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It is not a brand new online slots game, but it will be brand new this month at Virgin Casino, owned by Virgin Games. The online slots game in question here is called Alice’s Wonderland.

And, no, it does not have a shred of Tim Burton in it at all. In fact, its graphics are a curious cross between the original illustrations in the Lewis Carroll books and the Disney characters from the 1951 animated movie.

But graphics aside, this online slots game comes from Ash Gaming, and features five reels and twenty paylines.

This being Wonderland we are talking about, naturally the fun of this online slots game does not end there.

Alice’s Wonderland offers up an incredible bonus game and progressive jackpot all rolled into one. Only in Wonderland, right?

The Tea Party bonus game and progressive jackpot is triggered by landing three or more of the Mad Hatter scatter symbols. Players then choose one of the four guests: the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse or Alice.

At that point the tea party begins. The more your chosen character drinks the larger your bonus winnings are. When a player’s first guest is done drinking their tea, the player can choose another character to drink. This repeats until all four tea party guests have drunk their full.

As for that tea party progressive jackpot, if a player sees one of the characters reach towards the sugar bowl to put sugar in their tea, it means that the progressive jackpot has been won. The winnings will then be added in at the end of the bonus game.

But there is another bonus game: The Rabbit Hole bonus game. The Rabbit Hole symbol only appears in the middle reel, and if it appears players then take a trip down the rabbit hole with Alice, collecting bonus winnings as they fall. At the bottom of the hole, the winnings are totaled and added to the player’s bankroll.

Then there are the White Rabbit free spins. Land at least three White Rabbits anywhere and the White Rabbit pops up with his pocket watch. Wherever he stops the hand on his watch is the number of free spins the player wins. He then hops across the reels randomly changing symbols into Wilds that remain fixed throughout the free spins.

Player’s will be glad to know that an enhanced set of reels is used in these free spins which should create more winning combinations than normal. However the bonus symbols disappear down the rabbit hole and the bonus games cannot be triggered during these free spins.

Ash Gaming as certainly put together quite the online slots game, full of bonus features and chances to win. Players at the Virgin Casino are sure to be pleased once they get their hands on this online slots game.

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I am not much of a fishing person, but Party Casino’s newest slots promotion The Big Catch has caught my eye.

That and I could not resist the cute penguins fishing up money.

The Bit Catch slots promotion has two parts to it: a leader board and a pick-your-prize, and will run through September 7th through September 21st.

For the leader board part of this online slots promotion players only have to spin the reels on the jackpot slots are Party Casino, such as Snow Business. Spinning the reels on these online slots games will earn players points. The more pointes that are earned, the higher up the leader board players will progress.

The top thirty players will receive cash prizes, and places 31st through 500th will receive bonus cash prizes:

Cash prizes
1st place: $10,000
2nd place: $7,500
3rd place: $6,000
4th place: $5,000
5th place: $4,000
6th place: $3,000
7th place: $2,500
8th place: $2,000
9th place: $1,750
10th place: $1,500
11th – 15th places: $1,000
16th – 20th places: $800
21st – 30th places: $650

Bonus cash prizes
31st – 45th places: $500
46th – 60th places: $400
61st – 75th places: $300
76th – 100th places: $200
101st – 125th places: $150
126th – 150th places: $100
151st – 200th places: $75
201st – 300th places: $50
301st – 400th places: $20
401st – 500th places: $10

What is more is that the hot spot of every fifth rank between 505th place to 2,000th place will receive a $5 cash bonus.

As for the pick-your-prize part of this online slots promotion, players will hit prize levels. At each prize level players can choose to take the prize of that level or to continue climbing.

For the first prize levels (100 through 500) players can pick up $10 cash bonuses or receive 50 more points to keep going. After 501 points players can pick up $35 cash bonuses.

Party Casino has put together a fun online slots promotion for this month.

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Slots players hear a few times a month about how casino game developers create and launch new online slots games. But they do not often hear about an older online slots game that gets revamped.

Think of it as making the online slots game in question new and improved.

Such is the case with Rival’s recent revamp of For Love and Money. This five reel, fifteen payline online slots game has been a staple at Rival powered online casinos. Even the launch of new online slots games, including the newer iSlots, cannot take the fans away from For Love and Money.

Well, Rival has finally recognized the draw this online slots game has, and has given it a facelift and relaunched it as a new online slots game.

But fans of the original game will not be disappointed. The same features that were loved in the original are there still. Mostly it was the graphics of this ‘new’ online slots game that have been given a going over: symbols have been cleaned up and animation smoothed out.

The story—and attachment—to this particular online slots game can be found in the opening:

A poet is contemplating love. He sees an older couple, obviously married for money, who are not all that fond of each other. Then he spies a young woman who is set upon by two nasty men; she is then saved by a Fabio-esque man—huge muscles, trim waist and lace up pants (which are kind of funny actually). The poet, I am assuming, believes this couple to be together for love.

Symbols include both couples, the nasty men and love symbols such as Love Birds, Chocolates, Roses and Poetry.

The Poet is the Wild and will substitute for any symbol other than the Scatter. He must be a good poet as he carries a 2x multiplier.

Cupid is the Scatter. A minimum of three Cupids landed will trigger ten free spins with a 3x multiplier.

So as players can see the favorite older features of For Love and Money are still there, just with cleaner graphics and better animation. I have to say that Rival did well with this ‘new’ online slots game. I would only have added a bonus game in which players helped Fabio rescue his girl, or one in which the players helped the unfortunate money man escape his woman.

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Today is the day. The big day as far as players at Microgaming powered online casinos are concerned. Today is the day that the Lord of the Rings new online slots game is released.

The official name of this new online slots game is The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, but I think fans and slots players will simply refer to it by the first portion of its name.

Players who are familiar with Microgaming online slots game will remember the release earlier this year of the Thunderstruck II slots game, and how that slots game did not feature paylines. The new Lord of the Rings online slots game is the same.

That is right, there are no paylines to worry about and still 243 ways to win. Winning combinations are created when the same symbol is landed on consecutive reels.

Graphics-wise this is truly a cinematic online slots game. All nine members of the fellowship are in the game, and when a winning combination is made of a character, a shot video clip from the movie is shown.

Clips from the movie are also shown while the reels are spinning, giving some entertainment while waiting to see what has been landed.

To go along with the epic tale, Microgaming has given its new online slots game an epic Expanding Wild: the Eye of Suaron. When landed the enemy’s dreaded eye fills the reel and the sound of his voice saying, “I see you,” fills your ears. Very cinematic.

And who could forget the One Ring, the object of the entire trilogy. It is the Scatter and landing at least three One Rings will trigger fifteen free spins.

Unfortunately the Eye of Suaron is not available during the free spins, but players should not lose hope. Instead one reel is chosen at random to become an Expanding Wild for that free spin. Each free spin Expanding Wild plays a short video clip as well.

Also available are Stacked Wilds. The Stacked Wild symbol is the Lord of the Rings Logo, which offers an epic payout for the player who can fill the screen with all Stacked Wilds.

The new online slots game Lord of the Rings has definitely lived up to the excitement and hype surrounding the countdown to its release. Online slots players will truly enjoy this new online slots game, and US players will wish more than ever that they had a Microgaming online casino that would welcome them.

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September promises to be an exciting month at Virgin Casino. Between four of the online gaming software developers that Virgin works with, nine new games will be launched this month, and eight of those new games are online slots games.

Yesterday I talked about how the Fortune Lounge Group will be launching the new Lord of the Rings online slots game this month with promotions to go along with it. They are not the only Microgaming powered online casinos to receive the new online slots game.

Virgin Casino, part of Virgin Games, will also be launching the much anticipated new online slots game. How is it that Virgin got their hands on the new Lord of the Rings online slots game when only a select number of online casinos will be receiving it? Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games, has the answer:

“With our multiple partnerships allowing us to cherry pick the best of breed games we now offer unrivalled entertainment for players.”

It seems the secret is all in who you know.

While Virgin is going to be one of the first to receive the Lord of the Rings new online slots game, there are other online slots games that they choose not to launch right away. One such game is the Tomb Raider The Secret of the Sword online slots game.

This particular online slots game was released last year, but for whatever reason Virgin decided not to offer the Tomb Raider online slots game until this month.

The other new online slots games that Virgin will be launching this month are:

Loaded and Tally Ho from Microgaming
Bitten from WagerWorks
Alice’s Wonderland from Ash Gaming
Fruity Burst and Sacred 7s from Virtue Fusion

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Last year Microgaming announced that it would be developing and creating an online slots game based off of the three Lord of the Rings movies: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Now the online slots game is almost here, due to be released this month to a select number of Microgaming powered online casinos. Those online casinos belong to the Fortune Lounge Group.

The Group has created a mini site that allows fans who are looking forward to the release of the Lord of the Rings online slots game to check in with the countdown clock, which gives the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the release.

You would think that fanfare is for a much anticipated movie rather than an online slots game, but the Lord of the Rings online slots game is predicted to become quite popular quite fast.

The Fortune Lounge Group has also prepared a number of promotions to go along with this online slots game’s release. There is $50,000 worth of prizes being awarded during September.

To whichever player that wagers the most on the Lord of the Rings online slots game, he or she will be the recipient of 1,500 credits with the Fortune Lounge Group online casino that they are playing at, as well as International Casino Games tickets.

There are also ‘spotting’ prizes. If you are online playing the Lord of the Rings online slots game on a Sunday or Monday you could be ‘spotted’ and receive 25 credits with the online casino you are playing at. Or you could win one of the five Lord of the Rings DVD box sets that the Group is giving away.

Finally, players who spin the reels of this much anticipated online slots game can earn quadruple reward points.

The Fortune Lounge Group has certainly put a lot of time, effort and money into the launch of the new Lord of the Rings online slots game. Hopefully their launch will go off well and perhaps other Microgaming powered online casinos will see this online slots game.

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Earlier this week the Mega Moolah Summertime online slots game’s progressive jackpot was hit. The lucky player is now the proud owner of $4,170,128.

Progressive jackpots are known for their higher than average payouts—higher than the payouts offered in regular play on nonprogressive online slots games. The progressive jackpot of Mega Moolah in particular never drops below $1 million.

Already the progressive jackpot is quickly climbing to the $2 million mark.

The $4 million plus that was won earlier this week was not the highest progressive jackpot payout to come from Mega Moolah. In April of 2008 a player by the name of Klaus E. from Finland tripped the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot winning $5,556,753.

There are four Mega Moolah online slots games, all with progressive jackpots: Mega Moolah (the original online slots game), Mega Moolah Summertime, Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive and Mega Moolah Isis. In fact their progressive jackpots are all tied together so that it can be triggered from anyone of the four Mega Moolah online slots games.

All four online slots games are five reel games. But only two feature twenty five paylines: the original Mega Moolah and Mega Moolah Isis. The other two, Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive and Mega Moolah Summertime, only feature nine paylines.

All four of the online slots games were developed by Microgaming, and are offered at most Microgaming powered online casinos, such as All Jackpots.

The way progressive jackpots work is that every time a player places a wager and spin the reels, their wager is put into the progressive jackpot. The amount of the jackpot can be seen on the screen while playing the slots game, and usually the numbers are scrolling upwards.

And if more than one online slots game is linked then the progressive jackpot amount climbs even faster. What makes the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot stand out is that when it resets, it reset at $1 million rather than at the bottom.

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We live in the age of technology. As a result we have some pretty extraordinary online slots games to play.

Back in the old days of casinos, before gaming technology got to be what it is today, people played on slot machines. They used to have an arm to pull in order to set the reels spinning. Back in those days there were actual reels in the machine.

Now even the slots machines are video slots. And the pull arm is long gone, replaced by a button.

Video slots are online slots games or slot machines that do not have reels in them. The game is designed to have the look of reels—symbols that spin in fashion like how the real reels look—but otherwise the entire game is electronic.

Any online slots game is going to be a video slots game because there is no way for an online game to have actual physical reels. In the world of online slots games, video slots are the standard and are what people are referring to when they say online slots games.

But these video online slots games come in two formats: standard and classic.

Classic online slots games only differ from standard online slots games in that they are visually modeled after the original slot machines. When playing one, the window is filled with the image of a slots machine. And even though players click Play to spin the reels, there is still a pull arm on the side of the machine.

Classic online slots games will generally only have three reels. Usually they only have one payline, but some do have three paylines. These games are not as popular as the standard five reel online slots games, but there are players who prefer them, and they are often used in online slots tournaments.

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I was doing some more thinking about one of the online slots games that I wrote about yesterday, Cashapillar. And while it is visually speaking a lovely online slots game with all the graphics and style that players come to expect from a Microgaming online slots game, there was still something about the game that bothered me.

Finally I realized what was bothering me so much. The paylines. All of them. There, to me at least, are too many paylines.

Think about it. Cashapillar has one hundred paylines. If a player is wagering only $0.01 per payline that still makes the cost of one spin $1. For some online slots players $1 is a lot for a single spin.

For other online slots players, the nickel and quarter players, the cost is even more. For the nickel online slots player the cost of a single spin is $5; and for a quarter player the cost is $25 per spin.

Compare that to what they would be paying per spin if they were playing a standard twenty five reel online slots game: $1.25 for the nickel player and $6.25 for the quarter player.

When comparing the two that is quite an increase.

What bothers me is that with those one hundred paylines, players can expect to run through their bankroll a lot faster, and potentially wind up wagering money that originally had not intended to just so that they can keep on playing.

And players do stand to lose more money faster when playing a one hundred payline online slots game than they would if they were playing the standard twenty five payline game.

Slots games are designed to take your money over time. Some take faster than others, but that is usually a result of the game’s payout percentage and odds. An online slots game with one hundred paylines is definitely going to take your money faster purely because of the paylines alone.

So while Cashapillar is a fun online slots game to play and visually amusing, it will be an online slots game that I play for fun since I do not want to spin my money away too quickly.

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Yes, you read that correctly. This online slots game has one hundred paylines for players to play on.

The online slots game is called Cashapillar, named after the caterpillar that stares in the game. Though oddly enough, it is the centipede that has one hundred games. But I guess online slots game developers can be lax on their entomology.

Cashapillar is being launched today at Virgin Casino, which is owned by Virgin Games. Although this online slots game is new to Virgin Casino, it is not by any means a new online slots game. Cashapillar was created a couple of years ago by Microgaming. It can be found in many Microgaming powered online casinos.

Other than the one hundred paylines, this is a five reel online slots game with an insect party theme. Apparently the Cashapillar who is really a centipede is celebrating his birthday, and has invited all of his little bug friends to help him come celebrate. I hope they help him blow out the one hundred candles that would be on his cake.

Like any good Microgaming online slots game, this one comes with some good features. There is a Wild, a Scatter, free spins, multipliers and a Stacked Wild.

A Stacked Wild is when the Wild symbol is stacked, in this case five high, on the reels, making it more likely to have a Wild completing a combination. The Stacked Wild can be found on all five reels of Cashapillar.

As for rewards, the potential is definitely there. Players can win up to 2,000 coins in regular play and up to 6,000 coins in the free spins feature. That is on a single payline. Now factor in all one hundred paylines and there is the potential to win two million coins in regular play and six million in the free spins.

In regards to the paylines and Stacked Wilds, Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games, had this to say:

“With 100 paylines, this latest release from Microgaming is certainly a unique addition to our game portfolio. The plentiful paylines together with the stacked wilds makes this slot enormously rewarding and fun.”

While the theme and the bonus features definitely add to this online slots game, the only thing that actually worries me is the paylines themselves. Even wagering at the minimum amount per payline, a single spin can still cost $1.

Cashapillar can be found at just about any Microgaming powered online casino, such as All Jackpots. And now it can be found at Virgin Casino as well.

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