Author: The iGaming Insider
Interblock is preparing to introduce its AMUSE “Battle for Earth” product at a new Manila integrated resort in the fourth quarter of 2026, taking an online-style crash game into a physical Philippine casino setting. In comments reported by GGRAsia on 16 October, Vincent Tang, Interblock’s vice president of sales for Asia Pacific, said the product had received PAGCOR approval and would go live alongside the opening of a new casino resort in Manila. The company did not name the customer or provide an exact installation date. The approval and deployment plan are attributed to Interblock. The reported timeline describes a forthcoming…
Okada Manila attracted more visitors and grew mass-table gaming revenue in the third quarter of 2026, but adjusted segment EBITDA still fell 13% to PHP962 million. The result shows the difficulty of rebuilding resort earnings while VIP activity remains weak. The preliminary figures for the three months ended 30 September were released on 14 October by Universal Entertainment, parent of operating company Tiger Resort, Leisure and Entertainment Inc. GGRAsia’s account of the disclosure puts total revenue at PHP7.84 billion, broadly unchanged year on year, and gross gaming revenue at PHP7.04 billion, up 0.9%. Universal maintains its TRLEI preliminary-results library as the company’s reporting channel.…
QTech Games has signed a distribution agreement with Swedish developer Solidicon, adding crash, mines and virtual games to its aggregation platform. Announced on 14 October 2026, the partnership gives the studio another route to operators while broadening QTech’s supply beyond conventional slots. In its official announcement, QTech said the agreement covers Solidicon’s proprietary catalogue. Named games include Navigator, Quackinator, Dragon Dash and Ascot Gold. Commercial terms, operator commitments and country-by-country deployment dates were not disclosed. Distribution meets a different kind of game QTech’s pitch centres on games designed for mobile devices, limited bandwidth and lower-specification handsets. Those are supplier claims about…
PAGCOR is targeting an exit from casino operations in the third or fourth quarter of 2027, with preliminary disposal proceeds estimated at PHP20 billion to PHP30 billion. The latest comments turn its long-discussed separation of commercial and regulatory functions into a more concrete acquisition prospect for Philippine casino operators. The timetable remains conditional on government approval. The Philippine Star reported on 14 October 2026 that chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco expects the Governance Commission for Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations to submit its recommendation to the President within October. His comments were made in Boracay around the opening of Kaban Hotel and Casino.…
Cambodia’s casino enforcement drive now faces a harder test than closing visible online-gambling rooms: demonstrating that the networks behind scam compounds are being investigated, prosecuted and separated from the licensed gaming sector. The US Department of State released its 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report on 8 October 2026 and kept Cambodia in Tier 3, its lowest category. In its Cambodia assessment, the department alleged a continuing pattern of trafficking connected to online scam centres, official complicity and inadequate protection for potential victims. Those are US government findings and allegations, not judicial determinations by IGI. They nevertheless matter commercially because they arrive just…
Genting Berhad’s proposed RM1.25 billion equity fundraising has become an immediate test of investor confidence in one of ASEAN’s most important casino groups. On 12 October 2026, its shares fell sharply enough to trigger a suspension of intraday short-selling, following the rights-issue announcement issued on 9 October. Bernama’s report, carried by The Star, put the stock at RM1.58 at 11:26am Malaysian time, down 15.97%. That is an intraday observation, not a closing price. The suspension concerned intraday short-selling; it was not a general halt in trading Genting shares. For the gaming industry, the question is how much breathing room the…
Thailand blocked 945,075 URLs linked to online gambling during fiscal 2026. The number is striking, but the more important development is where enforcement is moving next: search visibility, platform cooperation, public reporting and AI-assisted discovery. The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society disclosed the figures in a statement published on 6 October 2026 following a 5 October meeting with anti-gambling and youth organisations. The plan is no longer limited to obtaining court orders against known URLs. It increasingly targets the systems through which gambling pages are found, distributed and recreated. What Thailand’s figures actually measure The ministry’s official statement covers the fiscal…
The Philippines’ decision to remove direct gambling access from e-wallets is now visible in the financial performance of the country’s largest wallet ecosystem. An AP Securities analysis dated 7 October 2026 put Mynt’s payment solutions revenue at PHP24.9 billion for the first half, down 3.7% year on year, and linked the decline to the full-period effect of gambling-platform delinking. That finding matters because it moves the debate beyond operator gross gaming revenue. The policy did not only add friction for gaming companies; it also removed a transaction and discovery channel from the payment business that previously connected users to licensed…
Singapore’s Gambling Regulatory Authority is making artificial intelligence part of its regulatory operating model. The regulator’s newly released 2025/26 annual report describes an AI Masterplan, wider use of digital tools and systems designed to identify anomalies in audit-log reviews. The important point is not that a regulator has adopted Microsoft Copilot or deployed internal bots. It is that Singapore is placing automation inside a risk-based framework: routine and lower-risk work can move faster, while human regulatory attention is concentrated where the consequences are higher. What the GRA has disclosed According to the 2025/26 report, GRA has expanded the use of…
Bloomberry Resorts has moved beyond the conventional online-casino launch playbook. On 8 October 2026, the Philippine operator introduced OnlyFun.PH, a live interactive entertainment product that combines gaming, livestreaming and creator-led programming inside its FUNaloMAX portfolio. The immediate story is a product launch. The more important story is that a major casino operator is trying to make creators part of the gaming interface rather than treating them only as an external acquisition channel. What Bloomberry has launched Bloomberry describes OnlyFun.PH as the Philippines’ first regulated platform to combine live interactive entertainment, gaming and creator-led content. The service is designed to let…