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Xanada Investments Announces the Launch of the Xanada Pitch Contest 2025

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$50,000 Investment Prize & Global Exposure Await the Next Big iGaming Startup

Xanada Investments announced the launch of the Xanada Pitch Contest 2025, a global competition aimed at supporting iGaming startups seeking investment and growth opportunities in partnership with NEXT.io and Lilith PR Agency.

The contest offers a $50,000 equity investment to the winning startup, along with strategic mentorship, industry connections, and marketing support.

The competition will follow a two-stage selection process. From February 10 to April 1, 2025, startups can submit their applications online. Following the initial evaluation, the top five finalists will be announced on April 10, 2025, and will proceed to a live pitch event at the NEXT Summit in Valletta on May 8, 2025.

A Panel of Experts Will Choose the Winner

The final five startups will pitch their ideas live on stage at NEXT Valletta to a distinguished panel of judges, including:

  • Vladimir Malakchi – CEO & Managing Partner, Xanada Investments
  • Pierre Lindh – Co-founder & Managing Director, NEXT.io – The World’s iGaming Community
  • Dmitry Belianin – CEO & Founder at Belianin, Co-founder & Managing Partner at Blask
  • A Secret Judge – To be revealed soon

“A Unique Chance to Scale and Succeed”

“The Xanada Pitch Contest is raising the bar for startup competitions. This is a rare opportunity for iGaming startups – whether they are launching, growing, or looking to scale – to showcase their vision in front of key investors and decision-makers. We are committed to bringing together the brightest minds in the industry to support the next wave of innovation,” said Vladimir Malakchi, CEO & Managing Partner of Xanada Investments.

Who Should Apply?

The contest is open to Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A startups operating in the iGaming sector. Startups at various growth stages – whether developing new solutions or scaling existing ones – are encouraged to apply.

Application and Key Dates

  • Applications Open: February 10 – April 1, 2025
  • Top 5 Finalists Announced: April 10, 2025
  • Live Pitch Event: May 8, 2025, at NEXT Summit, Valletta

For further information and to apply, visit https://xanada.investments/contest or reach out to Xanada Investments at [email protected]

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Reflex Gaming launches Sidewinder Xtra Power via Yggdrasil Masters

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Sequel adds an Xtra Power bar to the Sidewinder Shuffle feature, with multipliers and Wild upgrades built into the trail mechanic.

Reflex Gaming has launched Sidewinder Xtra Power, a sequel to its Sidewinder title, with distribution through the Yggdrasil Masters Program.

The game uses a 5×3, 20-payline fruit slot format and brings back the Sidewinder Shuffle mechanic. Reflex said the Sidewinder Feature is triggered when five orbs light up above the reels, turning losing spins into winners as the reels shuffle into position.

Reflex said each winning shuffle increases a multiplier trail, with trail targets unlocking Wilds, Super Wilds, Mega Wilds and symbol upgrades. Mystery symbols can also land in the base game, with shutters opening simultaneously across the reels to reveal the same symbol.

The main addition is the Xtra Power Sidewinder feature. Reflex said four orbs in the base game boost a power bar, and once the bar is full, the next triggered shuffle feature opens Xtra Power. During Xtra Power events, each triggering orb reveals a multiplier boost.

Mat Ingram, CPO at Reflex Gaming, said: “With Xtra Power, we wanted to give the Sidewinder experience an extra dimension, and the power bar does exactly that.

“Players now have two things to chase simultaneously, and when the Xtra Power feature fires with the multiplier already boosted from the start, it delivers the kind of moment that is truly the cherry on top.”

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Amusnet Wins “Best Software Provider” Award at the AskGamblers Awards 2026

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Amusnet, a leading international provider of advanced casino solutions, has won the prestigious Best Software Provider title at the 9th edition of AskGamblers Awards 2026. Hosted at the St. Regis Belgrade, the gala ceremony brought together top-tier industry players in the Serbian capital to honour standout achievements. This accolade arrives at a momentous milestone for Amusnet, marking a decade defined by continuous growth, technological evolution and commercial success.

Dejan Vukosavljević, Country Director at Amusnet Serbia, attended the high-profile event as the company’s official representative to accept the accolade.

“This award validates the team’s dedication to our software platform and inspires us to further raise our standards of quality and product excellence. Securing this title is a fantastic achievement and a true honour, especially given our strategic partnership with AskGamblers. As we celebrate Amusnet’s 10th anniversary, our focus remains on global uniqueness, with the ambitious goal of expanding our footprint to more than 100 markets worldwide over the next ten years,” stated Vukosavljević.

As one of the industry’s premier affiliate platforms for casino reviews, boasting a vibrant community of over 1,000,000 active players, AskGamblers has been a key partner for Amusnet since the beginning of the year. Receiving this recognition from such a player-centric platform underscores Amusnet’s strong market resonance and deepening industry ties.

By combining technological innovation with creative excellence, the company is actively shaping the future of digital entertainment. This milestone ensures that Amusnet’s localised, high-performing content continues to captivate and engage audiences on a truly global scale.

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QCI Launches QCI Resorts, the Unified Intelligence Platform for Resorts

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Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI), a leading provider of gaming and hospitality technology, announced the launch of QCI Resorts, a unified intelligence platform designed specifically for modern resort operations.

For decades, the resort industry has pursued a vision of operational unification through integrations, data warehouses, and interconnected software systems. While these approaches connected information across departments, they also created increasing complexity, duplicated data, delayed decision-making, and limited the ability of organizations to fully leverage artificial intelligence.

Built on the QCI AGI Platform, QCI Resorts delivers a single operational environment where hospitality, food and beverage, point-of-sale, marketing, loyalty, guest engagement, operations, and enterprise intelligence operate from one unified intelligence layer. Rather than moving information between disconnected applications, QCI Resorts enables resort operations to function within a shared real-time platform designed for intelligence-driven decision making.

The launch marks a significant milestone in QCI’s vision for the future of resort technology—one where unified operational intelligence replaces fragmented software stacks and where agentic systems can operate with a complete understanding of the enterprise.

“After more than two decades building data warehouses and integration platforms, generative AI enabled for another approach. Instead of connecting more systems together, we can now deliver most resort operations through a single real-time software stack. Gaming remains integrated where regulations require it, but hospitality, marketing, loyalty, food and beverage, operations, and intelligence can operate from a unified platform. That foundation is what makes true agentic resort operations possible,” said Andrew Cardno, Co-Founder and CTO of QCI.

Unlike traditional resort technology architectures that rely on multiple vendors, extensive integrations, and centralized data warehouses, QCI Resorts operates from a shared data model, shared workflow architecture, and shared intelligence layer. This approach enables real-time operational intelligence across the enterprise while providing the foundation required for AI agents to understand, coordinate, and execute actions across resort operations.

“QCI Resorts is not another integration platform. For decades, the industry has pursued the vision of a unified resort platform. The goal was right, but the technology wasn’t ready. Today, advances in AI and agentic systems make it possible to deliver what operators have always wanted: a single real-time operational system where hospitality, marketing, loyalty, food and beverage, operations, and intelligence work together as one, with gaming integrated where regulations require. QCI Resorts is that system,” said Ralph Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO of QCI.

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the hospitality industry, QCI believes the next generation of resort technology will not be defined by how many systems can be integrated together, but by how effectively intelligence can operate across the entire enterprise.

“Agentic AI achieves its greatest potential when it operates within a complete understanding of the business. The future belongs to systems that can understand the entire resort, not just individual departments. That is the vision behind QCI Resorts,” added Cardno.

QCI Resorts is being introduced as the industry’s first unified intelligence platform purpose-built for gaming and hospitality operations, enabling operators to move beyond fragmented architecture toward a real-time operational intelligence model designed for the era of agentic AI.

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