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Type of site | Online iGaming publication |
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Available in | English Spanish French German |
Founded | June 1995 |
Headquarters | United States |
Created by | Warren B. Eugene |
URL | casino |
Commercial | Yes |
Launched | June 1995 |
Current status | Active |
Casino.org is an online i-gaming news and comparison site that publishes reporting, data journalism, game guides and casino-operator reviews. Established in 1995, it is one of the longest-running i-gaming publications on the web and is frequently cited by mainstream newspapers, business magazines and trade journals. [1] [2]
Casino.org publishes in English as well as regional editions in Spanish, French and German. It also operates Vital Vegas founded by Scott Roeben. [3] [4]
Casino.org was founded by Warren B. Eugene in June 1995 as the public face of his Caribbean Casino software project, which Time identified that month as one of the first attempts to run real-money table games on the nascent world wide web. [1] Two years later, the San Francisco Chronicle described Eugene as an early "online gambling pioneer", reporting that he was negotiating a sale of the business while U.S. lawmakers weighed an Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. [5]
Mainstream outlets regularly cite its investigations. The Las Vegas Review-Journal relied on Casino.org research for a widely shared tipping guide in December 2023, [6] and has continued to quote its coverage of ATM-fee and parking-charge increases on the Las Vegas Strip. [7] Financial news outlet TheStreet likewise attributes scoops on property reopenings and fee changes to Casino.org exclusives. [8]
Casino.org publishes in more than 100 national or regional editions, including separate versions for Canada, Brazil and over twenty U.S. states. [9]
Casino.org maintains an open research archive that has been cited by legal scholars examining Canadian sports-betting liberalisation. [10]