Monthly Archive: June 2015

Over the past years mobile player platforms have indicated a massive increased in popularity to the point where any on-line casino not able to present virtually their entire gaming library to mobile players, or does not feature a specialised mobile casino, or alternatively a dedicated mobile casino site, cannot be counted as a top on-line casino operator anymore. Irrespective of their past achievements, operators and developers currently rush to cater for mobile players on an extensive basis.

With most new gaming titles and casinos launched as Omni-channel operations, the leading developers have already converted all of their popular newer gaming titles to one or other format of mobile friendly play, via HTML5, and several other mobile compatible platforms, and are still in the process to convert their remaining older titles as well. The long popular Flash should quickly become obsolete due to a lack of support and interest from Adobe, with a host of newer more trouble free options already available on the market. Especially since Flash is not able to check all of the tick boxes to achieve true instant play anymore, you still need to download and install the Flash player, in HTML5 there is no need for a dedicated player.

The above ruminations reflects in the payouts achieved in the past two years while the player used a mobile device of one type or another to achieve their ultimate win. Currently the two top supplier backed on-line pooled progressive jackpots are Microgaming’s Mega Moolah video slot’s progressive jackpot standing at over $6’442’007, and Playtech’s Beach Life video slot’s progressive jackpot standing at more than $5’650’591. Both slots are currently available for play on mobile devices at leading on-line casinos offering top-end gaming products from these two pioneering developers that became manufacturing giants in the field of on-line play.

While accumulating continuously the Mega Moolah Mega jackpot became available to mobile device platforms and progressed to well over the $6.3 million mark and ready to bestow the title of multi-millionaire on one of its players.

The animal themed video slot offers 5 reels with 25 paylines, developed as part of the on-line pooled progressive range offering massive jackpots from Microgaming. Mega Moolah features scatters, wilds, and a free spins bonus game to add to the excitement of the base gameplay apart from the exciting progressive jackpot. The scatter symbol is illustrated by a Monkey, if three or more appear anywhere on the reels the free spins round is activated with 15 free spins available during which all winnings are trebled and further free spins can be re-triggered.

A Lion illustrates the wild symbol, wilds will substitute for any other symbol except the scatter to complete winning combinations, with a 2x multiplier doubling the payout of winning combinations. The slot offers a randomly triggered bonus game and this bonus game provides your key to the progressive jackpots of which there are four, namely the mega, major, minor, and the mini, but these jackpots will only be yours if you can remain lucky throughout the wheel of fortune rounds.

Mega Moolah remains Microgaming’s flagship slot with one of the largest progressive jackpots available on-line it only starts seeding when the pool reaches over $1,000,000. To date any win on the mega jackpot will make you financially independent no matter which currency you prefer to be paid in. Joining the Mega Moolah slot are four sister titles also featuring this massive Microgaming backed jackpot pool, these slots are The Dark Knight, Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive, Mega Moolah Summertime, and Mega Moolah Isis to provide a little variation in your diet, served on mobile as a takeaway or desktop as a sit-down.

ShapeShift.io, currently one of the more convenient platforms of digital currency exchange, unveiled their own mobile software application on Apple’s iStore, after receiving approval to become the first of the genre to receive approval for the iOS platform. Their immediate cryptocurrency converter persists to transform the global field of digital currency via its astonishing accomplishment that allows users to exchange different types of cryptocurrencies with security and ease, with one of these feats being it’s approval and incorporation into Apple’s ecosystem.

The found of ShapeShift and its said that its launch of his currency exchange paved the way to reach more effective exchange opportunities within the digital currency platforms. espite achieving such success, Vorhees sustained his search for additional opportunities to aid the future success of its cryptocurrency exchange. That is what ensured the success of the Bitcoin visionary to conceptualise and design this iOS application. Accordingly, the mobile app will serve as a benchmark on the quest of fully developing and revolutionizing the current level of Altcoin and Bitcoin accessibility, he went on further to relay that snce its inception, ShapeShift changed the expectation of all altcoin exchanges. Their presence on mobile platforms is a crucial move in their roadmap to deliver a frictionless user experience while operating at the speed of e-currency.

Just like the original PC versions, the app allows consumers to exchange 35 major featured cryptocurrencies that are accepted, including new inductees Counterparty and Monero.
Their ShapeShift app with its instant cryptocurrency converter retains its largest asset on its move to full mobile adoption. Bitcoin users commended this new exchange platform design due to the precise and systematic security protocols unlike any other currently utilized in Bitcoin transfers.

Only three weeks since the delivery of their new baby, gaming technology solutions provider, Genii launched their ground breaking new slots concept and gaming title series, Spin16, into two newly signed up operators to deliver their full 130 game suite including the revolutionary new Spin16 concept.

Casino Dukes owned and operated by Continental, and licensed in both Malta and the UK, and another Malta licensed group, Unis Limited that focuses its energies at Eastern Europe, would be the first operators to offer this exciting new product range. With their new product allowing and encouraging players to play with more control, wagering options and methods to interact more directly with their slot reels, spinning each and any individual reel in virtually any direction instead of just stabbing away at the limited input controls of conventional slots.

The Spin16 slots technology was so innovative and revolutionary they fully patent right protected the new technology from Genii, the proprietary slots utilises, border to border the complete display area of all touchscreen devices and slot game control would be via the ubiquitous spin swiping action, instead of the conventional spin button. The manner of control allows players additional control options by swiping up, down, right, and left, to produce a much more immersive, interactive, engaging slot gaming experience.

It provides players with an incomparable experience that has for the first time changed how players interact since the inception of mechanical slots late in the 19th century. Genii is expecting to shortly announce several other newly signed deals during the coming few weeks which would include a few high profile customers. Genii Sales Director commented that the response to the Spin16 and their full suite of gaming titles has been phenomenal. They are in discussions with several leading casino operators that were already at an advanced phase.

Reel Force 5 is CORE Gaming’s just launched, brand new mobile video slot, on the Sky Vegas mobile casino portal. Based on the action packed experiences of five superheroes and the squad’s nemesis, the evil Baron Lightfinger. The theme features our intrepid squad of super heroes each gifted with their own distinctive special powers, used to influence reel spins in providing players with larger, more frequently triggered wins. However, evil Baron Lightfinger remains in continual hiding, to pop up in a malicious attempt to steal and keep your slot winnings to himself, but since the bad guy always loses, he is no real match for our brave heroes. Gameplay presents five different bonus plays with players offered a choice of which bonus games they would prefer to engage in. The features range from the free, win every spin style of game mechanics, to yielding just three free spins with the potential to win big.

The slot fully created and produced in-house by UK gaming software developer, CORE Gaming in HTML5, is the first in a series of their proprietary slot titles, with three more table and instant win gaming content released in the remainder of the year. These titles form part of a multi-game production deal with casino operator, Sky Vegas, with some titles already live. A series of scratch card titles, Sky Blackjack, Sky Roulette, and Scratch4, scratch card series already released last year, and were shortly after followed by additional titles, 3 Card Brag and Video Poker in early 2015.

This entire range of gaming titles boasts as the first project of their kind industry-wide, developed from single HTML5 source-code to deploy on mobile and desktop platforms simultaneously, to become commercially available later this year. At completion of the project this content could establish them as, the top HTML5 developer globally and as one of the gaming industry’s major content providers.

Inspired Gaming Group Limited, a well-known provider of mobile gaming titles, virtual sports, and SBG video lottery, announced its launch of two new HTML5 plat-formed mobile slots with William Hill, this includes their blockbuster slot sensation, Centurion as well as the innovative Spirit of the Samurai.

Centurion offers the developer’s largest bonus game ever. Themed around a centurion’s life in ancient Rome, the slot provides tons of entertainment with its eight highly engaging bonus games with a possible additional ninth, the Fortune Spins round. Centurion is features in the top three most popular titles in the developer’s mobile title library.

Spirit of the Samurai features an innovative free spins bonus round with four progressing levels, each level progressively more entertaining than the previous, offering the option of game saves between play sessions to both mobile and desktop players. There is also a secretive fifth level only available to VIP players upon reaching level four.

Dave Hammond, Inspired Mobile Senior VP, commented that William Hill remained a leader in UK on-line wagering and gaming entertainment, and one of the casino gaming operators in Europe. He also said they were excited to launch the two compelling slot titles exclusively with the casino operator. They are elated with the implementation so far. There remains massive demand from on-line operators and players for content developed on an HTML5 mobile platform, and their extensive experience gained in the UK puts them in the leading group of the global trend.

Inspired can proudly say they were one of the very first of the software suppliers performing omni-channel launches on their new titles, back ever since the launch of their Goddess of the Amazon and the White Knight with William Hill casino in 2014.

All of Inspired’s slots adheres strictly to their standards for HD gaming offered in multiple languages.

According to Microgaming there are fortunes to be made beneath the waves at their latest mobile slot, Fish Party, originally launched in July 2014 this exciting slot was recently re-launched to accommodate mobile play. The Party occurs under the sea offering a theme that features high-quality graphics and characters good enough to have been taken straight from Pixar, Disney’s Finding Nemo.

Bubbles wobble their way up between the reels, carting you off on an undersea adventure to a Fishy kinda Party with goofy funny characters unlike Microgaming’s Ariana slot, where it was more about realistic fantastical beauty, this time the underwater world had a bit more humorous zest added and that is ok since you feel less guilty about diving in on the funny fishy guys, crashing their party and taking some of the loot home. The theme is vividly coloured and bright, with 5 reels and 243 ways to win and draw players in deeper for hours of fun, shared with the over the top fish personalities like, wriggling worms on a hook, girly glowing goldfish, and a scowling starfish.

It offers relatively relaxing and simple play with generously regular wins, and random big wins that could occur at any time due to its random wilds that arrive as Stacked during standard game-play as well as its exciting random free spins with up to a massive x6,480 initial wager. It upshot of this is that players don’t have to try and chase one big feature continually before the real excitement starts, the excitement starts at the beginning of every spin, since the next spin could also bring the next big win.

Its Fish Party logo represents the wild, Stacked three high in the base game, replacing any symbol except the scatter, and Stacked seven high during any free spins bonus round. However not only the wilds appear stacked, during free spins all four its highest symbols also arrive stacked, making for silly fun potential winning combinations.
Scatter symbols are depicted by Clams, show 3, 4 or 5 of these funny molluscs anywhere on its reel-set to trigger a random number of up to 20 free spins.

Odobo Play, a game discovery app currently available for iOS to assist players in finding their favourite gaming titles and its related casinos offering real money wagering. Launched during December 2014, the Odobo Play app enjoyed over 45,000 download and installs placing the app in second position for casino apps on Apple’s UK iStore.

It is also the first app offering both a real-money and a social casino accessible from one single mobile application. These new multiple access options enable users to open one account that can save their progress across a variety of different devices, thereby providing much quicker earnings of casino credit bonuses. Players now also enjoy the benefits of an option to increase their personal social casino account balance in various ways, including collecting combined winnings from all of the more than 50 titles available. This in turn causes more gained bonuses as regular active visitors, as well as purchasing additional credit packs via its new option offering in-app purchases.

Odobo Play’s social casino uses existing real-money options that come already integrated with this app to create seamless game play, with the aim of providing real-money casino excitement and content irrespective of its user’s play preferences, whether playing featured titles free, or using added credits for real-money wagering.

The featured titles arrive in innovative formats making game-play easy to learn at the social casino, with the app easily matching the required industry standards when transacting to real money plays. Odobo receives additional funds due to the app’s social casino, thereby monetising incoming app traffic not normally converted to real-money wagers. This app enables bettors to enjoy the full excitement of its diverse gaming content only made available by additionally awarded winning bonuses and gaming credits.

Odobo Play’s social casino remains accessible in all territories to all players via its iOS app, just as a further benefit adding to the multitude of other advantages available to the 45’000 users of their amazing app.

Soft Magic Dice is a promising gaming software developer recently released their latest branded video slot production; Prison Break’s theme follows on from a hit American TV series with the same name. The music conveys the feeling of danger and excitement, giving the slot ambiance a similar feel of non-stop action to the television series.

Players engage a 5 Reel 25 pay-line slot featuring the latest technical advances in interface design, accessible to mobile player platforms including iOS, Android or Windows and incorporates a Random Number Generator algorithm guaranteeing a fair play. The storyline starts with an innocent man going to prison, due to political conniving, for a crime he did not commit and illustrates the internal conflict between the inmates and their prison guards just as they prepare their escape from prison, the theme graphics and sound remaining true to the drama of the original. The win enhancing special features include a Golden Keys Bonus triggered by three shirtless gangster bonus symbols scattered anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5. The wild, illustrated by a briefcase full of cash and rewards with instant wins whenever two or more show anywhere on the reels, substituting for only one symbol except the bonus and the scatter.

Bandana Mike represents the scatter symbol, appearing on reels 3, 4 or 5 awarding free spins. The gamble option offers a choice to assist with increasing win values, allowing for a double or quadruple of original wagered total. This slot provides hours of excellent entertainment with a popular theme where the series ambiance successfully translated to enhance game play.

SMD, initially established in 2012, surely manifesting themselves to the point where they now represent a serious alternative software provider, overtaking many other software providers in their available offered slots features.

Software Developers Quickspin recently released their brand new slot, Titan Thunder, featuring 5 reels, with the ability to increase to an exciting six reel interface. The game offers a theme based on a social order of ancient gods originating in Greek mythology.

The Greeks considered the Titans to be directly descended from the original embryonic beings Eros, Chaos, and Gaia. The leader Cronus; had a son called Atlas that became well known after Zeus singled him out for a special form of punishment once the Titan gods were defeated by the Olympian gods. Hercules had to carry the earth’s globe on his shoulders for all eternity, while Prometheus became known as the wisest of the gods.

Several unique win enhancing features became part of the slot, including, Titan Thunder animations, which triggers randomly to deliver a maximum of 8 lightning wild symbols scattered across the reels. The feature ensures players a much-improved chance to trigger the free spins round. The bonus round can be triggered by the great 2×2 Wild gold framed lightning bolt symbols. Top quality game graphics is offered with an ancient time period feel, and the stone facia reel-set is adorned with vibrantly tinted jewel inclusions. The ancient god’s variety features the big money winning symbols set on the Olympus Mountain View.

Quickspin, a Swedish based software developer, with a single-minded focus on creating masterful inventive video slots, exciting the social free-to-play market, while remaining loyal to their slot market. The company provides a desirable design presenting years of unwavering commitment to a main desire for the gaming industry. Their commitment to provide highly enjoyable quality entertainment and developing exciting games, while enchanting fans, has guaranteed the future of their innovative product, further strengthened by expansion with deals signed by iGaming, Vera&John Casino, and Relax Gaming.