MICROGAMING'S MAJOR NEW BRANDED GAME REVEALED
(Update)
5 February 2010
Those hints from ICEi confirmed – it's Lord
of the Rings!
Observant industry show-goers at ICEi and the
Microgaming stand last month would have noticed an
intriguing but fleeting insert in the large-screen
presentation of visuals from the gambling software
company's top games – the iconic inscribbed ring from
Tolkien's world famous Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Microgaming staff on the show stand wouldn't reveal
more than the fact that a new branded game agreement
with a major film studio had been signed, but this week
all was revealed in a press release from the prolific
games developer.
The deal was a multi-year
licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital
Distribution, to create a series of cutting-edge,
graphic rich video slots, based on the popular The Lord
of the Rings movie trilogy, for Internet gaming for
adults in countries where online gaming is permitted,
the software developer announced.
The agreement
gives Microgaming permission to develop online video
slot games using animation material, themes and
characters from the motion pictures The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the
Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King.
This week a company spokesman
said that the agreement with Warner Bros. illustrated
Microgaming's commitment to license the right brands, at
the right time.
"It is a strategic and timely
decision to secure exclusive, online video slot game
rights to a trilogy that generated $3 billion in
worldwide box office and was nominated for a total of 30
Academy Awards; of which they won 17, including Best
Picture," the spokesman said.
Roger Raatgever,
the chief exec at Microgaming said, "We're excited about
creating state-of-the-art video slots from the best
movie trilogy of the decade. We look forward to bringing
The Lord of the Rings into the online gaming sphere,
where our expertise in game quality and speed to market
will ensure its success.
"The Lord of the Rings
has a huge entrenched fan base with over 97 percent
awareness of the film franchise, as well as phenomenal
and unprecedented home video success."
Not
content with such a major announcement, it is believed
that Microgaming will shortly be releasing its regular
monthly tranche of new games, which is said to include
three video slots.
Winter Gold is a 5 reel 10
pay-line slot themed in time for the Winter Olympics due
to start in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 12..
Despite the relatively low number of pay-lines where
anything between 15 and 50 can be regarded as the norm,
the main game offers major achievable payouts. Winter
Gold also features some pretty hectic bonus action; the
Spin the Bonus Wheel round offers some worthwhile
rewards. There are additional opportunities to virtually
participate in one of four key Winter Olympics events -
speed skating, the biathlon, bobsleighing and ski
jumping, where players can win up to 24 000 credits in
the bonus round.
Valentines Day this month will
again be marked with an appropriate games launch from
MGS; last year it was the Burning Desire slot, and this
year it's a new video slot titled Love Potion. Beaus,
beauties cherubs and other symbols of romance and
undying love populate the reels in this game, where
payouts of up to 62 500 are possible. There are two
scatter symbols that trigger two different and
interactive bonus games redolent with spins and
multipliers up to 5x
Hot Air is the third new
slot, which is themed on an aerial adventure aboard a
hot air balloon that has sky high achievable prizes of
up to 155 000 credits. This is a 30 pay-line game with
the usual generous MGS helpings of free spins, bonuses,
wilds, scatters and multipliers. Watch out in particular
for the pilot, who is wild and can trigger triple
payouts.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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