Category: Slots

Our annual sneak peek at the new games coming your way By Frank Legato   There is some very, very cool stuff coming your way on the slot floor in the coming year. We’ve seen it. Every year, hundreds of new slot machines are released by the major slot manufacturers. At Strictly Slots, we try […]

WMS is riding high on the popularity of the new “Gamefield xD” format, which combines a horizontally situated portrait monitor with an upright monitor—the setup is not unlike a pinball machine, but the horizontal and vertical screens work together to present games like never before. Last year, Gamefield xD spawned great new games in the […]

For Spielo this year, 3D is the word. The company’s new game Sphinx 3D is not to be missed. The brand has been around for decades. Back in the 1990s, the original Sphinx game pioneered the use of 3D animation in slot machines, with a bonus journey through the inside of the Egyptian landmark. Sphinx […]

Multimedia Games is launching a great batch of entertaining new video slots. Comedy is a common thread in these games. As with Yardbirds, a nine-reel (each reel spot is actually a complete reel with all outcomes available), 50-line video slot. The main feature is the “Chicken & Egg Bonus,” in which the player picks eggs […]

Konami is launching some huge new game styles, literally. The “Podium Goliath,” launched last spring, is a super-sized version of Konami’s standard cabinet, standing nearly eight feet tall with dual 32-inch, horizontally positioned LCD displays, 360-degree attract lighting, an ergonomic button panel, and an enhanced sound system. It is the basis for a new type […]

IGT will offer some great entertainment this year, including a new based on the blockbuster 1980s trilogy of Back to the Future films starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. The three installments of that film series about a teenager and his scientist friend who invents a time machine—traveling back to 1955, ahead to a […]

Incredible Technologies, the amusement-game giant that has been moving into the slot market for the past two years, is gaining steam with a few great new games. Following up hits like Crazy Money, King of Bling and The Herd will be a lineup of more games employing unique bonus features and unique themes. This summer, […]

Georgia-based Cadillac Jack is following up on last year’s hit game “Peter & Wendy,” a video slot based on the classic play Peter Pan, and “Unicorn Fortunes,” which introduced the popular “Streaming Stacks” game feature. This year, the company inaugurates a new cabinet, called Stratos, with the game Win With 7s, a multi-level progressive video […]

Bally is coming out with some amazing new cabinet styles this year, but some of its best games are in the style of last year’s mega-hit “Michael Jackson King of Pop”—a normal 22-inch game screen under the long, vertical 32-inch screen, hooked up to the booming Pro Sound Chair. At the very top of the […]

Aruze Gaming is launching a new version of its reel-spinning series, Innovator with Radiant Reels. The reel series is distinguished by its oversized reels, which change color, spin in different directions and vary in the speed of the spin. Called Innovator Multi-Action Extra Reel, the new format employs the “4+1 Reel,” a four-reel base game […]