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Digital Chocolate is a Social-mobile gaming developer from the USA. They have been in the business of developing video games since being founded in 2003. Their focus has been on the development of social gaming products for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and for mobile phones, however a recent development sees them launching a real money slots game aimed at the UK market.

Their mission statement is “Seize the minute”, and it appears as though, they are living up to this philosophy. The USA internet is not a channel through which real money gambling games can be legally accessed, but things could be changing soon. This Digital Chocolate (DC) entry into the UK real money gaming industry might set them in good stead for a future in USA online gambling.

Founded by entrepreneur – Trip Hawkins – this brand is the recipient of more than ten gaming awards over the last two years; which includes “Best Game Developer of the Year” from Mobile Entertainment, and IGN. In 2011 the company acquired Sandlot Games, which was at the time a leading casual gaming publisher and developer. Besides operations in San Mateo, California, they have ops in Seattle, Bangalore, Helsinki, Barcelona, and St. Petersburg. So, we can honestly say they maintain in international presence.

In recent times there have been some exciting time for the company, a number of games have been launched. Games such as Galaxy Life, and an engaging medieval battle encounter named Kings and Warlords, but perhaps the most exciting happening, is the launch of the brand new money slots. This game may not be the norm for DC, but “SLOTS: Pocket UK” as it is innovatively known (it couldn’t be more obvious what this game actually is), is ready and available for fans of these games.

There are two options available for players of this game; these are to play with real money, or to purchase virtual chips for pulls on the game. DC has partnered with Betable to get this game off the ground, and one assumes to make a break into the British marketplace. The partnership was announced in November 2012, so, is still relatively fresh. Considering the newness of the partnership, they have managed to get the new game off the group in remarkable time.

They are only one of approximately ten other developers who have partnered with Betable, the reason for these partnerships being to get real money games off the development table, and out into the playing (paying) population. Betable is the real money platform which handles the monetizing aspects of the game, and is currently a private beta program.

Betable handles the backend; which means, wagering results, age verification, fraud prevention, and other compliance matters. In other words, punters who wish to play for real money on a game such as SLOTS: Pocket UK, would have to sign up with Betable, and make a deposit to play (authentification process). In the meantime Digital Chocolate is able to focus all their attention on the creative aspects of these games, while Betable leapfrogs their games into the real money gambling space.

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Tower Gaming is not the first online poker product to fail amidst a whole host of controversy, and we have to say rather sadly, that we believe that they won’t be the last to go the same way. They launched first in 2006, with the Ongame Network, and this controversy actually started when they affiliated with Bonnuswhores. The name Bonnuswhores is pretty much self explanatory – a questionable attempt at cyber-squatting, with the aim of capturing traffic from the popular BonusWhores.com. Note the addition of an extra “n”  in the word “bonus”. Very tricksy indeed!

This strange affiliation with Bonnuswhores, saw the website proclaim that Tower Gaming offered the best online poker bonuses in the book. Tower also made use of email addresses from another poker site, to re-direct the members of that site, so, made use of spamming techniques that were quite honestly speaking – below the belt. We are hardly surprised at this juncture that Tower Gaming has had to close its doors in this business.

Life ended just a short while ago for this website, which was at that time on the Revolution Gaming platform. And they certainly went out with a whimper, rather than a bang. Although this whimper was knee-deep in a whole lot of doo-doo! The brand unilaterally broke rake-back rules, by turning a blind eye when they were on the Ongame Network, and platform, this was a totally arrogant move. Bottomless bonuses were offered to players too, and this was also against the rules. Eventually, as was inevitable, Ongame booted them from their network.

After this debacle, player balances were migrated to Cake Poker, and complaints are still rife that affiliates are owed something like $100,000, and one player is owed as much as $60,000. Fortunately the majority of serious poker players left this site like rats from a sinking ship when they changed from Ongame to the Cake Poker Network.

Eventually Cake Poker became Revolution Gaming, and the rest as they say is history. Tower refused to accept players from the USA, despite the fact that most of the other skins on this network still did so. This clever (said tongue in cheek) move seems to have been the last nail banged into the brands’ coffin lid.

TowerGaming.com is no more…

With very little left to offer members or even interested parties, and a very poor reputation with the online poker playing community, TowerGaming.com is no more. This fact just goes to show that operators who don’t play the game, and don’t give their members what they want, will end up on the internet poker junk heap. Many who thought they knew better, and have been, have gone before them (Full Tilt?), and like we said previously it is not surprising to learn of this brands’  final demise. Remember the old saying – “good riddance to bad rubbish”?

It is all over the Internet that TowerGaming will not be missed. Let’s hope that other online poker operations learn something from this fall from grace.

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Online slots, in fact any slots games played anywhere, are completely random games, but most gamblers love to give them a go. The unlikely-hood of winning, makes them exciting, but one very lucky All Slots Winner has proven that the word unlikely is not exactly the same as unfeasible. Basically the chance of landing jackpots on the same slot game in the same casino two days running, should be unfeasible, but in the case of this winner it was not.

The odds calculations tell us that a win of this kind is so low that the equation in proof would run into a whole lot of numbers. But beating these odds… Chances of the same person hitting it twice in two days are so low that it would take a mathematician to write it down as a long and funny looking number.

Nevertheless lightening has obviously struck twice in the same place, from the same source, as lucky Stephen W. won at All Slots Mobile Casino, on April 17th, 2013. The following day he was playing again from his mobile phone – spinning the reels of Burning Desire. His decision to play this game on the go, was obviously a wise choice, as he landed a jackpot of $24,560. The next day, he was also obviously still feeling luck, and had another go on the game. Imagine his surprise when he landed another $30,000 jackpot?!

What we are wondering is, did this player attempt to land a hat-trick, and play again the next day. We would certainly wager he did. Find more mobile casino stories at http://realmoneycasinos.co.uk/mobile-casino-sites

However, anyone looking for a really hot game, at a red hot online casino, won’t be too wrong by taking a bet at All Slots. It is a popular brand with UK and European-facing gaming fans alike, and this particular winner was from Switzerland. These back-to-back wins happen very few and far between, but we have seen evidence of more than one player winning more than one prize when opting in for the same promotion, or playing the same game at another time.

The point of this exercise is very self-explanatory, if a player does not try, they simply can’t win it. Stephen W. did enter, and he did it with Burning Desire, from a robust gaming platform, that has nothing to prove but the fact that it really does create winners. This cutting edge technology now allows games to gamble on the run, or from the comfort of their very own homes. It offers good value for money entertainment, as well as some very good opportunities to pick life-changing amounts of money.

Today players can login and play these games at the most flexible times possible, it offers off-the-wall opportunities to play games in full HD, at their own convenience. The convenience factor is key to increasing these players chances to win.

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A brand new gambling resort is set to open if four years time in Spain, which could create thousands of potential jobs in 2017. However, the old story of creating much needed jobs in the country versus the arguments against addiction and crime that it might bring has reared its ugly head once more.

The massive new gambling complex, unofficially known as “Eurovegas” in the Spanish press was approved and given the green light by government officials in Madrid last week, after fighting off interest from Barcelona to house the titanic gambling complex. It is very much all about Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands company (LVS.N).

The plans would centre the gambling complex in Alcorcon, a small town located some nine miles south of the capital city of Madrid. Optimistic government officials are touted as many as quarter of a million jobs could be created with the creation of the grand complex on a site reportedly as large as 750 hectares.

Fears for Gambling Addiction, Prostitution and the Environment

As usual however, there are staunch opponents to the creation of the complex, namely the anti-gambling parties, who feel that the new venture might not yield as much revenue as expected, that the figure of jobs has been overestimated, and that crime and addiction would rise with the opening of the new complex. Rises in prostitution has also been mentioned by the anti-gamblers as part of their criticism and opposition to the project. Internet casinos in Spain is already under heavy regulations in the online industry and this is the next project for all anti gambling parties.

Other protesting parties include environmental groups who feel that the gambling resort created by Mr. Adelson – the world’s sixteenth richest man – will damage the environment. Mr. Adelson has also been embroiled in money laundering charges of late, originating mainly in China. Opposition parties in Spain feel as though he should be brought to questioning over the charges, although this is in all likelihood just another ploy to oppose the construction of the complex.

Protest groups plan to demonstrate throughout central Madrid’s Puerta de Sol after doing so on Friday last week, aiming at citing the project as corrupt, environmentally damaging, and most bizarrely, a loss of rights!

However, the Mayor of Alcorcon sees things very differently. Mr. David Perez insist that the people aren’t working together with the Spanish government, and that they are failing to see the bigger picture; such as the four thousand jobless builders who would be employed in construction on the project by the end of this year. The Mayor cites the terrific unemployment rates in Spain as on major point for approval of the project.

Las Vegas Sands are expected to be willing to invest over three and a half billion US dollars to get the project running. Las Vegas Sands believes that taking into consideration a similar venture they have run in Singapore, up to eighty thousand jobs would be created with the resort in its first stage of completion, with a further 12,000 working in the hotels, shops, casinos and other hospitality sectors upon completion.

Although the protests are likely to continue, there has been no sway over the government officials in Madrid, who are no doubt seeing Las Vegas Sands latest project as a golden opportunity for tax income, investment and to perfect opportunity to get some of their 25% of their population currently unemployed back into work.

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Microgaming have gone into partnership with a lot of other businesses lately, such as the Playboy live casino. It should come as no surprise then, that when news of the London based Hippodrome Casino’s desire to open an online casino site broke, that Microgaming would inevitably be the team leading the way in developing it. At long last, the new Hippodrome online casino is launched.

The Hippodrome Casino already has legendary status as one of London’s oldest gambling establishments and recent restructuring of the land based casino have coincided with the launch of their new online casino site. The Leicester Square based casino will now offer its services to players not able to make it to the capital.

Powered by the Betway Group and with a dashing range of Microgaming developed online casino games. As well as this, the new Hippodrome online casino site will also have a poker portal for players who fancy their chances at cards, which will be run by Poker Stars. This deal should also not come as a surprise to many, considering that Poker Stars and the Hippodrome signed an agreement last year.

The online casino site won’t just be for the far flung internet gamers in the country, as there will also be an app that is available for download that means players can play at the Hippodrome via their tablets and mobile phones. In additional to the many Microgaming powered slot machine games that the new Hippodrome Casino will offer, they will also carry a great range of roulette, blackjack and video poker games too.

The decision to launch the online casino site comes at an important and exciting time for the Hippodrome Casino as a business. Just this year, this land based UK casino won the 2013 Totally Gaming Award for “Best Land Based Casino of the Year”, which is a testament to the love and care Simon Thomas, the famous bingo entrepreneur put into it when he paid £30 million to renovate the property to its early 1900s look recently.

Last year’s announcement of an agreement with Poker Stars to launch Poker Stars Live and this year’s opening of the new site with Microgaming should see the Hippodrome continue to grow from strength to strength.

With dominance of both the land based casino market in London, the Hippodrome will now be aiming their sights at taking over the online gambling market, which in the United Kingdom is primarily dominated by large sports betting sites that also run successful online casinos under the same names.

However, no online casino site has the sheer beauty and elegance of the Hippodrome, located right in the living breathing heart of Leicester Square in London, and that might just give it the edge when it comes to taking on the online market too. When it comes to style and sophistication, there are few bigger names than the Hippodrome in the UK gambling scene, and many at the enterprise are hoping that that alone will be enough to see the site enjoy a successful launch and the first six months.

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Microgaming set to get pulses racing with new Playboy live dealer
 
Men across the world will be praying that their Microgaming online casino site has a live dealer casino this month, as news breaks that Microgaming are to team up with Playboy – the risqué mens magazine that features fully nude celebrities and women – to release a new live dealer casino game.

In all honesty, the game won’t feature anything out of the ordinary, and from all accounts the new Playboy live dealer casino game will run exactly as any other live dealer casino product produced by Microgaming. The twist however is that Hugh Heffner’s Playboy livery and logos will be stamped onto the product, and the dealers will themselves of course be the bunnies from the Playboy Mansion. It has not yet been determined whether or not any of the actual “Playmates” will be the dealers, or whether real dealers will simply be dressed as bunnies.

Microgaming has fallen heavily behind in recent months to competition in the live dealer casino market, and it is widely though that this move will reinvigorate their standing in the market, certainly amongst the gawking male community of live dealer casino players.

The product itself will be known as the Playboy Live Dealer Studio, and the idea is that a live dealer casino studio will be created, reminiscent of the Playboy Club, which has recently reopened in London after a massive thirty year absence. The live dealer aspect of the unison isn’t the only thing Playboy will bag in the deal however. Microgaming are also extending their licensing partnership with Playboy to create a range of alternative casino games, and video slots using the Playboy brand and livery.

Although it is unclear if larger more successful casinos and sportsbooks will adopt the Playboy games, presumably for fear of upsetting offended players; it is thought that the project will be a huge success. It would seem the lads won’t have to wait long to play poker with the bunnies, or blackjack with the babes in the online casino world.

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The day has finally come that Thunderstruck II has made its debut on the mobile gaming platform of casino games. Whilst simplistic online slots have been crossing over onto the mobile gambling platform for months now, in a flurry of excitement; the one that was missing was the famous, the legendary and the classic Thunderstruck 2 slot machine game by Microgaming. Thunderstruck II is quite possibly the most famous online slot machine game of all time, and it is high time that it finally made its bow on this newly popular gaming platform.

For three years now, Thunderstruck II has kept everyone playing in Microgaming online casinos in awe and now it is set to do the same for mobile gamers too, as Spin Palace, 32Red and the Ladbrokes mobile casinos have already imported the game into their arsenal of great mobile slot titles. Thunderstruck II was revolutionary when it was released as it remembered a player’s progress in the game and allowed them to complete achievements as they played, whether they’d signed out of the game or not. This will also be incorporated into the mobile release of the classic game, meaning that mobile players won’t lose out if they decide to leave the game and return to it sometime later.

Thunderstruck II was the sequel to the also hugely popular original, the simply titled Thunderstruck. It revolves around Norse mythology and is also sometimes called a “story slot”  because of the tale it unravels as the game progresses. That it is a non-progressive jackpot slot has never done it any harm at all, and players continue to plough into Microgaming casinos to play this popular slot, rivalled only by Microgaming’s other most popular hit – the similar Immortal Romance slot game.

Thunderstruck II’s long awaited debut on the mobile gambling platform is no doubt going to delight Microgaming mobile casino players across the globe, and with Microgaming releasing their top dogs and flagship games to mobile users, it shan’t be too long before other online casino developers follow suit with their “greatest hits”.

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Sheriff Gaming have long been world renowned for their beautifully designed and ultimately highly entertaining 3D slots genre of online casino games. However, news has broke that they are about to complete the biggest deal of their thus far short history, by signing a deal with online gambling giant Bet 365. Bet365 is quite possibly the largest, most popular online casino site in the world and news that they are now going to be offering Sheriff Gaming’s 3D slots is a massive boost to their online slots collection.

Bet365 casino has for a long time had plenty of online slots under their wing, of all shapes, sorts, kinds and variations for their online casino gamers to play, but their distinct lack of 3D slots wasn’t unnoticed. But the new deal with Sheriff Gaming will see some of the latter’s superbly designed games come to Bet 365 as you read this.

Of the Sheriff Gaming 3D slots already incorporated now into Bet365 casino, Dr. Magoo’s Adventure and French Cuisine are arguably the most popular. Sheriff Gaming is also hosting their Gold Raider, Cars And Cash, Magical Forest and Atlantis 3D slots at Bet365.com Also. One of the newest Sheriff Gaming 3D slots, entitled the Amsterdam Master Plan will also be released at Bet365 casino.

Of those games mentioned, Dr. Magoo’s Adventure is the largest paying slot. It is a progressive jackpot slot, which ordinarily Sheriff Gaming tends to avoid. Both parties were complimentary of one another in a recent press release, with the Dutch games developer delighted that Bet365 casino had recognised the importance of their 3D slots, whilst Bet 365 itself was pleased with the new additions to their site, maintaining that they will continue to establish their portfolio of games, and that they look forward to hosting more Sheriff developed games in the future.

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Bet365.com Casino is aiming to make your Christmas a merry one this year, with their brand new promotion. As many online casino sites gear up to offer their unique range of seasonal promotions, Bet 365 Casino has launched one that will not only rival all the others, but also push them into the snow. The new casino promo is called 12 Levels of Christmas.

Starting from the first of December until the thirty first of this month, Bet365 Casino is running a loyalty points based promotion plan that will see players bag ever better prizes, the more loyalty points they acquire this Christmas time. These points can be earned by playing games such as real money Blackjack, Slots or any of the popular games ( with the exception of these: Lucky Blackjack, Blackjack Surrender, Blackjack Switch, Pontoon, Video Poker or Video Slots double-up games)

By accumulating one thousand loyalty points this Christmas in playing, players can bag twenty five Euros in cash. Level two will see players bag fifty notes if they can acquire two thousand loyalty points. Players, who bag five thousand loyalty points this Christmas time, can opt for either a one hundred Euro bonus or a Kindle Fire at level three of the promotion.

At level four, a total of two hundred and fifty Euros in cash is on offer for players who bag ten thousand loyalty points, whilst moving up to level five with twenty thousand loyalty points will see players bag an iPad. Level six and forty thousand loyalty points is worth a grand in cash.

If a player reaches level seven (sixty thousand loyalty points) they can claim either a one thousand two hundred Euro bonus, or a five star London theatre trip. Level eight and one hundred thousand points is worth a two and a half grand Euro cash prize, and bagging two hundred thousand loyalty points will see players win a choice from a selection of luxury watches at level nine.

If a player reaches level ten this Christmas time, they will have four hundred thousand loyalty points, which is worth a holiday in Las Vegas or eight thousand loyalty points. Level eleven will see a player bag twenty five thousand Euros in cash, for one million loyalty points, whilst wagering the maximum to earn two million loyalty points this season, will see players offered either forty thousand Euros or a Porsche Cayman R at level twelve.

This is the promotion to end all promotions, and it is only on offer at Bet365 Casino. All you have to do is wager and accumulate points for playing. With no additional effort required on your behalf other than to play, Bet 365 is going to make it a Christmas to remember.

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It is entirely possible that many of you will be familiar with the Facebook social gaming application Trophy Slots. Those of you that are, will be delighted to hear that it has just made its way onto the online gambling circuit, as a new real money version of the game has been produced entitled Trophy Vegas.

So for those of you not in the know, what exactly is Trophy Vegas going to offer the average online gamer? Firstly, there will be access to a wide range of online slot machines games, courtesy of Microgaming, Net Gen Gaming and NYX. Secondly, the application will only be available to players who live inside gamble free zones, namely the countries where online gambling via such an application is considered legal and certainly above board. So the bad news for gamers living in a country where gambling online is forbidden, unfortunately, you’re out of luck. But on the plus side, there is still the non-money version, Trophy Slots to fall back on! But for others, this brand new online slot game application will be available to all players on the Cash Ball Network.

The idea behind Trophy Vegas is that instead of sticking to one form of online casino site and playing the online slots of a specific company, players will be entitled to try out several real money slots from several of the world best and leading internet game software companies for real money; all of course, through the handy device and the excellent prowess of the Cash Ball Network.

Earlier in the year, Trophy Slots was launched on Facebook to wide acclaim. Trophy Slots offered members of the social networking website the chance to play realistic world class slot games, with a virtual currency. Although no real money was involved, the social game included things like virtual prizes, and gifts. Its successor, the aforementioned Trophy Vegas is predicted to do away with those gifts and virtual currency and will instead focus on real money wagers between players.

Of course, there are bound to be rigorous security checks and many more safety features built into the game, which naturally weren’t there in the virtual money release; but the move does put online gambling for real money via social application just one step closer to reality.

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