According to a statement to the London Stock Exchangelast week, bwin.party, the parent company of PartyPoker and several other online poker rooms, plans to roll out new software in the first quarter of 2013 for its flagship site.

The text read in part, “Having last re-launched PartyPoker in 2009, we have been working on the next generation version that will be rolled out during the first quarter of 2013. Comprising many new features and a new look and feel, our objective is to once again make PartyPoker the world’s favorite poker room and return poker to growth.”

bwin.party is in the midst of integrating its two eponymous platforms and recently removed high-stakes tablesabove $5/$10 in order to improve its poker ecology. In addition, PartyPoker rolled out FastForwardand, while the fast-play poker concept isn’t nearly as popular as Zoom Poker on PokerStars, it allows PartyPoker players to get through four times as many cash game hands.

Speaking on FastForward, the same bwin.party financial release praised, “We have been pleased with the early results and expect the full version to be available across all channels next month.” In a traffic update earlier this month, PokerScout estimated that 8% to 9% of PartyPoker’s traffic was entrenched in FastForward games, compared to 25% of PokerStars players being engaged in Zoom Poker after the feature launched in March.

PartyPoker officials are also looking forward to integrating the company’s major online poker sites: “We will integrate the dot-com platforms as well as the ring-fenced platforms in France later this year. Whilst we expect an initial level of player loss on migration, we still expect to see a meaningful uplift in player liquidity and are focused on ensuring that we maximize the network effect from an increased numbers of players in each pool.” The company’s Italian sites will be pooled next year.

After the network’s dot-com and French traffic is pooled in the fourth quarter of 2012, the new PartyPoker software will launch.

Also addressed in bwin.party’s press release is the company’s dedication to its Mobile client. Mobile revenues for the first six months of 2012 were up 116% year-over-year, and new Mobile versions of PartyPoker and PartyCasino are planned, potentially coming out as soon as the end of 2012.

The company is also hard at work trying to unload the Ongame Network, which it flagged as a “surplus asset.” In June, Shuffle Master, which had agreed to buy the Ongame Network from bwin-party, pulled out, citing European market conditions. Other companies rumored to be in the running for Ongame include the social games developer Zynga.

Despite the setback, bwin.party explained, “We remain on track to migrate the bwin dot-com poker player base to the PartyPoker platform later this year as planned.” Read more about Zynga’s ties to the Ongame Network.

Most of PartyPoker’s key poker-related stats are down year-over-year. Its active player days fell 18% in the first six months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011 to 15.8 million. Its average daily players dove 18% to 86,800, while new player sign-ups were slashed by nearly half to 212,300. Its yield per active player day increased by 11% to €6.10, while its average daily net revenue fell 9% to €529,700.

Company officials noted, “Having amended our contractual relationship in February 2012 with certain of our larger affiliates that had been driving large numbers of marginally profitable players to our sites, active player days declined by 18% in the period and new player signups fell 43% versus the prior year.” Still, its yield was up.

Despite the lackluster financial figures, PartyPoker remains a beast. According to PokerScout, the network is the third largest worldwide with a seven-day running average of 2,250 real money ring game players and a 24-hour peak of over 4,000.