Microgaming

Most diehard pokies fans want to play the greatest games from the best online casinos. But behind the scenes, the success of these games is way past the capabilities of an individual casino. There are those guys who sat down and coded the whole game from scratch. There are those guys who decided to give the game the Jurassic Park theme you love, or the crazy win animations. These guys are called the game developers! We will review five of the biggest game developers of online pokies game today. In this first part of five, we look at Microgaming.

Brief History

Founded in 1994 and based in the Isle of Man, Microgaming taunt themselves as the first online game software developers. Since 1994, the company has been producing the biggest game names in the industry. Microgaming now has over 100 operators providing millions of players with more than 750 high quality casino games with more than 1,200 variants. Among the popular games from the company are online pokies. There are more than 200 online pokies developed by Microgaming. Other products include mobile, casino, Bingo, SportsBook, Land-Based, live Dealer and network gaming.

Microgaming has specifically invested in mobile gaming with over 225 dedicated games, 75 native games (for the Android platform) and 65 HTML5 games that cab be launched from a web browser. With such a huge collection of games, Microgaming has been able to push games from our desktop and ‘squeeze’ them perfectly to our tablets and smartphones.

Microgaming’s ground-breaking and innovative work has seen the company achieve various milestones earning them respect within and outside the industry. In 2012, Microgaming scooped “The Best Casino Software” award and in 2013, during the RNG Software awards, Microgaming won “The Poker Software of the Year” and “Innovation of the year awards”. Other milestones come in the form of jackpots and payouts. Microgaming software payed out AUD 6.8 million in what is the “biggest mobile gaming win” in history. As if this is not impressive enough, they still hold the record for the biggest Bingo win at AUD 10.8 Million and AUD 9.2 Million for the biggest casino win in history.

In other milestones that don’t contain numbers; Microgaming was the first company to develop a progressive jackpot with pokies that are interlinked around the world and the development of the first no-download online casino that enabled fans to play online pokies from their browsers. To date, their progressive jackpot network is the largest in the world. Microgaming in a show of social responsibility was among the founding fathers of eCOGRA and IGC (Interactive Gaming Council). These are organizations that try to maintain sanity within the industry by promoting fair, responsible gaming. Other landmarks include charity work in education, sports and the fight against drug abuse.

Microgaming publishes a mix of both licensed and proprietary content that plays a part in keeping content fresh and unique. Here is a short description of the big pokies names that have come out of Microgaming production line;

The Dark Knight Rises – Adopted from Christopher Nolan’s final movie of the Batman trilogy is a world class with incredible graphics and imagery that is describe as ‘close to real’. The Dark Knight Rises is known for its huge jackpot of more than a million coins and many different amazing scenes making this game popular among fans.

Pub Fruity – Theme like the old slot machines with themed symbols, this game has attracted diehard fans and the conservative fans alike. Well, this game takes us back to those days before IGA or government intervention when pokies were just carefree.

Girls With Guns Jungle Heat/Frozen Dawn – What happens when gorgeous women packing mean looking weapons? This game will take you for adventures deep into the dangerous jungle. This game combines incredible graphics with quality bonus features and huge payouts.

Playboy – Well this must be the hardest pokies Microgaming pulled. It combines a sensual feel with the classic classy feel. The game takes you to a Playboy club, and you are to work your way through with four wordies as your guides.

Avalon / Avalon II – A huge popular pokies that all parties enjoy. Microgaming is very proud of this game perhaps because they worked it up from scratch. Fans love this game because it offers five reels and 20 paylines plus a medieval theme featuring King Arthur and his army of Knights of the Round Table around the mystical land of Camelot.

Immortal Romance – These is for those who love stories and huge jackpots – how about 3 Million coins for a jackpot? It has a romantic-gothic (hell yeah! They co-exist) theme that will blow your mind.

Thunderstruck / Thunderstruck II – These two amazing pokies are inspired by the Norse mythology and Vikings. It has sharp cartoon graphics.

Terminator 2 – A 2014 version that is perhaps the most famous brand release of the year. It packs innovative, eye-catching features, and we vote it as the best modern-classic game of the year.

Major Millions – Major millions is popular for one reason, the millions! The game has huge payouts and jackpots, and that’s why it attracts so many players.

Mega Moolah / The Dark Knight – And finally, *drumrolls* the pride of Microgaming. These two games have been played millions of times all over the world. They both have huge jackpots and have payed-out over 20 times since commissioning.

You can play any of these pokies from a Microgaming online pokies casino. You will surely enjoy these great works.

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