Kazuo Okada, the billionaire chairman of Universal Entertainment Corp and Tiger Resorts Entertainment Inc, could be upping their investment in Manila to $4 billion, as he seeks to transform the capital that is philippine ‘Entertainment City’ into the new Macau.

This would express Okada’s biggest investment of most time, said Takahiro Usui, COO of Tiger Resorts this week.

Usui also revealed that the good fresh fruit of this investment, a 993-room hotel and casino resort scheduled to start in November, includes a new name. The project previously referred to as ‘Manila Bay Resorts’ has become ‘Okada Manila,’ which suggests the gaming that is japanese has learned a thing or two from his previous business partner-turned-foe Steve Wynn, and of this value of plastering your name across the front of a casino.

Wynn Feud

Okada was a Wynn Resorts executive and a shareholder that is major the company, until he was ousted in 2012. The 73-year-old businessman that is japanese whom made his fortune manufacturing Pachinko machines, had at first anticipated their old friend Wynn to come on board because of the Manila project as he received a gaming license there in 2008.

Okada had bailed Wynn out to the tune of $455 million to greatly help finance the completion of Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Macau, for which he received Read more →

The E-sports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) launched in the UK this week, a non-profit industry body with one dedicated mission: keeping E-sports clean.

ESIC said it aims to become recognized ‘the guardian of the integrity of E-Sports,’ with an emphasis that is particular cheating, match-fixing and gray market gambling in competitive games.

‘The Coalition will take obligation for all kinds of the process, including drawing up rules, investigating breaches and then prosecuting those that flout them, while additionally attempting to prevent such instances arising in the first place,’ explained ESIC in a news release.

‘To this end, ESIC is working with key stakeholders into the E-Sports community, from developers, publishers and players to broadcasters, wagering associations and league owners, to produce a vision that is unified what the rules should be, and exactly how they is implemented.’

E-Sports Scandals

The formation of the group is prompt. As we reported yesterday, E-Sports finds itself in the middle of another scandal, as two prominent YouTubers are accused of failing woefully to disclose the ownership of a Counter-Strike: international Offensive skins gambling site they regularly promoted to their millions of viewers.

CS: GO gambling sites themselves have now been criticized for alleg Read more →