Microgaming announces new poker offering

Microgaming is set to introduce a new range of poker games to its online casino vertical. Committed to supplying operators worldwide with a diverse portfolio of casino games, Microgaming will soon be adding a new type of poker product to its online offering. The news comes just months after the closure of the Microgaming Poker Network, which provided online poker players with unique and entertaining gaming experiences for more than 16 years. 

Hold’Em Poker is the first in a full suite of exclusive poker games scheduled for release by Microgaming, with follow-up titles such as Lucky Showdown set to be revealed in the coming months. Representing a new strategic direction for Microgaming, Hold’Em Poker is a sophisticated brand of classic Texas hold’em which aims to immerse players in a realistic poker room environment, delivering an exclusive online casino experience. Offering a fresh take on an iconic poker variant, the game is a fast-paced €5 buy-in Sit & Go tournament specifically optimised for mobile, spinning in a new random prize pool wheel mechanic and introducing a progressive jackpot that seeds at an impressive €25,000. 

Microgaming will debut Hold’Em Poker during an exclusive release phase with select customers on 1 December, with the game’s global launch scheduled for 9 December. John Coleman, CEO at Microgaming, comments: “Hold’Em Poker will add a new dimension to our online casino vertical, introducing a range of fun and exciting poker games to our platform. Designed to appeal to both poker and casino players, these games will deliver even further choice to our customers as we continue to diversify and innovate our content offering.”

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Microgaming games go live in Portugal with Estoril Sol Digital

Microgaming has announced that a range of its most entertaining online casino slots are now live in the Portuguese market via Estoril Sol Digital’s popular Estoril Sol Casinos online brand.

Microgaming’s entrance into Portugal continues its strategy of expansion into key regulated markets around the world, following successful entries into Sweden and Czech Republic this year.

ESC Online, a market leader in Portugal’s online casino games segment, was the first licensed casino operator in the regulated Portuguese online market. ESC Online’s gaming portfolio, including slots, blackjack and roulette, operates on the same principles as land-based casinos in Portugal, ensuring an excellent gaming experience for online players.

Following a seamless integration with Microgaming’s award-winning platform, ESC Online can now provide its customers with access to a wealth of titles from the supplier’s innovative, diverse portfolio of premium casino games, with more content to be added in the near future.

We are delighted to extend our offering into the regulated market of Portugal. ESC Online is one of the country’s leading gaming brands, and we are thrilled to provide them with some of the most engaging and successful titles in the industry. - Andrew Clucas, Chief Operating Officer at Microgaming.

Providing our players with excellent content and customer experience has the highest importance to us. Our partnership with Microgaming signals our commitment to this. We set the highest standards for our ESC Online brand, and with the addition of Microgaming’s exceptional casino titles, we look forward to bolstering our offering and providing our players with access to the largest and most diverse online gaming portfolio in the business. I am confident that through this collaboration we will continue to succeed in Portugal, as market leaders, and provide Portuguese players with a top notch entertaining online gaming experience. Rui Magalhães. - Rui Magalhães, CEO of Estoril Sol Digital.

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Microgaming launches Deco Diamonds Deluxe

The sophisticated art-deco-themed slot returns to the spotlight in Deco Diamonds Deluxe, Microgaming’s latest exclusive online slot developed by Just For The Win.

Echoing the Roaring Twenties era, Deco Diamonds Deluxe is a vibrant five-reel, nine-payline, high-volatility online slot gleaming with diamond-encrusted reels, glitzy symbols and a swinging soundtrack.

The opulent Deco Diamonds Deluxe wild symbol can trigger both respins and the Bonus Wheel feature, offering a variety of routes to rich rewards. In an enchanting display, landing two, three or four Deco Diamond Deluxe symbols awards one respin, locking the wild symbols in place and spinning the remaining reels, creating the potential for further respins.

Enabling the Just For The Boost feature adds extra scintillation to the Jazz-era soirée, increasing the player’s bet by 50% and simultaneously triggering the Deco Diamonds Deluxe Symbol Nudge. If a Deco Diamonds Deluxe symbol lands just outside of the 5x3 reel area, the Symbol Nudge feature will cause that reel to shift one position, so that this symbol ends up on the 5x3 reel area. This unlocks potentially big wins with the symbol being wild, and increases the chances to spin the coveted Bonus Wheel.

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Microgaming presents All41 Studios

Microgaming is delighted to announce that it will be working with a new independent game studio, All41 Studios, on an exclusive basis.

Focused on developing high quality, premium casino games that deliver the finest gaming experiences, All41 Studios is an ambitious game studio based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Open to new challenges and driven to create innovative and entertaining games, the team comprises a wealth of talented and creative individuals, combining a mix of knowledgeable, experienced and passionate professionals who are eager to make their mark on the gaming industry.

Le Kaffee Bar, the first official game from All41 Studios, will launch exclusively with a number of GVC Group brands, including bwin, for a three-week period before being made available across Microgaming’s customer base. The new five-reel, 243 ways slot embraces the coffee culture, so players can sit back and relax with a delicious cup of their favourite blend while playing this elegant game, which will be available exclusively to Microgaming’s operators from 5 June 2019.

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Microgaming welcomes Ascensus Interactive to poker network

London-based Ascensus Interactive LLC has become the latest poker room to join the ever-expanding Microgaming Poker Network.

Founded in 2018 by three industry veterans, Ascensus Interactive offers a range of targeted casino, poker and sports betting products to specific markets around the world. The company’s flagship poker brand, Players Come First (PCF) Poker, is now live on the MPN.

"We welcome Ascensus Interactive to the ever-growing MPN family and are thrilled to be their poker provider of choice," said Alex Scott Managing Director of Poker at Microgaming. "I am impressed by the team’s collective experience and talent, along with their dedication to responsible gambling and corporate social responsibility, which fits in perfectly with our ethos at Microgaming."

By joining the network, Ascensus Interactive will benefit from the MPN’s robust and easy to use poker and campaign management functionality. The advanced reporting portal provides players with a seamless experience, and the award-winning network also boasts frequent promotions.

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Microgaming launches new poker software

Microgaming celebrates the launch of Prima on the MPN, a new online poker client designed to deliver a premium experience to players worldwide.

Built with players in mind, the new client features a streamlined interface to provide easy navigation to cash, tournament and casino games, which includes a blind cash game lobby and a simplified rewards system.

Most notably, the client has been developed with a strong focus on enhancing the user experience and promoting responsible gaming with increased transparency. The new Prima client includes a player history tool that displays overall profit and loss across all game types which can be filtered for any time period, giving players the ability to track and review their gameplay and make informed choices.

Using cross-platform technologies, Prima has been designed in a modular fashion and is powered from the same code-base that will enable Microgaming to swiftly deploy new updates across all platforms at the same time. With the new technology, the latest features can be delivered to players and new markets faster than ever before, in addition to supporting new and upcoming devices in future.

Microgaming’s new poker client is complemented by Ultra High Definition graphics, giving players superb gameplay resolution which is fully optimized for premium viewing on all supported devices. This is in addition to a fun feature for players that enables them to turn their hand history into a GIF, ready to be exported and shared on social media.

The new software rolls out from Thursday 26 July and will be available to all customers by 31 July.

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Microgaming expands cross-platform game offering

Microgaming announces its new games bundle for March, with two new slots launching simultaneously across all platforms.

Set deep in the Asian wilderness, with some of the world’s most endangered animals, Wild Orient takes players on an unforgettable jungle safari. The five-by-three-reel, 243-ways-to-win game has a maximum payout of 60,000 coins and features reel respins. In the base game, at the end of each spin, players can choose to respin a reel (at an extra cost). This can be done as many times as they like in a bid to complete a win or activate free spins.

Free spins are triggered when three or more scatters land across the reels. Fifteen retriggerable free spins are awarded, during which each win is tripled.

Experience the charm of the wilderness and view the game promotional video — watch out for the Bengal Tiger and Manchurian Crane!

The vibrant and exotic SunTide brings a tropical twist to the classic slot format. The five-by-three-reel, nine-line game features expanding wilds; land a wild on reel three in the base game and the reel expands to complete a win. Retriggerable free spins, warming scenery and smooth samba sounds make SunTide a great choice for new and seasoned players alike, with rewards of up to 150,000 coins.

With free games and in-game achievements, both Wild Orient and SunTide go live to operators on 2nd March 2016. The slots will launch at the same time across desktop, mobile and tablet, and will be available across Microgaming’s Casino, Bingo, Poker, Mobile and Quickfire products.

Neill Whyte, Head of Product Channels at Microgaming, comments, “March sees another two games launch to our operators, available on all platforms and all products. We know players aren’t sticking to one form of technology or one way of consuming our product, so we’re developing games accordingly.”

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