The leading software developer for the global Internet gaming market, CryptoLogic Limited has added 7 new games to its already impressive tally of games. Among the new games launched are a game based on Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong and the popular Casinomeister portal, as well as new European Blackjack and upgraded European Roulette software and other innovations.

Brian Hadfield, CryptoLogic’s President and CEO said, “CryptoLogic has made its award-winning Internet casino platform its number one priority, and we continue to lead the way with the best branded and non-branded games on the market today.” He added, “CryptoLogic’s other branded games based on well-known characters have been both highly popular and highly profitable - and we have high hopes that King Kong and our other new games can scale similar heights.”

The first game to be added is King Kong which takes on New York City in a smashing new 25-line slot game based on the classic 1933 film directed by Merian C. Cooper. Two amazing bonus features - King Kong Goes Ape and King Kong Smash - will have players going bananas as they smash planes for a chance to win free spins or a mystery prize.

The second game is Casinomeister which is a popular portal that provides information and news on online gambling, online casinos, player issues and industry events. With no other site of its kind, Casinomeister has been providing both players and operators with crucial online casino information for a decade.

The other new games are European Blackjack and an upgraded version of European Roulette. European Blackjack features updated and market-leading functionality, including a resizable game window and auto-bet and auto-strategy options. In this version of Blackjack, the dealer does not receive a second card until after all the player hands have been completed. Liberal split and double-down rules are included to ensure an exciting game experience. European Roulette reinvigorates this traditional casino favorite. Brilliant graphics and sounds combine with exciting new features to put a state-of-the-art roulette game at the player’s fingertips.

Rounding out the seven-game pack are a series of action-packed 25-line slot games, including Little Master, a feisty slot game that packs a punch - and a few kicks - as well as a chance to double or quadruple any winnings with a Double Up feature. In Picnic Panic, players do battle with a group of sneaky ants. With two great bonus features and chances to win up to 7500 times your bet, you will be carried away by this lively and exciting new slot game. Dr. M Brace is one physician players will not mind visiting. This 25-line slot game delivers two pulse-pounding features, including a chance to win up to 10,000 times your bet.

As an extra addition to its already nice collection of games PartyGaming will leverage top performing, branded game titles from WagerWorks. PartyGaming has selected Cleopatra®, Monopoly with Pass “Go” Bonus, Cluedo and Wheel of Fortune® Hollywood Edition to further strengthen its exclusive themed content game offering. In the coming months the games will be available on PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com as well as a number of Party Gaming’s other gaming sites.

Paul Mathews, President of WagerWorks, said “We are pleased to have been selected to provide a number of our top performing games to help them deliver its long term strategy. This agreement shows that we have quality games to suit the biggest players in the market. PartyGaming has identified that our games fit well within their portfolio and support the continuing evolution of their product strategy.”

Jim Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of PartyGaming, added “We are delighted to have secured these market leading games from WagerWorks for our product suite. Having already established their appeal and performance with players around the world, we hope that through our gaming platform these new games will prove to be popular additions to our games portfolio. The games will compliment our other market-leading branded slots, such as The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Top Gun, Mission: Impossible and The Terminator that each form part of our ongoing strategy to offer unique and exclusive themed content and provide our players with the best entertainment experience online.” They are certain that they will have new players logging on and trying the new games as soon as they launch.

The Australian government is planning to test internet filters that will help prevent its citizens from accessing online casinos. Senator Steve Fielding, who unsurprisingly campaigns under the “Family First” banner, wants a compulsory policy forcing service providers to filter available sites.

Australian political observers say the government is under pressure from a vocal minority to require Internet Service Providers to block not only illegal material, such as child pornography, but anything of which they disapprove, such as online gambling sites, fetish sites, and whatever comes next.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had promised that anyone unhappy with the censorship of the Internet could opt out of the filtering plan, but Conroy’s tune has changed. Now he says that there will be a two-tiered system. Adults wishing to drop out of the block against websites deemed dangerous to children could do so. But all Australians would be barred from sites thought dangerous to adults, which may contain Internet casinos as well as x-rated material featuring consenting adults.

The blacklist would be administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. This would mean that all Australians would be barred from sites thought dangerous to adults, which may contain Internet casinos.

In the Powerball draw that was held on Saturday there was no jackpot winner. However, there were other winners, with one each from Colorado and Tennessee who matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $400,000 in cash each. Two other winners in Arizona and Missouri matched all 5 white ball numbers for a sum of $200,000 cash each. In addition, 462,112 tickets across the nation won a total of $4,054,666 in prizes.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $59 million. The cash option for the Wednesday, October 29th drawing will be an estimated $30.4 million. The numbers drawn Saturday night were 1, 3, 14, 38, 48 and the Powerball was 2. The Power Play multiplier was 2.

Other prizes won Saturday evening included twenty-one tickets that matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000. Eight additional tickets at this prize level were also wisely purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 2 times to $20,000 cash.

A total of 91,139 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 2 in the draw held on Saturday. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play you multiply your Powerball winnings from 2 to 5 times, except for the jackpot. At the beginning of each drawing a wheel is spun to select that night’s multiplier. Players purchased $20,423,351 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Thursday and Saturday night.

The Gold Mega Jackpot at the online casino, Party Casino has been growing and growing over the past few months, and currently stands at almost $1 million dollars. The Gold Mega Jackpot is part of the casinos Mega Fortune Wheel Online Slot. Just recently in fact, a Party Casino regular by the name of mobuypoker took home a massive $1,131,264 in winnings.

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All of these online slots have minimum bets of just 1 cent, to a maximum of $200 per spin. They also vary in the way the jackpot is paid out, with some offering the maximum jackpot on just a 1c bet. The slots also include fun and interesting themes to play through, ranging from the mysterious and mystical to themes based on movies such as The Godfather.

Party Casino was launched early 2006 by Party Gaming. The software the casino uses is a specially developed in-house software package. The software is very easy-to-use with regard to navigation. With quick links one can easily switch between the different types of games that they have to offer. Players can choose between 6 different blackjack games, under which a multiplayer version.

The online casino, JackpotCity.com has come up with an interesting new welcome bonus offer. The offer means that the player will get money in their account before they deposit a penny of their own. This offer is like what many online casinos have on offer and what they give is a 100% match bonus on a players’ first deposit. Under the new scheme new players can get up to $100 in free bonus money this way.

The casino will start giving the welcome bonus even before the player makes the first deposit. When a player registers a real money account, the player is given the opportunity to get started by playing for free for a while. New players that opt for this promotion are given 500 credits in their free play account which they can later turn into real money.

Players have half an hour to play with the free credits. Any winnings they have after that time can be transferred to their real money account. For example, if a player has 550 credits after the first half hour, $50 is credited to their real money account. And that’s before they’ve even made a cash deposit of their own.

The casino offers over 300 top online casino games, including Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Craps, Video Poker and their world famous hi-definition Gold Series. Their most popular online slot machines include: Thunderstruck Video Slot, Hitman Video Slot, Tomb Raider Video Slot, Ladies Nite Video Slot and the Mega Moolah Progressive Slot where the jackpot is currently the largest online slot machine jackpot available standing at over $4.3 Million.

The people of Argentina may now face the wrath of the authorities regarding all forms of online gambling. The long-arm of the law has decided to put an end to all untaxed, unregistered online gambling activity. The latest unpopular bill to be proposed would effectively eliminate all online gambling. Councilor Luis Alberto Mauri wants all gambling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Argentineans from accessing their websites.

The ban may prove to be an unenviable challenge, given the country’s love of gambling activity. Lawmakers are quick to point out that they are all for regulated and taxable gambling activity, but not for the unregulated version. The targets of the new bill include: casino games, sports betting, poker and bingo. This is the only way for government to get a slice of the action, or, so they think.

The first Bill basically called all forms of online gambling illegal – although what qualifies as ‘online gambling’ is still uncertain. The second bill places the onus on ISPs to prohibit citizens from accessing online gambling sites as well as listing the aforementioned gambling activities as illegal.

Penalties for violation of these terms, if the bill is successful in passing, may result in fines or imprisonment. Now ISP’s will be in the position of blocking those sites that are online gambling websites. Amidst the controversy, citizens are calling for the widespread regulation of the industry, not it’s foreclosure.

IG Sport (which is a spread betting firm) and sister fixed-odds operator extrabet.com have launched the first UK Gambling Commission licensed online casino powered by Chartwell Technology Inc. The casino went live last week and further expands the leisure offering from IG Group Holdings which includes sports spread betting, sports binary betting and fixed-odds sports betting.

The head of IG Sport and extrabet.com said, “We’re delighted to add Chartwell’s casino to our on-line sports betting portfolio and proud that we can boast the first UK Gambling Commission licensed online casino.” He added, “While both our fixed-odds and sports spread betting products remain strong, we also recognize the appetite for other modes of on-line gaming and so the benefits of increasing the offerings on our online platforms.”

In order to fulfill the IG Group’s requirements and commitment to regulatory leadership, Chartwell’s gaming system underwent a thorough certification process required by the UK regulatory authority that meets or exceeds gaming regulation anywhere in the world. This included both corporate and software certification to ensure maximum security and reporting functionality necessary for Chartwell to receive certification by the UK Gambling Commission under the new regime.

The online search engine, Google has announced that it is partially reversing a policy against accepting gambling advertisements. The company announced that its decision over the last year to ban gaming ads will no longer be applicable to England, Scotland, and Wales.

The online search has said that its corporate motto is “Don’t be evil,” and made implications that the ban on gambling ads was part of a decision to protect the public from such other promotions as those for guns, prostitution, and so-called miracle cures. However, Google did not find gaming unethical until the company was forced to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice.

In that matter, it paid a fine for having accepted ads for online casinos. The removal of any future ads prevented Google from another legal headache with the U.S. government.

Google is presently facing a stock value that is off by almost fifty percent, largely due to declining revenues as advertising dollars are harder to come by in the struggling economy. Internet gambling advertisements represent a huge source of income.

The search engine has defended its policy change by saying it preferred to localize such decisions to comply with local customs and traditions. Online gambling is legal in Britain. Of course, if that logic were extended, then prostitution ads would be alright in parts of Nevada, and firearms could be pushed in Texas and Florida.

Google says only licensed gambling establishments will qualify as advertisers. Any ads accepted will be coded non-family-safe, which allows parental control software to block them.

The online poker room, FullTiltPoker.com which is licensed out of Alderney has announced that it will be hosting the tenth edition of its Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) next month. The series will begin with a $216 no-limit hold’em six-max event.

Featuring a one million dollar guarantee, the first game of the FTOPS will kick off November 5 before the competition moves on to a $256 pot-limit Omaha Knockout event with a prize pool of $200,000 the next day.

The event began two years ago with eight games and a combined guaranteed prize pool of more than one million dollars. The special competition has moved on since then with the last edition in August awarding more than $15 million in prize money over 25 events.

The competition will run through November 16 and feature another 25 events and a cumulative prize pool of over $15 million. All games will be hosted by a member of the Team Full Tilt stable of professional players and the games will end with $535 no-limit hold’em main event featuring a $2.5 million guarantee.

It will span twelve days and include a $535 no-limit hold’em tournament with a guaranteed $300,000 prize on November 6 and a $535 Omaha pot-limit six-max competition with a $350,000 reward on November 8.

For those who were eliminated before the money in any game, the site is even offering a special Bounce backability Freeroll event on November 22. Open to all players who were the last to be eliminated before the money in any event, the Freeroll will feature entry into the main event of the next edition of the FTOPS as a prize.