Gaming
Rival – The Casino Company
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Ask someone to enlist the top casino developers in the modern world, and they might not help but mention Rival, a company that has been creating Casino Slots, past a decade now. And that too, amongst the top 10.
Rival was founded in 2005, but the official announcement of being launched was done at the 2006 Global iGaming Summit and Expo (GiGse), which proved to be the perfect occasion for them to show their products as they conveniently met the innovative theme of the summit. Since then, the company has gradually expanded the licensing of their games and software platforms to near and far casinos.
Technical Competitiveness
After day-in-day-out research and development, they have successfully established themselves as an innovative and futuristic creator of casino slots and other games. To date, they have made and/or released more than 160 games, based on AS3, Adobe Flash, JavaScript, PHP, and PHP platforms, and have topped the charts for more than a decade.
Moreover, with better R&D and with expertise from a pack of seasoned game developers, Rival, in the recent past, also redesigned their software platforms to include features like Live Chat and had made its slots mobile-friendly, both the features being officially showcased at The ICE 2014.
Why Rival?
But above all, Rival is noted for bringing into the online gaming/casino market the revolution of i-Slots. These i-Slots are story-based slot machines that allow the gamer to run-past and enjoy a storyline while playing the standard slot machine. The storyline is themed in such a manner that it mimics a typical soap opera, adorned with emotional intricacies of love, lies, and deceit.
The reels and graphics are responsive and adaptive, thus adjusting accordingly as the user makes his/her way past through the interactive slot machine. No sooner was it introduced into the market it gained popularity as it was fun, it was engaging and it was highly emotionally interactive.
Few of their games, notable in terms of their different looks, specialized and adaptive themes, and dynamicity of the play, including, in no particular order:-
1. True Fortune Casino
2. DomGame Casino
3. Vegas2Web Casino
4. Casino Napoli
5. Supernova Casino
6. Lotus Asia Casino
7. 888 Tiger Casino
8. Slots.lv Casino
9. Irish Luck Casino
10. Jumba Bet Casino
However, just like there are lone nights after jubilant mornings, Rival’s journey wasn’t smooth too. It initially faced problems with its fellow partners, followed by issues of terms and conditions and finally a series of losses. It was only in 2010 that under the guidance of the better team that it got a direction and climbed the stairs to success.
But again, owing to several legal, financial and economical obstacles, alongside being a part of the vicious debt cycle, finally in 2017 Rival Casino Company was sold to Penn National for a deal of about $1.87 Billion, marking the beginning of a new journey ahead and an end to Rival’s golden history.