Evolution launched its live casino game show Ice Fishing in New Jersey, Michigan and Delaware on Nov. 2, pairing the New Jersey debut with the opening of its fourth Live Casino studio in Atlantic City.
The game had drawn more than 26 million players worldwide and recorded more than 469 million fish caught since its global launch in 2025, according to Evolution. Those figures predate the U.S. rollout and do not measure activity in the three newly entered states. The company has not disclosed player totals in those markets or named the U.S. casino operators carrying the game.
The Atlantic City facility is inside the Showboat Resort Atlantic City and received permission from New Jersey gambling regulators to begin operating, Press of Atlantic City reported. The centre is a new facility for Evolution, which supplies technology and content to the online gambling industry.
Ice Fishing is streamed in Michigan from Evolution’s Grand Rapids studio, which opened in May. That site is the company’s second Michigan live-casino studio and its seventh in the United States. Evolution’s first Michigan studio opened in 2021.
Evolution has not identified the facility producing the Delaware Ice Fishing feed. Martin Carlesund, the company’s chief executive, said on an Oct. 23 earnings call that the fourth New Jersey studio “would also serve Delaware”:https://15m.com/news/evolution-opens-fourth-atlantic-city-studio-for-ice-fishings-us-debut/; the studio was then expected to open during the fourth quarter.
Ice Fishing uses a virtual 53-segment money wheel, offering either instant cash-prize outcomes or entry to one of three bonus games: Lil’ Blues, Big Oranges and Huge Reds. Random multipliers of up to 10x can be applied to selected wheel segments, and boosts in the main game can carry into bonus rounds.
The bonus games have maximum multipliers of 100x, 200x and 500x respectively, while the game’s stated maximum win potential is 5,000x. Todd Haushalter, Evolution’s chief product officer, said the title was designed for an audience seeking faster and more instantly gratifying game-show formats.
Jacob Claesson, chief executive of Evolution North America, called Ice Fishing a global “viral hit” and said the U.S. launch was only the beginning. Evolution expects to introduce the game in additional regulated U.S. markets over the coming months, although it has not named states or given dates.
