Bingo News: April 2009 Archives

Have you seen the Bingo Shop at Sun Bingo? We were expecting a shop in which you could by goodies like T-shirts and keyrings showing the Sun Bingo logo but this is far from what is on offer when you login to your online bingo account and visit the Bingo Shop at Sun Bingo. In essence it's a pre-buy bingo lobby where players have the chance to pre-purchase their bingo tickets.

Today the inbox was set a light with the news of another big winner on the Lucky Ladies 88 slot game available on all the Virtue Fusion online bingo sites. Whilst we received an email from Bingolore to say the Virtue Fusion big winner was at their site we then received another not so long afterwards claiming that it was a big winner at Crown Bingo. 

PaddyPower Bingo originally launched its online bingo site using the Parlay Entertainment bingo software but this month (April 2009) the powers that be at the site made the decision to make the switch to the Virtue Fusion (VF) bingo software.  Unlike many sites who make such drastic changes to their online bingo sites PaddyPower Bingo gave no indication of the change nor was the information leaked to the elite few in the bingo industry.

ITV Bingo first became popular amongst online bingo players with the success of Bingo Night Live but today notification was issued to all players that their online bingo site is to close. Can the news that ITV Bingo closes be attributed to the fact the Bingo Night Live is no longer being shown nor is it likely to reappear according to the powers that be at ITV? We think this is probably the case.

QuickSilver Bingo is available to play at QuickSilver Games and the new bingo site is bought online by Talarius using the Virtue Fusion bingo software as part of the big network. Talarius owns over 180 adult gaming centres and over 10,000 gaming machines in the UK. Quicksilver Bingo, or Quicksilver Games as the domain is, is licensed in Malta whilst Talarius is wholly owned subsidiary of Tatts Group. 

Let us start by saying "only in America"! A normal game of bingo in the Del Rio Senior Citizens center turned into what can only be described as a bingo brawl according to a news reel we found on YouTube. Listening to the news we were shocked to hear of three older ladies getting into a scrap over a game of bingo, we've heard of pub brawls but never before a bingo brawl especially with old ladies as the people fighting!

On a monthly basis one online bingo site offers all their depositing players the chance to win £1,000 for just 1 pence. The win a grand with Wink Bingo game for this month takes place on 1st May and with tickets at just 1 pence each with a maximum purchase of 24 per game one lucky player will be taking home £1,000 after spending just 24 pence on bingo tickets at this online bingo site!

Tombola Bingo seem to be leading the way when it comes to providing a completely unique online bingo gaming experience and this is proven yet again as Tombola launch Bingo Roulette. The new game at Tombola Bingo joins the ranks of the current offerings at this online bingo site that include Cinco, Hamster Races and Rollercoaster.

How do free bingo tickets for the chance to win $80,000 and prizes sound to you? Well you can get all this and getminted on a cruise thanks to GetMinted Bingo and their latest online bingo promotion. The prize for this superb promotion is a seven night, all expenses paid, Mexican Riveria cruise leaving from Los Angeles on 1st November 2009. One lucky winner will be setting sail with GetMinted Bingo so get your dabbers ready for 21st April 2009!

Before the new Minxy Bingo advert was launched the online bingo site ran a campaign to find a star for the advert and details are now available at their online bingo site of the winner. I read through the story about the winner of this great comp and took a look at her pic, then I watched the clip and found it really difficult to spot the Minxy Bingo advert winner.

Another new land based bingo club is planned with the name Kingsway Bingo Club on the site of an old nightclub in Frome, Somerset according to the latest news from thisissomerset.co.uk. According to the article a mystery consortium has plans to open the first bingo hall in the town of Frome in May 2009 and there is a real air of mystery surrounding the group who have just secured an 11 year lease on the old Level One club in the precinct.

There is not a lot you can get for a penny these days; there is no such thing as a penny chew and it even costs 10p to spend a penny! Wink Bingo however is bringing some value back to this little coin with a superb 1p game that comes with a massive guaranteed jackpot of £1,000 as part of April's Monthly Madness at Wink Bingo.

It would be silly really to have a hunt at Foxy Bingo, not to mention illegal, considering their mascot is a fox but this is a different kind of hunt from the best online bingo site available. This is a free bingo hunt at Foxy Bingo as the site is offering four free bingo games over the next four days! Three of the four free bingo games hold £250 jackpots whilst the other has a massive £500 on offer each day.

Reading through the bingo news today I was shocked to hear of a new online bingo site being launched by STV, the Scottish news channel. STV already have an online bingo presence by way of STV Bingo powered by the 888/Globalcom software but have now launched BingoMood this time on the JackpotJoy bingo software! It's becoming more and more popular it would seem to launch on multiple platforms when it comes to bingo.

When playing online bingo there are many aspects that are different to land based bingo and one of those is the verbal agreements that are set up between friends to share any winnings when playing bingo. With news today from 9news that such an agreement saw bingo lead to murder aren't we glad that online bingo doesn't really allow for such verbal agreements to take place! According to the report a lady was murdered by her bingo partner after refusing to share a $500 win with him.

All our readers know that I am a huge fan of Foxy Bingo and the Foxmeister so as you can imagine I was more than a little excited to read the news the Foxy Bingo rank number one in the online Marketing Magazine for their latest advert! From 23rd March until 29th March the Foxy Bingo advert held top spot with some 11% more votes than the 2nd placed advert.

Social networking for online bingo has been something that has seen quite a rapid growth over the last 12 months or so and one online bingo site has chosen to launch their own version; a cross between Facebook and Twitter called My Tombola. This social networking at Tombola Bingo means that all registered players have the chance to upload up to six photographs, update their statuses and add friends to their list.

Voting for your favourite soap stars opened back in February and the competition is hotting up but one online bingo site is offering 4 tickets to their players in the 888Ladies Soap Awards promotion. It could be that you are a big fan of one of the soaps or simply that you love them all, it doesn't matter because if you fancy seeing your favourite star in the flesh then get on over to 888Ladies and start collecting your soap points!

I am sure you have seen the recent Gala Bingo Splash the Cash television adverts and thought to yourself "I would love to try and grab a grand". Well now that dream could become a reality and all you need to do is head to the Meadowhall shopping center in Sheffield on Saturday 4th April and register at for the Splash the Cash at Gala Bingo promotion.

Today sees the launch of the new Mirror Bingo TV campaign and to coincide with the new advert the online bingo site is offering all new players who register £20 free at Mirror Bingo. Unlike the previous welcome bonus at Mirror Bingo this £20 is a no deposit required offering;  new players need to make no financial commitment to claim the £20 free at Mirror Bingo, as soon as a new registration is complete the money will be in their bingo balance.

Between us TheBoss and I are privy to breaking news in both the land and online bingo industry. Today I have some seriously interesting news hot off the press and for the land based bingo industry it could mean an upturn! Curious yet? Well the best online bingo site available today is about to launch into the land based bingo industry with an offline electronic bingo hall; Foxy Bingo is to open in Kensington, London!

Fancy winning £30,000 for buying a 25 pence bingo ticket? Well that's exactly what's on offer in the Bingo Champions at Mecca Bingo promotion. Throughout all of April this online bingo site are running the Online Bingo Championship and the overall prize pot in the promotion is a whopping £31,000! What's more, the final of the championships are offering completely free bingo games. Sound too good to be true? Think I'm playing an April Fool?