Yggdrasil Gaming, which announced in January its intention to enter the Italian regulated i-gaming market, is to provide its slots to GVC Holdings’ Italy-facing online gaming brands bwin.it and Gioco Digitale.
The deal with GVC means Yggdrasil’s portfolio of HTML5 games will be available in Italy for the first time. Initially, 11 games - including Dark Joker Rizes, Vikings Go Wild and Nirvana - will be certified under Italian regulations, with a view to going live early in the second quarter of 2017.
GVC’s Italian operations will also gain access to Yggdrasil’s in-game promotional tools Boost, including the Missions feature, and social sharing tool Brag.
Fredrik Elmqvist, Yggdrasil CEO, said: “We are thrilled to have joined forces with an operator as big and as respected as GVC to enter the Italian market.
“We will provide GVC’s Italian operations with a premium gaming platform to initially offer 11 certified games with a view to providing many more as the partnership develops.
“We have grown our footprint across Europe this past year. This is the latest in a long line of big deals, and shows the progress we are making and just how desirable our games and in-game promotional tools have become.”
