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Week 51/2020 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases!
Once again, MGA Games goes that one step further and offers a slot game with music and live vocals exclusively recorded for the company by the famous Spanish pop duo Andy & Lucas. With only a few weeks left until the end of 2020, MGA Games aims to end the year with a real blockbuster – the launch of their latest slot game in the Spanish Celebrities series, Andy & Lucas. This sensational production with which the company, specialists in the development of local slots for global operators, helps close a difficult year in the best way it knows how with high entertainment and exceptional content.
NetGame Entertainment, has launched the second installment of its hugely successful Book of Nile series – Lost Chapter. This next part of the story asks players to journey through the endless Egyptian sands using the magical book as a catalyst to bring them closer to the legendary treasures. The Extra Spins feature gives players the opportunity to earn as many as three Free Spins every time a winning combination of special Expanding Symbols appear during the Bonus Game feature. Adding to the excitement on the reels is the enticing Gamble Wheel feature. After each bonus game players can choose to spin the wheel and land on a green section to double the bonus total by up to 500x!
Lightning Box will transport players to the golden sands of Australia in the latest addition to its game portfolio Bondi Break. Set on the iconic Bondi Beach, the new title from the Sydney-based studio sees players ride the waves in order to surge to big wins, with reels made up of a mix of Australian, beach and surf-themed icons, while the Girl acts as the Wild. As well as those eye-catching icons, Bondi Break contains three different lifeguard symbols, with the topless male lifeguard proving the most rewarding. A winning combination with him can boost a player’s winnings by up to 200x.
Pragmatic Play, is inviting players to reel in huge catches in its latest hit Big Bass Bonanza. Join Pragmatic Play’s friendly Fisherman in the 5×3 slot in a quest for the biggest fish on the reels in the latest hit in partnership with Reel Kingdom. Three or more hooked Bass Scatter symbols will trigger the Bonus Round, where the Fisherman acts as a wild, while also having the ability to get even more fish on the hook. Each fish that lands on the reels has a monetary value, so the Fisherman could be in for a big catch! If no fish land on a spin, but the Fisherman does, he can throw dynamite on the reels, replacing symbols with fish for a higher chance of winning.
Yggdrasil, the leading worldwide publisher of online gambling content, has unveiled exciting new slot game Atlantis Megaways is an enchanting underwater adventure where Poseidon rules the deep surrounded by shoals of fishy friends waiting to reveal huge cash prizes. Offering players an incredible 117,649 ways to win, Atlantis Megaways
Pharaoh’s riches revealed with Nolimit’s Tomb of Akhenaten The final destination in this year’s eventful journey for the Malta based Software Provider, lands us back to the great forgotten Egyptian crypts, revisiting the Royal family of the Akhenaten rule. The husband of the Royal Queen Nefertiti! Tomb of Akhenaten comes with a new mechanic which has been morphed from an existing one, seen in the last Egyptian iteration with Tomb of Nefertiti. A gritty 3×5 reel set with 243 win ways that has the capacity to grow into 5×5 reel set with 3125 win ways, thanks to the ability to connect symbols with every landed win. Reach the maximum formation and get a final chance to land one or all reels with pyramid wilds, awarding the player wilds on all remaining symbols. Land 3 or more Scatter symbols and unlock the Pharaoh’s tomb with Akhenaten Spins – unlimited multiplier increase with every connected win and the ability to also connect Pyramid Spins.
BF Games is inviting players to a futuristic 3D world full of special features and chances to win big in its latest title Stunning Cube is a 3×3 slot with five paylines and unique 3D graphics. Set in a virtual world overseen by a cyber geisha, players spin the cube to arrange single-coloured walls for a chance to multiply winnings. Inspired by the Rubik’s cube, the game offers a number of rare special features with plenty opportunity for players to collect huge prizes. The Wild symbol can substitute for all others while landing a wall of nine identical symbols will reward players with the Cube of Luck feature which offers the chance to multiply winnings up to six times. During the base games, every win adds to the title’s Bonus Meter, which when filled up awards 10 Free Spins, further adding to the game’s win potential.
Synot Games has released its latest slot Reel Hot Respin. Reel Hot Respin is a retro-looking, 30-payline, 5×3 slot with Wilds, Free Spins and a unique Reel Respin feature. The game offers traditional lower fruity symbols of lemon, cherries and plums, BARs which pay up to 250x of the bet, and the high paying symbols of Sevens, paying up to an incredible 500x of the total bet.
Blueprint Gaming, the leading UK-based games studio, has launched the latest addition to its ground-breaking Jackpot King series, Mega Bars Jackpot King. The five-reel slot, which is the first title from the Project retail catalogue to be released online by Blueprint following its acquisition of the UK land-based focused company in 2019, uses the classic casino look of Bars and X’s that have been a familiar sight to retail and online players for more than 30 years. The beauty of Mega Bars Jackpot King is its simplicity, with 10 winlines and a low-tech gaming mechanic which has traditionally proven to drive engagement with bingo players, enhancing cross-sell potential.
Triple Cherry is happy to announce its latest release: Catrina, Amor Eterno. In this 3×5 video slot the player will discover the love story between Catrina and Fernando, her late husband, on a Mexican day of celebration such as the day of the dead. This magical slot presents a 95,22% RTP and different features that the player will enjoy wrapped in a harmonious background. Among these fantastic features the user will find wild symbols at line combinations which creates or increases a column multiplier applied on next respins. Catrina can create new multipliers and increase them until x7 on each reel column. Good luck with the respins to combine all of them!
High 5 Games returns to the classic Kingdom of Gold to discover Mystic Ways! Way Out Ways is back in H5G’s new slot game, Kingdom of Gold: Mystic Ways. With 729 and 1,000,000 Ways to Wins, players can visit the temple of temptation and enter the ever-evolving board to find the immense treasure. With the return of Way Out Ways, the feature that builds the possibility of getting more symbols on a standard reel, players can land a chance to win up to 1,000,000 ways when they expand their reels from four to ten.
Stakelogic, one of the most in-demand developers in the market – is pleased to unveil its latest classic video slot which uses Big Time Gaming’s revolutionary Megaways Megaways to deliver up to 512 ways to win with every spin. This is combined with a number of in-game features that mean players not only have a great chance of winning, but of winning big. In the base game players can take advantage of Megaways’ cascading reel structure to turn moderate wins into mega wins. If that wasn’t enough, Super Joker also comes hooked-up to Stakelogic’s innovative Super Stake
Play’n GO has partnered an in-depth narrative with exciting features, including Wilds with up to 10x multipliers and a charge feature (another successful Play’n GO format), to create a fun-filled gaming experience. Golden Osiris brings together their popular cascading gridslot format, with one of their most well-loved themes, ancient Egypt for the first time in this fun new slot adventure. The game revolves around the Egyptian legend that the lord of the underworld once turned golden rays of the sun into actual gold bars and hid the treasure deep within a tomb. Players now have the chance to uncover the treasure and keep a piece for themselves!
iSoftBet, the award-winning online games supplier and content aggregator, has released its latest roarsome title, Raging Dragons, to exclusive partners for a two-week period before the game is launched across its wider network. The 5×3, 243 payline video slot transports players to a mystical world with an oriental feel where Dragons rule the reels. Within the base gameplay players must try and secure Wild Multipliers that can land on reels 2, 3 or 4 and lead to a multiplier of up to 3x. On any spin, a Fortune Spin can be triggered, where a lucky red envelope will be opened and reveal a prize of either 8x, 88x, 888x, or 8,888x a player’s stake.
Booongo has released its newest hit slot, Eye of Gold, where players can win big in this Egyptian adventure ahead of the festive period. The 6×4 slot is set in the sunny lands of Egypt as players encounter a mysterious temple that houses an exotic princess. With 25 paylines and reels filled with ancient Egyptian symbols and pharaohs, players will be eagerly looking out for Mystery Wilds on the screen, which turns all matching symbols into Wilds, leading to staggering wins. To trigger the Bonus Feature, players need to unearth one Scatter symbol and one or more Mystery Wilds. This will grant ten Free Spins, with every spin granting a Mystery Wild, which can lead to players discovering great riches.
Red Rake Gaming, the online gaming industry’s leading provider, has just announced its latest release, Parrot Bay, a 6×10 reel video slot with its popular trademark “1 million ways to win” and a free spins feature. In this video slot, players can join the most feared pirate and his crew to find the world’s most valuable treasures in an exciting cannon minigame and a free spins feature with special symbols and multipliers. The cannon minigame is launched by accumulating cannon symbols in the progress bar, obtained from every non-winning spin. Once you manage to enter, the reels will turn into cannons to unleash a battle that will reward players with wins. The minigame begins with 6 shots and 15 squares to reveal. One of the cannons will shoot and destroy one of the squares, revealing an anchor, a spyglass or a wheel symbol. The player can achieve one or more wins by obtaining several of the same symbols, according to the win table displayed in the minigame.
Endorphina has just released its newest Diamond Chance slot – bringing and gifting something completely out of this world into the screen for all players to experience for themselves. We already know that the the largest diamonds are found on our planet Earth. But here’s our little secret… A secret that hasn’t been written about in history books. The most unique diamonds are in outer space and is as big as Earth itself. This Christmas, Endorphina brings this very diamond from outer space to all players. Diamond Chance is a 5-reel 3-row slot game with 10 paylines. All prizes are for combinations of a kind. The Emerald Dollar Sign acts as a wild symbol. It substitutes for all symbols and expands over adjacent positions. The classic risk game is also available.
Evoplay Entertainment has released an enthralling new slot title to get the excitement going during the holiday season, Wild Bullets. Straight out of a Wild Western, the game invites gun-slinging gamblers to an all-action extravaganza featuring train robberies, cowboys, saddlebags stuffed with gold and the chance for players to win up to x3800 in a Stetson-studded shoot-out. Following a sneaky Sherriff’s secret mission to catch a Bandit and his henchmen on the run from the law, bettors standing by for a showdown could claim multipliers of up to x2, and x6 in the Gunfight Bonus game. The biggest prize waits for players in the Free Spins game, where total winnings can be multiplied by up to x60 – with a real saddlebag of gold lying in wait.
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Football (soccer) and tennis accounted for 68% of cases
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported 56 alerts of suspicious betting to the relevant authorities in the first quarter (Q1) of 2024.
The Q1 2024 total is an increase of 65% when compared to 34 alerts in Q4 2023 and an increase of 12% when compared to the revised Q1 2023 total of 50 alerts. All of IBIA’s alerts are identified using customer account data from IBIA members, which number over 50 companies and 125 sports betting brands, making IBIA the largest integrity monitor of its type in the world.
The 56 incidents of suspicious betting in Q1 concerned six sports, across 21 countries and five continents. Other key data for Q1 2024 includes:
- Football (soccer) had the highest number of alerts by sport with 24, representing a 50% increase on the 16 reported in Q4 2023 and a 60% increase on the 15 reported in Q1 2022.
- Turkey had the highest number of country alerts with 8 (five in football, two in tennis and one in basketball).
41% of all alerts in Q1 were identified on sporting events taking place in Asia, with North and South America joint second with 18% each. - There were only 4 alerts identified on sporting events in Europe, which represents a decrease of 76% compared to 17 alerts in Q4 2023.
Khalid Ali, IBIA CEO, said: “The first quarter saw an increase in reported alerts highlighting the ongoing challenge our members, sports and regulatory authorities face from corrupt activity, with football and Asia dominating our Q1 report. IBIA’s alerts are supported by detailed global customer account data only available to IBIA and its membership, which continues to grow, widening our world leading market coverage. That account data provides evidentiary information that is vital for advancing investigations and imposing sanctions. IBIA is committed to continuing to work closely with stakeholders and to providing this important evidence base.”
The Q1 report includes a focus on the availability of sports betting in Canada and a comparison between the licensing approach in Ontario and the monopoly approach in the rest of the country. IBIA recently released a report on the Availability of Sports Betting Products which highlighted Ontario as a leading regulated gambling jurisdiction, with an expected onshore channelisation for sports betting of 92% in 2024 forecast to rise to 97% in 2028. Whereas the rest of Canada combined is forecast to have an onshore rate of around 11% in 2024 becoming 13% by 2028.
IBIA currently represents over 60% of the private sports betting operators licensed in Ontario, with Glitnor recently announced as the latest operator to join the association in that province. IBIA is a not-for-profit body that has no competing conflicts with the delivery of commercial services to other sectors and is run by operators for operators to protect regulated sports betting markets from match-fixing. IBIA’s global monitoring network is a highly effective anti-corruption tool, detecting and reporting suspicious activity in regulated betting markets.
Through the IBIA global monitoring network it is possible to track transactional activities linked to individual customer accounts. IBIA members have over $300bn per annum in betting turnover (handle), accounting for approximately 50% of the global commercial regulated land-based and online sports betting sector, and in excess of 50% for online alone.
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Gone are the days when we would spend a Thursday evening waiting for Top of the Pops to come on our televisions so that we could see who would be performing that week. The music show may no longer be running, but First Look Games has taken inspiration from the long-running staple and added a slot spin, to create Top of the Slots.
To give us more insight, First Look Games Founder Tom Galanis walks us through the ideation process behind Top of the Slots and how this is helping to give an accurate representation of the top-performing slot titles each month.
You launched Top of the Slots by First Look Games a couple of weeks ago. For those that may have missed the launch, what does this involve?
Tom Galanis: Top of the Slots is a showcase for the top 10 games launched by game studios via the First Look Games platform over the previous 90 days. It’s a never-before-seen take on game popularity and one our game studio partners, and affiliate users are already loving!
What was the thought process behind launching Top of the Slots?
Tom Galanis: First Look Games captures unique data for our game studio partners and Top of the Slots is designed to illustrate the most successful games, benchmarked by this unique data insight, to the industry.
What do game providers have to do to make it into the top ten releases for the month? What metrics do you use to evaluate success?
Tom Galanis: In order to make it in to the top 10, game studios need to release titles via our platform that successfully resonate with the 850+ affiliates that utilise First Look Games, making full use of the suite of tools we offer on and outside of the platform to engage affiliate marketers in the promotion of their game. The rankings are based on the First Look Games Index for all games launched to the market in the preceding 90 days, which combines:
- a) Downloads – which is the aggregated total of download sessions amongst affiliates on the platform. Affiliates download assets including logos, game sheets, video files, screenshots, banners and game artwork;
- b) Hits – this is the aggregated total number of game reviews for the game, created by affiliates using the First Look Games platform;
- c) Reach – this is the aggregated unique visitor count of the websites containing the Hits;
- d) Demo Game Sessions – this is the number of free to play demo game sessions that have taken place from iFrames placed on Hits.
- e) Sentiment Score – this is the average sentiment score from Hits
The games that rank well in this index are obviously commercially successful in their own right but are also being reviewed by affiliates because of the engagement of the game studio with the First Look Games platform, and consequently, with affiliates.
Our most active game studios are not just releasing great games with frequency but are also ensuring their game and studio news is distributed across the First Look Games platform and social channels and that a full and diverse range of marketing assets and game information is being provided through the platform prior to a game’s release. This best equips affiliates to understand the features of a game so that they can successfully convey this to their player audience, which, collectively amongst FLG affiliates, is very significant, totalling more than 20 million slots players worldwide.
Tell us a bit more about the First Look Games sentiment analysis – how is this helping to remove the biases from the ranking process? What data do you use to inform this analysis?
Tom Galanis: Once our technology has identified a new game review, First Look Games uses Natural Language Processing to ‘read’ the review and assess what the affiliate makes of the game. We share a short snapshot of this with the game studio and assign a score to the review based on how positive the affiliate has been in their review of the game. The more positive the language used in the review, the higher the score.
Sentiment scores are then aggregated across all reviews of the game to give a score for the game, and across all games to give the studio a score to benchmark against peers. Using AI, we are able to objectify the subjective to provide true 360 analysis on how affiliates are promoting a game.
What can we expect to see from First Look Games for the remainder of this year?
Tom Galanis: We have a perpetual roadmap of both new studio launches and technical advancements of the platform for affiliates and game studios to look forward to!
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B2B gaming supplier Push Gaming is the latest studio to partner with the new UK-facing online casino from the brains behind the popular affiliate site Slots Temple.
Push Gaming’s formidable line-up of games includes all its famous titles, live on the fresh, new entrant to the UK market. Razor Returns, Retro Tapes and Big Bamboo can all be enjoyed by Slots Temple players.
The highly anticipated sequel Retro Sweets will soon be available, along with the rest of Push’s upcoming new games roadmap, including Cats of Olympuss and The Grand Show.
A group of online gaming enthusiasts runs Slots Temple with decades of industry experience. Together, they have brought their combined knowledge and passion to bear with one of the fastest-growing new sites in the UK market.
The partnership marks another step forward in Push Gaming’s recent impressive global growth as it maintains its momentum in the latter stages of H1.
Fiona Hickey, Chief Business Development Officer at Push Gaming, said: “It’s not often you see established affiliate sites taking the step into real-money operating but the move speaks volumes for the experience and ambition of the team at Slots Temple.
“That kind of drive and vision mirrors how we develop at Push and so it’s a pleasure to work with them and add our leading slot library to its ranks. It also strengthens our position in the key UK market as we continue expanding in regulated markets.”
Fraser Linkleter, Director at Slots Temple added: “Push Gaming and its renowned collection of games needs no introduction to UK players. It’s a brand we absolutely had to have in our lobby and we think our players will wholeheartedly agree.
“We’re all about quality, choice and today’s best slots. Push Gaming gives us that in abundance and we’re delighted to welcome its content to our platform.”
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