Microgaming Casino Software Review

When it comes to online gambling, the specials and promotions offered by the operators is just half the fun. What use would it be to redeem a $1,200 bonus at the Royal Vegas if there were no games to spend it on? And what would all those Royal Vegas players do if they didn’t have the fine slots, table games and casual games there for them to explore? Luckily (sic!) they have enough games to play at the Royal Vegas , thanks to its supplier of casino software – the Isle of Man based developer Microgaming.

About the company

Microgaming was founded in the early 1990s as an online gaming operator. It claims the honor of being the first company to launch a fully functional real money online casino in 1994. In a few years it has abandoned its online casino, focusing instead on the development of high quality casino games. Today Microgaming has one of the largest libraries of online casino games, with more than 600 titles to choose from.

The downloadable suite

The Royal Vegas – as most other Microgaming powered online casinos – offers its players three ways to play its games. They can either download the Royal Vegas casino suite and install it on their desktop computer, play in a browser window or play on their mobile phones or tablets.

The downloadable suite is small, it has a size of under 1MB, so on today’s quick internet connections it downloads very quickly. The space occupied on the hard drive is not too big either – depending on how many games you routinely play, it will occupy a few tens of megabytes at most. Note that the software doesn’t come with many games pre-loaded – the Royal Vegas suite will download games on demand. Unfortunately this suite will only work on Windows-powered computers.

The browser platform

A cross-platform way to play at the Royal Vegas is to use the casino’s browser interface. Although it has fewer games than the downloadable one, it has the advantage of being available on any PC capable of running Flash (for older games) and HTML5. Players can simply and quickly log on to their accounts, make deposits and withdrawals using the most secure methods and play some of their favorite games quickly.

The mobile version

This one has the smallest variety of games of the three, but it is once again a cross-platform interface – it runs on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and even Blackberry (although on Windows Phone it often misfires). The game variety is smaller, but all games are optimized to mobile play, with a touch interface.

Security

All three platforms have the same industry standard security measures built into them. Microgaming, as well as the Royal Vegas and all of its other partners, undergo periodical security audits in order to keep their services and products as safe as possible.