Our online casino reviews are now probably even more interesting

There is absolutely no doubt that widespread access to the internet has effected all our lives in one way or another. There are computers in almost every workplace across the country, and nowadays most of us have access to the internet at home via a PC, laptop or tablet, and even through our mobile phones. Many of us now communicate with friends and family through e-mail or through a variety of social media sites, and of course we can also shop online, manage our bank accounts online and even pay our utility bills and communicate with government departments online. Many of the people and organisations who have driven our increasing dependence on the internet have always argued that the internet would also provide us all with more leisure time to enjoy, but it appears that much of that increased leisure time is also being spent online. There is no doubt that most of us who enjoy gambling as part of our leisure activities are definitely doing more of our gambling online, and the number of online gambling sites continues to increase. Here at onlinecasino.ie we have seen the online casino gambling sector grow from being just a small part of large sports gambling sites operated by the leading bookmakers, to a leisure sector featuring many new specialist online casinos offering a much greater range of casino games than ever before. This rapid development in the number and range of online casinos we can now access here in Ireland has also increased the importance and relevance of our regular online casino reviews. We have been carrying out our online casino reviews for many years, and of course also used them to compile our published list of recommended online casinos. In the early years the only online casino games which were available in Ireland were to be found on the large online sports gambling sites operated by the big bookmakers, and were only there because those companies were looking to improve the returns on their investment in the technology and software to set up their sites. The decision to add a few casino games to these sites proved so successful that what started out as a relatively small part of their sports gambling sites quickly grew to become a major feature for all the bookmaker’s online gambling sites. As more and more casino games were added to these sites, so our online casino reviews needed to become more and more comprehensive. All the online gambling sites operated by the leading bookmakers included traditional casino games such as roulette and blackjack in their range of casino games, but it was the slots games which began to take centre stage as the sites expanded. The vast majority of casino games now available on any online casino site, including the newer recently introduced specialist online casinos, are slots games in various forms and this is the area in which the individual sites compete with each other. It is also the element of the online casino business in which the online casino software companies have the greatest influence. Almost all the slots games we can play at an online casino have been designed and supplied by one of the growing number of casino software companies, and it would be no exaggeration to say that the success of any online casino is largely down to their choice of software supplier.

This means that when we carry out our online casino reviews we are effectively reviewing the work of the casino software designers rather than the site operators. The most successful of all the online casino software companies is Playtech, and the main reasons for this success were their licensing agreements with two major media companies, Marvel and Paramount which enabled them to introduce slots games based on popular comic and film characters. Their slots games can be found on sites operated by William Hill, Ladbrokes and many of the other online casino sites operated by the bookmakers and form part of their sports gambling sites. The exception is the Paddy Power online casino, which although it also forms just part of a much larger site provides casino games supplied by a company called Wagerworks. This was a good decision by Paddy Power, because it ensured that many of the casino games they offered were exclusive and not available elsewhere.

We have enjoyed carrying out all our online casino reviews over the years, but there is no doubt that the recent introduction of the new specialist online casinos has made them even more interesting, because almost all of them offer something different. The All Irish casino for example offers a full range of casino games supplied by the well-respected Swedish software company NetEntertainment, who are well-known for the quality of the graphics as well as their casino games, but they have also introduced the first real live casino experience. The All Irish casino offer their customers the chance to play roulette, blackjack and baccarat by way of a live feed from a real casino on the island of Malta. Many of the other recently introduced online casinos such as CasinoLand, Yako and Instacasino have decided that they can offer a much broader choice of casino games by featuring games from a number of different software suppliers. CasinoCasino on the other hand have decided that one casino software supplier is enough, but their choice is fascinating. Anybody who has grown up playing the famous slots games designed by the slot machine maker Amatic Industries will be delighted that these iconic games can now be played online for the first time at CasinoCasino. The introduction of new ideas by these smaller online casinos is not totally confined to the casino games however, two of them have also attempted to address the question of welcome bonuses offered by many online casinos. In this case their names are a great clue to the approach they have taken, with the titles Free Spins casino and the No Bonus casino being fairly obvious clues.