Our online casino reviews now cover even more online casinos

Here at onlinecasino.ie we do all we can to help existing online casino games enthusiasts and potential new players enjoy that part of their leisure time as much as possible. We encourage our readers to try as many new games as possible, particularly the traditional casino games which are rarely available in our own casinos such as craps, baccarat and backgammon, and we do that by dedicating a major part of this site to detailing the rules of these games. We also keep a close eye on the ever growing number of online casino sites coming on stream through our regular online casino reviews, and we use the results of those regular reviews to compile our list of recommended sites. The early development of what we now refer to as the online casino sector came about when the major bookmakers started to introduce a few gambling games to their established online sports gambling sites. The original aim of this decision was an attempt to maximise the returns on their investment in the technology and software to set up their online gambling sites, but it very quickly became apparent that the idea of playing gambling games online was proving popular and attracting a whole new group of gambling enthusiasts. In response to the increasing popularity of playing gambling games online, the bookmakers who were operating these sites quickly added more and more games and the idea of an online casino was born. Our online casino reviews were a bit easier in those early days because the only online casino sites available in Ireland were those which formed a part of the bigger online gambling sites operated by our leading bookmakers. Our recommended online casino list was also clearly much more limited than it is today because there was less choice. Those early days were nevertheless very interesting times because of the speed with which the online casino operators were adding new games, and of course the diverse range of those games. All the well-known traditional casino games were of course available, including those mostly played in casinos in other parts of the world, but the online casino software suppliers were also quick to develop other online casino games, including for instance a range of numbers games. These new games were naturally based on the ever popular game of bingo, and therefore appealed to an existing group of bingo enthusiasts who had perhaps stopped playing at their local bingo club when the smoking ban came into force. There were also several new dice games and of course a huge range of slots games covering a wide range of themes. It is these slots games which became the principle area of competition between the online casino operators, and as a consequence also the primary focus of our attention during our regular online casino reviews. The slots games also quickly became the favourite type of casino game for most of the new online casino customers, therefore increasing their importance even more. They are also the reason why the casino software companies became so important within the online casino sector, because all the slots games featured on the online casino sites were designed and supplied by the software suppliers.
As the online casino operators were asking for more and more slots games to compete with their rivals, so we saw more different themes being introduced into the graphics, many of which required attention to associated copyright issues. As an example it was primarily the licensing agreements that the leading casino software supplier Playtech was able to negotiate with Marvel and Paramount which led to their eventual dominance in the sector. As we have already commented earlier in this article, until two or three years ago all the online casinos available in Ireland were operated by the big bookmakers, so when some of them chose the same software supplier the already limited choice of online casino sites was further affected by some of those sites offering very similar if not identical casino slots games. That was of course not true of every site, and in Ireland we were fortunate that our favourite bookmaker Paddy Power chose to use one of the smaller software companies to supply the range of casino games for their online casino site so many of their games remained relatively exclusive and helped them to consistently score well during our online casino reviews.
Over the last couple of years however our online casino reviews have been able to cover a much greater variety of online casino sites, with several new sites coming on stream. All of these new online casinos specialise solely in providing an exciting range of casino games, and offer no sports gambling options at all. This tends to make these specialist online casino sites easier to navigate than some of the bigger online gambling sites operated by our bookmakers. As you would expect, these new online casinos all attempt to offer something different to establish a position in the market, but they all have one thing in common and that is that they all use one or more of the smaller casino software companies to supply their games. The All Irish casino for instance was the first to offer a live casino option streamed from a real casino, in their case based in Malta. The All Irish casino uses NetEntertainment to supply their range of casino games, which not only provides them with many exclusive slots games but also offers some of the best quality graphics. Other smaller online casinos which have made our recommended list as a result of good online casino reviews are CasinoLand, Yako and Instacasino, all of which offer a range of slots games supplied by a number of different software companies providing them with a much more diverse range of games. The importance of the software suppliers is increasing all the time, but at least there are more of the smaller companies being used by the new online casinos and this has made carrying out our online casino reviews far more interesting for us and hopefully for you the reader.