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CASINO & GAMES
BEHIND THE REELS WITH EGAMING MONITOR
In this extract from eGaming Monitor ’ s Q3 2024 rundown of casino games performance , Kevin Dale goes under the hood of online slots to pick out the features and characteristics that resonate with players
M ore new studios , more games per operator and higher output per studio : some trends are clearly enduring . A few others less so … while romance is dead , pink is back and the bigger studio groups are flexing their muscles .
3,000 MORE GAMES
The number of unique games found increased by around 3,000 per quarter or nearly 1,000 per month ( Fig 1 ). Around 25 new studios per quarter is just one reason for this . Existing studios have been ramping up their output too , in response to increased competition , inevitably leading to a spiralling of similar responses . The main reason , though , is that operators still tend not to retire older titles .
Fig 1 : Unique games found
KEVIN DALE is the co-founder of Egamingmonitor . Kevin was previously CEO of GameAccount ( now GAN plc ) and CMO at Eurobet , Sportingbet and Betfair . Egamingmonitor . com is an advisory firm to the gambling industry , with proprietary data covering 37,000 games from 1,300 suppliers across 1,500 operator sites .
Unique URLs found 40,336
Unique games 46,625
Total game positions 317,296,825
Unique sites found 3,561
Unique studios 803
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