Manchester 2020-01-30 – Northern Lights Gaming – the Manchester/Stockholm premium online iGaming studio founded in 2017 by industry veterans – today announce a strategic investment from London-based gaming and gambling venture firm Velo Partners through its games accelerator RNG Foundry. Simultaneously, the firm also inks a distribution agreement allowing a portion of its content to be distributed exclusively via the Microgaming platform.
Through Velo Partners investment, Northern Lights Gaming secures a strong content roadmap for the years to come, allowing the studio to continue it’s thinking-outside-the-box gaming development focusing on blending innovative mechanics with an optimal player experience.
‘We’re delighted to have Velo Partners and RNG Foundry join forces with us. Apart from the capital allowing us to continue to build our business, they also bring vast gaming expertise and access to a fantastic industry network. Of course, the partnership with the vast Microgaming distribution channels will also have a significant positive effect on our growth’, Northern Lights Gaming’s CEO Andrew Goodale comments.
Northern Lights Gaming will continue to supply its boutique iGaming content across the leading distribution platforms already served, with this partnership strengthening an already robust distribution model.
Evan Hoff, the founder of Velo Partners says ‘Northern Lights Gaming exemplify the type of studio that we like to work with, encapsulating an intriguing combination of UK and Scandinavian pedigree with quality, unique game design and established relationships with Tier 1 operators. We are very enthusiastic about adding Northern Lights Gaming to the RNG Foundry portfolio and bringing its exclusive content to Microgaming.’
Mark McGinley, Program Director of the RNG Foundry commented, “I have had a long association with the founders of Northern Lights Gaming and have always been impressed with their technical proficiency coupled with a deep understanding of compelling player mechanics, and am delighted to be working with them again.
Northern Lights Gaming (NL Gaming Sweden AB) is an iGaming studio based in Manchester and Stockholm focusing on creating high end online video slots for the European market. Founded by ex Barcrest and WMS executives with decades of experience at the forefront of the online gaming industry. Team members are behind some of the most successful games ever on the UK market, and have repeatedly created and successfully launched games and entire gaming platforms both for desktop and mobile game play. The company delivers its content to consumers via leading online casino sites across Europe.
CONTACT
Andrew Goodale, CEO
andrew@ntlgaming.com, +44 7765 846 421
For more on Northern Lights Gaming, visit http://www.ntlgaming.com
GIBRALTAR, July 30, 2019 - Northern Lights Gaming (NLG), a cutting-edge video slots developer, has inked a deal to showcase its games at global giant 888casino. Northern Lights Gaming is a new, disruptive company with a highly-experienced team of designers, developers, and game creators. With 50 years of collective experience, the team builds engaging casino games for customers across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world.
888casino is one of the most recognised and longest standing online casino brands. Through its own platform, the operator offers its customers a broad selection of online casino games developed in-house or through leading third-party suppliers, which now includes Northern Lights games.
Customers at 888casino can enjoy an impressive selection of Northern Lights games including Blast Off, Electric Wilds, and Rocky’s Gold, with new titles under development. The 888casino platform fully supports PC, Mac, Android, and iOS gameplay with these video slot machine games. Northern Lights Gaming have brought some of the most commercially successful games to market, including Rainbow Riches – an Irish themed adventure slot game.
Northern Lights has offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and Manchester, England. The company is primarily focused on the European market, with a selection of immersive casino games for customers to enjoy.
Guy Cohen, SVP of B2C at 888, said: ‘888casino is focused on offering customers an entertaining experience by developing in-house games and adding, to our platform, exciting third-party content, such as Northern Lights Gaming. Their experienced team has developed fantastic video slots games which we look forward to sharing with our customers. We welcome this new partnership with Norther Lights Gaming and look forward to moving forward together.’
Andrew Goodale CEO of Northern Lights Gaming, said: ‘888 are undoubtedly at the very forefront of this industry. I’ve been working with them throughout my career, so it’s a real pleasure to now launch Northern Lights games on their platform.’
Sam Downey, Head of Commercial and Content at Sky Vegas, said ‘The Northern Lights Gaming team have previously delivered some of the most successful games on the European market. Their new games look very promising, so we are naturally very excited about having them launch first here on Sky Vegas.’
Andrew Goodale, CEO of Northern Lights Gaming, said ‘We are delighted to sign with Sky Vegas and look forward to build on the solid working realitionship we already have with Sam and the team. We look forward to the launch of our games and further developments in this space.’
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Northern Lights Gaming (NL Gaming Sweden AB) is a newly founded iGaming studio based in Manchester and Stockholm focusing on creating high end online video slots for the European market. Founded by ex Barcrest and WMS executives with decades of experience at the forefront of the online gaming industry. Team members are behind some of the most successful games ever on the UK market, and have repeatedly created and successfully launched games and entire gaming platforms both for desktop and mobile game play. The company will deliver it’s content to consumers via leading online casino sites across Europe, beginning in 2018.
Andrew Goodale, CEO
andrew@ntlgaming.com, +44 7765 846 421
Stockholm and Manchester – 17th April, 2018 – Yggdrasil Gaming has announced that Northern Lights Gaming will be the first independent game studio to develop on its platform as part of the Yggdrasil Game Server (YGS) Masters programme.
The partnership will see Northern Lights’ high-quality, UK-targeted slots content made available to Yggdrasil’s operator partners. The agreement is the first of its kind since the launch last month of YGS Masters, an invite-only, semi-open platform where Yggdrasil will curate content from the world’s leading independent games studios. As part of the programme, Yggdrasil will provide access to BOOST™, the collection of in-game promotional tools, allowing studios to develop their own versions of these tools within their game clients. Manchester and Stockholm-based Northern Lights was formed in 2017 by a group of industry veterans with decades of combined igaming experience. Its top-end, UK-focused content will significantly bolster Yggdrasil’s offering.
Stuart McCarthy, Head of Studio Partnerships at Yggdrasil, said: “Since launching YGS Masters last month, we have received many enquires and I am thrilled to announce our first partnership.
“Northern Lights Gaming has built a team with unparalleled expertise when it comes to developing for the UK market, and we’ve been hugely impressed by what we’ve seen so far.
“We are certain YGS Masters will help take Northern Lights’ content to the next level, and we are excited to share the games with customers in the coming months.”
Andrew Goodale, CEO of Northern Lights Gaming, said: “As we are finishing off our first games and preparing to show them to the world, we are extremely proud to be the first external game developer to gain access to Yggdrasil’s innovative platform.
“We look forward to building a close working relationship with Yggdrasil and making the most of the powerful tools they have developed. These are exciting times for Northern Lights Gaming.”
Northern Lights Gaming (NL Gaming Sweden AB) was founded by ex-Barcrest and WMS executives with decades of experience at the forefront of the online gaming industry.
Team members are behind some of the UK’s most successful games, including Rainbow Riches, and have repeatedly created and successfully launched games and entire gaming platforms both for desktop and mobile gameplay.
CONTACT
Andrew Goodale, CEO
andrew@ntlgaming.com, +44 7765 846 421
Stockholm and Manchester – April 11th 2018. Northern Lights Gaming - the newly founded online slot game developer focusing on high-end games for the UK gamer - is pleased to announce their first platform distribution deal with SG Digital. The deal will see Northern Lights range of video slots going live on the SG Digital platform throughout UK and Europe with selected gaming operators during 2018 and beyond. Additionally, Northern Lights Gaming will develop titles using SG Digital’s Game Development Services, allowing them to reach more than 280 customer brands worldwide.
SG Digital operates Open Gaming System ("OGS"), which offers gaming operators access to the broadest online distribution network available in the industry.
Andrew Goodale, CEO of Northern Lights Gaming said ‘SG Digital’s OGS platform is by far and wide the broadest distribution network available. The team at SG Digital are working hard to support our gaming launches, and we are very excited to be working with the teams across Europe to deliver our content to the huge customer base that is supported in the SG Digital Platform.
Steve Mayes, Partnership Director, Gaming at SG Digital, is delighted to add Northern Lights Gaming as a content partner. “Northern Lights Gaming have built a fantastic team, and we are looking forward to offering their content to the OGS Network. The content roadmap they have developed offers some unique and exciting features and is very much in line with our focus on best of breed content for our partners and customers.
“We have seen phenomenal growth in the success of our Game Development partners, and it’s fantastic that we can help an exciting new developer distribute their content on a truly global scale.”
Northern Lights Gaming (NL Gaming Sweden AB) is a newly founded iGaming studio based in Manchester and Stockholm focusing on creating high end online video slots for the European market. Founded by ex Barcrest and WMS executives with decades of experience at the forefront of the online gaming industry. Team members are behind some of the most successful games ever on the UK market, and have repeatedly created and successfully launched games and entire gaming platforms both for desktop and mobile game play. The company will deliver its content to consumers via leading online casino sites across Europe, beginning in 2018.
CONTACT
Andrew Goodale, CEO
andrew@ntlgaming.com, +44 7765 846 421
Stockholm and Manchester – April 5th 2018. Northern Lights Gaming – the newly founded online slot game developer focusing on high-end games for the UK gamer – is pleased to announce that the company has been granted both a UKGC Remote Gaming License as well as an Alderney Gaming Core Services Associate certificate this week. This paves the way from a regulatory perspective for the company to start offering its online slots content to the UK market.
Andrew Goodale, CEO of Northern Lights Gaming said ‘After working closely with both jurisdictions and after a huge amount of effort we are extremely delighted to have been granted these gaming licenses which will see the Northern Lights content being distributed to the UK market during the second half of 2018. It’s a great achievement and a huge step forward for us on a day that makes me very proud to be part of this new and exciting venture.’
Northern Lights Gaming (NL Gaming Sweden AB) is a newly founded iGaming studio based in Manchester and Stockholm focusing on creating high end online video slots for the European market. Founded by ex Barcrest and WMS executives with decades of experience at the forefront of the online gaming industry. Team members are behind some of the most successful games ever on the UK market, and have repeatedly created and successfully launched games and entire gaming platforms both for desktop and mobile game play. The company will deliver it’s content to consumers via leading online casino sites across Europe, beginning in 2018.
CONTACT
Andrew Goodale, CEO
andrew@ntlgaming.com, +44 7765 846 421