We welcome all our readers into 2007, and sincerely hope that New Year's Eve celebrations didn't take a heavy toll on you.

This year, you will notice a lot of changes to Top Casino News. While we've been in "beta-stage" for the last year and a half, we're very excited to tell you that this year we anticipate to add final features to our site, which will include:

- New layout, for the site's frontpage in particular, and other sections in general.
- Fully featured online gambling news section, with full RSS support.
- Fully functional gambling message boards.
- Two editions of Top Casino News: one made specifically for visitors from the USA, and other serving international visitors.
- A weekly mailing list, which will inform subscribed users of new materials and bonus offers appearing on TCN.

And while we have limited staff and resources, we will keep working hard to keep you up-to-date with the current gambling news and events, bonus offers and promotions, and interesting articles related to online gambling.

We wish all our readers a Happy New Year 2007. The year 2006 was a rather weird year, both in the real and online gambling worlds (for the lattter, we actually have a special feature called 2006 From Online Gambling Perspective).

We wish you the best of luck in 2007, plentiful wins, and large jackpots to be won. This year will be a big year for online ggambling, and we have big plans for our site for the upcoming year. Stay tuned for further announcements, and enjoy your holidays...

We're happy to announce the launch of our online gambling news section. We will report on general online casinos industry news, post casino press releases and announcements, quirky or funny events from the gambling world, as well as anything else we think is important for online gamblers. Our news are available in two flavours - short version for easy reading and long version if you'd like to get some more in-depth information. So head on to Top Casino News for your daily headlines fix (We're also currently in the process of adding an RSS function to our news system as well. That will be available shortly).

Our gambling articles section was updated with a number of user guides, faq's, and other sorts of informative articles. Among other things you can find there is information about casino bonuses, casino payment methods, and basic gambling rules.

We've also added a free play-4-fun Java casino games section where you can play online all your favorite casino games, like blackjack, roulette, craps, slots, keno, and video poker. No subscription is needed, and the games don't take too long to load. Have fun -- just make sure you have Java installed on your computer!

We've now added a no-deposit casino bonus database, that lists current no deposit bonuses that are being offered by different casinos. As usual the database is fully sortable: you can sort it by bonus amounts, wagering requirements, and casino names. We also provide information about restricted games and accepted banking methods. So go ahead and pick your no-deposit bonus, it's not like you have to pay anything to get it.

Our bonuses database code was upgraded, and now it is fully sortable. What it means for you, our readers, is that now you can sort the bonuses in our database by: name, minimum and maximum bonus, and deposit amounts, best bonus percentages, and unified wagering requirements information that applies to each of the promotions. When we say "unified wagering requirements information" we really do mean it; the formula we follow is (deposit+bonus)xWR. Enjoy!

P.S. To start using this new feature just use the top menu in top casino bonuses section. We would also love to hear some comments and suggestions about this feature once our community messageboard is fully active.

Our bonuses database has been fully updated. As you might know our database includes percentages, amounts of bonus/deposit, restricted games, and payment methods provided by each casino.

We are also currently working on more advanced features, such as sorting by parameters and searching for the signup bonus that would fit your needs the most. Stay tuned for these features, to be introduced next month.

Hello and welcome to Top Casino News -- the latest gambling portal to hit the web. Our goal is to provide our readers with industry news and information on "burning" bonuses on daily basis. However, our long term goals are:

1) To build an extensive and comprehensive directory of online casinos, and provide independent staff-written reviews for each of them, in order to separate the good apples from the bad ones;
2) To build and upkeep an extensive database of casino bonuses;
3) To establish a friendly community on our messageboards, so we could stay in touch with our readers and entertain you guys with some exclusive contests and bonus offers from our sponsors.

Of course we also have some aces (read: other ideas) up our sleeve. But first and foremost, our mission statement is to be a user-friendly information portal, primarily meant to benefit the online gambling community, which should probably underline where our priorities are and will always be -- in our readers.

Please cope with us since the site's backend is still undergoing some massive changes, and some features might be temporarily unavailable. But if you'll keep checking every couple of days you will see big changes happening. Also make sure to register in our friendly online gambling forums if you'd like all the private member privelleges!

Until next time,

Dennis S.