Archive for November, 2008

Royal Online Casino

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

The Royal Vegas Casino has long been one of the better casinos online. It has been under the Microgaming brand for years now and within the Microgaming brand there is a constant demand for excellence for casinos that would like to be featured as being the pride and joy of that particular organization. Royal Vegas has long been on that list of pride and joy and for that reason there are many people that were not surprised at all when the online casino decided to celebrate its new and improved look and feel vis-à-vis downloadable software packages with an offer that extends the normal bonus offers it has going.

Normally speaking, Royal Vegas offers a starting promotion to new players that have two steps involved to it. The first step of the offer is 100 free spins. These spins allow a player the chance to win EUR 200.00 right off the bat as long as they end up leaving the spins game with more credits than they entered with. Up to the first EUR 200.00 above the amount they start with is given to them to keep as a bonus amount gained from the use of the free spins. Once that part of the initial promotion was done, Royal Vegas stepped in and offered a conventional first time deposit bonus that is worth 100% up to EUR 100.00 as a way of rewarding players even if they were unable to get anything out of the 100 free spins.

Because of this second bonus, it has often been the case that people take the free spins offer from Royal Vegas as a way of really scoping out the place and seeing what the different slot machines are like. People find that they enjoy the slot machines and then end up joining for real to get the bonus and if they are lucky maybe even gaining something from the free spins experience in the first place. Since the free spins offer has really evolved into a way to try out the real money slot machines at Royal Vegas, it is perhaps no surprise that their recent decision to move the free spins from 100 free spins to 1000 free spins has raised eyebrows at the same time that it has piqued the interest of many new online casino players that are now seriously starting to consider Royal Vegas as their home base online.

With ten times the number of spins that you would normally get, you can actually take your time and try out every single slots game that Royal Vegas has to offer and still end up getting a decent amount of play on all of them. If you want to be particular about it, you can just pick a handful of games and get 50-100 spins on each of them depending on the number you choose to take with you. It is a great way to get introduced to exactly what Royal Vegas has to offer and it is precisely for that reason that Royal Vegas has done this.

UK Move into Online Casino Territory

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

In a move that is likely to greatly offend conservatives both in the United Kingdom and the United States, the UK government has decided to finally pull the plug on its de facto prohibition of online casinos. The first online casino will be coming online in just a short while and because of that the United Kingdom has joined a Europe-wide movement that really seems to be heading in the direction of online casinos specifically and online gambling in general.

The European Union has already overturned bans on online gambling that have been made by member nations, the most celebrated of which was an overturning of a ban that had worked its way through the German legislature and even been ratified at the level of the German Supreme Court before being overturned by the supreme court within the European Union. Within its member nations however, there have been moves by places such as France and Ireland towards online gambling as a staple of the economy and of course within the United Kingdom there have always been online sports betting services offered in lieu of a ban on online gambling. Well, now the UK Gambling Commission has licensed its first online casino and because of that the UK has joined the ranks of countries that see online gambling as an activity that should be completely legal.

The company that will be responsible for the online gambling operations for this casino is Chartwell Technology Incorporated. Chartwell has long been known as a company of great reputability within casino circles and in particular they have been known for their technological prowess when it comes to the creation of remote systems to be used in land-based casino operations. Now, it appears as though Chartwell is going to get the opportunity to express their excellence in the online forum and with that expertise riding on the first online casino operation based in the United Kingdom, it appears as though their debut is going to be one of great importance to the online gambling industry as a whole. In particular, this will likely allow a lot of companies to leave their headquarters in Gibraltar and come to the United Kingdom, although the migration (if it occurs at all), will likely take awhile to come forward.

In this particular endeavor, Chartwell will be providing the technology for IG Group Holdings. They are a company that owns the famous sportsbook Extrabet and they operate multiple sports betting agencies that can be reached through conventional landlines or the internet. This will represent their first serious foray into the world of online casino gaming and for this reason they will be joining Chartwell in the creation of this little bit of history. People that are interested in learning about the progression of the project can go through Chartwell (main office located in Canada) or through Extrabet (main office located in the United Kingdom). You can alternatively keep your eyes peeled to the newscast as more information will be shared when it becomes available a few months down the road.