Novomatic, an operator, has obtained the sixth German online slots licence. This adds to a growing roster of licensees.
 Germany's loot boxes
 This license will let Novomatic's subsidiary, BluBet Operations, do business in the country under the novoline.de domain.

 Mernov, a partnership between Novomatic and Merkur, was the first company to get a licence to run online slots.  This year, in June, Tipwin and Ruleo got their licenses.  This month, though, the company changed its name to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Glücksspiel (DGGS) because it set up a "new shareholder structure."

 Slotmagie and Merkur were the fourth and fifth companies in Germany to get licenses for online slots last week.

 This means that each joint venture partner involved with setting up Mernov now has a licence of its own. 

 Germany's fourth state treaty on gambling, which went into effect on July 1 of last year, created the new slots licensees.

 This made a lot of laws that people didn't like, such a 5.3% tax on online poker and online slots.

 For almost a year after the treaty went into effect, no online slots, poker, or table game operators were listed on the official whitelist.  In Germany, the state of Sachsen-Anhalt is in charge of issuing licenses.