eGaming Review January 2013 | Page 5

EDITORIAL TEAM Head of Content, eGR James Bennett T: [phone] E: [email protected] Head of Content, eGR North America Tom Washington T: [phone] E: [email protected] Reporter Tom Victor T: [phone] E: [email protected] Reporter Robin Harrison Millan T: [phone] E: [email protected] PRODUCTION Head of production Claudia Honerjager E: [email protected] Art editor, eGR Toni Giddings E: [email protected] Sub-editors Rachel Kurz?eld Eleanor Stanley COMMERCIAL Group commercial manager Ben Robinson T: [phone] E: [email protected] Commercial manager Sam Compagnoni T: [phone] E: [email protected] Publishing account manager Debbie Robson T: [phone] E: [email protected] Publishing account manager Jonathan Vintner T: [phone] E: [email protected] Group head of content Gwyn Roberts CEO Charlie Kerr Circulation manager Fay Muddle Content sales Emmanuel Nettey T: [phone] E: [email protected] Jeff Molina Diaz T: [phone] E: [email protected] Product reviewer Catriona Campbell E: [email protected] Reviews were carried out by Catriona Campbell at Foviance, a customer experience consultancy that has worked across a wide range of online gaming products areas and helps companies understand online customer behaviours. [E D I T O R ' S LETTER ] eGaming Review is published monthly by Pageant Media, Thavies Inn House, 3-4 Holborn Circus, London, EC1N 2HA ISSN 1742-2450 Printed by The Manson Group © 2012 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used without the prior permission from the publisher With ICE upon us once again and a dazzling array of shiny new landbased and online gambling toys bound for its new home of the Excel exhibition and convention centre in the east end of London, we thought it was only right to highlight some of the best sites, games and technology out there in the real-money world today. From the world’s richest pools betting prize started by one of sports betting’s biggest punters and social sports sites to a multi-player, peer-to-peer blackjack game designed by poker enthusiasts pros and an investment fund armed with £100m to spend on the “pay2play” entertainment sector, read this month’s cover story (turn to p44) on what we have coined the new order of gaming stars that could well disrupt a few rivals along the way in 2013. While featuring a huge collection of new slot and casinostyle games (turn to page 59), the four-day show will undoubtedly be dominated by mobile, tablet and HTML5 products, platforms and developers as well as continued talk of convergence between real-money and social gaming operators (turn to pages 55 and 57) and Facebook ramping up the number of cash gambling games on its billion-member-strong network. The year will be dominated by mobile, social and innovation. Add yet more uncertainty in some of Europe’s largest and most lucrative markets that are refusing to play by the EC’s rules (see page p32) and we’re due for yet another fascinating and explosive year. 03