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Microgaming, sneaky little software developer that they are, is already at enticing players about the online slots games they will be launching next month. And this with their February online slots still green!

Instead of only three online slots games like they launched this month (February is a short month after all), they will be launching four new online slots games in March. While not all of the details about these new online slots games have been revealed, I will share what I know.

There is to be a third online slots game in the Retro Reels slots series, this one to be called Extreme Heat. This will be yet another spin on one of Microgaming’s most famous online slots series, but this one is going to have a flames theme going on with it.

The next is to be called Party Island, whose theme is said to be built around the perfect beach vacation. This one might be a nice way to lead into warmer weather, which by March everyone will be sick of.

Next up is Eagles Wings. This online slots game will pay tribute to the US’s national bird, the Bald Eagle. The one detail that is game specific on this one that has been released is that this online slots game has up to sixty free spins that are retriggerable.

And finally the fourth online slots game that Microgaming will be releasing next month is called Asian Beauty. This will be another online slots game which depicts the lushness and beauty of the Orient. The one detail released about this online slots game is that it will not have paylines; instead it will have the 243 ways to win feature.

What surprises me is that Microgaming put out announcements about the online slots games that they would be releasing. The announced their February online slots in January, and now they are announcing their March online slots a month before their release. Perhaps this is Microgaming’s way of drumming up interest.

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This month sees yet another online slots game with detectives and bad guys. Like in Microgaming’s Private Eye slots, this new online slots game has players on the side with the good guys, helping them to in their quest to stop the bad guys and mob bosses from running alcohol. It is a 1920s theme that captures the glamour associated with Prohibition.

This five reel 1920s gangster themed online slots game from Ash Gaming comes with twenty paylines for players to play on. The graphics are bright with that old-school lounge look to them.

But players are really looking forward to are the bonus features. There are two bonus games that players can trigger, yes, two.

The first is the Showdown Bonus game. Now I find this to be rather clever—the bonus game is only triggered when a Detective lands on the first reel and a Bad Guy lands on the fifth. Players are then taken to a nighttime alley where they have a shoot out with the bad guys. You can be the one behind the gun, or if you think your sharp shooting skills are not up to par you can let the Detective do the shooting for you. The more bad guys you shoot, the larger your bonus prize will be.

It is also from within this bonus game that the random jackpot could be triggered. If the Mob Boss appears with three barrels of alcohol you will win the progressive jackpot.

Detectives are not the only good guys on the reels; there are also Police Officers and they are the Scatter for the other bonus game. Land three, four or five Police Officers and you will get to go one three, four or five raids, respectively. On a raid you pick the potential speakeasy that the Gin Joint Jackpot Police will raid. If you were right you can win a multiplier. The multipliers can run up to 200x your triggering wager.

Despite the simple look to the overall design this online slots game was created with the bonus features in mind as that is the place where slots player will pick up their money in Gin Joint Jackpot.

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Virgin Casino has announced that it has launched yet another new online slots game: Cops ‘n’ Robbers Safecrackers.

The new good guys versus bad guys themed slots game from Mazooma was released in December and only made its way to Virgin this month. Mazooma is also the software developer behind the Snakes and Ladders themed online slots game.

The graphics are on par for the developer that turned a children’s board game into a slots game—by that I mean, that the symbols are on the cartoony side rather than leaning towards the more realistic renditions.

Players at Virgin will be excited by the three bonus features that Cops ‘n’ Robbers Safecracker offers. And we all know that online slots players always look forward to the bonus features—any little bit that can help boost those winnings.

The biggest bonus feature is the Hot Pursuit bonus game, which is triggered by the slots game’s reels landing three or more of the Cops ‘n’ Robbers Logo.

Players will then find themselves whisked away to a second screen with a board game like feel to it—no surprise there, Mazooma. Players roll the virtual dice to move the robber around the board picking up bonus money for the player.

But a cop is not far behind. If he catches you, you will be whisked to the lineup. If the line up stops on Sid will increase the bonus money while Vic will free you back onto the bonus board game. But stopping on Bert will end the bonus game right there with whatever money you picked up as your prize.

But there is also the Safecracker bonus game. Landing or more Safes will trigger the title bonus game. You will be presented with a number of safes and must choose one. The chosen safe will reveal the bonus prize.

Then finally there are the free spins with the 3x multiplier on them. Landing three Police Lights will trigger fifteen free spins; four will trigger twenty five; and five Police Lights will award one hundred free spins. Free spins can be retriggered, thus increasing the reward potential of this particular bonus feature.

Despite the cartoony features, the overall theme and bonus game offerings on this online slots game is sure to provide plenty of slots entertainment for players at Virgin Casino.

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Recently the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) happened in Las Vegas. Already slots players are excited about new slot machines that manufacturers are looking to roll out in the early portion of 2011.

One such new slots game is the very highly anticipated Center Stage platform type slot machine that offers group play on one slot machine. The first of these Center Stage platform games looks like it will carry a theme based on the movie ‘The Dark Knight.’

But that is not the only slot machine looking to break out of the G2E.

Leading industry slot machine manufacturer, International Game Technology, will also be releasing new slot machines with some popular titles.

Sex in the City was a big title to come to the slot machine universe. Now, like how it went from TV to movie and then into a sequel, the four big city gals are back in a slot machine sequel.

There is said to be four slots games, one for each of the fab four, and bonus games to go along with each girl. The bonus game for Samantha is called Samantha’s Shimmer Ring Bonus, while Carrie’s bonus game is called Carrie’s Right to Shoes.

Another highly anticipated new slot machine title from the movies is Dirty Dancing, perhaps owing renewed interest due to Jennifer Grey’s appearance on this season’s ‘Dancing with the Stars.’

Either way, IGT is making a slot machine based on the classic 80’s film. This slot machine is to feature favorite songs from the movie along with movie clips. One of the slot machine’s bonus features has been leaked: Spin Magic, which will turn minor symbols into Wilds to create more winning combinations.

These are only two of the new slot machine titles that came out of this year’s G2E. The brick and mortar casino industry is bound to have some renewed interest in the next year with such new titles—look out online slots community.

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Virgin Casino is known for launching some of the trendy online slots games out in the online casino industry. Such online slots include some of the top Microgaming titles such as Avalon, Lord of the Rings, Thunderstruck and Thunderstruck II.

And some of the popular titles in the multi-platform online casino come from well-known games such as Monopoly and Clue.

But now a highly popular classic children’s board game has been launched at the overseas online casino: Chutes and Ladders. The board game has been given a twist on its basic graphics and a new yet similar name: Snakes and Ladders.

Still an easily recognizable title.

“Snakes and Ladders has charmed generations of board game players for years. Now Mazooma Interactive Games has brought the classic game bang up to date with current entertainment demands by creating a fun and rewarding slot. This game is set to become a classic in our casino and I am sure it will be popular amongst a wide range of our customers,” said Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games.

And I have no idea the five reel, twenty payline online slots game will catch on with adults.

But the real concern here is turning a board game this is very popular among children into a slots game. Perhaps Mazooma had the right idea of taking a popular children’s game because of the nostalgia it would stir up in adults, who could then play Snakes and Ladders for a trip somewhat down memory lane—only this time they can actually win money on it.

There is no doubt in my mind that players at Virgin will poke into this new online slots game—I mean who could resist the melding of a favorite past time and a favored form of entertainment?

According to information released about the Snakes and Ladders online slots game from Mazooma, the game is said to have Stacked Wilds to simulate the ladder-climbing in the board game. The Wilds keep stacking to increase winnings like how players could jump ahead in the board game for landing on a ladder.

Same principle, except with Wilds…and an online slots game. Virgin Casino patrons are sure to enjoy a trip down memory lane a la an online slots game.

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Not to be left out this month, Vegas Technology has also released a couple of new online slots games this month, the first of which is called Ramssess Riches.

While Vegas Technology online slots games are not much to look at some times, they make up for it with smooth, functioning play and with bonus features that pay.

Oh, and one must ignore the spelling error: Ramssess is actually spelled Ramses—think King Ramses II. There was no King Ramssess in Egyptian history.

Back to the slots game. Ramssess Riches is a simpler online slots game, which provides a refreshing break from the more flashy online slots games.

Naturally being an ancient Egyptian themed slots game, there is an Ankh as one of the symbols. Probably owing to its prominence in Egyptian culture, it is the Scatter. And like most Scatters in the online slots industry, it is also the trigger for the free spins.

Three or more Ankhs will trigger the free spins feature. For every triggering Ankh, four free spins will be awarded, making the minimum number of free spins won twelve, and the maximum number that can be won twenty. All free spins carry a multiplier of 3 xs.

Ramssess himself is the Wild in this online slots game. And like most Vegas Technology slots games, he is a paying Wild. In the base game, five of the Ramssess symbol will payout the 5,000 coin jackpot. But for the player who lands five Ramssess symbols on a free spin, he or she will receive a 15,000 coin jackpot.

Spelling and simple graphics aside, Vegas Technology’s strengths lie in the overall simplness of their slots games because they result in easy, laid-back slots play. This is another new online slots game that makes a good addition to the Vegas Technology arsenal of their partner casinos.

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While I doubt that this is a result of the Christmas holidays, Virgin Games has launched two new online slots games this month.

And by ‘new’ I mean new to Virgin. These are not necessarily brand new online slots games, as Virgin has a tendency to release online slots games that have been out for awhile. Perhaps this is a result of them being powered by multiple casino game software developers; they have online slots games from Microgaming, Cryptologic, WagerWorks and others.

The first of the two new online slots games is a five reel, twenty five payline slots game called Crocodopolis from NextGen. That is fun to say.

The nifty feature about in Crocodopolis is its Slide a Wild feature. This feature allows players to control the strength of the Wilds in the game. The slider begins on the left side, by reel one. Players can adjust the slider, and the further to the right they move it the stronger the Wilds become.

Now to my reasoning I would have that slider all the way to the right so that the Wilds were the strongest when landed to win more from them. Perhaps there is a trick to this Slide a Wild feature that Virgin is not letting on about.

The second new online slots games is called The 100,000 Pyramid, which is a five reel, fifteen payline slots game from WagerWorks.

This one is based on a US game show called by the same name. In the online slots variation, players can win up to 100,000xs their wager by triggering the pyramid bonus game, and then climbing that pyramid, accumulating multipliers and free spins.

Both are sure to be fine additions to Virgin’s slots games lineup, and with that rather intriguing Slide a Wide feature.

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Why limit your holiday feasting to only food? Why not feast on slots?

Okay, that does not mean to go eat a slot machine or something like that. What I do mean is enjoying some time with Microgaming’s second new online slots game of December.

Microgaming can never resist releasing more than one slots game in a month. Even on big months like those that saw the launch of Thunderstruck II and Lord of the Rings, other online slots games were launched.

So the same applies with December and Microgaming’s launch of Santa’s Wild Ride. That one was the big release of the month, but there is another new online slots game, and while it does not have a heavy Christmas theme, it could still fall into the holiday season.

The name of the second new slots game is Royal Feast and is filled with graphics and symbols that bring to mind halls of castles filled with tables weighed down by food. And feasting is a part of the holidays is it not?

It most certainly is, and online slots players need to pull up a seat at this table. Royal Feast offers players the chance to land two or more Crowns. Doing so will trigger five free spins.

But if another Crown is landed on the reels during a free spin, that reel stops spinning and five more free spins are added on. This continues until all the reels are stopped or until the player runs out of free spins.

Either way, it is a heck of a way to pile up some bonus money on your plate.

If you are sick of the heavy Christmas slots games but still want to remain in a festive mood, pull up a seat at the feast table and see how much you can shovel in at a sitting. It is feasting slots style!

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What do you think would happen if Santa were to swap his trusty old sleigh and reindeer for, oh I do not know, a Harley?

Your kids would certainly know when he arrived, that is for sure!

For the sake of everyone’s ears and for the amount of gas the bike would consume in a single night, Santa and his Harley are confined to a new Microgaming online slots game.

The name of this new five reel Christmas online slots treat from Microgaming is Santa’s Wild Ride.

And wild is indeed the word for this slots game. Players will be treated to a Stacked Wild, an Expanding Wild and a Trailing Wild. Three Wilds packed onto those reels certainly make for a wild ride.

There are also a couple of random multipliers to be won; the range on those Wild Ride multipliers that can be randomly triggered is 2 xs up to 4 xs.

But that is not the end of the multipliers. There is a gift feature built into the reels for players to trigger. This gift feature, when landed, will award a 10x multiplier on the triggering wager.

But what about bonus features like bonus games and free spins?

Unfortunately there is no bonus game to trigger here, but there are free spins to set off.

Do you have the keys to your Harley on you? No? Well you will want to find them, on the reels that is.

The Harley Keys are the Scatter in this online slots game. Landing three, four or five sets of Harley Keys will trigger the twenty five free spins, with each spin carrying a 2x multiplier on it.

Between the three different Wilds, gift feature and free spins, Microgaming has packed this Christmas slots game with all kinds of ways to increase your winnings.

What will you unwrap on these reels?

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The Global Gaming Expo is one of the most exciting times of the year in the gaming industry, especially for slot machine enthusiasts. For slot machine enthusiasts, the G2E is like an early Christmas. Kind of.

G2E brings together all of the latest and greatest and newest in slot machine development, showcasing new slot machines, such as a Star Wars themed slot machine from International Game Technology.

The only downside to all of these shiny new slot machines is that they will not be available to players until the next year when a casino purchases some and installs them in their casino floors. Until then players merely dream of the new slot machines.

“And the players were all nestled, all snug in their beds with visions of slot machines spinning in their heads.”

Like that.

Two of the seventy new slot machines that players can look forward to in 2011 are the aforementioned new Star Wars themed slot machine, Droid Hunt, as well as another classic turned slot machine, Godzilla.

Droid Hunt’s has been built with IGT’s MegaJackpots award system. Themed specific features include a Star Destroyer Wild and four—four!—bonus games for players to trigger.

The Godzilla slot machine in question is not based off of modern day movie versions, but the classic Godzilla movies. The slots game will feature rounds based off of classic battles of the mythical monster such as Godzilla vs. King Ghidorha, with clips from the classic films worked into the slots game.

So many new slot machines to look forward to—it almost makes you wish Christmas were already passed and next year rung in so that you can be curled up in front of the new Star Wars Droid Hunt slot machine, spinning the reels in a Godzilla battle.

Epic slot machine battles will ensue next year without a doubt when Star Ward Droid Hunt and Godzilla hit the casino floor.

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