Online Gambling Insider, an independent news portal and player advocate, reviews some of the best online casino slot machine games launched this year. With Olympic Games fever running high, two games that celebrate the games catch the eye.

(EMWNews) August 8, 2008 — Online Gambling Insider offers online gambling fans a variety of specialist guides including one of the most comprehensive online slots guide, which is packed with slots game reviews, bonus information and strategies and advice about optimizing your slots play. Slots players are in for quite a treat with five great new games making headlines in August. The games are reviewed in detail in the Online Gambling Insider Slots Guide.

“This month we have seen some of the most exciting online slots released for a while. There are two Olympic themed games that are particularly exciting with the start of the Games finally upon us,” says Ryan D, the site’s founder and editor.

The first of the two new games with an Olympic theme is the Microgaming powered Stash of the Titans, a 5 reel, 20 pay-line format video slot . This is a tongue-in-cheek look at some of those old tall tales from Greek mythology and the 1981 cult movie with a similar title. The brilliant colorful artwork has many familiar looking characters such as Medusa, Cerebus, Pegasus and the dreaded monster Kraken, all integrated into a game that has a wide range of winning opportunities through Wild, Scatter, Free Spin and Multiplier advantages.

Continuing the amusing Olympic theme is the Flash-only AWP (“Amusement with Prizes”) slot machine, Track and Field Mouse from Microgaming. The game puts an athletic mouse on the trail of free spins, multipliers and generous cash awards, giving the player all the traditional interactive assists such as holds, various types of nudges and shifta moves that enable the exercise of skill to boost good fortune. The Gold, Silver or Bronze level winning spins range from 1 to 50 on 6 different reel symbols and a feature screen. In the feature game, the top set of reels has 5 win lines, the bottom reels only 1.

“These two games give slots fans a great chance to celebrate the start of the Olympic Games and win some cash in the process,” says Ryan.

The second AWP style slot machine released by Microgaming this month is the amusing HipHopopotamus which combines the hip hop street music craze with a fun, lurid purple gangsta hippopotamus bedecked with tons of bling to create an amusing theme for a state-of-the-art, ‘pub fruitie’ style slot with great reward prospects. The accent is on fun, but the returns can be serious for players with the right mix of interactive skill and luck, who control game-play through a variety of features in the best AWP slot tradition, with nudge and holds that present repeated chances for skill to come into play.

“HipHopoPotamus” is a 3 reel machine with the popular trail feature. The reel bands have overlaid number and bonus symbols on them which add to the trail action and present the successful player with an impressive range of rewards.

The last game inn the August Microgaming release list is a seriously big 5 reel, 30 pay-line video slot with a host of winning features called “The Adventures of the Galactic Gopher”. The theme is a comical journey into space, populated with imaginatively weird and colorful aliens presenting a variety of winning features to the player. These include Wild, Multiplier, Scatter, Free Spin and Gamble features guaranteed to deliver both excitement and the opportunity to score out-of-this-world rewards. The key symbols in this game are the spaceship and the Galactic Gopher himself, with the critter running Wild and the catter operating as the Scatter…and the trigger for a generous Free Spins feature. This delivers up to 10 re-triggering freebies in which all wins are multiplied by a mystery multiplier, but keep a sharp eye out… where a rocket blasting off indicates a mystery multiplier win as the smoke clears.

In other news, the innovate Rival Gaming has released a new slot machine of their own. Although on the surface “Western Wilderness” appears to be another run of the mill Wild West themed game, the stand out feature is the 100 free spins that can be re-triggered.

Online Gambling Insider recommends Casino Share (Microgaming) and This is Vegas Casino (Rival Powered) as two great places where players can try these games.

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