As Virgin always wants to be the first with new online slot machines, they succeeded in it again last week. The new fruit machine revolves around the wildlife theme and in particular the tiger (which is clear from the name of the game). We thought the only king of the nature was the lion, but apparently de video slot developer of Virgin Casino has a different take on that.

The machine has five reels and twenty pay lines to begin with. Next to a King Tiger symbol, buffalos, flowers and much more exotic material. The King Tiger symbol has a so called wild function. It can substitute for every other symbol, which increases the chances of winning something.

The coolest feature of this video slot is the free bonus spins. When you hit three flowers randomly on your pay lines this bonus game will start. You’ll get ten free spins for three flowers and all prizes are tripled! It’s very exciting to restart the free spins, during the free spins. Each time you hit three flowers you’re rewarded with another ten extra spins. This can result in 60 or even 100 free spins.
If your gambling fever isn’t over after the bonus game, you can do something very risky. The gambling feature. This might result in you doubling all the wins during the free spins (which is a lot usually) or lose everything. Only for the real thrill seekers.

The all new King Tiger slot can be played at the trustworthy Virgin Casino. Click here to read more about Virgin and get some  free gambling money!

The biggest online casino software provider has announced to launch a new 3d slot in June 2011. The gaming industry in general is moving to a more profound experience with 3d graphics. It is the intention of Microgaming to engage fully in this trend. Because Microgaming is the games / software provider of many online casinos, it is possible to play this slot at many sites. Hopefully they allow free play as well.

Jackpot City and All Slots will definitely offer the new 3d video slot. The theme of the game is based on an old fashioned fruit machine. The name of the new internet fruit machine will be “3D Sterling Silver”. Expectations are high, but Microgaming always provides in quality. We trust that this game will be of comparable quality as Mega Moolah and Lord of the Rings (names of other Microgaming slot games). As soon as 3D Sterling Silver is launched, we’ll post it at Virtual Fruit Machines.

The first screenshot of 3D Sterling Silver:

Zuma slots at Virgin Casino

Developer PopCap is the company behind the famous Zuma games. Software developer GameSys together with PopCap had invented the Zuma Slots based on the popular Zuma games.

And now Virgin Casino has included the Zuma Slots in its own online slots collection; offering games from diverse software providers, Virgin are upholding its policy to offer the best to its playing customers. This is allready the third PopCap Gamesys slot game available at Virgin Casino. The other two being the Chuzzle Slots and and the famous Bejeweled 2. News about Virgin on Twitter is on Virgin’s Twitter.

About the look and feel; Zuma Slots has a Polynesian theme going. A number of different Polynesian masks are available representing the higher paying symbols on the slot reels. Lower paying symbols are symbols crafted in Polynesian tribal style. The reels are ofcourse set in the background of a dense jungle for a jungle and tribal experience. As the reels spin, the audio tracks play typical tribal music and there is excellent chanting in the background.

The Zuma logo represents the highest possible payouts. Five of these Zuma symbols on an enabled payline, offer have a jackpot payout of a whooping 10,000 coins. Apart from that, the Zuma logo is also the wild cart. If the player achieves a line winning with the use of a wild symbol, that player is awarded a random multiplier, which is ranging from 1 time to 5 times. The multiplier funcyion visually leaps out from the wild symbol. In a game, only 1 multiplier is awarded to the total line payout of a player. Even in the event when there are more than one wild symbols in that combination. However ofcourse the different line payouts are randomly awarded different multipliers.

Virgin Casino is powered by the game software from the WagerWorks company and it is officially by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.

The famous Mega Moolah is about to crack the 2 million mark with its Progressive Jackpots. These jackpots are about to be won by a couple of very fortunate players! Maple Online Casino has just made this announcement. A lot of talk is going on oabout the subject, especially on Twitter.

This highly popular Mega Moolah game offers it’s players an opportunity to win more than the usual prize pay out. It is currently just under the 2,000,000 dollars. It currently holds over 1,983,000 dollars in Jackpot prizes. A second very hig jackpot was paid out just this weekend; the King Cashalot, paid out just over 1,500,000 dollars in Prize money. The casino manager at Maple, the Canadian Online Casino, Charlotte Jackson, stated that Maple is very happy and exited that King Cashalot paid out such a large prize to one lucky casino player. The Mega Moolah has ripened and ready to explode in a big winnings pay out of just less than 2 million in prize money. She said that they are looking forward to announcing a winner soon, when someone actually hits the jackpot.” We are sure one very fortunate player is about to have an experience that will change his or her life at our casino.”

So if you do not yet have your own casino account, then now is the time. You can join the online players and you can stand a chance of winning such grand prizes, like the Mega Moolah jackpot.

A legal dispute has arised over the awarding of a casino licence for a location near the Olympic Stadium site in east London has raised concerns over the plans of using gambling to stimulate the urban regeneration.

The Newham Council has decided to grant the casino contract at Westfield Stratford City shopping centre to the entertainment firm Aspers. Rather than granting in to the two rival bidders. This is to be the subject of a judicial review.

Great Eastern Quays Casino (GEQ) is one of the losing bidders. They have has lodged an application challenging the council to explain why the decicion making prcedure was held “behind closed doors”. and also whether sufficient funds will be allocated to develop homes and enterprise in a deprived area of the capital. The other unsuccessful bidder, the Apollo company, is also considering launching a judicial review.

In 2010 Virgin already brought many new games to their players. Their target is to add about 50 new games every year. Especially internet slots, cause the UK online gamblers at Virgin Casino are mad about those type of games. The two new slots added in March are “Who wants to be a millionaire” and “Star Trek”. Pretty new as well is the blackjack bonus.

Star Trek is a slot created by gambling software provider IGT. The game has many pay lines and there is an innovative free spins feature. There are many fans of  the sci-fi genre in general and of course Star Trek itself. Now you can enjoy the good memories about the movies and gamble a great slot game meanwhile.

The slot “Who wants to be a millionaire” is powered by software provider Electracade. The game has some traditional video slot features like five reels and twenty pay lines. There are many bonus games and it’s also good that it has a high static jackpot of 15,000 times your wager. Virgin Casino UK is one of the best internet casinos.

The blackjack bonus is added recently as well. Also if you only want to play blackjack you can receive a nice free sum of maximum 50 pound. Read more about that bonus here.

Two men who have been accused of stealing an amount of cash from multiple fruit machines in service station, are to appear in the court in Huntingdon today. Mister Aston Gook, aged 22, living in Browston Corner, Great Yarmouth, has been charged with the theft of over a 3,000 pounds worth of cash from fruit machines in both Cambridgeshire and Worcestershire. Mister Karl Driver, aged 31, living in Church Road, Great Yarmouth, is also accused of stealing, in this case more than 3,500 pounds of cash. The offences committed by the two men are said to have been committed at Huntingdon, Boxworth and Haddon in Cambridgeshire and at Hopwood Park in Worcestershire, in last year’s October.

The Playtech company, who allready owns an impressive number of well known UK online casinos, which include t he Windows Casino and as well as the William Hill Casino , are once again on the acquisition tour. Accordign to recent reports, Playtech have now purchased Intelligent Gaming Solutions Ltd, another UK based company dealing in managment systems for casinos.

Managment systems for casinos

Intelligent Gaming Solutions (IGS in short) have a rather strong presence in the land based casinos in the United Kingdom and the country of Greece.  It would seem that the convergence between the offline and the online gaming sector is something that’s being closely looked at by Playtech, who are listed on the AIM portion of the Stock market in. According to this recent report, Playtech have announced unaudited financial results that bode well for it’s shareholders.The gross revenue has increased by a percentage of 26% to no less than 173 million euros in the year 2010. Numbers for 2009 were  137.3 million euros. An impressive increase.

In recent times there have been a number of mergers and acquisitions in this space and this seems set to continue for a while, considering this latest purchase made by Playtech..

Online gambling activity

Reportedly, Playtech have also made the comment that daily online gambling activity in January 2011 was a dazzleing 11% above that of the comparable period in the previous year. However, despite this good Financial report, and despite the profits that it is making (alls profitting from the venture with William Hill Online) there are also still some aspects of the business that need to be looked at more closely.

Online Casino Friend  is one of the internet’s leading gambling guides in the UK. They are pleased to announce the Grand Slam of Slots 2. This tournament will be available at many of its Microgaming powered online casinos. These are running this three month long slots tournament.

The first Grand Slam of Slots was held two years ago in 2009. Now this tourney is back. And back with a vengeance! The goal is to provide online  players with the chance to win a massive minimum guaranteed first prize. This prize is no less then 100,000,– in US dollars.

The tournament is held from march 15th until may 22nd. Fruit machine and slots players will be able to enjoy a dazzeling ten weeks of pure slots gaming, with exciting live tournaments, and invite-only weekly events, as well as lucky draws. Cancel your appointments for the coming weeks!

According to the editor of Online Casino Friend , the cherry on the top will be the Grand Final which will be held from May 27th until June 6th.  In the grand finale contestants will be battling it out on one of the best slot games around; the  ” Thunderstruck II ” machine. Slots players will be expected to be putting themselves in line to win amazing prizes. Prizes such as 2.43 million US dollars in gold bullion for example. And get a load of this; one very, very lucky player will be walking away with a cool one hundred thousand bucks!

It has been officially announced that the Rainbow Riches is the Online Fruit Machine Of The Year 2010. The announcement was made in the august publication of Coinslot magazine, which is considered to be the trade magazine for Slots and Fruit Machines on the internet. It seems that gamers and players up and down the entire country happily agree with this new award. And it is very nice indeed that this very interesting and charming game can not only be played be played at land-based locations throughout the entire UK, but it can be played online too!
Along with the Cleopatra, a rather successful US import, The Rainbow Riches machine was one of the first games to play exactly the same as it’s land-based equivalent. This was largely due to efficient coding, as well as a widespread improvement of the specification of user hardware.

According to leisure trade analyst, mister Chris James, the slot game on the internet is just as charming as the original machine. He states that this is actually very unusual.

Usually the situation is, according to Chris James, that when a machine transfers from a pub based machine to the internet, it is very usual that some concessions have to be made . That’s needed to ensure that the game makes the transistion to a web based software game. It means that something is often taken away from the gameplay. Usually the reason for that is that there are technical constraints. For example ; an online gamer might not have a high specification PC or laptop, so therefore the game design needs to take this into account.