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We are only a couple of months away from October and all the Halloween fun, but already the spooky monster online slots games are being launched. This month sees the launch of Red Blood at Bodog. This is the second new online slots game to be launched this month, the other being Battleground.

This five reel online slots game is meant to be a bit of a more elegant take on Buffy. The main thematic symbols are the Vampire, the Huntress and the Victim. Their animations further enhance the eerie vampire theme.

Unlike Battleground, there are no free spins for players to trigger in this online slots game. Instead there is a bonus game called Blood Bar. This is triggered by landing three or more of the Red Blood Logo. Players will find themselves at a blood bar with fifteen bottles of blood. They then keep choosing bottles of blood, until they either choose the Win All or the Collect bottle. Both will end the bonus game. The Win All will award any remaining prize amounts while the Collect ends the game with only the prizes that are left over.

But that is not all the Red Blood Logo symbol does. It is also this online slots game’s Wild. It can only be found on reels 2, 3 and 4. So when a player triggers this online slots game’s bonus game they are also highly likely to receive a nice payout in the regular game since all three Wilds are also necessary to trigger that bonus game.

It may only be August, but Halloween is not far off. Bodog has a strong Halloween online slots game with Red Blood. It is sure to be one of their most popular online slots games in their lineup. But for now players can take it for a spin before the ghoulish holiday season.

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Bodog is one tough online casino. I do not mean that in any negative way. I mean it in the sense that they are competitive and that is a win for players because it means they are giving their all to make themselves one of the top places to play online slots.

As such they are constantly offering new online slots games. This month there have been two new online slots to hit the Bodog line up. Bodog is a Real Time Gaming powered online casino, but sometimes they release online slots games that are exclusive to Bodog; no word yet on if these two are exclusive or not. This morning we are going to take a look at the Battleground online slots game.

Battleground is five reel online slots game with thirty paylines. As its name suggests, this is a military themed online slots game, however, it is not a serious theme rather it is comical in its graphics and animations. Except perhaps for the Wild’s animation which is to turn into a skull and crossbones.

Moving on to the fun aspects of this game. There is a symbol of Crates. This is the free spins trigger. Landing three or more will set off the free spins feature: three Crates will give five free spins; four will give ten free spins; five Crates will give fifteen free spins. There are no multipliers on these free spins, just a chance to rake in some extra winnings.

The Bang Tank bonus game is triggered by landing three or more Targets on an active payline. On the second screen players will find themselves manning a tank with five shells facing nine targets. Players can choose five targets which they can fire at. Once the target has been taken out the bonus prize is revealed.

This is sure to become a popular online slots game at Bodog. This kind of online slots game is just one example of what makes Bodog one of the toughest, most competitive online casinos out there. They are committed to offering the best for their players.

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Part of playing online slots games is choosing which one to play from the hundreds of possibilities. Here on SlotsHero.com we have talked about a couple of the most common statistics that players use when choosing which online slots game to play: payout percentage and hit frequency.

Now it is important to know that while statistics like payout percentage and hit frequency are accurate measures that reflect on an online slots game, they are not precise.

Look at payout percentage. It tells a player how much of all of the wagers taken in during month that are paid back out in wagers. It does not tell a player if that is a bunch of small payouts or a smaller number of large payouts. The same sort of thing applies to hit frequency. It only tells a player how often an online slots game hits, but it does not say if that statistic is made up of small hits or jackpot hits.

So you might wonder why online slots players will use these two statistics to choose an online slots game when they lack preciseness. They do because there is no other statistics that players can lay their hands on.

So how does a player use these two if they are so imprecise? As basic as it sounds, trial and error.

Say you are looking for an online slots game based on payout percentage. You might start with the highest percentage that you mind, but once you start playing you discover that it does not payout in small payouts, but seems to lean towards infrequent larger payouts, and this is not what you want. At this point you would have back to comparing payout percentages, choosing a new online slots game and giving it a run to see if it pays out more like how you want it to.

Finding the right online slots game does take a bit of trial and error and that is something that players need to keep in mind when cruising the online casinos.

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When it comes to tricks and slots tips for choosing an online slots game, the most commonly used method is to choose based on the payout percentage of an online slots game. That means comparing the percentage of a game’s total wagers that are paid back out in winnings in a month. But there is another way of judging online slots games.

Hit frequency is a method of choosing an online slots game that is slowly gaining in popularity. To compare it to payout percentage, the payout percentage of an online slots game is a measurement of how much of wagers are paid back out. Hit frequency measures how often a winning combination comes up on the reels.

A couple of things to know about hit frequency—it does not go hand in hand with payout percentage. An online slots game, for example, could have a low hit frequency meaning it does not hit often but a high payout percentage meaning it pays most of the wagers back out. So keep that in mind.

Hit frequency counts all hits, not just the jackpot hits or just the high paying winning combination. So keep in mind that an online slots game could have a high hit frequency but when playing it you notice that it makes lots of smaller payouts but few large payouts. It still falls in with its hit frequency because it is still hitting often. It just is not the hits that you wanted.

This is only one factor that players look at when choosing which online slots game to play. This afternoon I will talk some more about choosing online slots games.

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QuickFire is quickly being heralded as one of the best and most innovative products to come rolling out of Microgaming. Online casino operators can choose to sign on to use the QuickFire program to offer their players access to Microgaming games, especially their online slots games. What operators like about the QuickFire platform is that it does not require the back end support that online casino games normally offer.

The QuickFire platform also allows online casino operators to offer Microgaming online slots games without having to partner with Microgaming. This can be evidenced by looking at Virgin Casino. Virgin is not partnered with Microgaming but they still offer their online slots games. This is because Virgin is signed on to use the QuickFire platform.

Now Microgaming is adding to their QuickFire platform. Already the product has more than 500 online slots games, including such favorites as The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Thunderstruck II. New games to the QuickFire platform are to include new August releases such at Triangulation and Spingo, which is a combination of Bingo and roulette. Last month say the addition of Hexaline to the QuickFire platform.

When QuickFire first launched last year, it offered only some of the classically favorite online slots games. New online slots games were uploaded to the platform a couple to a few months later. But that is changing as QuickFire grows and as Microgaming’s reach expands. Now new online casino games are uploaded to QuickFire within the same month as their release.

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Summer is known as a time for relaxation. This makes an online slots game a highly appropriate form of entertainment in the summer time. Well, any time of year really. But now Rival Gaming has created an online slots game that will allow players to enjoy the summer no matter what time of year it is.

The new Rival Gaming online slots game is a five reel, twenty payline game by the name of Summer Ease. This is not an iSlots though. The theme is meant to highlight the fun and relaxing aspects of summer: grilling, picnics, beach going, boats and convertibles. But this online slots game offers players an $8,888 coin jackpot for landing five wilds; a scatter payout; a free spins feature and a bonus game.

The Convertible is the wild symbol and it only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5. But when players land it, it will expand to cover the entire reel which then increases the chances of more payouts.

Landing three or more Bicycles will trigger the free spins feature. Three Bicycles will award 10 free spins; four will award 20; five Bicycles will award 75 free spins. All free spins have a multiplier of 75 xs.

Landing three or more of the other scatter, the Speed Boat, will trigger the bonus game. Naturally the bonus game is a boat race which has players racing through buoys to reach the finish line and their bonus prize on a second screen.

This is not a ‘sit back and watch’ kind of bonus game. Online slots players must use their mouse to guide the boat through the buoys, of which there are six. Hitting buoys will reduce the amount of the bonus game of course. Also the more scatters that trigger the bonus game impact the bonus prize; more scatters in the trigger mean larger bonus prizes.

This is a fun and light theme with a solid bonus game and free spins feature. This new online slots game from Rival Gaming is bound to become a favorite with players at Rival powered online casinos.

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Virgin Casino is known for launching new online slots games with some flair. This month they are launching the new Monopoly themed online slots game entitled Monopoly: You’re in the Money. This is how this online casino launches its new online slots games.

Before we get to the promotion, let’s take a look at this online slots game first. For starters this is a five reel, thirty payline slots game. Its call to fame is its bonus games, of which there are two: the Mystery Wild bonus and the Board bonus.

The Board bonus has players playing their way around the Monopoly board to earn their bonus prizes. The Mystery Wild bonus turns all five reels into wild reels which, as you can imagine, creates some incredible bonus payouts.

Naturally with a new online slots game, Virgin Casino is offering a promotion to get this online slots game out and into their players’ line of sight. This time instead of the tiered prize structure that they have used for the last couple of online slots games’ launches, Virgin is going with a weekend getaway for its grand prize:

In order to be eligible to win the VIP weekend to Mayfair, the player must be the highest wager on the new Monopoly online slots game with a wager over £40,000. The highest wagering player will win the trip for two.

The second highest wagering player will win £500.

The third highest wagering player will win £350.

For players who wager at least £2,500 they will win a prize of £50.

Finally players who wager a minimum of £500, they will be entered into a drawing to receive one of five electronic gadgets worth £200 each.

These wagers must be made on the Monopoly: You’re in the Money online slots game at Virgin Casino. All wagers have to be a made by 11:59 pm on August 12th.

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Microgaming was sure out of the gate this month. Here it is only the second day of August and already we have some of the details about their third new online slots game for this month.

If you tuned in yesterday, you know that the other two new online slots games from Microgaming this month are the multiplayer format of Isis and the second in a new format of online slots called Triangulation.

Microgaming’s third online slots game to be released this month takes the route of the more traditional online slots game. By that I mean that it does not fall in with any new trends in the slots industry, nor does it fall in with a new format of online slots play. This is a new theme with the usual approach to online slots. Not that a traditional approach is a bad thing; sometimes it is nice to go back to the familiar way of playing. Not to mention it lets players sit back and enjoy a new theme without focusing on the game too closely.

The new theme to come from Microgaming is Mount Olympus: Revenge of Medusa. Beware—Medusa is not someone to mess with.

Actually players will want to come up against Medusa. Her head of snakes is the trigger for the bonus game in this online slots game. Players will also have the opportunity to trigger a free spins feature and receive wild and scatter payouts. There will be more details on Mount Olympus: Revenge of Medusa once Microgaming actually releases its new batch of online slots games this month. So stay tuned.

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Whenever pushing the limit is mentioned with regard to online slots games, Microgaming is always one of the software developers mentioned along with Rival Gaming and Real Time Gaming. These three companies are responsible for some of the most contemporary features and formats of online slots games.

Last month Microgaming introduced a new format in a new online slots game they were calling Hexaline. This new type of online slots game had players not trying to match symbols but to land chains of hexagons with the same color. The line would then disappear Tetris style, and then be randomly replaced with new hexagons. This gave this new online slots game the potential to have more than one payout on a single spin.

That ability to win more than once on a single spin—as well as the shapes instead of symbols—is what has created the popularity and draw of this new format of online slots game.

Well now Microgaming has done it again. This morning I discussed one of the three new online slots games they are launching this month. Now I will introduce you to the second new online slots game they will be launching: Triangulation.

The principle behind Triangulation is like Hexaline. Online slots players must line up chains of matching colored triangles in order to receive a payout. The amount of the payout is determined by the color of the triangle chain. Once the payout is made, the chain of triangles will disappear and new random triangles will replace them. Again, the possibility for more than one payout per spin is possible in this new take on an online slots format from Microgaming.

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Not too long ago I discussed one of the emerging trends in online slots, the multi player online slots game. So far the online software developer to really latch on to this new multi player format for online slots is Microgaming. But we all know how smooth they are when it comes to being innovative with their online slots games.

Now that we are in a new month it means new online slots games, and Microgaming is not about to disappoint. They have taken one of their popular classic titles from their slots line up and created a new game.

The remade classic slots game is the five reel, forty payline Isis slots game. Now it comes in a multi player format which is to be launched this month.

Like in a standard multi player online slots game, players will be grouped into rooms based on their wagers. This is to prevent a high roll from coming up against a low stakes player. Players in the same room will have the ability to chat with each other. Once the bonus game triggers, players will receive a portion of the bonus prize based on their points standing in their room.

Microgaming has not limited the new multi player Isis slots game to only the group bonus game. They have also given this online slots game a free spins feature that includes stacked wilds.

This new multi player format of Isis is set to hit Microgaming powered online casinos this month. This is one of three new online slots games to be launched by Microgaming this month so keep your eye out at Microgaming powered online casinos, such as All Jackpots, for the arrival of the new multi player Isis online slots game as well as two others. Stay tuned to hear about those two…

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