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Week 8/2021 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases!
MGA Games, the leading company in the production of high-performance slot games, has just launched the first game in a series of 5-reel games, Spanish Celebrities Casino Slots, for the Spanish market. The singer, dancer and actress Yola Berrocal is a regular celebrity in popular media and television, appearing in programmes such as ‘Laughter and stars’, ’Hotel Glam’ and ‘Survivors’, among many others, which have made the media celebrity a familiar face in Spanish entertainment culture.
Yggdrasil, the leading worldwide publisher of online gambling content, has rolled out its latest YG Masters title, TikiPop is the fifth title utilising AvatarUX’s proprietary PopWins games, every win sees the involved symbols pop, being replaced by two more to increase the reel height. This popping continues until no more wins are possible.
Habanero is ready to take players on a dive into the deep to uncover the legendary Orbs of Atlantis. Cascading symbols and multipliers reveal the magic of a long-lost ancient world to players – as well as unveiling an entirely unique reel structure with Habanero’s latest Big Reels feature. Offering up to 40 symbols that can appear on a single path and pay up to 9300x the player’s bet, Orbs of Atlantis’s wins are multiplied up to 15x for cascading games – ensuring bountiful rewards lie in wait for intrepid adventurers.
With neon lights, spectacular sights and entertainment on every corner, Greentube’s Home of Games is currently full of Vegas flair courtesy of the exciting new slot addition Cops ‘n’ Robbers Vegas Nights is the latest addition to the extremely popular Cops ‘n’ Robbers
Spearhead Studios turbocharges the classic ‘Book of’ slot genre with the release of Blue Diamond Book. The new high-volatility title brings exhilarating thrills and presents the players with the possibility of epic wins of up to 27,000x on any single free spin. The new 5×3 slot showcases the best features of the ‘Book of’ type video slot while adding a fresh and powerful twist. Set inside the pharaoh’s underground tomb, Blue Diamond Book combines bright, colourful, and vivid imagery with an enthralling soundscape that delight the players’ senses.
Scientific Games Corporation has unveiled its new sports-themed slot, Rainbow Riches Race Day, the latest creation utilizing the hugely popular gaming franchise. Rainbow Riches Race Day has been launched ahead of key UK horse racing meetings Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National. Several tier one sportsbook customers of Scientific Games have already committed to marketing campaigns that incorporate the latest instalment from the Company’s Rainbow Riches series.
GAMING1 has launched its impressive new kung fu-inspired slot, Dragon Fury. Dragon Fury is the latest addition to GAMING1’s distinguished in-house catalogue, which boasts more than 120 premium slot, dice and table games played in regulated markets across the globe. Players landing three Wild Dragon symbols will trigger the 3×5 title’s Bonus feature, which requires them to reach the top of the Dragon’s tower. The game’s more intrepid adventurers will need to draw upon their inner strength to reach the upper level, which requires them to open as many doors as possible and breaking through the wooden planks!
Stakelogic, the developer behind some of the hottest online slots in the market, is taking players down the rabbit hole in its latest visual masterpiece, Wonderland Wilds
Popular game developer launches latest pirate-themed slot via Relax Gaming’s powerful Silver Bullet platform. Silverback Gaming, the developer of fun and thrilling online slots, is taking players on the high seas with its latest swashbuckling release, The Golden Sail. Players will need to get their sea legs on in this 4×5 reel, 40 payline slot that will shiver their timbers thanks to explosively volatile gameplay and the chance to claim immense riches. The Golden Sail is packed with tons of features including Fire in the Hole which sees Wilds fired out of a cannon and onto the reels where they expand.
Inspired Entertainment, Inc is pleased to announce the launch of Top ‘O’ the Bonus
Play’n GO continue to expand the narratives of their slots with their final February release, the Norse themed slot The Faces of Freya. The Faces of Freya is a 5×3 video slot played along 20 paylines. The game focuses on a Norse Goddess not usually depicted in games or other media; her inclusion in this title speaks to the supplier’s commitment to creating new stories and exploring alternative ideas in their slots. While the Norse theme is a popular one in gaming, most are based around more well-known characters like Thor, Loki and Odin. Play’n GO themselves found great success with the likes of Viking Runecraft featuring these idols.
Blueprint Gaming has partnered with the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to develop a blockbuster new slot game where players step up to the oche in order to win big. This new PDC branded game is Blueprint’s first foray into the sporting theme genre of online casino, demonstrating the company’s agile development program and ambitions to broaden the appeal of its portfolio even further. PDC World Darts Championship is based on a highly successful classic format which is hugely recognisable to players across multiple markets. During the base game, a minimum of three dartboard scatter symbols awards the Free Games feature, and five symbols triggers the maximum 180 spins.
Red Tiger is bringing the heat with its limitless new game, Dragon’s Fire: InfiniReels mechanic, which offers unlimited ways to win. It marks the third great collaboration between Evolution Group’s Red Tiger and NetEnt slot studios, following the huge commercial successes of Piggy RichesTM MegawaysTM and Gonzo’s QuestTM MegawaysTM. The 3-reel, 3-row slot is set in an atmospheric dragon’s lair, where the dramatic score enhances the mythical setting. Each win in Dragon’s Fire: InfiniReels
Booongo, the global content developer, has rolled out its latest thrilling ancient adventure, Lord Fortune. As players are guided by the sound of the Dragon Bell to the Lord’s treasure-filled palace, the 5×3, 25 payline slot combines both free spins and Hold and Win respins modes. The free spins mode can be triggered when three Dragon Bells land on any single spin, with six spins granted to players, which can also be reset. During the bonus round, only top-paying symbols are available, rewarding players with princely sums.
BF Games has launched Stunning 27 Remastered is a 3×3 slot featuring 27 ways to win and retro appeal within its blazing hot gameplay. Enhanced with modern graphics and a refreshed soundtrack, this high-volatility slot includes the classic symbols players know and love. Three identical symbols landing on the reels triggers a win and the Lucky 7 is the game’s most valuable symbol, with blazing payouts of up to 100x. Fill the reels with nine identical symbols and winnings are tripled.
ragmatic Play, a leading content provider to the gaming industry, welcomes players to the mythical home of the Greek gods in its latest release, Gates of Olympus. The colourful 5×6 slot is a highly-volatile experience, featuring 20 paylines for winning combinations to land on and a ‘Pay Anywhere’ system that pays out on clusters of eight or more. With tumbling wins and multipliers into the mix means all sorts of chaos can follow, increasing the potential for huge wins.
iSoftBet, has returned to the site of its debut Megaways. Featuring the classic Megaways builds on iSoftBet’s first successful Megaways
Yggdrasil, invites players to the neon-inspired dancefloor in exciting new release, Reel Desire showcases stunning artwork, innovative technology and a host of special bonus features. The highly-volatile slot features Double Wilds, Multipliers and Free Spins, offering jackpots of up to 20,480x the stake when all positions on the reels are covered with wilds.
Realistic Games has launched its latest three-reel slot, Red Hot Gambler. Classic, low-volatility gaming plays out among a Red Hot bonus reel, nudges and features including Gamble and Super Spin. Any win that sees three flame icons underneath its symbols will trigger the additional Red Hot Reel, which presents players with the chance to upgrade to a four of a kind win. A matching 7s win that lands the opposite coloured 7 on the Red Hot Reel awards the top prize of x2500. The heat is turned up further with the exciting gamble feature, which offers the opportunity to increase all wins of less than x300 to that maximum.
Pariplay has launched Grand Loot, a thrilling new online slot that takes players back in time to the early 1920s, where the streets were ruled by ruthless gangsters. Tempting players to join gangsters in the hunt for big wins, Grand Loot is busting with special features, including the Grand Loot Bonus, which rewards players with Free Spins and Special Symbols. With beautifully designed visuals and symbols, this 5-row, 4-reel video slot has 40 pay lines and features an impressive possible multiplier of 50,000x that will have players on the edge of their seats from the very first spin.
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With Bill 55 on increasingly shaky ground amid a transitional era for online gambling, what does the future hold for Malta’s point-of-supply industry?
This week has seen the EU heap yet more pressure on Bill 55, a defensive measure introduced by the Maltese government to hold back a tidal wave of player refund lawsuits that could cost the industry hundreds of millions of euros.
Players in Austria and Germany have been able to successfully argue in court that they should be repaid all money lost to operators that offered gambling in their countries without a local licence. The cases stand to erase years of grey market earnings at many operators.
Bill 55, which in June 2023 became an official amendment to the Malta Gaming Act under the title Article 56A, allows judges to reject court rulings from other EU nations if they threaten the economic security of the island’s gambling industry.
It has served Maltese operators well since it was enacted, effectively blocking lawyers from passporting claims from Austria, Germany and elsewhere to the location where operators are legally headquartered, in order to force them to pay out.
This has triggered an international legal wrestling match, now being fought via a series of cases at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s highest judicial authority.
So far, the judgements and opinions issued have not made comfortable reading for the Maltese industry or its regulatory officials.
Earlier this month, the court appeared to settle a longtime debate on which the entire premise of Malta as an offshore hub is founded. Judges said that the freedom to provide services within the EU does not allow for operators to ignore local prohibitions on certain types of gambling.
That was followed this week by an Advocate General (AG) advising judges that if they were to consider the legality of Bill 55, it should be struck down.
It also reaffirmed the court’s dim view of gambling as a cross-border service.
As the opinion put it: “Under the current state of EU law, Member States are under no obligation to recognise gambling licences issued by other Member States. Accordingly, a Maltese gaming licence is, in principle, valid only in Malta.”
This opinion is only advisory, and is unlikely to amount to anything in this particular case (C-683/24) because the AG also recommended that the case as a whole should be ruled inadmissible.
But this is just one in a handful of similar issues being considered by the CJEU and the more time that passes, the greater the pressure appears to be on Malta and Bill 55.
The EU is also taking a tandem approach: The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, has itself opened an investigation into Malta and the legality of Article 56A and has indicated through its own statements and submissions to the CJEU that it considers the provision to be against EU law.
New tactics needed?
All of which leads to several difficult questions for Malta and the many gambling companies based there.
The first is a defensive issue: With Bill 55 on the ropes, how will the nation prevent the many operators who call its islands home from being stuck with a huge refund charge?
Work is already underway to mount a new defense. The tactic uses the same inspiration as Article 56A, which argues that allowing the foreign court judgments that demand large payments from operators would seriously damage the Maltese economy and thereby upset its “public policy”.
The EU principle, also known as “ordre public”, allows for member states to make legal exceptions in order to protect their society.
In a pair of new cases addressing transferred player refund claims from Austria, Maltese lawyers have argued, without reference to Bill 55, that granting the payment orders would upset the nation’s public order.
These two cases are a clear attempt to establish that, even without any specific Gaming Act amendments, the principle of ordre public protects Maltese gambling firms from having to pay up.
The problem is, the CJEU may have seen this coming.
“The fact that the enforcement of certain judgments may entail serious economic consequences for a national operator, an industry or even the Member State addressed does not justify recourse to the ‘public policy’ clause,” reads the recent AG opinion.
Although lawyers in Malta insist that the AG’s comments should be taken only to refer to Bill 55.
Meanwhile, lawyers fighting to recover refunds believe that cases like these, which have already been appealed, will themselves wind up in the CJEU and at least buy more time for Malta before payouts need to be made.
A new kind of industry hub?
Perhaps the more fundamental question is what Malta offers as a gambling hub over the next decade.
It’s been apparent for some time that the value of a Maltese licence is degrading, through no fault of local authorities.
As European nations gradually switched on their own licensing models, operators have needed to collect local approvals.
Even where nations have clung firmly to monopolies, like in Norway, authorities have also become more effective in enforcing against offshore operators who offer into their territories.
The clear trend of the CJEU also indicates that arguments based on the freedom to provide services are practically finished.
In face of this reality, regulators and business leaders in Malta are looking further afield. Maltese law firms have appeared in locations as far afield as the UAE and Taiwan in recent years, as they look to advertise the nation’s status as a centre of iGaming excellence to emerging online gambling markets.
Leaning into the density of online gambling expertise is also an increasingly important strategy for those looking to attract investment to Malta.
The reason that the industry flocked to Malta in the first place may no longer be relevant, but it’s still the case that two decades later the nation boasts a greater concentration of industry talent than in any other European nation.
There’s also been an increased focus on suppliers, which typically have lower local compliance overheads and more ability to run their businesses remotely from the territories where their content is used.
Although this sector is increasingly subject to local licensing, as well as new compliance burdens designed by regulators looking to drive a wedge between on- and offshore online gambling markets.
Change is inevitable
Malta has demonstrated its ability to adapt and survive, but there’s little denying that the nation’s gambling industry has never been more under siege than it is now.
After decades of growth and success, new ideas are needed to steer the sector into a new phase.
The success with which it emerges from the Bill 55 era will have a dramatic impact on Europe’s online gambling sector and beyond.
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BVGroup’s flagship brand BetVictor has launched a new brand campaign, “For All Your Favourite Things”, backed by what the company said is its largest AV investment to date.
The campaign, created by Barn Door Studios, uses a rewrite of “My Favourite Things” from The Sound of Music over visuals of sporting events. BetVictor said the creative focuses on “the uncomplicated thrill of sport and betting”.
BetVictor is timing the launch around this weekend’s Premier League schedule, with spots running alongside Arsenal vs Newcastle on Saturday evening and Chelsea vs Leeds on Sunday afternoon.
Media planning is led by Bountiful Cow. The plan includes a new partnership with Sky, spanning live sport integrations, on-demand, YouTube channels and targeted digital placements via Sky Advance. BetVictor also outlined a data-led SVOD and BVOD strategy across ITVX, Channel 4, Prime Video and Netflix, plus digital and social.
Richard Walters, Director of Brand and Creative at BetVictor, said:
“‘For All Your Favourite Things’ captures what BetVictor stands for today – a premium, straightforward experience that enhances the thrill of sport.
When done right, we believe that gambling is a simple pleasure; one that we love connecting our customers to. We wanted to celebrate the moments that matter most to sports fans.”
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QTech Games has won the Leader in Online Casino award at the Annual Sports Betting East Africa (SBEA+) 2026 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
The company said it beat other shortlisted suppliers including SA Gaming, BetConstruct, and DST Gaming. The award is described by the event as recognising the “top all-round online casino platform for innovation, user engagement, and sustained growth” over the past year.
The SBEA+ Eventus Awards focus on the East African igaming and sports betting sector and were presented at a gala ceremony at the Argyle Grand Hotel. QTech Games said the judging period covered 2025/26 and that its aggregation platform performance was ranked highest by the panel.
QTech Games CEO Philip Doftvik said: “We’re thrilled to have walked off with another notable award for the best overall online-casino-platform provision in East Africa. Being shortlisted in such good company was already a result, but victory provides the real validation, particularly after running a great campaign at recent Eventus events in Africa. We’ve been promoting QTech Hybrid, our breakthrough retail solution, to great effect and it’s been fantastic to see that going live with a handful of top-tier clients on this continent has led to such overwhelmingly positive feedback and immediate success cases in the realm of genuine innovation.
“This win is testimony to our diligent team at QTech Games, and to the constantly growing group of innovative suppliers that our platform represents. It’s a truly collaborative effort. We remain committed to rolling out high-quality content that drives revenue for our worldwide partners across Africa and beyond. After all, in today’s marketplace, only premium games of the highest standard will separate you from the crowd, so we were delighted to see the panel acknowledge how our premier platform is delivering across Africa’s eclectic ecosystem. We’ve made our name as the pre-eminent aggregator in these evolving margin markets, delivering localised games that speak to a host of player proclivities. This award win will spur us on to new horizons.”
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