip, is marketing directly to other demographics, especially women.

With Pennsylvania busting through all predicted estimates on take for the state, there is no doubt that gaming in the state has become a major success. It’s been less than six months since the first slot machines began...