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Santa Fe Mix, one of the most popular hospitality machine games in the history of land-based gambling, launches in its digital version for casino operators throughout Spain. This is possible thanks to the collaboration agreement between the leading iGaming developer in the country, MGA Games, and Grupo Recreativos Franco, creator of the legendary machine. Both companies have worked together to bring the historic 3-reel land-based slot game to the digital environment. MGA Games has managed to adapt Santa Fe Mix to online entertainment while maintaining the philosophy and style of the classic slot game.

 

Scandinavia’s boldest band of Vikings are set to return in one of Yggdrasil’s most epic releases to date, Vikings Go To Valhalla. The narrative revolves around the Vikings protecting the Hall of Heroes as it is under attack in this sequel. The ruthless snake king Jörmungandr looms near, hellbent on destruction and players are asked to join Gunnar, a fearless Viking, and his army to protect Asgard. Combatants look to bring great riches to players as they build rage points during base gameplay in order to trigger the highly lucrative Berzerker mode.

 

Wazdan, the leading casino games supplier, welcomes players to a grassy meadow to kick off the Easter celebrations with egg-straordinary new release, Magic Eggs. Wazdan’s brand new spring-inspired release is jam-crammed with recognisable symbols, including colourful Easter eggs and the Easter bunny as the game’s valued Special symbol, which provide players with endless fun and a variety of prizes.

 

Habanero has announced its latest title, Disco Beats, a vibrant game that’s takes players back to the retro-music scene. The new 3×3 slot provides a party atmosphere, with an array of dynamic sounds and animations bursting through the screen. The energetic design is primed to boost engagement and retention figures, engrossing players with an impressive gaming experience. In keeping with the party-theme, Disco Beats offers players the chance to spin a Bonus Wheel if they collect three Scatter symbols. The wheel is complete with a mesmerizing list of bet multipliers, elevating the event.

 

This month, innovative software studio Swintt is boldly going where no slot provider has gone before in the Jelly Mania XtraStreakTM – a revolutionary 1×1 video slot that provides wins on every spin and a ground-breaking XtraStreakTM feature that can award top multipliers of 960x. Set in a galaxy far, far away, Jelly Mania XtraStreakTM features a colourful cast of jelly-based lifeforms as its unique symbols. On starting their session, players will notice that the game is quite unlike anything the team at Swintt have released before, with just one giant icon filling the slot’s single reel and a special XtraStreakTM multiplier metre on the left of the screen detailing the potential pay outs.

 

Play’n GO’s impressive portfolio of music slots grow further with their latest title, Def Leppard Hysteria. It’s worth noting the innovative visual sync with the Pour Some Sugar on Me feature. The player’s goal is crystal clear, they must unlock the ‘sugar’ which is hidden behind the grid. Inspired by one of the bands most famous songs, Pour Some Sugar on Me, the Pour Some Sugar on Me feature visually syncs with how the symbols act on the grid, dropping to the bottom of the grid as if pouring sugar.

 

Fantasma Games, the developer of slots that go beyond gambling, has launched its latest blockbuster hit, Alice in Adventureland to the global market. Alice in Adventureland is Fantasma’s take on the timeless classic and sees players venture down the rabbit hole in search of fun, Free Spins and potential big wins in what is one of the most visually striking slots to leave the developer’s production line. Fantasma’s team has gone all out by combining bold and bright colours with symbols and characters from the famous fairy tale. This includes Alice, the white rabbit and the ticking pocket watch. The gameplay promises to be just as crazy.

 

Realistic Games has launched its latest slot Gorilla Riches, a high volatility adventure through the jungle that offers operators variable return to player (RTP) options. The game takes place deep in a secluded, mysterious jungle where a stone temple erected in honour of a giant ape hosts the 5×4 reel set. Offering 1024 ways to win, its five reels are populated with other exotic jungle residents including Butterflies, Tree Frogs and Parrots whilst the free spins bonus round offers unlimited retriggers for two or more Scatters.

 

Jelly invites brave players to don their finest armour and sharpest weapons alongside one of Ancient Greece’s greatest heroes as he leads the assault on Troy in Achilles. This 5-reel, 20 payline medium volatility slot is a light-hearted take on the legendary Trojan War and is filled with a whole host of lucrative bonus features and mechanics. Three modifiers can be triggered during base gameplay. The Agamemnon Modifier reveals at least one full column of wilds, the Helen Modifier creates supersize symbols up to 3×3 in size and the Skinny Greek Solider Modifier fires rocks at the reels, turning symbols into Mystery symbols.

 

 

Pragmatic Play, takes players down to the farm on a countryside escape in latest slot release, Barn Festival. This slot is played across a 6×5 grid, with at least eight matching farmyard-inspired symbols needed to unlock a win. These are then removed thanks to a tumble feature that replaces missing symbols to generate additional wins.  Money Symbols that land in conjunction with these wins carry a predetermined multiplier value ranging from 1x to 500x. Landing three of these transforms their values into win multipliers, which are then added together and used to multiply the value of the current or next winning spin.  

 

 

Blueprint Gaming has unveiled the latest iteration of its iconic Fishin’ Frenzy franchise, which combines two popular elements found in previous releases to deliver an elevated gaming experience for players. Fishin’ Frenzy: The Big Catch Megaways™ brings together the popular mechanic under license from Big Time Gaming (BTG) with the Big Catch version of the famous fishing-themed slot, which introduced a new Free Games round to offer players even more opportunities to reel in huge prizes. With the inclusion of Megaways™, there are 15,625 ways to claim the catch of the day and trigger the expanded Free Games round.

 

iSoftBet, the leading online games supplier and content aggregator, invites players to spin the reels on the high seas, where modifiers and bountiful riches await, in new release Plunderin’ Pirates: Hold & Win. The 5×3, 20-payline slot boasts an impressive collection of features, with Hold & Win Respins, Booty Boosters and Explosive Modifiers added to bring new levels of excitement and engagement to the player experience. The pirate captain serves as the highest paying symbol in the game, awarding an incredible 25x the bet for five of a kind, while the female pirate, monkey and parrot symbols complete the top pays.

 

Discover the story of Sehkmet, protector of the pharoahs and daughter of the sun god, Ra, in this 5×3 reel video slot with the new Locked Gold Coins feature. A new twist on this popular feature that increases player engagement, and it is available along with a win wheel and a free spins feature loaded with excitement. The main aspect of this new video slot that adds extra value is the Locked Gold Coins feature, where Locked Gold Coin and Locked Gold Wheel symbols appear and award respins, remaining fixed in place and providing coin symbols.

 

NSoft’s, Classic Neon is a slot game that combines a classic, retro-style fruit slot game and a modern online video slot. It is thematically located in a dark street of the metropolis – a brick base and neon symbols take you to another, forgotten time. In this game, you can find a familiar trend regarding the symbols’ payout rate; low-paying fruit symbols are cherries. Other fruits are included to round out its variety of symbols, and the watermelon symbol offers the highest payouts in the game. Besides the food-centric theme, the Classic Neon includes all palettes of the classic fruit slot symbols such as diamonds, BARs and bells. The famous 7s are acting as a bonus symbol and trigger pick a prize game.

 

Push Gaming has announced the network-wide release of its new gothic-inspired slot Nightfall. The aesthetically eerie title will be available to all partners across regulated markets and follows a string of recent hits from Push Gaming such as the immensely popular Big Bamboo and Bison Battle. Nightfall’s spooky concept immerses players into a gothic-themed village at night, which provides the backdrop to gameplay. Players will be creating matching combinations of menacing symbols across the slot’s 20 pay lines to award wins.

 

BF Games, the dynamic games development studio, invites players to throw on their diving suits and descend to the depths of the deep blue sea, in brand new title Squid from the Deep™. The game plunges players into a realm of majestic sea creatures, a magical underwater world brimming with hidden treasures and a mystical golden presence that lurks underneath, just waiting to surface. Squid from the Deep™ is a 5×4 slot featuring 40 paylines, Golden Squid Scatters and Blue Squid Wilds which canny players should stay on the lookout for throughout their adventure, as these symbols can replace any others besides the Golden Squid on the reels, giving an extra shot at scoring rewards.

 

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Industry Roiled As UK Regulator Steps Gingerly Into ‘Affordability’

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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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Paysafe expands Tebex checkout integration to add cards and more APMs

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Tebex connects to the Paysafe API, extending beyond PaysafeCard to card processing and alternative payment methods including Openbucks in the US.

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE) has expanded its partnership with video game monetization platform Tebex, adding card payments and additional alternative payment methods (APMs) through a single integration to the Paysafe API. The update was announced July 7, 2026 in London.

Tebex has integrated the Paysafe Gateway to support credit and debit card processing alongside APMs. Tebex said its checkout has offered Paysafe’s prepaid eCash product PaysafeCard since 2016, and the new API integration connects Tebex to a broader set of Paysafe payment products.

The integration also links Tebex to Paysafe’s branded APMs. Tebex Checkout is already live with Openbucks, which enables US gamers to pay online with cash using third-party gift cards purchased in-store at “67K+ locations,” or via Openbucks’ Obucks digital card sold through authorized online resellers.

Zak Cutler, President of Global Gaming at Paysafe, said: “We’re delighted to broaden our partnership with Tebex. In a highly competitive market, video game creatives need to satisfy gamers’ increasingly diverse transactional expectations. By connecting the Tebex Checkout to an exhaustive range of payment options, including recognizable brands like our Openbucks solution, the Paysafe Gateway will give Tebex and its customers an edge when it comes to streamlining, simplifying and ultimately optimizing the monetization of gaming.”

Liam Wiltshire, Vice President and GM of Tebex, commented: “At Tebex, we know payments are more than a transaction. They’re a critical part of how studios build relationships with their players and grow their games. Acting as an extension of the studio, our role is to remove the complexity of global payments, compliance, and support so teams can focus on creating amazing experiences. Expanding our partnership with Paysafe allows Tebex to offer greater choice and flexibility at checkout, helping our partners reach more players, reduce friction, and unlock new opportunities for growth.”

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Expanded partnership sees video gaming monetization platform Tebex integrate to Paysafe API for card payments and multiple alternative payment methods

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a global payments platform, today announced its expanded partnership with Tebex, the game monetization extension and growth platform for game servers and game studios. Tebex, which acts as an extension of a gaming studio, has integrated the Paysafe Gateway into its platform to enable video game merchants to provide their customers with true optionality when they transact – from card payments to alternative payment methods (APMs).

The Tebex Checkout has featured Paysafe’s flagship prepaid eCash solution PaysafeCard since 2016, and now, through a single, streamlined integration with the Paysafe API, it is connected to the company’s complete range of payment solutions. This includes seamless credit card and debit card payments, with all transactions processed in seconds by Paysafe.

The Gateway also connects Tebex to Paysafe’s suite of branded APMs, with the Tebex Checkout already live with the company’s Openbucks solution. Boasting strong brand recognition in the American video gaming community, this APM allows US gamers to pay online with cash using third-party gift cards, which can be bought in-store at 67K+ locations, or Openbucks’ own Obucks digital card, available for purchase online via authorized resellers.

With Openbucks and future Paysafe-powered solutions, Tebex continues to expand its network of local and alternative payment methods, enabling studios to reach players in more markets with payment options that reflect regional preferences and improve conversion rates with a seamless player experience.

Zak Cutler, President of Global Gaming at Paysafe, said: “We’re delighted to broaden our partnership with Tebex. In a highly competitive market, video game creatives need to satisfy gamers’ increasingly diverse transactional expectations. By connecting the Tebex Checkout to an exhaustive range of payment options, including recognizable brands like our Openbucks solution, the Paysafe Gateway will give Tebex and its customers an edge when it comes to streamlining, simplifying and ultimately optimizing the monetization of gaming.”

Liam Wiltshire, Vice President and GM of Tebex, commented: “At Tebex, we know payments are more than a transaction. They’re a critical part of how studios build relationships with their players and grow their games. Acting as an extension of the studio, our role is to remove the complexity of global payments, compliance, and support so teams can focus on creating amazing experiences. Expanding our partnership with Paysafe allows Tebex to offer greater choice and flexibility at checkout, helping our partners reach more players, reduce friction, and unlock new opportunities for growth.”

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