One of the hardest working content producers in the business, Pragmatic Play, introduced Heart of Rio, its next blockbuster game, at the same time that it marked the first week of its €/£7,000,000 Drops & Wins campaign, which began on June 3rd.

The new campaign, which was successful with slots and allows players to participate in a €500,000 monthly prize pool, is now open to all players worldwide. It has also been expanded to the supplier's live casino vertical. Participating titles are easily recognised by the Drops & Wins logo and include cutting-edge games from the Gibraltar-based provider, which gamers may access on all platforms.

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The upgraded promotion, which is entirely funded and run by Pragmatic Play, runs through November 17th and boasts "the highest ever full-backed pool by a supplier," giving operators the chance to host their own tournaments, Prize Drops, and other events using popular live casino games like Baccarat and Roulette, as well as Mega Wheel, one of the company's first two game show-inspired hits.

As Chief Business Development Officer for Pragmatic Play, Yossi Barzely stated that last week was a "hugely exciting" time for the company as they launched their "biggest ever" Drops and Wins campaign, with "a whopping €/£7,000,000 up for grabs."

The provider claims that the prize pool is evidence that the promotion increases game performance and player engagement while retaining players.

"We're constantly searching for ways to improve our fans' gaming, and what better way to achieve so than by giving away €/£1,000,000 each month for the next seven months. We are eager to reward players since each spin might result in enormous payouts. said Barzely.

Release of a new slot

The multi-content provider to the iGaming industry has unveiled its newest hit title, the Brazilian-themed Heart of Rio, where exotic dancers help win prizes of up to 32x, shortly after finishing its dedicated live studio integration with online gambling operator Kindred Group's Unibet brand.

The 5-reel, 3-row video slot extravaganza is available on all devices, including desktops, tablets, and smartphones. It has a 96.5 percent RTP and 25 paylines, which players can use to land winning combinations of three or more of a kind starting from the leftmost reel. The extravaganza was inspired by the legendary Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, which is held every year.

Game icons:

A vibrant samba-style music, parrots and toucans, drums, feathers, and fiesta maracas are placed against a dark green game grid. Fireworks also light up the night sky.

Heart of Rio has a vibrant mix of symbols, including A-J royals, coconut drinks with tiny umbrellas, masquerade masks, and a couple of exotic carnival dancers in green and purple. These symbols are listed in order of increasing importance. When five of a kind are lined up, the woman with purple plumes is worth 32 times the bet, while the other premiums range from 5-7 times the stake.

The gorgeous red and gold funfair queen is the game's wild sign and she may replace all other regular symbols when she appears on reels 2, 3, and 4. The bonus scatter is represented by the pair of congas. The disco ball, money symbols, and money collects are additional symbols that may be used in both the regular game and the bonus round.

Added Benefits:

When one or more of the money symbols or disco balls appear on the final five reels, together with one of the five collect symbols, one of the following money collect features is available. Money symbols/disco balls appear on reels 1-4 and have associated monetary values that may be won.

Money symbol is collected, totalled, and paid.

Extra Credit Collect: Each money symbol's worth is increased by this symbol's value before being combined together and paid.
Money symbol values are added together and multiplied by the amount shown on the multiplier collect sign in the multiplier collect game.
Expanding Collect: Any reel containing a money sign is covered by random-valued money symbols, which are then added together and paid.
All money symbols that appear on the reels lock in place, and the remaining places respin while the value of the locked money symbols is added to any new ones from the respin and paid. This is known as a "respin collect."
Additional spin feature

The bonus scatter, a pair of conga symbols, offers eight additional spins and a payout equal to one time the total bet when three of them land on reels 2, 3, and 4. When money symbols land, the value of each is gathered in a reward pot, and additional spins serve the same purpose as regular spins in terms of the money collect feature. The value of the bonus pot returns to the reels once all further spins have been used up and is changed into a sizable money symbol on reels 1, 2, and 3.

The value of the bonus pot is given in addition to all of the usual additional spin prizes if a collect symbol lands on reel 5 during the respin. Retriggers are also available in this round, and getting three scatter symbols while it is active gives you an unlimited further 8 spins.

Heart of Rio's party atmosphere will appeal to players since it is similar to another popular game from Pragmatic Play, El Dorado The City of Gold, which came out in February 2020.