The Dark Knightby Microgaming

Microgaming announced in January that they had signed a deal to produce The Dark Knight™ and told us it would come out this summer – well summer is finally here and the official launch date is 28 June 2012! Following on the heels of the last 2 true MGS slots, Untamed Bengal Tiger and Untamed Giant Panda (most other recent releases are actually developed by NextGen/NYX and Genesis Gaming, Inc.) this one should be a mover and a shaker. IGT has already released their version to land casinos, and although the venues are entirely different, we can expect the online Microgaming release to attempt to reach the glory of IGT's 103” community screen with multiple player kiosks – a daunting task, but MGS is worthy of the challenge when they set their resources to making a previous land-based game truly sizzle online. Expect a follow-up game in early 2013, as The Dark Night Rises sequel will hit the big screen sometime this year.

The Dark Knight™ video slot features random jackpots, Cinematic Spins™, and several other features to keep the game play exciting. The game is played on a 5 reel, 3 row screen with 243 ways to win. Rather than being restricted to predetermined pay-lines, all that is need to form winning combinations of symbols on this machine is for matching icons to land on adjacent reels from leftmost to right – effectively creating 243 winlines from the 3x5 grid. Of course scatters can fall anywhere unless the slots engine and rules dictate that they must be on specific reels, such as the first three, reels 2, 3, and 4, the last three or reels 1 and 5.

Cinematic Spins™ allows movie clips to act as moving backgrounds behind the reels during spins providing players an unprecedented level of excitement and immersion. Win sequences and expanding wilds also use cinematic clips, instead of traditional animated graphics.