June 28-29, the Royal Garden Hotel in London will be hosting the first Multi-Platform Gambling Forum. Since the addition of online gambling and wireless gambling to more traditional forms of gambling, the gaming industry has diversified so much that key players in all forms of gambling have come together in a conference on elements that interest anyone in the gambling industry.

The key subjects to be explored are convergence of online, interactive TV, and mobile gaming, where the industry is headed, tournaments, and cross-platform games.

Unusual characters are woven into the fabric of CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," but Thursday will be the first time the show's cast list includes a truck.

The final episode of "CSI's" fifth season, a two-hour extravaganza directed by Quentin Tarantino, has inspired a wealth of original content unavailable anywhere but on www.CBS.com.

The truck in question is the Mobile Analysis Unit, a new forensics vehicle designed by sponsor GMC specifically for "CSI," and starting Monday, fans can go online to join "CSI" co-star George Eads for a tour.

With Fox practicing a year-round strategy of program premieres and the more popular of the cable channels introducing fresh fare seemingly without regard to the calendar, it may not seem like it.

But the official TV season -- as official as it gets, anyway -- is drawing rapidly to a close.

ABC's hottest series, for example, has three epi sodes left in its inaugural season, including the installment at 8 tonight on affiliate WEAR-TV3. Of course I'm talking about "Desperate Housewives."

Last news said that SX Networks is interested in entering to the market of the Internet Games, specifically to the Online Casinos growing world. It will be a big challenge to this company and it will require a big investment. They think to corner competitive markets and also gain ground in many countries with different languages.

SX Networks already has some experience in the area, developing software for some Casinos’ sites. Although now, it will be SX Networks’ total responsibility of creating, developing, setting it in motion and keeping updated their own sites.

Online gaming software leader MicroGaming recently released four new games for online casino players. MicroGaming's additions are headlined by the video slot game "What On Earth," which in accordance with its sci-fi theme, features flying saucers, asteroids and bonus space beams.

In addition to a jackpot maximum of 37,500 coins, What On Earth gives online casino players more opportunities to score, with beam-me-up and scatter bonuses popping up throughout the game.

More than 14m Europeans, or 14 per cent of those online from home, visited a gambling and sweepstakes site in February, according to the latest statistics from internet research firm Nielsen Net Ratings.

Gambling and sweepstake sites were most popular with French and Swedish surfers, but have yet to make a mark in southern Europe, with less than ten per cent of Spanish and Italians logging on to gamble.

A sale of Hollywood Casino to Eldorado Resorts would be a sale to an established gaming company that is succeeding in a market similar to Shreveport, whereas a deal with Black Diamond Capital Management would bring "insurmountable" licensing risk, a representative from Hollywood's largest creditor testified Monday.

Tom Reeg, managing director in the high-yield group at AIG Global Investment Group, was on the stand in federal bankruptcy court most of the day touring the sale to Eldorado, Hollywood's original plan.

At the hiring office for the new Wynn Resorts Ltd. casino in Las Vegas, parking lot attendants carry flashlights to direct applicants like jets on a busy runway. Arte Nathan, Wynn's human resources chief, says he has 108,700 applications for 10,000 jobs. Two thousand offers have gone out to employees of rival casino operator MGM Mirage Inc., which has banned Nathan from setting foot on its properties.

The hiring boom is just the latest salvo in what's shaping up to be the biggest casino war Sin City has ever seen. On Apr. 28 industry legend Stephen A. Wynn will open the first new resort in five years on the Las Vegas Strip.

Owner of the Village nightclub building, Ged Crooks, told the News &Star that a company in Manchester is interested in turning it into a casino after the club closed six months ago due to mounting debts.

He said: “They have had a look but nothing is categorical.

“The building would lend itself well to becoming a casino.”

Mr Crooks expects to take control of the building back ‘imminently’ after his tenant Stephen Milligan put his company SM Leisure into the hands of administrators following the closure of the Lonsdale Street club.

Los Molinos, California, man is 1.8 dollars richer after hitting a progressive slot jackpot at a Reno casino.

David Weinkauf played five dollars before winning the Wheel of Fortune MegaJackpot Friday night at the Peppermill Hotel-Casino.

Weinkauf, general manager of a consulting firm, had won $3,000 playing blackjack and decided to try his luck at the slots.