Gaming Innovation Group or simply GIG is a public firm based in Malta which today operates its GiG Core. GiG Core is an excellent, technologically-advanced cloud-based online casino gaming platform. Since its inception in 2008, Gaming Innovation Group has also released many other premium, high-quality online casino gaming products, and services.

Based in Malta, this US-registered company is operational across several European countries including Denmark, Norway, Spain, and others. Formerly known as Donkr International Ltd, Gaming Innovation Group emerged on the online casino gaming stage as the holding company of the Innovation Labs Ltd. firm which at the time operated the Donkr.com poker forum. Four years after the company’s inception, Donkr International Ltd. became Gaming Innovation Group after Robin Reed and Frode Fagerli became the owners of the firm.

Over the years, Gaming Innovation Group has worked alongside several firms from the industry including Guts Gaming Ltd. now known as MT SecureTrade Limited which back in 2012 was incorporated as a subsidiary of GIG. In 2013, Guts Gaming Ltd. launched its Guts.com online casino gaming and online sports betting site. In 2016, Gaming Innovation Group acquired Betit Holdings before which it launched its Rizk.com online casino venue. With a such successful network of business partners and iGaming venues, Gaming Innovation Group remains one of the leading brands of this kind in the industry.

Gaming Innovation Group and North Macedonian K.A.K. DOO Skopje Group

Several days ago, Gaming Innovation Group’s officials revealed that the company has just partnered with North Macedonian hospitality and casino group K.A.K DOO Skopje. Thanks to this partnership deal, the Maltese company will enter the growing, thriving North Macedonian online casino gaming market which will naturally boost the company’s European presence.

Under the terms and conditions of this preliminary business deal, Gaming Innovation Group will provide its excellent, technologically-advanced iGaming platform as well as its managed media services and front-end development tools to its new business partner which will then launch its online casino gambling and digital gaming operations across the North Macedonian iGaming market.

According to Gaming Innovation Group’s officials, the business deal between the two firms will be signed in August while K.A.K. DOO Skopje is expected to launch its iGaming offering sometime in the early months of 2021. When it comes to the North Macedonian casino markets, gaming has been fairly limited to traditional land-based casino venues. However, the North Macedonian government just recently allowed brick and mortar casino operators to apply for their iGaming licenses which allow them to offer online gambling services for as long as these reflect their retail offering.

K.A.K. Providing Digital Gaming and Gambling Services

One of the very first North Macedonia-based casino operators to apply for its online gaming license was K.A.K. which will be one of the country’s few brick and mortar casino operators to be able to benefit from the re-organization of the North Macedonian gambling market. Thanks to its partnership deal with Gaming Innovation Group, K.A.K. will provide an excellent array of online casino gaming services through the Gaming Innovation Group’s iGaming platform.

What is even more, K.A.K. will also utilize Gaming Innovation Group’s front-end development tools as well as its managed media services to advertise its online casino gaming and digital gambling services. Today, K.A.K. is one of the leading brands in the entertainment and hospitality industry in the country which is responsible for two brick and mortar venues including LeGrand Casino Bitola and LeGrand Casino Skopje.

One of the most popular iGaming brands in the industry headquartered in Malta, GiG or Gaming Innovation Group Incorporated has just recently announced the signing of an important business agreement that will see the company bringing sports betting activities Iowa’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sioux City and. With its main office in Valetta’s St Julian’s area, the company used its official press release to share more details about this business agreement.

It was revealed that Gaming Innovation Group Incorporated has partnered with one of the biggest US-based casino operators Hard Rock International to initially launch its sportsbook in the Woodbury County-located gambling facility before the premier of both a mobile and online sports betting service.

GiG Incorporated also offers poker services through its websites including Kaboo.com, Thrills.com, Superlenny.com, Betspin.com, Rizk.com, and Guts.com. Gaming Innovation Group Incorporated emerged on the scene eleven years ago in 2008 led by its founders Frode Fagerli and Robin Reed. In addition to its main Malta-based office, GiG Incorporated has offices in Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Oslo, and Marbella.

Excellent Business-to-Consumer Sports Betting, Casino and Poker Services

Besides offering a variety of services to its customers including its poker, casino, and sports betting business-to-consumer services, GiG Incorporated also operates its extremely popular GiG Core platform which is a fully cloud-based gaming software initially named iGaming Cloud. At the beginning of its journey in the industry, the company was traded as Donkr International Ltd. as the holding firm of Innovation Labs Ltd. which is the trading firm behind the Donkr.com online poker website.

Four years later, Robin Reed and Frode Fagerli became the sole owners of the firm and rename it to GiG Incorporated we know today. That same year, the MT SecureTrade Limited back then known as Gust Gaming Ltd. company was fully incorporated in Gaming Innovation Group Incorporated. One year later, in May of 2013, the company established its Guts.com website that offers casino games and sports betting activities.

Back in 2014, the firm obtained necessary remote gaming licenses from the Malta Gaming Authority and United Kingdom Gaming Commission which allowed it to sign up games and payment vendors directly with punters as a fully-fledged, licenses and regulated iGaming casino operators. Several months later, the company’s other subsidiary H2Hpoker Ltd. after being renamed to iGamingCloud Ltd. launched its first B2B iGaming platform service which went live that same year.

Strengthening Its Presence in the Industry

Over the years, the company launched a number of services including its Rizk.com online casino as well as acquired several smaller businesses including OddsModel AS in 2016, Betit Holdings also in 2016 and Rebel Penguin in 2017. Thanks to its latest business deal with the Hard Rock International company, GiG Incorporated can even further strengthen its presence in the industry.

In its official press release related to the latest business deal, the company’s officials said that Iowa makes a perfect state to expand as it is one of only twelve states in which sports betting is legalized after the last year’s the United States Supreme Court ruling which invalidated the PASPA. This particular piece of legislation was the one limiting sportsbooks to gambling facilities located in Nevada, but its eventual revocation inspired the state of Iowa’s gambling commission to allow the state’s nineteen casino facilities to provide both online and retail sports betting services to customers over the age of twenty-one.

Gaming Innovation Group Incorporated already provides its sports betting services to players in New Jersey while customers at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sioux City will be able to enjoy very similar, fully engaging and seamless betting experiences. The company’s official press release also details that the Iowa-based facility will be provided with the company’s omnichannel sports betting service. All in all, both companies will benefit from the deal with GiG Incorporated boosting its presence in the state and Hard Rock International further enriching its sportsbook portfolio.