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Week 10/2021 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases!
iSoftBet, is preparing for St Patrick’s Day with its fun-filled, big win potential Irish themed hit, Wishing Wheel. Enter the land of the leprechauns with this 5-reel, high volatility title, which takes the highly engaging spinning wheel from iSoftBet favourite, Hot Spin, and brings it to life with modifiers and multipliers. Wishing Wheel also contains an Ultra Reel modifier, turning the entire reel set in one Ultra Reel, with huge win potential. The free spins mode is triggered when three bonus symbols land on any spin, awarding up to 15 free spins with one of the six modifiers available. In the bonus round, players can also trigger a multiplier for the entire period, leading to lucrative wins.
The much-awaited sequel of the blockbuster Lara Jones is Cleopatra has been made available by Spearhead Studios, gaming developer within EveryMatrix Group. The new high-volatility title can bring wins up to a massive 17,000x. Lara Jones is Cleopatra II is a high volatility, 5×3 video slot with ten pay lines and brings a Return to Player (RTP) of 96.10%. The base game offers Cleopatra Cascade Spins where all winning symbols stick, and re-spins keep occurring until the wins can no longer be improved. When reaching the free spins feature, where all wilds become sticky, players can choose between the standard or high volatility options.
Game lovers around the world are eagerly waiting for Betsoft Gaming’s new game, Safari Sam 2. The game is scheduled for release on 22 April 2021. This 5 reel 50 pay line slot will take its players to new levels of gaming exhilaration. The game is full of features, free spins and more. To enjoy these, join Sam on his savannah safari for a stack of winnings. Players can attack the SAFARI STACKS using a classic grid, with 3 identical symbols stacked on top of a reel, to pay out a three-of-a-kind prize. Matching symbols collapse while new symbols drop down to grant ever more chances to win. Stacks can keep occurring until there are no more triple vertical matches.
Push Gaming reaches for the sky and a host of features with fantasy title, Land of Zenith. The enthralling new game was released across the Push Gaming network on Thursday, March 11th following a successful exclusive launch with beta partners Rootz earlier this month. The titular world is inspired by the floating realms of Gulliver’s Travels and sees players seek adventure in the clouds alongside a band of intrepid explorers. An intriguing golden disc introduced during the base game serves to trigger an array of features if all grooves are aligned across the 6×4 reel layout. This mechanism can also be combined with turner symbols to enhance anticipation for the player.
Stakelogic, has debuted the latest title in its classic slot series, Hot 7 Hold and Spin. The game has been designed to appeal to players that love the anticipation that builds when they hold the reels and wait for the top paying symbols to land and deliver those mega wins. Hot 7 Hold and Spin is a 3×3 reel, 5 payline slot that comes with three features – Hold and Spin, Expanding Wilds and Gamble – to add even more excitement. Hold and Spin is triggered when three silver or gold coin symbols land on the middle reel. The middle reel is then locked and the symbols on reels one and three are replaced by feature symbols.
Lightning Box is set to take players deep into a land of mythology and mountains with its latest title Phoenix Coins. The ancient Greece themed game from the Sydney-based studio, which goes live with LeoVegas before a general release, prompts the Phoenix to rise from the flames in order to soar away with stunning wins. The reels are made up of a mix of creatures and characters from mythology, including warriors, maidens and the Owl of Minerva, whilst the Phoenix and Fountain acts as the Wild. If a full stack of coins along with the Phoenix Bonus appears on the reels, the Free Spin round is triggered, leaving the game’s healthy jackpot up for grabs.
Play’n GO have released their first sequel title of 2021 today, with the announcement of their slot, House of Doom 2: The Crypt. A sequel to 2018’s House of Doom, this time around the music for the game is provided by emerging rock band The Crypt and four of their songs; I love the Darkness, Mistress of Fire, Metal Priestess and Into the Crypt, are featured during gameplay. House of Doom 2: The Crypt is the supplier’s first music slot sequel, which is fitting because it is the follow up to their very first collaborative music slot House of Doom. A collaboration with Swedish doom metal band Candlemas, House of Doom was a successful start into what has become a popular section of games for Play’n GO.
Pragmatic Play, welcomes players to take a dive into the unknown in its latest underwater slot release, Fishin’ Reels. The 3×5, highly volatile video slot features 10 paylines and a set of transparent reels that allow players to see all kinds of coral and fish in the background. The clear water and beaming rays of sunshine give the title a tropical paradise feel. Three or more matching Scatter symbols trigger the Free Spins feature. When this happens, players will need to choose one of two Bonus Round options.
Yggdrasil, the leading worldwide publisher of online gambling content, is preparing for a festival of fun in new hit Buster Hammer Carnival, in partnership with ReelPlay. Buster Hammer Carnival is ReelPlay’s fifth launch through the YG Masters program, following the most recent title El Dorado Infinity Reels
Blueprint Gaming has unearthed a new gold mining adventure with a twist in its new release Rolling in Gold. The developer has evolved the classic casino themed game and incorporated a unique game field, using six reels in a 3-3-4-4-4-4 configuration along with 2,304 pays way, which is packed with several surprises to fuel excitement as players dig deep for golden nuggets. Wild TNT symbols must land on the first two reels in order to guarantee a win or a chance of triggering the Gold Spins bonus feature that incorporates hold and win mechanics. During the bonus round, golden nuggets displaying cash values remain fixed in place and the reels respin for another chance to capture gold.
Relax Gaming, is conjuring the luck of the Irish just in time for St.Patrick’s Day in its latest feature-rich slot, Emerald’s Infinity Reels. Offering Relax’s signature take on the classic player favourite, an Irish meadow sets the scene for players seeking their fortune – with a host of unique charms, treasures and gold along the way. Luck is on the player’s side when 3 matching symbols land, triggering the Infinty Reels mechanic, shifting reels to the left and re-spinning for as long as matching symbols keep coming. Every time a reel moves out of screen, symbols are collected and applied to the win as multipliers, adding to each winner’s pot of gold.
Pariplay Ltd, is transporting players to a magical land in its new Irish-themed slot Wild Fortunes. Vivid rainbows, pots of gold and lucky four-leaf clovers all spring to life in this lush, vibrant title. With a lucky Leprechaun at the player’s side, a wild and rewarding adventure awaits in a game that features two progressive jackpots that can pay out at any time. In addition to the progressive prizes, this 5-reel, 3-row video slot also hosts the Wild Fortunes feature. Three or more Pot O’Gold Scatter symbols landing starts the feature, where picking gold coins and clovers can award up to 190 Free Spins with a multiplier of up to 17 times.
Booongo, the global content developer, has delivered another epic Asian adventure to its slots portfolio with the launch of its latest Hold and Win hit, Super Rich God. With an artfully crafted theme, the majestic deity descends to the reels to gift loyal followers with his blessings on the reels. Featuring both a Free Spins and Hold and Wins respins mode, Super Rich God offers players ample opportunity to enjoy fantastic wins. The Free Spins mode removes all low-paying symbols for the duration of the round and is triggered by landing three Money Trees on the reels on a single spin. The Hold and Win mode is launched when six Mystery Stones land, transporting players to a 15-spot grid.
The legend has it that finding the four-leaf clover on St. Patrick’s Day means being rich and happy. It’s a hard challenge but BGaming gives players a brilliant chance for that! Starting from March 11th, Fruit Million, the first ‘chameleon’ slot in BGaming’s portfolio is going green to take on the Irish look for St. Patrick’s Day. The online slot is fully packed with lavish features bringing great opportunity to grab all the gold of the game. But there is one pleasant detail, this gold won’t disappear! Wild, Scatters and Expanded Wild Symbols convert into one hundred paylines for fantastic winnings. Spinning colourful reels accompanied by upbeat Irish melodies players will be taken to a loud and generous feast!
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In more than three decades advising operators and technology providers across this industry, I have watched the same problem resurface in every new vertical we touch, from commercial casinos to online sportsbooks to the prediction markets reshaping the conversation today. Payments and compliance get treated as separate problems, solved by separate vendors, bolted together after the fact. That approach has always been expensive, and it has always been fragile.
That is the problem I want to talk about, because it is the reason SCCG has entered into a market representation partnership with Frame.
The cost of a fragmented stack
Any operator running a regulated gaming business in the United States knows the drill. You need payment processing. You need payouts. You need KYC and KYB. You need fraud detection, geolocation, billing, and chargeback defense. And because every state and every market carries its own requirements, you end up assembling five or more specialized vendors just to open your doors.
Each one is another integration, another contract, another set of risk signals that does not quite talk to the others. Complexity like that does not only cost money. It slows you down, and in this industry speed is everything.
Why Frame
What drew me to Frame is that they refused to accept that as the cost of doing business. Their platform, frameOS, treats payments and compliance as one system rather than two. Payments, payouts, identity verification, fraud detection, geolocation, billing, and chargeback defense all run through a single API. Compliance is not layered on at the end. It is built into the infrastructure itself.
That distinction matters more than it might sound. When fraud checks, identity verification, and payment authorization all live in the same place, you can make smarter decisions in real time that siloed systems simply cannot. Frame’s Sonar fraud engine does not lean on a static rulebook. It learns how real players behave and stops the anomalies without punishing your good customers. Their chargeback defense works quietly in the background to keep operators clear of the card network monitoring programs that can become a serious liability in a hurry.
The economics of consolidation
I have spent a career watching operators try to optimize their way out of fragmented systems, and the ones who win are the ones who consolidate. When you collapse a stack of vendors into a single platform, the savings are not incremental. I have seen compliance and onboarding costs that ran into the tens of thousands per month drop to a fraction of that once the underlying architecture was rethought. That is the kind of result that gets an operator’s attention, and it is exactly the kind of edge frameOS is built to deliver.
Built for the operators we know best
This is why we are taking Frame to the operators we know best: online sportsbooks managing multi-state compliance, sweepstakes and social casino platforms, prediction market operators, tribal gaming operations, and the iGaming technology providers building the next generation of products. These are businesses that live or die on the quality of their payments and compliance infrastructure, and they deserve better than another vendor to manage.
At SCCG, our job is to connect the best technology in this industry with the operators who need it, and to do it with the credibility of a network we have built over more than thirty-three years. We do not lend our name lightly. We partnered with Frame because we believe the direction they have chosen, one platform, one API, compliance built in, is where this industry is going. Our focus with Frame is the United States market, where the regulatory demands are highest and the value of getting payments and compliance right is greatest.
The operators who thrive over the next decade will be the ones who stop treating compliance as a tax on growth and start treating it as part of the product. Frame built a company around that idea, and I am proud to help bring it to our industry.
Stephen Crystal is the Founder and CEO of SCCG Management.
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The Mill Adventure’s CCO, Bjørnar Heggernes, looks at how operators in North America can adopt a compliance-first, technology-driven approach to turn complex challenges into long-term growth.
North America presents one of the most potentially lucrative, yet structurally complex, opportunities in the global industry. Those looking to enter the region are presented with a highly fragmented map of state-by-state and province-by-province regulations, where crossing a border often means navigating an entirely new set of rules.
Considering Ontario, the regulated market earlier this year reported impressive 26% year-on-year growth, with total sports betting and online casino wagers approaching the $100 billion mark. However, succeeding in a market of that scale requires a grounded, knowledge-based perspective on where the real barriers to entry lie. Market access for an operator is one crucial element, but sustainable growth depends on aligning technology, operations, and compliance into a foundation built to scale efficiently from the start.
At The Mill Adventure, we don’t view our recent GLI-19 certification as a standalone announcement or a surface-level achievement. Instead, we see it as a foundational milestone that underpins our approach to North American expansion.
For operators, the true value of an advanced, certified platform lies in what it enables: the ability to operate across multiple regulated environments under a unified, consistent compliance framework. Moving into a new jurisdiction should not mean a full operational rebuild or adding complex layers on top of each other. When compliance is embedded at the platform level as a core pillar, it becomes easier to adapt at speed and with less risk. Market entry is then a question of readiness, not reinvention.
This core strength and adaptability unlock long-term scalability, allowing operators to execute a broader strategy with the confidence that the foundational technology is compliant from the outset.
From certification to operational readiness
Beyond the technical specifications of GLI-19, the operational essentials that shape launch readiness demand equal focus. Our experience tells us that compliance-first architecture is about meeting the day-to-day challenges, not simply passing an initial audit.
Robust infrastructure must handle complex regulatory reporting requirements and rigorous, ongoing certification and licensing processes. The platform remains the backbone of a compliant offering, supported by the necessary seamless integration of third-party services. In Ontario and other North American jurisdictions, this goes beyond core controls such as session limits and identity checks for KYC, which need to be embedded to meet market requirements. It extends to integrations with player protection systems such as BetGuard, Ontario’s self-exclusion system requiring real-time syncing and seamless verification, geolocation precision, and system traceability when it comes to data storage and audit trails.
As well as compliance, operators also need to consider how platform technology can support a stronger launch and gain maximum impact from day one. This requires platform providers to offer complete readiness in terms of infrastructure, careful coordination with third-party suppliers, and comprehensive go-live planning. Get this process right and operators can reduce friction, allowing them to focus more firmly on growth.
Compliance beyond Ontario
A rigorous approach to operational readiness sets the stage for our upcoming operator launch in Ontario. Building on the supplier license already secured in the province and our recent GLI-19 certification, the launch will put our North American entry strategy into practice in one of the region’s most demanding regulated markets. Successfully deploying our platform will demonstrate how our technology supports the operational and technical realities of compliance across the region.
That said, receiving AGCO approval to provide our full-service player account management platform, achieving the GLI-19 standard and entering Ontario are not the finish line for us. In this sector, compliance is an ongoing evolution rather than a static destination, and our roadmap reflects that reality. GLI-33 certification forms the next natural step in our platform’s continued development. As the convergence of casino and sports betting continues to define the player experience, pursuing GLI-33 is a key part of our ongoing investment in anticipating where regulation is heading, not just responding to it.
The fragmented nature of North America will continue to challenge operators, but it will reward those who build on the right foundation. By prioritizing a technology-driven, compliance-first approach to platform provision, The Mill Adventure is delivering the consistency, stability, and repeatability that operators need to scale sustainably.
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The UK Gambling Commission has tentatively introduced its much-feared Financial Risk Assessments (FRA), but despite the regulator tip-toeing across the start line, the industry remains convinced that the highly controversial policy will lead to disaster.
The commission announced on Tuesday (July 7) that it will roll out its FRA project in three stages, with only the most high spending players and the largest operators required to comply during its initial phase.
In this first introductory period, any customer of the market’s largest operators depositing over £5,000 in 24 hours will need to be subject to an FRA, which in most cases will see a check conducted by a credit reference agency in the background without the gambler’s knowledge.
Eventually, that threshold will drop to £1,000 in 24 hours or £3,000 in a rolling 90-day period. Individuals aged under-25 will trigger checks if they deposit more than £750 in 24 hours or £2,000 in a 90-day period.
In some cases, customers will need to submit additional personal documents to allow operators to assess whether they need additional support.
It is these instances to which the industry has responded overwhelmingly negatively, with gambling firms warning of further consumer leakage to a black market that they say is already gaining ground.
The Gambling Commission argues that only 3 percent of customers that trigger these checks will require additional documents or open banking checks to complete their assessments, and that only 1 in 1000 gamblers will even trigger an FRA in the first place.
In fact, the regulator argues that the new system will actually reduce the existing reliance on document checks, by shifting some of that compliance burden onto a “frictionless” background system.
“People who place an occasional bet, are a recent winning customer or even regularly spend hundreds of pounds would be unlikely to need a check,” the regulator said.
Why now?
The commission said that its key motivation for pushing forward with FRAs is that some high spending customers are not being adequately protected.
Where FRAs reveal that a gambler may be spending beyond their needs, operators will be expected to take “proportionate” action, which may include reducing marketing or setting deposit limits, the commission said.
“We are confident that our approach, using high-quality data, will enable support for high-spending customers in financial difficulties, while reducing friction for customers who are not in financial difficulties by removing the need for unnecessary and unpopular document checks to understand financial risk,” said acting Gambling Commission CEO, Sarah Gardner.
During an initial risk assessment phase set to kick off this Summer, licensees will not be penalised if they take no action as a result of an FRA, but the implication is very much that the regulator will take enforcement action in this area in the future.
There is currently no timeline for when the UK industry will move into the second implementation stage or what requirements will be added at that point.
The commission has said only that it will engage with industry implementation groups and other stakeholders beforehand.
Similarly, there is no estimate of when the third and final implementation stage will begin.
“We have listened to feedback throughout the pilot process which has led to us deciding to carefully proceed,” said Gardner.
“We will work with key partners to make sure that they are implemented in the most effective way for consumers and operators.”
Industry aghast
Trade group the Betting and Gaming Council has reacted with dismay to the news, with chief executive Grainne Hurst saying it was “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that the commission had not abandoned the project completely.
Hurst said that the phased implementation was a clear indication that the channelisation risks posed by FRAs, which it has consistently warned of, are real.
“These checks cannot be described as genuinely frictionless if they produce unreliable outcomes, lead to unnecessary account restrictions or ultimately result in customers being asked to provide documents or open banking information,” said Hurst.
The industry, in particular the horseracing sector, remains very concerned that revenues will shrink in the days and months following the introduction of FRAs, much as they did in the aftermath of the affordability regime introduced in the Netherlands in 2024.
“The commission’s announcement does nothing to assuage that concern,” said Chris Elliott, a partner at London law firm Wiggin.
He added that it remains unclear what action operators should take once an FRA is complete and called for more guidance from the Gambling Commission.
“The staged approach risks being a staggered imposition of uncertainty rather than a measured roll-out of clear requirements,” said Elliott.
The UK gambling minister said the government supports FRAs, but appeared to back a tentative approach.
“The right balance must be struck so that assessments protect those in financial difficulties from the risk of gambling-related harm but do not create unnecessary burdens for the industry or consumers,” said Baroness Twycross.
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