Latest Lottery News

A weekend computer glitch affected millions of UK lottery fans that were hoping to grab the multi million pound payout in time for the New Year.

The French government announced that it would be floating its 72% of shares owned in the French lottery, La Francaise Des Jeux as soon as next year in a bid to privatize the company. Moves are presently being made to create the necessary legislation to float these shares.

Taking the lead from New Zealand, the Belgian government learned this week how the National Lottery will be making its way online from as early as next year. Speaking to the country’s House of Representatives, the country’s Finance Minister said that the Belgian public was ready to take its lottery gambling online. “More and more persons use the internet to purchase a variety of legal and illegal services and goods,” said Didier Reynders.

A seven year deal with South Australian Lottery will see GTECH deliver a completely new central lottery system to the company, as well as provide support services.

After only a month online, the Spanish National Lottery has expressed its satisfaction at the results generated by its new internet lottery and sports betting offering in the form of loteriasyapuestas.es.

As Turkey announces its intentions to privatize its lottery company, Milli Piyango, local and international companies are already scrambling to try and meet the requirements set in place by authorities in their offer of a 10 year lottery contract.

A small games developer company, the Gameologist Group LLC is suing the New York Lottery for alleged trademark infringement. The lawsuit, which also claims that Scientific Games Inc. was involved, accuses the two for stealing a game that was developed and patented by Gameologist Group.