BREAKING NEWS - 888 Launch First Real Money Casino on Facebook

888 Holdings have announced the launch of their first ever real money casino app on Facebook, named MAGIC888. This launch follows the launch of their real money bingo offering, BingoAppy in December 2012, introduced to compete with the successful Zynga Bingo, which has over 1 million active monthly users. MAGIC888 allows players to have all the fun of the 888 Casino through their favourite social networking platform.

The new casino app will be competing with the likes of Bonza Slots, which was introduced by Bonza Gaming (an alliance between Sportingbet and Plumbee) in the start of February 2013. Bonza Slots has already attracted over 10,000 active monthly users, and 888’s casino will undoubtedly be going head to head with this brand, aiming to spread their own in house slots and table games and Live Casino to a wider audience.

This is the second real money social gaming app released by 888 Holdings since they announced that they had entered into an agreement with Facebook to supply real money gaming products last December. The first app, BingoAppy, which was released shortly afterwards, currently has 10,000 monthly active users, which, when compared with the mighty Bingo Blitz or Zynga Bingo with a million apiece may seem low, but is impressive given the short timescale.

Currently, MAGIC888, has just 100 active users after less than one day from its launch, (according to Facebook) so we look forward to checking in with the app to see how that number had increased in another week. You can read more about the App itself in a review here.

Yazio Moves Gaming Further into the Social Domain

Many people love to play games online, therefore with Facebook developing constantly and more games being created and played on this social network games have become more social.

The popularity for online gaming has soared through the roof over the past few years and one of the reasons for its great success is due to the fact many people can play these games all from the comfort of their own homes. Specifically casino games have developed a large face base and there are copious amount of these types of games available to play on the social network Facebook. Many of these games are much of the same so gaming company Yazino aims to introduce a unique experience and move gaming further into the social domain.

Yazino is a UK-based social gaming company that was founded in 2008. Since then it has developed an array of games and now it hopes to launch ‘in-sync’ gaming in which means players can compete and chat in real time via the Internet.

Yazino has some of its games already on Facebook, these include Blackjack and Slots Wheel Deal however they offer more games on their website. Although their games may be advertised on Facebook, when selected they link straight through to the Yazino site. This is because according to the CEO of Yazino Facebook can’t handle multiplatform gaming at the moment.

Yazino games give players the option to create a personal community. This then means that if you have a specific friendship group, like for example for all play sport together then you will soon have the option to create a sub group in which will have its own leader board and eventually live chat.

It is obvious then that Yazino is trying to move away from the Facebook gaming world and it wants players to experience a game that is much more sophisticated. Yazino understands that when people play together emotions are increased and by doing so make the game more real in which leads to players becoming more competitive.