With gambling on the increase in cafés and bars in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a new bill aims to tackle unauthorised gaming terminals and clarify a legal framework deemed obsolete.
Can hormonal variations in women influence their gambling behaviour? That’s precisely what British researchers set out to find out in a ground-breaking study that could revolutionise our understanding of addiction.
Gaming1 has made 42 redundancies at its digital technology centre. The decision is all the more controversial given the company’s flourishing business, while at the same time boasting a sustained recruitment policy.
As European countries tighten up their national frameworks, a common dynamic is emerging: shared technical standards, similar control tools, increasing use of artificial intelligence and closer cooperation between regulators.
“They pretend to follow the rules, but meanwhile, they earn billions.” While dozens of countries ban gambling advertisements, Meta simply keeps selling them. In India, Malaysia, and the Philippines, among others, Facebook and Instagram are running at full speed in an illegal advertising circuit.
The National Gaming Authority (ANJ) has analysed and approved operators’ promotional strategies for 2026. It has imposed new constraints to limit the increase in advertising budgets and reduce the risks associated with overexposure of players.
In 2025, the Gaming Commission (GC) increased the number of updates to its blacklist of unauthorised sites. More than 160 sites were blocked during the year.
The gambling platform Polymarket has announced that it will not pay out to users who placed bets on a US invasion of Venezuela, despite the spectacular arrest of President Nicolás Maduro by US troops. This decision has angered users who thought they had won a million-dollar jackpot.
The biggest names in the gaming industry took a few minutes at the start of the year to share their predictions. 2025 was not an easy year for the gambling sector, and 2026 doesn’t look like it will be any simpler.
At the beginning of 2026, DraftKings, a major player in online sports betting and gambling, announced a new collaboration with Mindway AI to improve player safety and education.
In an incisive opinion column published on Legaal Nederlands Casino, expert Armijn Meijer draws a disturbing parallel between the trading card industry, in particular the Pokémon card game, and the psychological mechanisms of the casino. Meijer points the finger at the impunity enjoyed by franchises such as Pokémon, which market dopamine in sachets to young people.
Rather than imposing a strict separation for hybrid brands – companies offering both online and physical gaming – the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security has opted for a more flexible framework.
One moment a classic horse racing event, the other an American final with millions of viewers. The top tier of the world’s biggest bets is remarkably broad, according to new research by Entain.
The Gaming Commission has already sounded the alarm 7,820 times, but gambling advertisements continue to appear on Facebook and Instagram. And young people continue to click.
The police paint a disturbing picture of poaching in the Netherlands. Behind the scenes, betting is playing an increasingly important role.
By broadcasting the testimonial of a problem gambler who opted for a self-exclusion on gambling in partnership with the National Gaming Authority (ANJ), Brut has shed light on a reality that is still too often kept quiet.
