The EGR Operator Awards, which has been running for 12 years straight, is back in action this November, on Monday 28^th. What’s known as the iGaming Oscars, there are mainly two exciting categories that players should be looking forward to. One is the operator-related awards, whereas the other one’s all about games. And you are the judge to decide which game deserves to win. The voting ends on 4^th November.

As the iGaming industry heads into the fourth and final quarter of 2016, business activity is picking up across the board. Top gaming providers like Evolution Gaming, Microgaming and Yggdrasil have all been actively signing new content deals and/or releasing new and exciting games. Here's a couple of important news items from a couple of the industry's smaller, but growing, players.

In recent months, Yggdrasil Gaming has shown itself to be one of the top innovators in the iGaming industry. After the introduction of new value-added tools like BOOST and BRAG, the company has just launched its new Missions feature within its BOOST marketing platform.

iSoftBet, an international iGaming company based in London and Luxembourg, has yet again diversified its Game Aggregation Platform (GAP) with a new deal with MrSlotty. The latter is an up-and-coming Lithuanian gaming brand owned by Loberta UAB, which has already over 40 Full HD HTML5 slots in its portfolio.

Three iGaming behemoths – Playtech, Evolution Gaming and NetEnt – have just announced new games, partnerships and innovations that will improve players’ gaming experience at least tenfold.