I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of alien life forms visiting Earth. Sometimes it is portrayed in a friendly way, like with E.T., Alf, Mork or Third Rock from the Sun. Other times, such as in Mars Attacks and Independence Day, alien visitors are seen as wanting nothing more from mankind than its destruction. It’s kind of a downer, but it makes for good entertainment.

Such is the case for the Green Meanies from Outta Space slot at Online Vegas Casino. This game features a bunch of green aliens who show up at Earth and start wreaking destruction. They are, indeed, meanies. This online slot has a background that shows flying saucers abducting a farmer’s cows and tentacles reaching out of a lake. The slot features symbols of ray guns, planets that look like they have been attacked, some menacing-looking one-eyed creature, a woman being wrapped up by tentacles, and more.

Green Meanies from Outta Space is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $10 per line. The jackpot is 5,000 coins. One downside to this online slot is that it does not have any multiplier bonuses, though. What it does have is a fun interactive experience with some mean green men from outer space.

The Green Meanies slot also features a bonus game where you win free spins. During those free spins, you can choose to either hold or nudge. In the hold bonus game, you get to hold one reel while you spin the others in the hopes of getting a match. With the nudge bonus game, you have the ability to bump a reel to advance it to the next symbol. Both give you a better chance of getting a winning combination.

If you grew up watching Agents Mulder and Scully searching for the truth or Will Smith taking on aliens in any of his July holiday movies, this should be a fun game for you.  To play the Green Meanies from Outta Space online slot, visit Online Vegas Casino today.

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We all love a good fixer-upper. By “we all,” I’m not actually including myself, but people often take offense if you say “you all” or “you people.” Anyway, people who are handier with tools than me love to take a house that needs some work, put in a little effort, and come away with a better house. There are even ridiculously sappy TV shows based on that.

For that reason, the Fixer-Upper slot at Sloto’ Cash Casino should be a hit among working-class people and people who enjoy watching working-class people fix up houses. Even though I actually am working class, I count myself in the second group, mostly because I have no construction skills.

The Fixer-Upper online slot has a background that looks like a workshop or garage and the title looks like it was carved from wood. There are pipes and construction materials everywhere. The online slot has symbols of a shovel, hammer and nails, saw, drill, paint brush, tape measure, staple gun, a carpenter and more.

Fixer-Upper is a 5-reel, 20-payline online slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $0.10 per line. The jackpot is 8,888 coins. Fixer-Upper is part of Rival Gaming’s i-Slot series of interactive online slots. There are a wide range of multiplier bonuses and free spin bonuses available. In addition, there are three bonus games in the slot.

Fixer-Upper Bonus Feature #1 is unlocked by getting the pipe wrench symbol on all five reels. When that happens, you are taken to a bonus game where the pikes are leaking and the basement is flooding. You must then replace the rusty pipes and win a bonus prize for each pipe you fix.

Fixer-Upper Bonus Feature #2 is unlocked by getting the paint can symbol on all five reels. When that happens, you are taken to a bonus game where a room needs to be repainted. Using a roller, you then paint the walls, making sure to not miss any spots. Oddly, you receive a bonus whenever you spill some paint. Usually spilling paint is a bad thing.

Fixer-Upper Bonus Feature #3 is unlocked by getting the shovel symbol on all five reels. When that happens, you are taken to a bonus game where groundhogs have infested your yard and are tearing up the lawn. You must grab a shovel and hit those pests wherever you see them, winning a bonus for each groundhog that you hit. It’s like a game of whack-a-mole, but better.

I had a lot of fun playing this online slot, even though I felt a little bad about hurting those groundhogs. Sure, they’re pests, but I have fond memories of that cute little guy in the Bill Murray movie. Anyway, to play the Fixer-Upper online slot, visit Sloto’ Cash Casino today.

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Back in the days before the ice age, giant prehistoric mammals wandered the earth, including wooly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and acorn-loving saber-tooth squirrels, if you believe what you saw in the Dreamworks cartoon.

As for me, I believe pretty much everything I see on television, so I figure that’s probably accurate. Wooly World is an online slot found at Roxy Palace Casino and it has a theme of prehistoric mammals being overcome by the ice age. So basically, it’s the same story as the Ice Age movie.

The Wooly World slot is set in the prehistoric jungle and features symbols of a caveman, a wooly mammoth, a saber-tooth tiger frozen in a block of ice, some anteater-looking thing frozen in ice, and other mammals of that era. The game has a cartoonish quality and resembles something you might find on TV on a Saturday morning.

Wooly World is a 5-reel, 20-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $0.25 per line. The online slot has a regular jackpot of 50,000 coins, which is doubled to 100,000 coins in the Free Spin Bonus Round.

In the Free Spin Bonus Round, you win a random number of free spins. During those free spins, all winning combinations are doubled in points (which is why the jackpot is 100,000). Other multipliers are also in effect, though. For instance, during the normal course of the game, the presence of the caveman quadruples your winnings. In the bonus game, therefore, a caveman would quadruple your winnings, which would then be doubled – for a total of 8 times the winnings.

For fans of the time period, the Dreamworks movie, or just games about climate change (global cooling), Wooly World is a good slot to play. The online slot can be found at Roxy Palace Casino.

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Depending on your point of view, online casinos are either the competition of brick and mortar casinos or close cousins. They both offer the same games, but not the same experience. In many cases, they are not available the same places (though I suppose technically an online casino is available anywhere you can get an Internet connection).

How you see their relationship would impact how you see the Crazy Vegas online slot at Cherry Red Casino. Is it a casino making fun of their own industry in a light-hearted way or is it an online casino criticizing their competition?

I choose to see it as the former, but whatever the case, the Crazy Vegas slot is a fun send-up of the Las Vegas Strip. The title for the online slot is in the form of a neon sign, complete with palm trees. The slot features symbols of an Elvis impersonator, a showgirl (not Elizabeth Berkley, by the way), casino chips, stacks of cash, a King Tut figure (not Steve Martin from SNL, by the way), dice and more.

The Crazy Vegas game is a 5-reel, 20-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $5 per line. There are 20 possible winning combinations and a jackpot of 2,000 coins. The online slot has a variety of free spin bonuses and multiplier bonuses.

The online slot also has the Big Bonus Feature, which is a game of chance that I wouldn’t mind finding at a real casino. There is a Big Bonus button in the middle of a square. There are two rings within the square. The outer ring has values in it ranging from 5 to 100. The inner ring has multipliers ranging from 1x to 10x. The outer ring spins clockwise and the inner ring spins counterclockwise. When you push the Big Bonus button, the rings stop spinning and you receive a bonus of whatever value it landed on from the outer ring multiplied by the number of times selected in the inner ring.

On second thought, you will probably never see that game in a casino because no matter what happens, you win money. I guess that’s why it’s just a bonus game. Of course, it could be modified where some of the choices win you nothing.

Anyway, Crazy Vegas is a fun take on the Las Vegas casino style. If you’ve been to Vegas, you know how delightfully over the top the Strip is. Even if you haven’t gone, you’ve seen it in enough movies and TV shows that you probably have a good idea.

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What’s your sign? It’s a question we are all asked every now and then. If you’re like me, you try hard to resist the urge to mock the person who asked. Yes, astrology and especially horoscopic astrology is a pseudoscience that is no more real than the ability to levitate or bend spoons with your mind. For many people, though, it is interesting. My ex was convinced that the reason we fought was because I was a Virgo and she was an Aquarius or something. I forget which she was.

For those who are interested in the subject, VIP Slots has an online slot called What’s Your Sign? The online slot has an astrology theme and has symbols of the zodiac signs, only instead of being seen as stars connected by lines, as they often are, the constellations are shown in cartoon form. For example, a ram actually looks like the animal.

The What’s Your Sign slot has a background of outer space, with bright shining stars. The online slot features symbols of the various constellations. It includes the zodiac signs of the Cancer, the Leo, the Scorpio, some weird seahorse-dragon kind of thing (is that the Capricorn?), two twins (which I believe is Gemini), and some blonde chick holding a flower, among others.

Anyway, as you can tell, I’m not an expert on zodiac signs, but I think all of them are here in this slot. What’s Your Sign is a 5-reel, 9-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $10 per line. The jackpot for this online slot is 10,000 coins.

While playing the online slot, if you get two or more of the same zodiac symbols on the same payline, you get eternal good luck and will bear many children…Wait, I got that wrong. You will actually get a bonus payout. In all, there are 52 potential winning combinations in this game.

The What’s Your Sign slot also has a bonus game, where you are taken to a new screen that shows the wheel of the zodiac. There is a light that travels around that wheel, highlighting one zodiac symbol at a time. Once you hit “stop spin,” you win whatever prize is associated with the symbol on which the light landed.

If you’re one of those people who thinks that the stars determine what happens in your life and even control your personality, you’ll probably love this game. If not, you might enjoy playing it to make fun of people into astrology. In any case, if you like slots you might want to give it a try.

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Bowling. There’s just something about bowling that sets it apart from other sports. Perhaps because it’s the only “sport” that you can play just as well, if not better, when you’re drunk. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I bowled sober. Maybe it’s because it’s one of the few sports, aside from sumo wrestling, where the big fat guys are usually better than the thin, athletic guys. Maybe it’s the ugly shoes and curly fries.

Whatever the reason, bowling is a sport that is as popular as ever and it’s a great way to kill time if you have nothing to do, just like online slots. Maybe that’s why a bowling-themed online slot turned out to be such a good idea.

The game is Bob’s Bowling Bonanza and fans of bowling and alliteration can find it at Platinum Play Casino. The online slot is set in your local bowling alley, with the background being of a close-up of the bowling lane. The slot has symbols of ugly bowling shoes, a trophy, pins, bowling balls, Bob and fellow bowler Babs.

Bob’s Bowling Bonanza is a 5-reel, 30-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $0.25 per line. The jackpot for the online slot is 5,000 coins. The game has a variety of free spin bonuses and multiplier bonuses. It also has two types of bonus games.

One bonus game is the gamble feature, where you have a chance to wager your winnings for a chance to multiply them. By clicking the gamble button, you are taken to a screen where a card is shown face down. Before the card is flipped over, you can either guess which color the card will be (red, black) or which suit it will be (hearts, spades, diamonds, clubs). If you guess the color correctly, you double your winnings. If you guess the suit correctly, the winnings are quadrupled.

The other bonus game is the Perfect Game feature, which is triggered by a strike symbol appearing anywhere on the first, third and fifth reels at the same time. In this slot bonus game, the reels are turned into three bowling lanes. You then roll a bowling ball and your winnings are multiplied based on the number of pins you knock down.

The Bob’s Bowling Bonanza slot is a great game because it allows you to experience the fun of bowling without the hassle of that drunk guy mistakenly bowling in your lane. Also, playing this online slot won’t make your feet stink, which is a nice bonus.

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Online Vegas Casino is all about Earth Day, saving the planet, planting trees, and all of that stuff. That is why this Earth Day, April 22, they are holding a freeroll online slot tournament to celebrate, um, the Earth, I guess. Actually, it’s probably to raise awareness about pollution or recycling or something.

Anyway, to celebrate the international holiday, Online Vegas is holding the Earth Day freeroll tournament. It is an online slot tournament played on the game Love Bugs and there is no entry fee to play in this competition (thus the term “freeroll”). If you run out of credits and want to keep playing, you can rebuy for $2.50. There are unlimited rebuys available to you.

The Earth Day freeroll slot tournament has a $2,500 guaranteed prize pool, which will by split by the top players in the tournament. If you win money at the tournament, what you do with it is up to you, but I would say you’re encouraged to go out and plant trees. It’s what I would do, anyway. After all, you won money in an Earth Day tournament that you didn’t have to pay to enter.

Later in the month Online Vegas will have the April to May Flowers Weekend Madness tournament, which takes place from April 30 to May 4. The game is played on the online slot game The Reel Deal and has a guaranteed prize pool of $70,000. That tournament has nothing to do with Earth Day, but if you win you can still feel free to plant some trees.

To enter the Earth Day freeroll slot tournament and have a chance to save the planet (okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration), visit Online Vegas Casino today.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m a fan of online slots, especially those with a dynamic, exciting theme. I also like superheroes and all of their tie-ins, including movies, video games, toys and more. Of course, that also includes online slots.

For that reason, I am a big fan of Cryptologic’s Marvel slots series. The partnership between Crypologic and Marvel has been ongoing since 2005 and the pair has released 17 online slots with the Marvel license, including some of my favorite comic book characters, like Spider-Man and the X-Men.

It seems that the relationship between Cryptologic and Marvel is far from perfect, though. Last week, Crypologic released a press release notifying everyone of their upcoming arbitration hearings with Marvel.

According to Cryptologic, their wholly owned subsidiary WagerLogic has commenced arbitration hearings against Marvel due to “material breaches of certain provisions of [Marvel’s] agreement with WagerLogic.” The press release did not explain what provisions were violated nor what they are seeking in the arbitration hearing. They did state that they had tried to resolve the matter internally and quietly without turning to arbitration, with no success.

No one knows what went wrong in this partnership, but there is no shortage of speculation. Things seemed to be going smoothly until 2009. Cryptologic has not released a Marvel slot since December of 2008. In February of 2009ar, Cryptologic signed a contract with DC Comics – the top rival of Marvel – and has released online slots based on characters from their comics. Then in March of 2009, Marvel signed a deal with Playtech – one of Cryptologic’s top competitors – and has released five online slots based on Marvel characters.

If that seemed like payback for Cryptologic’s deal with DC, though, those rumors were put to rest when Cryptologic and Marvel signed a contract extension in June of 2009 that would keep their contract valid through 2013.

So what is going on here? No one, outside of the parties involved, seems to know. Cryptologic’s press release seemed intended not to be informative, but to fulfill a legal requirement to shareholders. Since they are a publicly traded company, they are required to keep the public informed on business-related issues that could impact their stock. Only time will tell what is going on here and how the contract was supposedly breached.

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Well, I already told you about the other three new slots at English Harbour Casino. I might as well tell you about the other one then. The other new online slot is called California Gold and it has an American history theme.

California Gold is set during the California Gold Rush, which took place between 1848 and 1855, when a wealth of gold was discovered in the state and people from around the world flocked there to make their fortune.

The California Gold slot is set in the hills and fields of California during that gold rush and has symbols of mine carts full of gold, dynamite, barrels of gunpowder, pickaxes, bandits, maps to gold mines, and of course a happy gold digger, among others.

California Gold is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $10 per line. The jackpot is 5,000 coins, which varies in dollar amount (up to $50,000) based on how much money you bet.

The California Gold slot has multiplier bonuses of up to 3 times your bet and free spin bonuses of up to 10 free spins. In addition, the game has a bonus round, where you play as a miner who works his way through a mine with his pickaxe. There are 4 mines to choose from and each mine has a different number of gold nuggets, with each nugget being a different size. Each nugget has a bonus associated with it, with the bonus being in proportion to its size. Therefore, like in real life, the largest nuggets are what you hope to find.

This isn’t the first online slot based on the California Gold Rush and it probably won’t be the last. It is a fun slot, though, particularly because the miner in the game reminds me of Yosemite Sam. To play the California Gold online slot, visit English Harbour Casino today.

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English Harbour Casino released 4 new online slots at the same time in order to cater to different demographics. The first two slots I reviewed are Jurassic Slots, which has a dinosaur and science-fiction theme, and the Bigfoot slot, which is based on the mythical Sasquatch.

The Butterflies slot is much more normal and everyday in theme than those two slots, but it shares in a reverence for nature. The Butterflies slot is about appreciating the beauty of the natural world. It kind of reminds me of those shows they have on the Discovery Channel early in the morning for people to watch pretty scenery while they eat breakfast.

The Butterflies slot is set in a meadow during a day with perfect weather. It has symbols of caterpillars, butterflies, mushrooms, a flower and more. The game is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot that can be played in denominations ranging from $0.01 to $10 per line. The online slot has a 7,000 coin jackpot.

With a relatively large jackpot (up to $70,000), this is a good game for high rollers, even though some may not like it’s lack of bonus games. For lovers of nature, this online slot can be a good way to spend a few hours. Let me put it this way: If you enjoy having a picnic on a blanket and taking in the sights and smells of nature, you will probably enjoy playing this online slot. If you would rather sit at home playing World of Warcraft, you probably will not.

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