How does live casino streaming work? Latency by protocol
Live casino streaming from encoder to screen: ingest, delivery protocols and the latency figures streaming vendors publish for each, side by side.
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How do live casino providers make money? What a filing shows
How do live casino providers make money? One supplier's annual report lists commission, dedicated-table fees and set-up fees, set against forum claims.
How to start an online casino: the licence routes
How to start an online casino is an operating decision: full licence, sub-licence, network or white label, and who carries player data, AML and liability.
How does OCR work in live casino? What the documents show
OCR in live casino, traced from the ranking explainers to a roulette patent filing and a security guide: what is read from the camera, and for which games.
What is a game control unit in live casino?
The GCU as ranking explainers define it, and the result-capture chain around it, traced through two roulette patent filings and a security guide.
What equipment does a live casino studio need?
The table-side and broadcast kit a live casino studio runs on, with layouts, bar-coded cards, wheels and shoes read from manufacturers' own pages.
How many staff does a live casino studio need?
Two suppliers' own people-and-tables figures give about 11 to 15 staff per live table. The sources, the arithmetic and the roles, read from supplier pages.
How long does it take to build a live casino studio?
Three named live studio projects dated from suppliers' own releases: what the announcement-to-opening clock shows, and where the record is silent.
How much does it cost to build a live casino studio?
No per-table price appears in the sources we read: Evolution's H1 2026 release, Pragmatic Play's $15m Bogotá announcement and Kerma's posting.
Trivelta buys Kerma Games, which is still hiring for a new live studio
Trivelta's chief executive files the live casino studio under 'an ambitious product roadmap'; Kerma's own job board is recruiting a live game presenter in Monterrey for a new four-table studio. Terms undisclosed.
Awager puts 50 streamed slot cabinets onto BetMGM in New Jersey
Aristocrat's streaming arm has gone live with BetMGM and Borgata Online, serving 50 physical cabinets and 30-plus titles over 4K video. The trade question is not the title count but the number nobody has published: how many players one cabinet takes at once.
Evolution ends the Galaxy Gaming deal, and the reason is the calendar
Two gaming approvals were still outstanding when the deadline arrived, so Evolution served notice to terminate rather than waive the conditions — and owes a break fee of US$5,234,678. In supplier M&A the binding constraint is regulatory clearance, not commercial terms.
OnAir Entertainment's 2026 catalogue keeps widening
Fidget Football shipped in June, per company materials, on top of a blackjack, roulette, baccarat, and game-show grid. Read the widening shelf as a capacity signal — then ask for the numbers the releases don't carry.
Cinematic 3D game shows are the 2026 live trend
This year's flagship live launches share a mould: rendered 3D environments around live presenters, and bonus rounds built in stages. The differentiation race has moved from wheel mechanics to production values — and the cost curve moved with it.