Octopus Treasure – Play’n Go

Promising “great features to keep players entertained for longer,” gaming content developer Play’n Go has lauded an “excellent week” which has brought about the launch of Octopus Treasure.

This 5×3, 20 fixed payline slot uses key symbols paired with treasure chests to unlock one of four feature rounds for players to enhance their chances of big wins.

The features that can be triggered are; wild coins which results in the player choosing three coins to reveal which symbols will turn wild, gold pile which involves the octopus to upgrade symbols to help increase wins, treasure grab where the octopus collects treasure symbols and pays instant prizes, and wild reels invites players to pick a pot to transform an entire reel to stacked wilds.

“It’s obviously great to be recognised with an award, especially for three years in a row! It shows we are continually creating engaging, high-quality content, and that’s our goal.

“Octopus Treasure is another example of this. It’s packed with great features, is simple to play but has a lot going on to keep players entertained for longer, and that’s what they want.” – Martin Zettergren, chief product officer at Play’n Go.

Clover Rollover 2 – Eyecon

Eyecon, the Playtech owned Alderney headquartered games studio, has developed and will distribute a sequel to the company’s successful Clover Rollover title, 12 years following its release.

Boasting a graphics update, as well as a slight redesign, one key difference from the original is the inclusion of Eyecon’s three tier jackpot system.

This features a mega, maxi and mini jackpot which all build up and drop at various frequencies, allowing for more frequent jackpot winners, whilst still providing a potentially large win for some.

“With the original Clover Rollover slot being one of the most popular across the Playtech Bingo network, we are extremely excited to see the launch of Clover Rollover 2.

“It was very important to us that the essence of the original game continued through to the sequel, and by introducing Eyecon’s jackpot mechanics we have been able to deliver a fresh and engaging experience to our players.

“Additionally, Eyecon has done a fantastic job in overhauling the graphics within the game introducing some impressive animations and giving a new look to an old favourite.” –James Chambers, slots manager at Playtech Bingo.

Pragmatic Play – Ultra Hold Spin and Win

The 3X3 title, developed in partnership with Reel Kingdom, sees players aim to collect a stack of three bonus coin symbols to trigger the free spins round.

During the ‘Hold and Spin’ round, silver coins have a value of between 1-9x a player’s stake, and gold coins can pay out up to x20 the bet.

These remain fixed on the reels for the duration of the free spins round, where the total of all coin values is rewarded to the player. Should the diamond money symbol land, then a coin can be worth up to 500x multiplied, leading to  wins of up to 2,460x their stake.

“Ultra Hold and Spin is another exciting addition to our slot offering, giving players the chance to stack up big piles of coins on the reels.

“We continue to look for ways to enhance our offering and our partnership with Reel Kingdom has added a unique edge to our portfolio.” – Melissa Summerfield, chief commercial officer at Pragmatic Play.

Realistic Games – Super Graphics Game Changer

Content developer Realistic Games has revamped its Super Graphics Upside Down title to introduce Super Graphics Game Changer, the sixth Realistic Game Changer slot to hit online markets.

The 5-reel, 40-line slot boasts the addition of the Game Changer round, offering players the chance to win a prize of up to 100,000x their bet on over four billion different feature board layouts.

In this iteration, as players move around the game board, they collect free spins and super wilds to take with them into the free spins round once the feature comes to an end.

The game’s heroine, Satsuki, awards three extra spins, while the white and gold cat offer two, and the king, queen and jack award one.

As players land on any wild symbols, these will count to an upgrade to take into the feature. The more wilds hit, the more exciting the wild symbol in the free games.

These range from exploding to roaming or trapped wilds, with some ‘left and right’ and ‘up and down’ wilds in between, ensuring the free spin round delivers a wide range of exciting prizes.

“Super Graphics Game Changer is the perfect combination of one of our most popular game titles and the innovative bonus round mechanic which has transformed our portfolio.

“Adding in the fact that this is our first ever 40 win line slot along with the affordable entry level of just £0.05 per spin, it offers players spectacular winning potential, which we have already seen at Ladbrokes, creating the perfect recipe for a game that will keep players returning time and time again.” – Robert Lee, commercial director of Realistic Games.

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The agreements, which include some of the industry’s largest content providers, enhances the offering of Playtech Games Marketplace for its customers, while also significantly expanding the scale and reach of the gaming content.

Anthony Evans, VP of Product Strategy at Playtech, said: “Playtech’s scale and distribution is a powerful offering for potential partners. But more importantly, this is a great example of how we can collaborate with the industry’s leading content providers to create an offering with significant mutual benefits.”

Through the Playtech Games Marketplace, licensees are provided with a single, unified platform for content discovery, configuration and insight. 

As a result of the partnerships, content providers will now gain access to deliver their games through the Marketplace, via the Playtech Open Platform, thus gaining further customer exposure by benefiting from Playtech’s scale and distribution network. 

Evans added: “While these content providers gain greater exposure, we know our customers will love the expanded content offering now available to them. Playtech Games Marketplace is fast becoming the industry’s home for great content, emphasising Playtech’s wider role as the essential infrastructure of the industry.”

Bonusing technologies will also be a key aspect of these ongoing partnerships, which seek to build an integration which is compelling both to Playtech customers and their player base.

Moreover, as well as being able to configure the third-party content, customers will be able to apply the functionality of IMS bonusing, and the wider Engagement Centre capabilities, to the content, creating a stronger and more unified engagement experience for its players.

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This will see the mechanic become integrated with instant win games, including Fluffy Favourites, with Eyecon, which was acquired for £50m in early 2017, and Playtech also afforded the possibility to design and develop fresh titles utilising LuckyTap.

Jordan Rosamond, Head of Product at Eyecon, said: “DWG have created a really exciting product with LuckyTap and have completely re-invented the instant win game experience. 

“We are thrilled to be the first external studio to be able to create a LuckyTap game. The opportunities this opens up for game development are huge, and we can’t wait to start releasing new games with this innovative mechanic.”

LuckyTap aims to remove the complexity from gaming mechanics, with the developer previously stating that it was aiming to introduce a “complete departure from the mundane symbol matching mechanics typical of slots”.

In addition to featuring prominently in a series of Eilers-Fantini Online Game Performance Reports, previous collaborations have also been entered into alongside BetMGM, William Hill and Golden Nugget Online Casino, to create exclusive titles centred around the mechanic.

Earlier this year, DWG noted that it boasted a portfolio of 30 LuckyTap games in the US and UK market, with 15 new titles slated to be released during the course of the next 12 months. Talks were also said to be ongoing with “several major brands”.

“LuckyTap is a proven game-changer for the online casino industry. We’re thrilled to be licensing it to Eyecon, a company with a reputation for innovation in igaming,” added Troy Zurawski, founder and CEO of Design Works Gaming.

“With this partnership, we believe LuckyTap will continue to revolutionise the landscape of online casino, offering players a more engaging and interactive experience than ever before.”

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Through the partnership, SoftSwiss’ white label operator and game aggregator clients operating under the Curacao licence will gain access to more than 90 Eyecon games.

Eyecon provides a range of casino and bingo slots, with its most popular games including Fluffy Favourites, Shaman’s Dream, Sugar Train, Irish Luck and Twinkle.

“Our team here at SoftSwiss is excited to partner with Eyecon, the gaming provider delivering one of the best bingo slots on the market,” said Nikita Keino, Partner Managers Team Lead at SoftSwiss. “We’re glad that their gaming offering will now join SoftSwiss extensive portfolio.”

Last week, SoftSwiss strengthened its games portfolio after completing the integration of content from Eurasian Gaming.

Through the agreement, Eurasian Gaming’s portfolio – including Wild Fairies, Lady Hawk, Horus Eye, Chilli Hunter and Octagon Gemwill – has been made available to SoftSwiss game aggregator clients.

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Under the terms of the agreement, the Playtech owned Alderney headquartered games studio, which boasts titles such as Fluffy Favourites, Temple of Iris, and Shaman’s Dream, has made its content suite available to iSoftBet’s global GAP platform partners.

Paul Gielbert, commercial director of Eyecon, stated: “We are really excited to launch Eyecon games across iSoftBet’s platform. This is a great opportunity for us to increase the reach of our games via the iSoftBet distribution providing their customers and players with our market-leading titles.”

Furthermore, The GAP offering also gives Eyecon the ability to utilise to a suite of player engagement solutions and gamification tools, such as iNgame, which are designed to increase engagement. 

The iSoftBet GAP, which includes in excess of 8,000 titles from 70 leading studios, enables global brands to access the latest regulated territories, now including Germany.

Michael Probert, chief commercial officer at iSoftBet, said: “Eyecon has created some of the industry’s most iconic content for more than a decade and we’re delighted to be able to offer our extensive range of global GAP platform customers with access to their game-changing slots.”

Most recently, iSoftBet followed up a content distribution partnership alongside Stakelogic by going live with Rootz after signing-up with the firm to integrate its game aggregation platform. The integration provided Rootz, which powers the Wildz and Caxino casino brands, access to the iSoftBet GAP.

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Praised as its most ‘eyecon-ic’ slot, the title combines the Slingo grid mechanic yet offers a twist by generating wins through the bonus games, rather than through line wins, which are all taken from various Fluffy categories.

“This is a hugely exciting time for Slingo Originals and we’re honoured to be working with such an iconic brand.” noted Mark Segal, chief financial officer of Gaming Realms. 

“We hope that fans of Slingo and the phenomenal Fluffy Favourites slot will enjoy this new collaboration combining the iconic slingo format with the best bonus games from the Fluffy Favourites catalogue.”

During the base game, players must complete five slingo’s to activate the first bonus round. They will then advance up the bonus ladder with each additional slingo they achieve while getting the chance to unlock more bonuses as they go. 

As players move up the slingo ladder, players get the chance to play enhanced versions of each bonus which will award more prize picks once triggered by a greater number of slingos. The Toy Grabber and Coin Pusher bonuses offer enhanced prizes when they are triggered by ten and 12 slingos respectively. 

As part of the Coin Pusher round, players receive two or five coins to place into the machine when they trigger the bonus with six or nine slingos. Once activated, they then select a slot, drop the coin and await a prize.

The final bonus round within the title is the ‘Hook-a-Fluffy’. This awards three or five picks when triggered with seven or ten slingos, with the player selecting a toy as it floats past the screen with each toy revealing a prize.

The game has a high/very high volatility level with an RTP of 95.5 per cent.

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The deal will see the development of a new game titled ‘Slingo Fluffy Favourite’ along with Gaming Realms gaining the rights to license Eyeson’s ‘Fluffy Favourites’ brand, which is lauded as “hugely popular with UK bingo operators”.

In a media release, it was said the aim is to create “a compelling new game that combines both the iconic Slingo grid mechanic and all the exciting features of the Fluffy Favourites slot machine game”.

Mark Segal, chief financial officer of Gaming Realms, commented: “This is a hugely exciting time for Slingo Originals and we’re honoured to be working with such an iconic brand. 

“We hope that fans of Slingo and the phenomenal Fluffy Favourites slot will enjoy this new collaboration, which will serve to bridge the gap and reinforce the compatibility of slot and bingo.”

The new game, which is set to launch on October 28, will be available on both the UK and worldwide market, excluding restricted territories.

Paul Gielbert, commercial director at Eyecon, added: “Fluffy Favourites continues to be one of the most popular game brands in the market. By combining it with the successful Slingo game mechanic, this collaboration has produced a top game that Fluffy and Slingo fans are going to love.”

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After unveiling a content agreement with Isle of Man-based casino software developer Microgaming earlier in the month, Eyecon has made its latest play to secure a global boost. 

The integration means that players at sites such as PlayOJO, Slots Magic, PlayJango , RoyalBet and MegaCasino can access the firm’s roster of slots titles, such as Shaman’s Dream and Temple of Iris.

Zvi Chazanov, key account manager at Eyecon, stated: “We are delighted to be launching our games with the award-winning platform, SkillOnNet, expanding our reach into new areas.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to share our strong portfolio of visually thrilling, high performing games with SkillOnNet’s operators and their players.

“We believe this will be a long and successful partnership for Eyecon and our new friends at SkillOnNet.”

With the addition of Eyecon, SkillOnNet now offers its operator partners more than 3,000 slot, table, jackpot, Slingo, instant win and live dealer titles from a plethora of developers.

Furthermore, alongside its portfolio of online casino content, SkillOnNet offers its partners localised payment options, bespoke features and round the clock customer support.

“Eyecon is one of the most established slot developers in the industry and is responsible for some of the most popular games of all time,” noted Michael Golembo, sales and marketing director at SkillOnNet.

“They are a great addition to the SkillOnNet game portfolio and will add yet more variety and quality to the content we offer to our partners and their players.”

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Under the terms of the agreement, the studio is to make its entire suite of igaming content available to Microgaming customers, with the firm eyeing expansion on a global scale. 

Paul Gielbert, commercial director of Eyecon, said of the partnership: “We are really excited to launch Eyecon’s extensive portfolio of games across Microgaming’s content platform. This is a great opportunity for us to increase the reach of our games, along with our enhanced engagement tools, via the huge distribution that Microgaming offers. 

“This is a compelling partnership that will provide Microgaming customers and their players with well known, market-leading titles.”

The agreement will see a plethora of titles, such as Fluffy Favourites, Shamans Dream and Temple of Iris, be added to the Microgaming platform, which provides content to over 800 gaming brands worldwide across more than 20 regulated markets.

Leon Thomas, commercial director at Microgaming, explained: “Looking forward to a successful and mutually-beneficial partnership with Eyecon. The deal will enable Microgaming to bolster its content offering with Eyecon’s iconic collection of casino slots, while also providing Eyecon with significantly greater exposure, scale and reach. 

“Microgaming continues to collaborate with top-performing content partners such as Eyecon to keep its diverse, industry-leading games portfolio fresh and innovative for its customers.”

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Spanning approximately 15 years, the partnership commenced when Eyecon games were showcased on the Dragonfish platform. 

Eyecon, which “focuses on creating high-impact online casino games, geared towards visually-stunning game play and a timeless gaming experience,” boasts a portfolio of 90 titles.

Guy Cohen, SVP of B2C at 888, said of the new partnership: “We have built an incredibly successful partnership with Eyecon over the years. We are proud to call them lifelong partners at 888casino as they consistently raise the bar on gaming excellence, which our players love. 

“We will continue to build our partnership together, charting a new course as we strengthen our offerings as a fully interactive, immersive, and player-centric gaming giant.” 

The software developer’s signature slot, Temple of Iris, launched in 2003, with a variety of new titles complemented by “flexible solutions” helping to maintain a successful ongoing agreement.

Scott Murray founder of Eyecon, added: “Eyecon and 888 have a long standing and close relationship that goes back nearly 15 years, with our games prominent on 888’s Dragonfish platform. 

“During this time, players’ most popular choices such as Temple of Iris and Shaman’s Dream have continued to excel and prove their longevity and demand on the bingo platform. 

“We are excited to extend this strong partnership to the 888casino product which we have launched via the Pariplay platform and look forward to working closely with 888 to expand on our continued success together.”

Earlier this month developer, manufacturer and supplier of casino games, systems and technology AGS has committed to making its games available to a global player base after securing a new partnership with 888 Holdings.

Under the terms of the agreement, AGS will launch its real-money game content on 888casino, which will include online and retail titles such as Jade Wins, Fu Nan Fu Nu, Golden Wins, Olympus Strikes and Rakin’ Bacon!

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