The month of March saw a great number of new slots come to online casino players around the world as industry partnerships made those games easier to distribute.
Where once there were only a handful of high-quality third-party studios supplementing the megalith providers, there are now well over 100 development labs and studios producing top-tier content for players. The proliferation of independent software platforms, remote game servers, game aggregators, and fast-track certification through existing license holders have made it possible to go from a great idea to a game in play on any device in record time.
Today we’ll look at a few of the games that hit the market in March as well as a few of the most recent industry tie-ups and content distribution deals. The list will be nowhere near exhaustive as there are simply far too many titles to explore, so we’ll confine ourselves to some of the most recent and most important developments.
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Top Slots
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Betsoft – Primal Wilderness: Finally one for the list available in the USA
StakeLogic – Fruit Storm: An 8×8 cluster game with traveling wilds, tornadoes, and huge potential
Pragmatic Play – Tic Tac Take: Colorful and simple 5×3, ten-line slot with 96.63% RTP and a max win of 2,200x
RTG – Copy Cat Fortune – Random reel-fills and plenty of 100+ free spins bonuses
Latest Tie-ups
USA – White Hat Studios/BetMGM
LatAm – GameArt/VirtualSoft
Europe – Skywind/Groove Gaming
Italy – Oryx(Bragg)/Microgame
ROW – SoftGamings was the biggest actor by numbers with four important deals last month including NetGame, Jet Game, OnlyGames, and Spribe
Aggregators
According to iGB, Slotegrator made the most deals over the last six months by signing 9 new studios to their roster followed by Groove, Relax, and SoftGamings with 7 new providers each. Salsa Tech (formerly Patagonia) had 5 lines of ink and another five aggregators signed up 4 more each – BetConstruct, GamingTec, Playtech, Qtech, and EveryMatrix.
Source: Latest Gambling News, LCB, March 27, 2022