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Inspired steps into Spring with its latest line up of slots: Space Invaders Win And Spin, Big Big Fishing Fortune and Piggy Bandits
Inspired Entertainment, Inc., a leading B2B provider of gaming content, systems and solutions, is pleased to announce its most recent slot launch line-up available online and on mobile.
Space Invaders Win and Spin – 92% and 94.5% RTP
Bringing players the joy of retro gaming with a modern twist is Space Invaders™ Win and Spin, an officially licensed Space Invaders game from TAITO CORPORATION. Combined with Inspired’s popular Win & Spin™ bonus mechanic, and cutting-edge graphics, the game packs a punch!
Trigger the heart-pounding Win & Spin bonus by landing six or more Invaders in the base game. Each UFO that lands, adds to the coin pile, potentially unleashing a special version of the bonus for an adrenaline-fueled experience. Within the bonus, the game’s Mini, Minor and Major awards are up for grabs, with the ultimate Grand Prize for those who fill all 15 positions. Allowing players to customize their experience, Fortune Spins is available to enhance their chances of triggering the bonus. While Fortune Bet adds more coins to the reels, increasing the chance of triggering the bonus via the coin pile.
Space Invaders Win and Spin seamlessly blends cutting-edge iGaming thrills with a nostalgic retro twist, perfect for casual gamers seeking out of this world entertainment!
Big Big Fishing Fortune – 92% and 94.5% RTP
Dive into the expansive waters of Big Big Fishing Fortune™, a BIGGER version of Inspired’s omni-channel hit slot, Big Fishing Fortune™. With a reel configuration of 5×3 and 10 win-lines, it’s the ultimate fishing paradise!
Set in the depths of the ocean, the base game incorporates fun reel modifiers including a hook that appears above the reels to reveal bonus symbols for rewards and increased chances of entering the bonus.
Landing three of more bonus symbols in the base game triggers the Big Big Fishing Fortune bonus, starting with the Match 3 Game. Offering an enhanced gameplay experience, the three identical tiles chosen by the player determines the value on the Big Fish shown in the game’s bonus trail.
Players can navigate the bonus with unlimited Free Spins until they reel in the Big Fish. To customize the gameplay experience, additional features are available (in applicable jurisdictions.) Fortune Bet offers a respin on two scatters to boost a player’s chances of bonus entry, Fortune Spins improves the bonus hit rate for less play and bigger wins and the Gamble allows players to risk their base game wins to win more cash and / or increase their chances of triggering the bonus. With its crisp graphics and immersive, underwater sounds, Big Big Fishing Fortune offers players a reely engaging experience, packed with aquatic thrills!
Piggy Bandits – 92% and 94.5% RTP
Get ready to join the piggie outlaws and sneak your way to big wins with Piggy Bandits™, the snout-standing sensation set to hog all the attention in the iGaming world!
Step into Inspired’s growing pig-tastic universe and experience this “three bag” pseudo progression slot, that’ll have players squealing with delight! With a reel configuration of 5×4, Piggy Bandits has a thrilling 1024 ways to win big!
Landing at least one of the three Piggies on the first reel, in the base game can unleash a barnyard bonanza of bonus games for linked coins, including Coin Boosts, Coin Multipliers, and Respins. Coins that land on reel five have higher values and can activate bonus Pots as well as free games. Free Games can also be triggered by three or more bonus symbols landing on adjacent reels from reel one. In free games any piggy landing will always activate a bonus.
Offering players the chance to customise their gameplay, Fortune Bet and Bonus Buy are available in selected jurisdictions. Fortune Bet boosts a player’s chance of bonus entry guaranteeing Piggie activation in Free Spins, while Bonus Buy gives players the chance to purchase direct entry into the bonus round, presenting the player with three, four or five free games symbols.
Offering players the chance to bring home the bacon and watch their winnings soar, Piggy Bandits is this season’s pig-tastic iGaming adventure.
Claire Osborne, Vice President of Interactive at Inspired, said: “We are excited about our newest trio of slots, which feature diverse mechanics, engaging themes, and vibrant graphics to enhance players’ iGaming experiences. We have an upcoming lineup of fun slots with a variety of themes and mechanics in the pipeline, perfect for the Spring season and beyond.”
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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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Bichara e Motta Advogados
Los nuevos desafíos de la industria del iGaming en 2026
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The iGaming Industry’s New Challenges in 2026
In an exclusive article for Gaming Americas, Udo Seckelmann, partner in the Gambling & Crypto department at Bichara e Motta Advogados, examines how the Brazilian iGaming market has entered a new phase of maturity following BiS SiGMA South America 2026.
Moving beyond regulatory expectations, the industry now faces real operational, political, and economic pressures, raising critical questions about sustainability, enforcement, and the balance between growth and consumer protection in one of the world’s most dynamic betting markets.
BIS SIGMA 2026 made it clear that the conversation around Brazil’s betting sector has fundamentally changed. The industry is no longer being discussed as a future opportunity shaped by regulatory expectations, but as a functioning ecosystem already subject to real-world pressures. With the framework in force and operators active, the focus has shifted to how the market actually behaves under regulation — and where that framework is being put to the test.
This shift was evident both in the quality of the discussions and in the profile of participants. In past editions, much of the debate focused on the ideal regulatory framework, taxation, and market entry strategies. In 2026, the focus moved toward more sophisticated — and, in many ways, more challenging — topics: regulatory implementation, enforcement, and the balance between growth and consumer protection.
An additional element that permeated many discussions was the recent hardening of political discourse toward the sector. Statements from the President suggesting the potential elimination of the regulated betting market, as well as initiatives in Congress aimed at broadly restricting betting advertising, reveal legitimate concerns about negative externalities but also a concrete risk of public policy being shaped in a way that is disconnected from the newly established regulatory reality.
The criticism here is not directed at the concern for consumer protection — which is undoubtedly essential — but rather at how this debate has been conducted. Prohibitive or overly restrictive measures, particularly in the field of advertising, tend to produce adverse effects already observed in other jurisdictions: reduced channeling capacity toward the regulated market, the strengthening of illegal operators, and a weakening of consumer protection mechanisms themselves.
In this context, advertising should not be viewed solely as a risk factor, but also as a public policy tool. It is through advertising that licensed operators can differentiate themselves from unregulated entities, communicate responsible gambling practices, and operate within auditable parameters. Disproportionate restrictions, in practice, reduce the visibility of those subject to regulation while simultaneously expanding the space for those operating outside it.
Moreover, the instability of political discourse — especially when it flirts with prohibition scenarios after years of efforts to structure a regulated market — creates significant legal uncertainty. Investments made based on a recent regulatory framework are reassessed, compliance costs increase, and the appetite of new entrants tends to decline. Ultimately, this undermines not only the development of the sector but also government revenue and the original regulatory objectives pursued by the Government.
Another key topic discussed during the event was the impact of increased taxation — particularly following the rise in the Gaming Tax — on the competitiveness of the regulated market. There is a legitimate concern that an overly burdensome environment, combined with severe advertising restrictions, may create an economically unviable scenario for licensed operators, once again encouraging migration to the unregulated market.
Another highlight of the event was the debate surrounding the role of technological intermediaries — including market makers in emerging segments such as prediction markets. The expansion of these models raises important regulatory questions: to what extent are existing frameworks sufficient to accommodate these innovations? And when will it be necessary to move toward specific regulatory regimes, potentially under the oversight of authorities such as the securities regulator?
A comparison with previous BIS SIGMA editions clearly demonstrates the sector’s growing maturity. If Brazil was once seen as a major promise, it is now a complex reality that requires fine-tuning and institutional coordination. The agenda has shifted from market opening to governance — now under much more intense political and social scrutiny.
Finally, one aspect that deserves particular attention is the increasing professionalization of all stakeholders involved. Operators, regulators, service providers, and even the broader public debate have evolved significantly. There is now a clearer understanding that the success of the Brazilian market depends on its credibility and long-term sustainability.
Udo Seckelmann
Partner in the Gambling & Crypto department at Bichara e Motta Advogados
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