Canbet Acquires Microgaming Online Casino Software
27th November, 2007
Microgaming will now also provide Canbet with their online casino software, after the online poker software proved so successful.
With this online casino software, Canbet customers will be able to access more than 350 top online casino games with the industry’s newly designed slots like The Osbournes as well as Hitman. There is also a choice of great jackpots with very rich prize polls. These are available through Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network. The biggest one at the moment is Mega Moolah, which is running at $6.7 million.
Before getting a deal with Microgaming, Canbet was on RealTime Gaming Software. Canbet.com main target audience is situated in the Canada and Europe and the company expressed the plans to continue target these areas specifically, but is also aiming to start penetrating Chinese online gaming market in the coming weeks.
This is what Mark Read, Managing Director of Canbet had to say about the news: "We've been very impressed with the platform and team at Microgaming since we switched to join the Microgaming Poker Network, so there was little debate as to who would partner with us for casino software. We already have plans to continue to target emerging markets, but expect to see this addition drive growth in markets right across Europe.”
Roger Raatgever, CEO, Microgaming seems happy about the deal as well. “We are delighted that Canbet has expanded its offer to include additional software gaming products from the Microgaming portfolio – it’s a fantastic result and testament to the great working partnership we have developed in a relatively short time. We invest heavily to ensure that all Microgaming products compete at the highest level and so are always delighted when our partners take additional software,” he said.
