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Editorial coverage of casino and real-money gaming: regulation, operators, industry business and responsible-gambling reporting. No offers, no affiliate content.
A crypto casino is an online gambling site that takes deposits and pays out in cryptocurrency; here is how they work, what provably fair does and does not prove, and what the UK Gambling Commission says.
Responsible gambling help is free and confidential in most countries; here are the helplines and self-exclusion tools in the UK, US, Ireland and Australia, each checked against the official pages.
How to tell if online casino is rigged comes down to three checkable things, a verifiable licence, independent RNG testing and a complaints route, and here is what the UK regulator's own pages say about each.
Irish law now requires a licence to offer casino-style games, but the regulator has not yet opened online casino licensing, so the answer for players today sits in a transition.
The Brazil betting ban, set by Provisional Measure 1.394 on 25 September 2026, took licensed sites offline on 6 October and starts a refund clock for bettors that runs to mid-October.
India's Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act bans every online game played for money, skill or chance, while backing esports and social games. Here is the law, the penalties and the legal fight.
Yes: online casinos are legal in Great Britain if the operator holds a Gambling Commission licence, and the law targets the operator, not the player.
Australia passed its biggest overhaul of gambling advertising in 2026, capping TV ads, banning them during live sport and barring celebrities and stadium branding. Here is what changed and when it starts.
DraftKings and Flutter both slipped in late September as investors weighed rising state taxes and the cost of chasing prediction-market rivals such as Kalshi and Robinhood.
Attorney General Letitia James announced on 9 September that VGW will pay $8 million to settle claims its Chumba, Global Poker and LuckyLand brands ran an illegal gambling operation in the state.
New Zealand's Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 creates the country's first licensing regime for online casinos, with up to 15 licences awarded by auction and unlicensed operators told to leave. Here is the timeline, the rules and what changes for players.
A unanimous appeals panel ruled on 25 September that Ohio and Tennessee may apply their gambling laws to prediction-market sports contracts, the second federal defeat for Kalshi in a month.
In under two years, sweepstakes casinos went from a lightly challenged national product to a contracting patchwork. This is the 2026 state-by-state map: which states banned the model by statute, which are pushing it out through enforcement, and where it still operates.