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Alexander Weldon

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Managing Casino News Editor at Catena Media

Managing Casino News Editor for https://t.co/kWMbGB9rh2. Dad to a rambunctious 11-year-old. Painting, cooking, disc golf, puns, politics, game design. Broadly curious.

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  • 3 weeks ago | casinobeats.com | Alexander Weldon

    Milky Way residents caught a lucky break this week as astronomers downgraded the chances of a collision with nearby Andromeda to about an even-money proposition. Earlier studies had concluded that the merging of our galaxy with its neighbor was nearly certain. The new projection came in on Monday by way of a Finnish-led team of scientists. They published their results in Nature Astronomy, after which the Associated Press brought the good news to audiences outside the scientific community.

  • 1 month ago | gamingtoday.com | Alexander Weldon

    When a number of US-facing sweepstakes casino operators formed the Social and Promotional Games Association (SPGA) last year, Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW) wasn’t among them. As the owner of the biggest and best-known sweeps casino brands like Chumba Casino and Luckyland Slots, its absence from the roster didn’t go unnoticed. Now, VGW and a handful of other operators have formed an alternative group they call the Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA).

  • 1 month ago | bonus.com | Alexander Weldon

    The future of the Texas Lottery is in jeopardy amid a series of scandals and facing a legislature hostile to legal gambling in any form. The state’s Lottery Commission appears all but certain to disappear, though the Lottery itself may receive another couple of years to make a case for its continued existence under new oversight.

  • 1 month ago | playusa.com | Alexander Weldon

    Online gambling is coming to Missouri, but not until the last possible moment allowed by law. When voters approved sports betting in a referendum last year, the constitutional amendment stipulated a launch deadline of December 1, 2025. Hopes of an earlier launch haven’t and the Missouri Gaming Commission has now confirmed that Dec. 1 will be the launch date, as first reported by Covers.

  • 1 month ago | playnj.com | Alexander Weldon

    New Jersey’s iGaming market held on to earlier gains in April, keeping revenue steady despite the changing of seasons. Typically, sports betting revenue plunges after March Madness, but the summer slump can take longer to set in for the online casino vertical, and that seems to be the case this year so far. All told, New Jersey online casinos pulled in $235.2 million in gross gaming revenue for April. Although that’s a drop of nearly $9 million from March, it was also a shorter month.

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