Thursday, April 28, 2005

‘Most-Won’ Online Progressive Jackpot Hits Again at $162,514.

The slot machine site with the most won jackpot on the net announced yet another huge progressive jackpot winner! Lucky North American slots player ‘oohlahma’ has won $162,514 at Slotland.com's exciting three-wheel, single payline “Booster” slot machine.

‘oohlahma’ is actually a 55 and 57-year-old brother and sister team who have been playing at Slotland.com on WebTV on their big screen TV for three years.

“We have a fun way of picking our slot machine of the week; we have the name of each machine on a card in a special Slotland bowl,” explained the excited winner. “Each Sunday, we pick a card. Last week, we picked Booster.”

The unique “Booster” machine boosts players’ bets – and likely their heart rates! When the wild symbol appears, they can boost their bet 10 times allowing for amazing winnings on a single spin. And no bet is lost at the Booster – every bet that doesn’t win is added to a fund that can be cashed in at any time or risked on one win/lose spin. This is where ‘oohlahma’ hit the big jackpot.

“I closed my eyes as my brother clicked the handle,” explains ‘oohlahma’. “I only opened them when he whooped out loud that we won it! We were just praying for another row of grapes or better. Well, it couldn’t get any better -- all three boost symbols fell across the pay line! My brother leaped up and pulled me out of my chair and started dancing around the room with me. I swear we both felt like kids on Christmas morning.”

“It’s normal for us to have a jackpot over $100,000 won every six weeks or so,” says Hannah Morante, Slotland.com spokesperson. “But lately we’ve had more lucky players than usual -- two jackpot winners in the last couple of months.”

Unlike other progressives, Slotland’s jackpot is linked across ALL games in the Slotland.com casino. This means slots players can play a little blackjack or video poker between pulls, and still have a chance to hit the same jackpot as on their favourite slot machine.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

WorldWinner Pay-per-Play Games Debut on Trymedia.

Skill games company WorldWinner has announced that its skill-based games are now available on Trymedia's consumer gaming site (www.trygames.com), allowing gamers to compete against others in online game tournaments for bragging rights, as well as cash and prizes.

More than two dozen skill-based games are available on Trygames, enabling gamers to play free practice games of WorldWinner's titles before entering competitions for cash and prizes. Consumers can access WorldWinner games through a new tab on the Trygames site titled 'Cash Games.' New players will receive $10 in bonus credit when joining WorldWinner through Trygames.

Additionally, WorldWinner's skill-based games will soon be added to Trymedia's distribution network for syndication to more than 300 leading portals, retailers and peer-to-peer networks around the globe.

'Trymedia has created one of the largest game networks with nearly 1,000 titles catering to a wide range of casual and core gamers,' said Stephen Killeen, president and CEO of WorldWinner. 'Distributing through Trymedia's network will allow us to further expand WorldWinner's reach to millions of gamers in more than 30 countries worldwide.'

'Skill-based games are very popular with game consumers around the globe,' said Alex Torrubia, co-founder and CEO of Trymedia. 'Combining WorldWinner's leading content portfolio with our powerful distribution provides even more gaming options to consumers.'