The leading software provider Microgaming has announced the inclusion of its Christmas themed online slot game Deck the Halls to its multi-player tournament portfolio from December 2012. Microgaming organizes a considerable variety of tournament formats for online casinos licensing its software. It has a dedicated portfolio of games that are used in these tournaments. These include some of its most popular slot games like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Thunderstruck.
Deck the Halls will be the eleventh title on the online tournament platform. The addition comes at an appropriate time because the Christmas festivities have begun. The Microgaming press release says, “The slot captures the essence of the festive season featuring Christmas trees, Santa Claus, log fires, reindeers, roast turkey and gift stockings.” Microgaming has confirmed that the addition was made on December 5. The first online tournament on Deck the Halls will commence on December 7. This tournament will have the popular Microgaming Accumulator format and will run throughout December. The tournament will distribute the guaranteed prize pool to the top 75 players. The premier online tournament at Microgaming online casinos is Monthly Monster. This month’s event will be hosted on Deck the Halls and will begin on December 21. It will run for a period of 11 days. As such the Monthly Monster offers the largest guaranteed prize pool on the Microgaming online tournament platform. Because of the Christmas period this has increased from $25,000 to $30,000. Monthly Monster promises prizes for the top 40 players. Thereafter tournaments utilizing Deck the Halls will be offered to all Microgaming online casinos on a regular basis.
Mike Hebden, Head of Casino at Microgaming, said that the multi-player tournaments provided a dynamic and interactive experience to slots players. Slots tournaments present an opportunity for players to win big for small stakes and to compete with fellow enthusiasts from around the world. He pointed out that Microgaming ran hundreds of tournaments daily. “The addition of Deck the Halls will certainly enhance our multi-player offering,” he said. Hebden assured that further additions to the online tournaments slots portfolio will be announced in the New Year.
Another popular Microgaming slot game has been in the news as well. This is Immortal Romance which has been introduced on the Microgaming Mobile Air client. Immortal Romance is a graphics and features rich online slot and as a first in the online gaming industry, Microgaming is utilizing hardware acceleration to ensure graphics and usability quality is not lost. This technology optimally utilizes the mobile handset’s hardware and directly targets the Graphics Processing Unit instead of relying on the main Central Processing Unit to render the game graphics. Immortal Romance was launched at the Microgaming download casinos exactly a year ago and has proved to be extremely popular.
10/12/2012, 5:56 am