WGA was forged in late March, 2007. It is representative of the three groups listed below whom have joined forces to bring you the best land based gambling newsletter available online to date.

In 2002 the World Casino Directory was founded by Steve Hand, owner of Scarab Casino Management. In 2005 the site was acquired by Bernard Richter who is the former owner of a very large network of other land based casino portals. "I was looking for a way to get more organized and the 100 websites were hard to manage. When I first met Steve he was moving into a land based casino operation in Central America. At first we were going to arrange a partnership, but I got greedy and paid off Steve, which allowed him to put full attention into his current focus, Scarab, and I traded in my 100 websites for one - it worked out."

Most recently World Casino Directory has "re-acquired" the same network of over 100 land based casino portals. They have also added a new member to the team, lead programmer, and now part owner, Scott Burke. "We felt the 100 websites will come in extremely handy for the launch of our new search engine. It will give us a platform from which we can serve a much wider audience."

World Casino Directory is one of the most popular websites for land based gamblers. Every casino, greyhound, horse racing course, racino, and casino cruiseship is listed. You will also find geographic reports on every casino location world wide, from the continent level down to the casino city level itself, WCD covers it all.

Casino Life is the casino magazine for owners, operators, casinomanagers of European casinos and gaming equipment manufacturers. Our key aim is to provide a magazine that you can read - that has interesting content and is not just full of press releases - and we appear to be succeeding as more and more casino managers subscribe. Our global distribution network has grown to include Europe, South Africa and Asia. We have developed contacts within these regions and enjoy information and stories to share with you that we get from our connections. We look forward to our partnership with WCD and Scarab in producing an electronic newsletter for gamblers, employees and executives alike.

Scarab Gaming is a culmination of concepts and ideas of several very experienced casino executives who over the years have successfully run and managed a variety of casinos around the world. Each of the 16 partners of Scarab Gaming Group have a proven track record and are people who have been meticulously selected because of their successes in the casino industry. As large as the casino industry is, there are only very few employed in the business who have the knowledge and experience to make the difference between success and failure. This is why Scarab was created.