Welcome to the world of famous Mr Baggins – the main character of the The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Here you have a chance to join unforgettable as well as very dangerous adventure and help Thorin to retrieve the former headquarters of the dwarves. Are you ready for this? Remember that the castle of dwarves hides many precious treasures in its underground chambers… So, you can be sure that your effort will be generously rewarded!

“Orc vs Elf” is an excellent 3D video slot game produced by Realtime Gaming. The quality of workmanship is very high, what can be notice in case of graphics and animations. Symbols that are appearing on the reels during the spin are also very magnificent. You will see orcs and elven castles, wolfs, white horses, bats, lilies, skulls, blue potions, skulls and swords. These everything will help you to kill the Smaug dragon who occupies the Lonely Mountain, and gain the lost gems.

Undeniably, this slot is very unique. You may ask why, but the answer is simple. It surprises at every turn, even at the very beginning when you have to decide to play as an Orc or Elf. However, this is not all because “Orc vs Elf” has prepared much more interesting features, bonuses and other surprises. Do you want to know them all? Be patient and read this review carefully.

The Orc or Elf symbol acts as an expanding Wild on reel 1 for all symbols except Elf shields. The Orc appears on the first reel only and replaces all other symbols except for the Elf Shield Scatters. The Elf only appears on the fifth reel and substitutes for all other symbols except the Orc Shield Scatters. Moreover, Orc and Elf count once on their reel for their Scatters.

If you are playing the Orc mode, three or more Orc Shield scattered in any position trigger one of the following features: Goblin’s Gold, Hobgoblin, Orc Army, Orc Horde, Giant Spins, Chaos Spins or Orc Onslaught in which you can win 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7 or 7 Free Spins respectively. However, if you are playing the Elf mode, three or more Elf Shields will activate one of seven features: Woodland Spins, Elf Magic, Huntsman, Ancient Archer, Archmage, Forestal or Elf King in which you can hit 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7 or 8 Free spins respectively.

The Goblin’s Gold feature awards you with 5 Free Spins during which darking symbols pay double. The darking symbols are: Orc Shields, Orc Forts, Wolves, Banners, Skulls and Swords. 

The Hobgoblin feature gives you up to 6 Free Spins, and 2 Scatters awards an extra Free Game.

You have also a chance to take a part in the battle between Orc and Elf. The special “Battle Bonus” is activated when the bonus icons appear on the reels 2, 3 and 4. Notice, that an Orc victor triggers the Goblin’s Gold feature and an Elf victor triggers the Woodland Spins feature. However, the defeat awards a consolation Bonus of 2 to 10 times your bet. Moreover, the winner of the fight also gets a Victory Point.

All in all, “Orc vs Elf” has everything you could possibly looking for! High payouts, amazing graphics, animations, great sound effects, interesting symbols and excellent features! You can find everything we mentioned about in one online slot game! Do you not believe? Check it on your own! Surely, you will not regret it!

Viking Slots launched in 2013, but the site has received a complete makeover recently. From a colorful and cheerful site, it has transformed to a darker casino with a beautiful Viking-themed background. In our opinion, the more mature approach has done the casino good and added a real character to it. Viking Slots is owned by LMA Gaming Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of Cyprus, while the games on the site (from Neo Games and Net Entertainment) are powered and operated by Aragon International Ltd. a fully licensed operator under the Remote Gaming Regulations of Malta and regulated by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta. The casino is available in English, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. 

At Viking Slots, all transactions and date are transferred using an encrypted SSL protocol and the website has been verified as secure by Verisign. The Random Number Generator used at this casino has been tested and certified by iTech Labs, a trusted and experienced Test Labs for online gaming, ensuring a safe and fair experience for all players. 

Viking Slots offers games from two great providers: Neo Games and Net Entertainment. The library of available titles includes around 200 games from such categories as slot games, casino games, scratch cards, jackpots and instant games. To make it even easier to find slots that match your preferences, the category has been further divided into 1-line, 3-15 lines, 20-50 lines, Bonus games and Free Spins. Players can enjoy all the great classics like Gonzo’s Quest or Jack and the Beanstalk, as well as newer releases like Millionaires Club III and South Park. Viking Slots is an Instant Play casino, so all games can be played directly from the website, without the hassle to download and install any software. 

New players at Viking Slots can enjoy a double Welcome Bonus. First of all, you can receive 20 Free Spins for Fruity Friends slots. Secondly, there’s a 100% Deposit Bonus up to $200. The wagering requirement for this Welcome Bonus is 35x bonus amount. The promotions don’t stop here, as Viking Slots will send you email with deposit or match up bonuses, cash back offers and promotions for new games. Furthermore, you can enjoy Rewards and VIP Programs, as well as Competitions and Tournaments. 

Viking Slots offers a pretty long list of Deposit methods, which includes Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, Skrill, Ukash, paysafecard, clickandbuy, EcoCard, PayPal and more. Withdrawals can be performed with Neteller, Skrill, Visa and MasterCard, Wire Transfer, Clickandbuy, Instadebit, EcoCard and PayPal. The casino has a withdrawal limit of $10,000 per month.

Customer Service at Viking Slots is available 24/7 and can be contacted by email, phone, live chat or fax. Don’t hesitate to use any of the options if you have any questions or experience any issues. What is more, the Customer Service section contains a list of some of the most frequent questions and answers from the casino. 

Vikings have been known as fans of gambling and various games. That’s where this casino took its inspiration from and it definitely does its best to make sure you enjoy yourself as much as the warriors of the Viking Age. 

Quartz Casino is an online casino owned by ProgressPlay Ltd. It launched in March 2014 and is licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta. It offers online casino games from a selection of great providers including Microgaming, NYX, Cryptologic, Quickspin, Rabcat, Genesis, NextGen Gaming and Push Gaming. 

Quartz Casino utilizes the latest 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption and firewall technology to ensure that sensitive data is transferred securely over the internet to protected servers. Online credit card processing is handled by several world renowned companies that specialize in secure online transactions and fraud protection. The casino uses RNG SG100 device that was designed and developed by Protego. 

Powered by such great companies as Microgaming, NYX, Cryptologic and more, Quartz Casino offers a selection of some of the best online casino games. Fans of video slots will be able to enjoy such hits like Thunderstruck 2, Avalon 2, The Dark Knight, Battlestar Galactica and many others. Aside of slots, Quartz Casino also offers casino games like Roulette, Poker, Blackjack and Live Dealer games like Baccarat, Multiplayer Blackjack, Live Roulette, Multiplayer Roulette and Multiplayer Baccarat. This is an Instant Play casino and all games can be accessed directly from your browser. For fans of playing on the go or in weird places, Quartz Casino offers a mobile section with a number of their slots. 

For new players, Quartz Casino offers a 100% First Deposit Bonus up to $/£/€200. The wagering requirement for this Welcome Bonus is 50x bonus amount. Other promotions available at this casino include Monday Madness, Cash Weekend Race, Insurance Thursdays, Spin the Slot, Weekly Surprise and Game of the Day. That’s a pretty nice selection that will ensure you can get something special on almost every day of the week. 

Quartz Casino accepts the following payment methods: Credit and Debit Cards, Neteller, Skrill and Ukash for deposits, with Wire Transfer and Check added to withdrawals. Transactions at this casino are processed by Olorra Management. The casino has the following deposit limits: upon registration - daily deposits of 1000 £/$/€, weekly deposits of 5000 £/$/€, monthly deposits of 20000 £/$/€; upon completion of the additional verification, daily deposits of 5000 £/$/€, weekly deposits of 10000 £/$/€, monthly deposits of 20000 £/$/€. The maximum withdrawal amount is 1,500 £/$/€ per week and 3,000 £/$/€ per month, except in the case of progressive jackpot winning.

If you wish to get in touch with the casino to ask questions about their offers or seek help, you can use a Live Chat application on the website. Sadly, there’s no email available on the contact page, so you’re limited to that one option only. There’s also a small FAQ but it’s very informative.

Quartz Casino is a good place to check out if you’re looking for online slots from different providers, including some less popular options. We especially recommend that you check out slots from Rabcat or Genesis. Being a rather young casino, it feels a little unrefined and rough around the edges, but given time, it can develop into a decent gaming destination. 

Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in four films, is one of the latest celebrities to get behind an online gaming site. This summer, Brosnan appeared in a commercial for Rome, Italy-based Lottomatica Group, which through a subsidiary has applied for a license to run real-money online poker in Nevada. The Silver State’s industry is legal and just months away.

Lottomatica — an operator of online and traditional lotteries, sports betting and much more in the gaming sector — currently does business in regulated markets around the world.

Here’s the spy-style commercial posted on Adland.tv.

Lottomatica owns a entity called Spielo International, which has submitted an application to provide Internet gaming systems and software to brick-and-mortar casinos in Nevada’s upcoming intrastate market. In the Mojave Desert, for now, web gaming is restricted to only poker. The subsidiary has offices around the world, including Las Vegas.

Lottomatica Group also owns Rhode Island-based GTECH, another supplier of gaming technology. Offshoot GTECH G2 controls the International Poker Network, home to a number of European-facing sites such as Mermaid Poker, Virgin Poker, Poker Heaven, Sportingbet, Bet365 and Poker Hour. Sweden-based Boss Media AB and Gibraltar-based St. Minver Ltd, also Nevada web poker applicants, run the International Poker Network for GTECH.

Brosnan joins the likes of Pam Anderson (BamPoker), Brody Jenner (RocketFrog), Kevin Pollak (Hollywood Poker) and Rafael Nadal (PokerStars) in recently endorsing online gaming.

It has been reported that over the past 50 years an estimated 25 percent of the world’s population has seen at least one James Bond film.

Belgian operator Win2Day has gone live with poker in Belgium. It was announced by Prima Networks, who supplies win2day.be with casino and bingo software. Now the operator has decided to extend its portfolio with Prima Network’s poker. The product is characterized by high quality of both the game itself and back office, what offers players a great gaming experience.

Loraine Schoevers, Director of Prima Networks, says: “win2day.be was our first operator in the Belgian market, so it is exciting to see its portfolio developing with the help of Prima Networks’ products. Our poker offering is the best on the market, so we’re confident that it will be the perfect fit for win2day.be to attract a loyal following of players.”

Emmerich Hager, Co-CEO at win2day.be, adds: “To extend our portfolio with the Prima Networks’ poker offering was the logical next step, to attract the win2day.be players. It’s a great extension to our offering for the Belgian market.”

Boyd Gaming Corporation announced that its B Connected Online was awarded the Gold Award for Best Hospitality & Leisure Website at this year’s International Business Awards, while B Connected Mobile received the Silver Award in the category of Travel App.

International Business Awards, also known under the name of “Stevie Awards” are considered world’s premier business awards. The products awarded have received numerous business awards since their launch, among them the American Gaming Association's Communications Award; the Adrian Awards, presented by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International; the Interactive Media Awards; and the Magellan Awards, presented by the League of American Communications Professionals.

„These awards demonstrate that B Connected Online and B Connected Mobile have set a new standard of excellence for the worldwide hospitality industry. By delivering highly personalized, constantly updated information to our guests, these innovative tools support and enhance our strategy of creating consistently memorable experiences for our guests.” Commented Paul Chakmak. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Boyd Gaming.

Aristocrat Technologies, casino management systems designer and supplier, announced its nLive solution was employed in a play-for-fun online domain launched by the Island Resort Casino in the American state of Michigan. This is the first time a tribal group has utilized this solution, available at Casino.IslandResortAndCasino.com. “The Hannahville Indian Community is a visionary tribe and the Island Resort Casino is a stand-out leader in tribal country,” said Kelly Shaw, System Sales and Marketing Vice-President for Aristocrat Technologies.

“The tribe looked to us to create a solution to be a strong marketing tool to drive players to the bricks-and-mortar operation and we are confident that the powerful combination of the nLive virtual casino and the nLiveLink player rewards link will do exactly that.”

Aristocrat Technologies declared that its solution is essential in taking brands to iGaming players and increasing the virtual player loyalty. “Island Resort Casino is a long-time partner of Aristocrat Technologies and the company's Oasis 360 system,” read a statement from Las Vegas-based Aristocrat Technologies.

“Island Resort Casino was the first tribal operation to contract for an nLive site and is the first to go live. The site also uses Aristocrat's nLiveLink, which links the virtual and bricks-and-mortar casinos for a holistic view of player behaviour.”

Net Entertainment has announced the release of its latest video slot, Evolution.

Evolution is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot takes players back to the origins of life, to a world filled with primitive creatures crawling up the evolutionary ladder.

The game features Wild substitutions, Free Spins, as well as the new and innovative Evolution feature in Free Spins. The reels spin from bottom to top rather than the traditional top to bottom, offering players a different gaming experience.

With the new Evolution feature in Free Spins players are allowed to evolve up the evolutionary ladder in the game. This feature increases wins with every winning symbol, whilst removing lower value symbols in the process.

The game has sophisticated graphics and sound as well as colorful animations, which add excitement on the reels and provide an entertaining and exciting gaming experience.

“Evolution becomes the latest innovative video slot game to be added to our portfolio and the sophisticated pay table design adds excitement on the reels,” said Per Eriksson, President and CEO of Net Entertainment. “This latest addition continues to see us drive the online casino market through better games and provide the ultimate gaming experience for the players,” he added.

The game designer International Game Technology (IGT) developed its game portfolio after signing deals with several third-party developers.

Among the developers there is High 5 Games, the deal with which is for IGT the continuation of its “long-standing relationship” delivering “exciting slot entertainment to players across all platforms.” They will provide 16 titles, including Big Dragon Lounge, Golden Three Kingdom and That’s a Hi.

“Through securing a multi-year and robust arrangement with High 5 Games, we provide a healthy foundation with the addition of support from several other third-party developers to create capacity from multiple sources,” said Patti Hart, Chief Executive Officer for Las Vegas-based IGT.

“Increasing our visibility into future game development trends and expanding our sourcing provides more leverage for our studios, our customers and our investors. By combining IGT's market research into player preferences with our studios’ expertise in building the best games in the industry along with our line-up of third-party developers, we continue to develop some of the most sought-after casino games.”

IGT announced that it is going to maintain its “industry-leading game performance and quality” with the help of others “numerous top-performing studios.” The company also stated that it is going to continue the development of such games as Candy Bars and Takes The Cake, with the former laying claims to be the best game performing for sale in the history.

Microgaming has released its latest video slot entitled Phantom Cash. It is a five-reel, 25-payline steam-punk-themed game.

Phantom Cash video slot is Microgaming’s offer for Halloween, since it aims to capture the celebration of horror. The main characters in this game are Victorian Ghost Hunters Thurmingham and Carstairs. Players will join them and help them to capture as many ghosts and ghouls as possible using electrified spirit-snares. Phantom Cash video slot has an eerie atmosphere created by appropriate graphics and sound effects, which depict a dark and frightening setting.

The game offers a number of entertaining features. The Ghost Zap Feature, triggered by 3, 4 or 5 haunted mansion symbols which herald the entrance of the two ghost hunters on the first and fifth reel, starts off the action-packed experience. The ghost hunters capture all the ghosts on their row, triggering a 2x multiplier with free spins. If both of them appear at the same time a 4x multiplier is awarded and the free spins continue until all ghosts have been zapped.

The game's betting range allows players to start off $0.01 with a maximum bet of $0.25 per line. Players can win up to $22,000.00 in the base game and $18,250.00 on free spins.

This spooky video slot offers an interesting theme with a mixture of special features, such as wilds, scatters and free spins. Join the two ghost hunters and capture as many ghosts as possible in order to experience maximum reward and enjoyment from Phantom Cash video slot.