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Week 3/2023 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases compiled by European Gaming!
Hellish Seven 100 (Höllische Sieben 100 in German speaking regions), is the newest game from Hölle Games and starts off 2023 with a big bang. With 5×4 reels and a whopping 100 paylines, this Classic Series game offers endless opportunities for players to win big.
Pragmatic Play, a leading content provider to the iGaming industry, has released Pinup Girls slot, a game designed to pay homage to the iconic beauties of the 1940s. Set across 5×4 reels, the slot is home to glamorous symbols which must form matching combinations across the title’s 20 paylines to award a win. A lipstick wild aids in the creation of these wins, substituting all other symbols in game except the scatter symbols.
Prosperity is on the horizon as Yggdrasil and ReelPlay come together for the first time in 2023 to deliver ReelPlay’s latest release, Festival 10K WAYS™. Featuring the Chinese lucky charm symbol Fu and beautifully animated dancing dragons, the game has the potential to bring good fortune to players who want to celebrate the Lunar New Year with this 6-reel, 10,000 ways slot offering wins up to 10,000x by way of the popular Bonus Respins feature.
Gaming Realms, a leading provider of mobile-focused gaming content, is taking players on a trip to the Orient in its latest launch Slingo™ Golden Envelope. Featuring the supplier’s popular and high-performing Slingo™ concept, players will be actively engaged with this Asian-inspired title, with each spin revealing five numbers. These must correlate to those randomly generated on the title’s game board and in turn will mark its position.
Nolimit City have finally made it out of the deep trenches of the underground in Dead Canary, and to celebrate, they thought they’d have a little get-together. The Provider is no stranger to releasing party-themed games, with The Rave making waves last summer – but nothing can quite compare to the eccentricity which takes place during the ultimate house party, in Walk Of Shame!
Pragmatic Play, journeys to the ancient Aztec empire where patterns hold the key to big wins in Secret City Gold. Played across 5×4 reels, the slot is home to symbols including monkeys, tigers, snakes and more, which must form matching combinations across the title’s 25 paylines to award a win. These are joined by wilds which substitute all other symbols in game except the scatter symbols, enabling players to create wins.
Habanero invites players into a world of Chinese legend in Dragon Tiger Gate, challenging the bravest to test their courage against fearsome mystical creatures. The latest release sees the powers of yin and yang collide, with players placed at the centre of an epic battle that sees two ferocious beasts pitted against each other.
Swintt is serving up some exciting news for players who enjoy fruity spins and fiery wins with the launch of Big Max 77 – a brand-new, highly-volatile addition to its ever-growing collection of Premium slot releases. Like other titles in the Swintt Premium range, Big Max 77 features a classic symbol set and a user-friendly interface that prioritises fast-paced gameplay and quick-fire wins.
Play’n GO returns to the Dead series in the all-new ancient Egyptian adventure as they endeavour to reveal the Book of Life in Pilgrim of Dead. This game is a classic Ancient Egyptian slot with a spooky twist. The title thematically picks up where its predecessors – namely, 2016’s Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead – left off.
Pragmatic Play, has launched its latest slot, Mammoth Gold™ Megaways™ which sees mighty mammoths reigning over an icy tundra, outweighed only by the game’s big win potential. Played across six reels and making use of the innovative Megaways™ mechanic, the title depicts numerous ice age creatures such as wolves, bears, sabre tooth tigers and more, which must form a matching combination across the reels to award a win.
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Bets, vapes e a ilusão da proibição
A discussão sobre a proibição de apostas online no Brasil ressurge em um momento sensível do debate público, marcado por soluções simplistas para temas complexos.
Neste artigo, Thiago Iusim, fundador e CEO da Betshield Responsible Gaming, analisa os paralelos entre o mercado de cigarros eletrônicos e o setor de ‘Bets’, destacando como a tentativa de eliminar uma atividade por decreto tende a empurrá-la para a informalidade.
Para ele, a experiência brasileira mostra que proibir não extingue mercados — apenas reduz a capacidade de controle do Estado e amplia riscos para o consumidor.
O Brasil já viu esse filme antes.
Existe uma solução mágica que sempre reaparece no debate público brasileiro, normalmente em período eleitoral, quando um tema se torna politicamente incômodo: proibir.
A lógica é sedutora. No discurso, o “problema” desaparece. Na prática, ele apenas muda de endereço.
O caso dos cigarros eletrônicos mostra isso com clareza.
Os vapes nunca foram autorizados no país. São oficialmente proibidos desde 2009. Em teoria, portanto, não deveriam existir em terras tupiniquins. Na prática, estão por toda parte, sem controle sanitário, sem fiscalização efetiva e sem qualquer garantia sobre a procedência do produto.
A proibição não eliminou o mercado. Apenas eliminou a possibilidade de cercá-lo com regras.
Uma reportagem recente da CNN sobre o avanço das apreensões de cigarros eletrônicos ajuda a dimensionar esse fenômeno. O país não acabou com os vapes. Apenas empurrou esse mercado para um ambiente onde o Estado perdeu capacidade de controle.
O Estado proibiu. O crime organizado agradeceu e aplaudiu de pé.
Essa experiência ajuda a entender o momento atual do debate sobre apostas online no Brasil.
As bets já existiam antes da Lei 14.790/2023. Durante anos, o país conviveu com um mercado ativo, acessível pela internet e operando a partir do exterior, sem arrecadação, sem supervisão e sem instrumentos efetivos de proteção ao consumidor.
A atividade não surgiu com a lei. A lei surgiu porque ela já existia.
Regular foi a forma racional de trazer esse mercado para dentro de um ambiente controlável, com licenças, outorgas, identificação de usuários, prevenção à lavagem de dinheiro, regras de publicidade, mecanismos de proteção ao jogador.
Dezesseis meses depois, o debate público volta a flertar com a mesma solução simplista aplicada aos vapes: a ideia de que proibir faria a atividade desaparecer.
A essa altura, já deveríamos saber que não funciona assim.
No caso das apostas, o Brasil havia escolhido um caminho diferente: regular para controlar. Proteger o cidadão e a economia popular.
Voltar agora a discutir proibição como resposta para um mercado que já existe seria mais do que um erro regulatório.
Seria uma contradição histórica.
Ou, talvez, apenas a manifestação mais confortável de um certo moralismo público que prefere empurrar a atividade para a clandestinidade em vez de reconhecer sua existência.
No plano do discurso, a proibição pode soar vitoriosa. Na prática, ela serve apenas como embalagem moralmente confortável para soluções apressadas e politicamente convenientes.
Isso não passa de fantasia eleitoral. E, desta vez, ninguém poderá dizer que não conhecia o roteiro.
Thiago Iusim
Fundador e CEO da Betshield Responsible Gaming
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Sports Betting, E-cigarettes and the Illusion of Prohibition
The debate over banning online betting in Brazil is resurfacing at a sensitive moment in the public discourse, marked by simplistic solutions to complex issues.
In this article, Thiago Iusim, founder and CEO of Betshield Responsible Gaming, analyzes the parallels between the electronic cigarette market and the ‘Bets’ sector, highlighting how attempts to eliminate an activity by decree tend to push it into informality.
According to him, the Brazilian experience shows that prohibition does not eliminate markets — it merely reduces the State’s ability to control them and increases risks for consumers.
Brazil has seen this movie before.
There is a magic solution that always seems to return to public debate, especially in election season, whenever an issue becomes politically inconvenient: ban it.
The logic is seductive. In the political narrative, the issue disappears. In real life, it simply moves elsewhere.
E-cigarettes make that point painfully clear.
Vapes have never been authorized in Brazil. They have been officially banned since 2009. In theory, they should not exist. In practice, they are everywhere, sold through social media, messaging apps, marketplaces, street vendors, and small retail shops, with no sanitary controls, no effective oversight, and no real guarantee of origin.
Prohibition did not eliminate the market.
It only eliminated the possibility of surrounding that market with rules.
A recent CNN report on the surge in e-cigarette seizures helps show the scale of the problem. Brazil did not get rid of vapes. It simply pushed the market into an environment where the state lost the capacity to control it.
The state banned it. Organized crime applauded.
That experience helps explain the current debate around online betting in Brazil.
Bets existed long before Law 14,790/2023. For years, Brazil lived with an active market operating online and from abroad, with no local tax collection, no regulatory oversight, and no effective consumer protection tools.
The activity did not emerge because of the law. The law emerged because the activity already existed.
Regulation was the rational response. It was the way to bring an already existing market into a controllable framework, with licenses, concession fees, user identification, anti-money laundering requirements, advertising rules, and player protection mechanisms.
And yet, just eighteen months later, public debate is once again flirting with the same simplistic solution applied to vapes: the fantasy that prohibition would make the activity disappear.
By now, Brazil should know better.
In the case of betting, the country had chosen a different path: regulate in order to control. Protect consumers. Protect the broader economy.
To now return to prohibition as a response to a market that already exists would be more than a regulatory mistake.
It would be a historical contradiction.
Or perhaps simply the most comfortable expression of a certain kind of public moralism that would rather push an activity into the shadows than acknowledge its existence.
In political discourse, prohibition can sound like victory.
In practice, it often functions as morally comfortable packaging for rushed and politically convenient decisions.
This is nothing more than electoral fantasy. And this time, no one will be able to say they did not know how the story would end.
Thiago Iusim
Founder and CEO of Betshield Responsible Gaming
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