The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 has fined 32 gambling operators over €33 million, including very serious penalties for six foreign companies operating without a license in Spain, whose websites have been blocked. In total, these six unlicensed operators have received very serious fines exceeding €30 million. Furthermore, the ministry has imposed another 26 serious penalties totaling €3 million for various violations of gambling regulations, as reported by the ministry itself in a statement on Tuesday. This latter group includes companies such as Betfair, 888 Online, and Codere. For example, 888 Online will have to pay a €250,000 fine for failing to meet the technical requirements for its software and communication systems and for using non-approved technical systems. Beatya Online has been fined €300,000 for a similar situation, and Betfair will have to pay €100,000 for a penalty related to non-compliance with player protection and responsible gambling regulations. Electraworks Ceuta has been fined €512,000 for allowing access to gambling for prohibited individuals, using unauthorized or unapproved technical systems, and for non-compliance with software technical requirements. This last reason also affects Codere, which has received a penalty of €17,500. €30 million among six companies

The operators whose websites have been shut down for operating without a license are XYZ Entertainment, Moonrail Limited, EOD Code SRL, Samaki, Lone Rock Holdings, and Novaforge. Each will have to pay €5 million (€30 million in total).

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Some children play very close to adults. They don't wander far, they don't explore on their own. When shared play doesn't arise, adults may feel uneasy, doubt themselves, and be tempted to intervene. In these cases, the best course of action is to pause for a moment and learn to distinguish whether the child we are with is introverted or shy.

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Netflix has acquired the rights to the board game Catan to bring it to the audiovisual world. The streaming company and Asmodee will create films, series, and non-fiction formats based on the universe of this popular strategy game. The platform defines future content inspired by this brand as productions set "in a place where settlers must navigate multiple scenarios and manage limited resources and shifting alliances."

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Who wouldn't want to return to those endless afternoons of games, where imagination was the main ingredient and nothing was more important than having fun and improvising? When we're young, playing is a primal instinct that comes naturally to us and becomes a key tool for our development. It happens that, as we get older, we forget the pleasure that play brings us and all the associated benefits.

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Cirsa, the gaming empire, will debut on the stock market on July 9. It will be the second major IPO in 2025, following the February listing of HBX Group, a travel agency provider. The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) approved the transaction prospectus on Tuesday, allowing the company to set a date for its debut.

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The essence of the game is free playThat is, being able to decide who you want to play with, what you want to play, and when you want to play. And for this to be possible, it is necessary for adults to value play—which is not only a vital activity for children, but also a right recognized by the Convention on the Rights of the Child—and to provide the necessary conditions: time, adequate space, playmates, and autonomy to do so. Play is a source of physical and mental well-being, of learning, and has a positive impact on children's development. But the point is to play for play's sake. Play is a pleasurable activity in which the process is more important than the results. Productive lives, consumer activities, and other tasks and responsibilities that we adults have seem to extend into childhood, and we are gradually forgetting that children up to the age of 17 are still children and have the right to play. In fact, for 10- and 11-year-olds in Barcelona, ​​​​one of the areas of their lives that has been rated the lowest since 2017 is the amount of free time: half of them think they don't have enough.

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There's no special day for slot machines; any day is good. It's a Monday in February, and at the Seaford Hotel in Frankston—a suburb about fifty kilometers south of central Melbourne—a handful of regulars are playing after dinner. The machines are stacked in rows, each with a stool in front of them. The floor is carpeted, there are no windows or clocks, just four tables to keep the game going until late.

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Has a child who has never risked tearing his pants on a tree branch had a childhood?

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We want free girls, adults with a clear idea, who can move through the world safely and without fear. We defend equality, we sign manifestos, we are shocked by the data on the gender gap and gender-based violence. And yet, play, the first space in which children and society meet, is still full of stereotypes.

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Every child inhabits an internal landscape made of images, memories, fears, and desires. It can't always be expressed in words; it is hinted at and manifested in play, in the way pieces are arranged, in the way a ball is kicked, or in the way a doll is cared for. Pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott, whom you may know for his concept of the "transitional object," described it as "the potential space."

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Badalona's new bingo - the sixth recreational hall in the city - will have within a 400-metre radius four educational centers, two mental health services and, right opposite, a soup kitchen. The business will be located between the neighbourhoods of Llefià and Sant Roc, one of the points with the highest poverty rate in the area around Barcelona. "We have many social problems and also security and anti-social behaviour issues. Putting it [the bingo] here is a time bomb. It will bring more misery to many families and more difficulties in an area hit hard by the crisis," says Ignacio Segura, of the platform Stop Cases de Apuestas a Llefià, which brings together entities and communities against the establishment.

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