Guides & News

The desk publishes two kinds of thing. Guides, when a rule changes or a mechanic needs taking apart properly; and long reads, when a subject is more interesting than it is useful. Everything lands here first, newest at the top, and then files itself into the section it belongs to.

Guides are written from primary sources — regulator publications, operator terms, studio documentation — and are updated in place when the thing they describe changes, rather than republished as something new. The rules and mechanics sections hold the settled versions.

Long reads are the other half of the desk: casinos in film, the mathematics of a cheat that no longer works, the cities that built themselves around a gaming floor. No numbers to act on, but they are where the subject actually comes from.

What does not appear here is worth stating plainly. No entry is written to a brief from an operator, no placement is sold in a guide, and nothing is published because a partner asked for it. Where a link to a casino earns a commission it earns the same commission wherever it sits, so the order of a list is decided by the published terms behind it. And where a claim could not be traced to a regulator's publication, an operator's own terms or a studio's documentation, the claim is left out rather than softened into a phrase that sounds sourced.

A guide here is also a living page rather than a dated post. When a limit changes, a register opens or a studio renames a mechanic, the entry that describes it is edited and the date on it moves; the old wording is not kept as a second article for the traffic. That is why the archive is small relative to the subject and why the sections, not this feed, are the place to look something up — the feed tells you what the desk has been working on, the sections hold the settled answer.