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Week 46/2022 slot games releases
Here are this weeks latest slots releases compiled by European Gaming!
Yggdrasil and AvatarUX have teamed up to fight hordes of the undead in their latest launch Zombie aPOPalypse™. The reels are set in a world where zombies run amok, and players look to generate big wins in the 5×4, pays-both-ways title that boasts a max win of 20,000x. The MultiPop™ mechanic works by locking a multiplier to a cell for every win that occurs. When winning symbols are replaced, the multiplier stays on the reels, increasing for each consecutive win it is part of, to totals of up to 5x in base play.
The game provider known as ELA Games went live with the latest addition to its ever-expanding portfolio – a slot by the name of “Bullet Hole”. This medium-volatility game starts off guns blazing, taking players on a Western adventure like no other, across its wild reels. As we can expect, ELA Games has gone above and beyond with its exciting animations, giving an interactive feel to the characters, which truly transports players to another world and gives them a chance to win big with each winning combo.
4ThePlayer are inviting players to go ape in Las Vegas and climb to the highest wins, in their latest game release 9k Kong in Vegas, which has now been network released. 9k Kong in Vegas features 4ThePlayer’s new BIG WIN REPEATER™ feature, where Kong will climb the reels after every Big Win for a chance for players to win it again! Every time the player is successful, Kong climbs higher for an extra chance—the question for the player is how many times can they repeat their biggest wins?
Colossus Fire is a progressive multi-game link launched with 4 different game titles. It features 2 scalable and independent progressive levels, whose values vary according to the player’s denomination. The higher you bet, the bigger the jackpot you get! This brand-new videoslot brings an unparalleled gaming experience with up to 3 different bonus links: Red, Blue and Colossus. When the Redbonus is triggered, the player can win the MEGA with only 15 symbols.
Players are invited to don their pirate hats in Rum & Raiders, the latest Hold and Win release from Iron Dog Studio offering wins up to 25,000x! With an oversized 5 reel, 4 row base game board, Rum & Raiders comes with a veritable pirate’s booty worth of features. Hunt for the Skull & Bones Scatter symbols, three of which will trigger the feature-packed Hold and Win bonus game.
Relax Gaming, is inviting daring racers to get behind the wheel, buckle up, and spin the reels in its latest release Hot Rod Racers. This gnarly high volatility slot can see petrol-heads win up to an impressive total of 25,000x their bet by way of a number of bonus features including Wheelspin Wilds, Free Spins and Super Free Spins. Should Wheelspin Wild symbols land on reels 2 – 5 and move out of the row towards the left they will automatically convert all high paying car symbols into wild symbols.
Lightning Box, has released STELLAR CASH BLOWN AWAY a slot which blends mechanics of an existing hit game, BLOWN AWAY and STELLAR CASH, which is a revamped version of the classic Stellar Jackpot franchise. This 5×3 reel slot has symbols depicting swans, dinosaurs and monkeys that must form matching combinations across the title’s 25 paylines to award a win.
Wizard Games is set for the festive season with the launch of its new hit Santa’s Fortune. The 5×3 slot features all the Christmas characters players expect, including reindeer, elves, snowmen, and tasty treats, while prized presents also await on the reels. The presents themselves contain a cash value inside, and if Santa’s sleigh lands on the fifth reel, it collects all values present on the reels for mammoth payouts. When this occurs, the Collect Pots Feature can be triggered randomly.
Grab a helmet, kick-start your engine and GO for the gold in Play’n GO’s action-sports thriller, USA Flip. Stare down a steep hill inside a sold-out stadium as Flip, a stunt-biking bald eagle gets ready to take flight and steal the spotlight. Help Flip turn the most difficult tricks and take home eternal glory, sharing the winner’s circle afterwards – and the prize money that comes with it.
Yggdrasil and Reflex Gaming have teamed up to deliver a new slot boasting the biggest, baddest dogs in town alongside even bigger symbols in Desperate Dawgs 2 GigaBlox™. This feature-filled 6-reel, 40 payline title utilises giant symbols up to 6×6 in size by way of Yggdrasil’s hugely popular Game Engagement Mechanic (GEM), GigaBlox. In addition to these huge symbols, Desperate Dawgs 2 GigaBlox can see players win up to 9,872 x their stake via three features.
Kalamba Games’ popular Joker series has received a new instalment with Joker Fortune Blitz, mixing a classic theme with new features that delivers a player engaging experience. Familiar slot symbols such as fruits, 7s and Bars adorn the 6×4 reel set and can all be substituted by wilds, represented by the Jovial Joker herself in a number of guises.
Do you have what it takes to help the Sheriff in his quest to round up five of the most dangerous outlaws ever to have lived? If you do, you’ll want to head straight to Outlaws Hunter, the latest slot launch from Stakelogic. Players arrive in a lawless Wild West town where they will find a 5×3 reel matrix and 50 active win lines. But players must hold on to their hats as things get really wild from here as Outlaws Hunter features an Expanding Wild with Multiplier.
OneTouch has released Ryse of Rome, a thrilling video slot themed around the imperial world when the emperors ruled all. The 6×4 title delivers fast-paced gameplay, with quick drops and swift animations promising a captivating gaming experience. Eye-catching symbols and engaging artwork further add to the immersive environment. When players land a winning combination, the number of rows doubles to increase the win potential and give users a mammoth 262,144 ways to win.
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The German Games Industry Association Congratulates Winners of the German Computer Game Awards 2025
Outstanding games from Germany and a great show with many well-known personalities: the year’s best games made in Germany were honoured at the German Computer Game Awards 2025 (DCP) in Berlin. In the Palais am Funkturm, guests from the areas of culture, society, media, politics and the game industry celebrated the creative teams behind the high-quality games. The hosts Katrin Bauerfeind and Uke Bosse led the audience through the entertaining evening, which numerous viewers also followed via live stream.
The winner in the highest-profile category, “Best German Game,” was “Enshrouded” from the studio Keen Games. The coveted award was presented by Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace Dorothee Bär, who is responsible for computer and video games in the new Federal Government. The survival RPG game also won in the category “Best Innovation and Technology”. The award for “Studio of the Year” went to Megagon Industries from Berlin, the studio behind the successful “Lonely Mountains” games. The games community and DCP jury chose the streamer Stephan Bliemel, known as Steinwallen, “Player of the Year”. For over a decade, Steinwallen has impressively demonstrated in his video streams how history can be successfully imparted through games. Prize money totalling 800,000 euros was awarded in the framework of the DCP 2025.
The German Computer Game Awards were hosted by the German Federal Government and game – The German Games Industry Association.
“We congratulate all the award winners. Impressive variety, captivating stories and first-rate technologies: once again, on the grand stage of the German Computer Game Awards 2025, the enormous strength of German games studios was clear to see. Germany produces exciting games with world-market potential. These successes send a strong signal and show what Germany has to offer as a game production location. Together with the new Federal Government, we want to enable this creative and technological excellence to shine even more brightly on the international stage in the future,” said Felix Falk, Managing Director of game – The German Games Industry Association.
Overview of all the winners of the German Computer Game Awards 2025:
Best International Game (not endowed)
• Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Best German Game (endowed with 100,000 euros)
• Enshrouded (Keen Games)
The other nominees each receive 30,000:
• Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Megagon Industries)
• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
Best Family Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• PRIM (Common Colors / Application Systems Heidelberg)
Newcomer Award – Best Debut (endowed with 60,000 euros)
• Nordhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
The other nominees each receive 25,000 euros:
• Footgun: Underground (Turtle Knight Games / CobraTekku Games)
• Mindlock – The Apartment (Roof Cut Media / United Soft Media)
Newcomer Award – Best Prototype (endowed with 50,000 euros)
• Blob the Klex (Melena Dressel, Alejandro Rebolledo, Laura Octavianus / Hochschule Darmstadt)
The other nominees each receive 25,000 euros:
• MapMap – A game about Maps (HAW Hamburg / Pipapo Games)
• Stuntboost (Julian Höltge, Tobias Kozel)
• Echoes of Mora (HTW Berlin / Meike Strippel et al.)
• Exhibit A (MDH München / Olivia Falke et al.)
Best Innovation and Technology (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Enshrouded (Keen Games)
Best Audio Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• ODDADA (Sven Ahlgrimm et al.)
Best Game Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
Best Graphic Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)
Best Mobile Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
Best Story (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)
Best Serious Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)
• Deine Stimme (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Bavarian State Centre for Political Education)
Studio of the Year (endowed with 50,000 euros)
• Megagon Industries (Berlin)
Player of the Year (not endowed)
• Steinwallen
Special Jury Award (endowed with a total of 10,000 euros; the two winners each receive 5000 euros)
• Flipper und Arcade Museum Seeligenstadt
• GAME:IN
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Slotozilla is an industry-leading online casino and slot review platform. Since its inception, the company has published refreshed analyses covering iGaming operators and software – with the intent to provide accurate, informative data for all users.
Throughout 2024, Slotozilla collected relevant data pertaining to player usage of the platform. These insights unveiled clear illustrations of player preferences, gender distribution, age-related data and other appropriate gaming behaviour. The report outlines significant findings laid bare by Slotozilla’s year-long study.
Explosive Global Favourites: The Demo Slots That Dominated 2024
Clear regional preferences were brought to light during Slotozilla’s 2024 analysis, as Book of Ra dominated the European industry. Where’s the Gold represented Australia’s favourite slot, while Plinko, Wolf Run and Sizzling Hot garnered significant attention from a worldwide player base.
Sizzling Hot Deluxe earned plaudits within the French gaming arena – attaining nearly one-quarter of the nation’s demo playtime. Industry developers and operators should expect these slots to influence the iGaming scene in 2025 and beyond.
Beyond the Numbers: Surprising Engagement and Demographic Shifts Revealed
The previous year detailed a clear shift towards all-encompassing domination by particular titles and demographics. For example, Columbus proved a major hit among USA bettors – racking up an average playtime of 194.8 minutes. That figure sits far ahead of the next game in line, King of Atlantis, which garnered 72.5 minutes per average session from French users.
Similar lob-sided statistics exist when comparing gender-based play, as male German players form 73.91% of the nation’s users—potentially guiding marketing efforts.
Modern Industry Impact
Data collected by SlotoZilla evidences various marked industry shifts spanning several key demographics. The report’s holistic view of the modern iGaming industry highlights the increasing necessity for targeted marketing campaigns, relevant themes and boundary-pushing features.
Users located in Australia, Poland and Canada are notable in this regard – as players from all three vital nations tend to access online slots from the age of 25 onward. Strategies around this data are central to maintaining a robust industry.
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BGC Raises Concerns About Potential Negative Impact of Further Tax Hike on the Gambling Industry
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has warned against further new tax rises on members, as it was confirmed Levy payments to the Horseracing Betting Levy Board are expected to increase for the fourth year in a row.
BGC members are expected to contribute a record £108m in Levy payments to the HBLB for last year, new figures reveal.
The figure, provided by the independent HBLB, is an increase of £3m on the previous year.
It is the fourth year in a row that Levy contributions have increased, from £97m in 2021/22, to £100m in 2022/2023, £105m in 2023/2024 and £108m in 2024/2025.
This increased contribution came despite a concerning fall in betting turnover, and amid threats of a further new tax hike on online sports betting.
The independent HBLB said average turnover per race was down by about 8% on 2023/24, representing a 15% fall on 2022/23 and 19% drop on 2021/22.
Meanwhile, earlier this month the Treasury announced a new tax consultation, proposing replacing the three current online betting and gaming tax rates, with a single new one, sparking fears for sports like racing.
Betting and Gaming Council CEO Grainne Hurst said: “For the fourth year running Levy contributions have increased to record levels, demonstrating the growing, long-term investment regulated betting provides British horseracing.
“But it is concerning to see once more that despite record Levy contributions, racing continues to struggle, both as a sport and as a betting product, with betting turnover down again year on year.
“BGC members remain committed fans of racing and recognise better than most the huge economic impact it makes in communities across the country.
“It’s now more important than ever this vital contribution is not undermined by further new tax rises through the creation of a single tax for online betting, which risks driving punters away from the sport, or into the arms of the growing, unsafe gambling black market.
“These parasite operators don’t pay tax, don’t care about safer gambling, and do not contribute a penny to the Levy. The BGC wants sustainable growth, for our members and for racing, but any new taxes would halt investment, hurt punters and harm racing.”
This fourth annual increase is a new record since the Levy collection reforms of 2017/18.
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