Jack Gold Casino is a brand new version of what you could have known before as Jack Wild Casino that was relaunched in January 2013. The casino is operated by Locus Gaming Isle of Man Limited and is licensed by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission and offers games from Realistic Games and recently from Microgaming’s Quickfire platform. The casino is trying to focus on the growing mobile market and can be viewed on devices of all sizes, from smartphones, through tablets to even smart TV’s in the near future. 

This casino cares a great deal about the security of its players. Using industry standard SSL encryption technology it protects information from any sensitive transactions, like payments in and out of your account. It also employs additional security procedures to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of your user information. The casino’s Random Number Generator is audited and certified by the independent company Technical Systems Testing (TST) and while the site doesn’t provide any certificates with general payout information you can find such data in the description of each game on the site. 

Jack Gold Casino was offering titles from Realistic Games, but has recently also integrated Microgaming’s Quickfire platform to its offering. Realistic Games slots are known for their special feature which allows you to switch the view when playing: you can either zoom in directly on the reels or enjoy a view of a 3D casino room. Aside of that their slots include rather simple 3 and 5 reel games, but they also have a very nice Blackjack and Roulette. The Quickfire offering includes the well-known Microgaming titles like Thunderstruck, Tomb Raider, Agent Jane Blonde or Avalon. While the casino runs on software from two different providers, counting them reveals that the total amount is barely 16 different games, which is rather disappointing. Being an ‘Instant play’ casino, it doesn’t require that you install any special software. The games can be played with ease directly from your browser. The feature that the casino is most proud of is it’s scalability to devices of different sizes. You can visit it using your phone, tablet and personal computer and it will be displayed correctly on all of them. The casino’s team is also working hard to add Smart TV support.

New players registering at Jack Hold will receive a 100% Welcome Bonus up to £150 on their first deposit. The bonus is subject to a wagering requirement of 25x deposit + bonus amount that has to be met within 30 days from receiving the bonus. Only after clearing this players will be able to withdraw any winnings from their accounts. Other promotions at Jack Hold include a “CashBack Jack” Bonus that gives you £5 back for every £25 you lose on specific days and a Monthly TopUp bonus that gives you additional funds for depositing during certain times of the month. The casino also announced that it will be launching a brand new Rewards program very soon, so make sure to watch out for that. 

The banking options at the casino are rather limited. Right now you can only use debit and credit cards from Visa and MasterCard, but listed as ‘coming soon’ are such payment methods as Skrill, Neteller and Ukash. The withdrawal limit is £5000 per 24 hours. If you want to withdraw a bigger amount you need to contact the casino’s customer service. 

Sadly, customer support is another lacking part of this casino. You can only contact the support team by e-mail or by writing a letter. That’s a rather weak offer, as by today’s standard one would at least expect a Live Chat application or a phone number. The ‘Contact us’ section of the site also provides links to the casino’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, but that doesn’t make up for the obvious deficiencies.

While Jack Gold itself was launched only a couple of months ago, it’s not a completely new casino in general, so the glaring shortcomings are rather surprising. The casino is affiliated with not one, but two providers of very good games, yet its library of available titles is very small. Banking and customer services also offer only the bare minimum of options and lack the one’s you would usually expect to see in any online casino. While the main feature of scalability is definitely interesting, it’s not enough to cover all the other faults, so we hope that Jack Gold Casino will grow with time. 

Realistic Games and Paddy Power signed a multi-year agreement for the supply of online gaming content. 

Included in the offer are three-reel and five-reel slots, blackjack and roulette games designed for iPhones, iPads and Android devices. The games will be running on an in-house server of Realistic Games using Openbet RGI integration. This includes such popular titles as Snakes and Ladders, Bullseye, Pentagram or Tutankhamun.

“Their passion, product knowledge and understanding of the industry was crucial in our decision to select them, and I’m convinced our customers are going to love their games,” said Lucinda Kelly, mobile games manager at Paddy Power, commenting that the company is really happy with their choice. 

Realistic Games offering now includes 15 slots, after the release of Randall’s Riches.

Randall’s Riches is a five-reel, ten-payline slot about the company’s Dove Randall mascot and includes two characters: Able and Mable who are on the quest for fortune. The game has multiplying gold and wild symbols, scatters that active a Pick Axe Bonus and TNT icons that start the Search for Randall’s Riches round. 

Realistic Games’ slots include the Real 2 Reel feature that allows players to switch between two views: a close-up of the game or a wider view with a casino in the background. 

Andy Harris, Commercial Director for Realistic Games said: “The graphics and the sound are great fun on Randall’s Riches and I know customers are going to really enjoy playing it. “As importantly, it will be available via Flash as well as Apple and Android versions of phone and tablet meaning they will be able to play it on all of the most popular devices and operating systems.”

Realistic Games’ Blackjack and Roulette applications for iPhone will be delivered by Ladbrokes.

The Roulette application has a 3D wheel effect, full game history and allows players to choose cloth colour. The Blackjack app has three betting boxes, responsive user interface, cloth colour, auto stand and a configurable in-game warning system to prevent players from standing or taking a card by mistake. 

The applications are available for free on the App Store. 

Andy Harris, Realistic Games commercial director said: “We can also offer these vital games in Flash, on demand HTML5 on phone and tablet and as stand-alone Apps. We’re confident they will deliver great benefit to Ladbrokes and our other customers by allowing them to tap into the vast number of players who’ll love the accessibility and quality on offer.”

“Realistic Games continue to provide great mobile content for our customers so we are delighted with the delivery of the Roulette and Blackjack Apps. These are already proving popular with our customers with the Roulette App reaching over 1,000 downloads in one day post launch,” commented John Petit, Ladbrokes commercial director. 

Realistic Games, British electronic gaming content supplier, has released Hot Cross Bunnies, a new three-reel slot game.

Hot Cross Bunnies is a classic slot game that contains the single win line feature, as well as features as nudges with auto nudge, rewind or Super Spin or when no win is available.

If a Bunny symbol appears anywhere on each of the three reels, the Bunny Money win streak feature will be triggered, where the maximum prize is 300x stake. 

The game is available for PCs, Android devices and tablets, iPhone and iPad. 

According to Andy Harris, commercial director at Realistic Games, the game will remind players of the past with its traditional features, but also give a glimpse of the future of slots with its availability on multiple devices. 

Paddy Power and Realistic Games have added blackjack and roulette to Paddy’s new sports book app for iPad. 

The new sports book app is available for iPad and allows users to switch between betting and table games without the need to transfer money or even leave the sportsbook. 

“We’ve felt for a while that embedding games in iPad sportsbooks, and blackjack and roulette in particular because of their resonance with sports customers, was an idea with great potential,” said Andy Harris, commercial director of Realistic Games, mentioning that the company had been working closely with Paddy Power to deal with a tight development schedule before the Grand National. 

“We knew that some of those customers are not always keen to migrate between betting and gaming sites and are often put off by having to move their money to other wallets. This solution negates both issues. The team at Paddy Power shared our enthusiasm about the idea so we created a prototype and agreed to push hard with the development.

 “We’re both delighted with the outcome and hope it provides Paddy Power with a big cross-sell boost for major forthcoming events like the Grand National and World Cup,” added Harris. 

Riverboat Gambler and Snapshot are two new slots that have been launched by Realistic Games. 

The new games are running on Realistic Games in-house ReGaL server and are available on mobile, tablet and desktop platforms. 

Both games have 20 winning likes. Snapshot offers the chance to win a jackpot of 500x total stake and Riverboat Gambler can give you up to 2,000x total stake. 

Realistic Games has also announced the launch of mobile and tablet versions of its popular desktop ‘Wild Safari’ slot.

“These games are the opening salvo in a host of new content we’ll be making available to our customers over the next few weeks. We hope that the quality of Riverboat and Snapshot and their availability across phone, tablet and desktop will help to make them a real success,” said Andy Harris, commercial director of Realistic Games.

Realistic Games has launched two new multi-platform slots. 

“6 Apparel” and “Jackpot Cherries” have been developed and released both in desktop and mobile versions. The two games will be available at a number of Realistic Games operators, including new clients. 

“6 Apparel” has five reels, 20 paylines and can award up to 2,000 times the total stake. “Jackpot Cherries” is a three-reel classic slot with one payline, nudges and holds and a top prize of 250 times the total stake. 

“In a congested market it is more important than ever to provide new and genuinely innovative games to operators and their customers, who are looking for something different. Many of our games are among the top-performers on whatever device they’re played on, and we’re confident 6 Appeal and Jackpot Cherries will be no different,” said Andy Harris, commercial director of Realistic Games. 

Realistic Games has launched a phone and tablet version of its casino product Keno. 

Realistic Games’ keno is a 80-ball draw that includes a turbo mode that speeds up the game, Auto Play function and a random selection option. There’s also a magnifier mode in the phone version to make it easier to select numbers accurately. 

“There are very few mobile Keno games available on the market. But we weren’t convinced that the ones that exist were presented as effectively as they could be, so we invested some time creating our own. We wanted to make the game as usable as possible. We’re confident it will be popular with players in a wide number of markets who enjoy the format and want to play on the move,” said Andy Harris, Realistic Games Commercial Director. 

Realistic Games’ Keno will soon be also available in a desktop version, joining the recently expanded suite of innovative new pull tab games. The company has also released three new five reel slots: 6 Appeal, Riverboat Gambler, and Snapshot, as well as Jackpot Cherries, a three reel slot.

Realistic Games has announced the launch of mini game versions of blackjack and roulette on BetVictor and Boylesports. 

The two games work together with the sportsbook and can be played while users bet on tournament matches and other sporting events.

Andy Harris, Commercial Director of Realistic Games said “Operators will be at their busiest during the World Cup and the opportunity to offer casino products without taking customers away from the sportsbook is very appealing. It is also consistent with our view that newcomers should be introduced to casino games with effective, user-friendly cross-sell that doesn’t detract from their normal enjoyment of the site.”

“We worked closely with BetVictor and Boylesports to ensure the real estate was used as effectively as possible in order to provide the optimum playing experience,” added Harris. “There is nothing more frustrating than finding a mini game is simply too mini, making you yearn for playing the full size game. These games are immensely playable,” added Harris.