The insanely popular bingo site, Mecca Bingo, is donating a portion of the proceeds of their “Two Little Ducks” game room during the first week of every month. The site will be giving 40% of all ticket purchases for the room (between the hours of 1PM-9PM) to the Marie Curie Cancer Care fund, which has been providing assistance to cancer patients in need since the 50’s.

This isn’t the first time a prominent bingo site or bingo hall has held events to raise funds for charity, as Mecca Bingo held a similar promotion last year. By offering a percent of their profits to charity the site hopes to not only help those in need, but also attract the attention of prospective new members. Other appealing aspects of becoming a member are their generous welcome bonuses, large jackpots, and a large selecting of games.

Wonder Bingo recently announced the winners of various Apple gadgets, including an iPod Nano and iPad. The Parlay powered bingo site has been holding tempting promotions throughout the holiday season, including a gift giveaway and thousands of pounds in real cash prizes through guaranteed jackpots.

The site is currently offering new members a £5 welcome bonuses (no deposit required), as well as a first deposit bonus equal to 200% of your initial deposit. The gift winners posted their comments about how surprised they were to be awarded with such prizes the day after the competition, with the iPad winner stating that he “didn’t believe it.” Of course, with so many scams and false “congratulations, you’ve won” alert popups out there it would be easy to confuse a reputable bingo site like Wonder Bingo with the horde of fraudster s online.

Having thousands of satisfied members, Wonder Bingo is one of the most reputable, generous UK bingo sites.

Bingo Bash, a popular new game from BitRhymes, has recently reached the top of fastest emerging Facebook games list. The game had a 45% increase in the number of players this week, with a total of 580,000 monthly average users (MAU).

Although most of the games on the list recorded slow popularity growth in both MAU and DAU (Daily Average Users) during the first week of 2012 (probably due to New Year festivities), Bingo Bash attracted 150,000 new players, putting it just ahead of Toyz & Zombies (which recorded a gain of 110,000 MAU) and Puzzle Adventures (which gained 100,000 MAU).

Mission Impossible recorded the lowest gain at only 9%, while Storage Wars: The Game retained the highest MAU count at nearly 800,000. All of these stats were provided by AppData, a Facebook application statistic monitor.

Paddy Power Bingo recently launched a new television advertisement that differs from the conventional bingo commercial, mainly because it is promoting a new feature that cannot be found on any other bingo site.

The commercial begins with a woman on a date with a man who seems to not be interested in her. Suddenly, her phone rings and she indicates that it is her father, who is in prison. The truth is, she secretly pressed a button on her phone, triggering an interesting new app from Paddy Power, which caused her phone to ring as if someone called her.

The app is marketed as “a way to get out of a tough situation,” and although it has nothing to do with bingo per se, it is an interesting feature for a bingo site to offer its members. In today’s highly competitive online bingo industry, it seems as if companies will stop at nothing to attract new members.

The popular UK bingo site, Bingo Liner, has announced its January Mega Marathon, which will put a total of £15,500 up for grabs throughout the month. The promotion games will be held every night starting at 10PM, with each game having a guaranteed jackpot of £500.

Tickets for the games will be available for prepurchase at the cost of £1. Furthermore, anyone that buys 5 tickets will receive an additional ten at no charge! With large daily jackpots, and tempting deals on ticket prices, it’s not surprising that many bingo enthusiasts have included a Bingo Liner membership as part of their new year’s resolutions.

All new members can also look forward to generous welcome bonuses, and the site is expected to announce new promotions for the Valentine’s Day season during the month of February. If you’re looking for a bingo site with plenty of games to choose from and lots of hefty jackpots, head over to Bingo Liner and signup today.

The wildly popular bingo site, XBingo, recently began offering £5 welcome bonuses, with no deposit required. If you do decide to make deposit, XBingo will match the amount times three. In other words, if your first deposit is worth £10, XBingo would top up your account with £30, giving you a total of £40 to play with.

The no-deposit bonuses give new players the opportunity to test the site’s games and features for free before deciding to deposit their own funds. In addition to these appealing welcome bonuses, members also are given the chance to win large cash jackpots and high-tech gadgets like iPads.

The site is allowing new members to play for free because XBingo is confident that they’ll be satisfied with the user interface and the overwhelming number of games to choose from. Of course, unsatisfied new members are not obligated to deposit any funds into their account, so it really is a risk-free trial. In fact, some lucky players may win cash prizes using only their first £5 welcome bonus!

In celebration of the 2012 New Year, Sky Bingo is making the sky the limit on their new January promotions. From the 8th to the 15th of January all members that play £10 in one of the slot rooms will automatically receive a £5 slot bonus.

The site is known for its progressive and guaranteed jackpots, with one lucky player having won more than £300,000 in a single game of slots that only cost them £5! However, the most exciting promotions will only be revealed to members that have the weekly promotional code, which can be found on the Sky Bingo website.

Aside from the interesting secret weekly promotions, Sky Bingo continually offers generous cash and gift prizes to loyal members. Qualified members will be invited to the Sky party room at the end of the month for the chance to win unique prizes.

Researchers at two prominent universities recently used bingo cards to study visual deficiencies in people with age-related vision issues, and those associated with diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The game of bingo was chosen not only for its popularity, but also because it requires the use of a certain type of visual activity called visual search, which is basically your ability to scan for specific objects or characters within your field of vision. The study had a total of 83 participants – 19 young adults, 33 older adults, 14 people with suspected Alzheimer’s, and 17 people with low-level Parkinson’s.

The results showed that simply increasing the size of the bingo cards and decreasing the number of cards per player significantly improved each person’s ability to visually search. The study ultimately proved that simple adjustments to an individual’s environment can help them cope with diseases and age-related issues that cause visual search deficiency.

The 2011 eGaming Review awards ceremony that took place on November 30th revealed Bingo Cams as the winner of the “2011 Innovation in Gaming” award, after the site made a number of improvements to the user interface and introduced several new promotions.

Bingo Cams has taken the initiative to set a new standard for upcoming bingo sites by creating interesting features never before seen. The most unique aspect of this revolutionary bingo site is its live streaming video chat capabilities, which let you see your opponents in real time. The video streams lay the foundation for one of Bingo Cams most innovative features – Live Win Moments, which capture the excitement of players during their winning moments via their webcam.

The site utilizes Roxanne, an award winning chat manager that was recently awarded Chat Manager of the Month, based on member feedback left on the eGaming Reviews website.

With the 2012 London Olympics right around the corner, the well-known gaming site, Bingo Port, has announced its own 2012 Bingo Olympics, which illustrate some of the interesting records/stats that are related to the bingo industry.

With more than 100,000 members, BingoPort is one of the most popular bingo sites in the UK. According to their bingo Olympics stat sheet, the largest bingo wins ever totaled just over £1 million, and in the fastest large jackpot win from the time of joining it took just 40 minutes for the new member to win £40,000.

The largest attendance of a bingo game was nearly 500,000, which is more than 5 times the capacity of the Olympic stadium in London. With 75-ball and 90-ball bingo games, various slot games to choose from, generous welcome bonuses, and exciting promotions, BingoPort offers more than just interesting statistics to its members.