More online casinos means more interesting online casino reviews

For many of our younger population access to the internet has become almost a human right rather than a luxury, and they have never known a world without this form of worldwide communication. The reality is that widespread access to this technology is a relatively recent development, particularly when it comes to the portable devices which the younger generation seem to treasure most. Online gambling for instance has only been widely available for substantially less than twenty years, and huge internet retail companies such as Amazon were unknown at the turn of this century. Here at onlinecasino.ie we have reported on the development of online gambling and in particular the growth of online casino gambling from the very early days of limited access and very little choice, right through to welcoming the latest exciting newcomers to the market. Throughout this process we have carried out hundreds of online casino reviews and used them to produce and continuously update our popular list of recommended online casinos which are available and accessible to Irish casino games fans. The first online gambling sites were established by the leading bookmakers, and were targeted solely at their sports gambling customers so that they could enjoy the same sort of convenience of being able to place their bets on sporting events without needing to visit their local betting shop as people were becoming accustomed to with online shopping. Establishing these online sports gambling sites required a significant investment from the big bookmakers in both the technology and the software necessary to operate online, and not surprisingly they quickly started to look for ways to capitalise further on that investment. With the help of a few relatively new online casino software companies, their solution was to begin adding a few gambling games to their established sports gambling sites. The idea was that their existing customers clearly enjoyed gambling as a leisure activity, so they would probably enjoy the opportunity to play a few games whilst they were online and may therefore spend more time on the site. Looking back there is absolutely no doubt that the idea was a complete success as far as the site operators were concerned, and it also spawned a whole new online gambling sector which we now refer to as online casinos. All the online casinos at the time were simply a part of the much larger online gambling sites operated by most of the big bookmakers, so the scope of our online casino reviews was also limited to these sites. That meant that our list of recommended online casinos was also dominated by the well-known bookmakers. It is only during the last two or three years that the choice of online casinos available to Irish casino games enthusiasts has begun to expand, but the new sites all bring something new to the market, particularly in the ranges of casino games they offer. The concept of online casinos and online gambling as a whole is now well established, so we are all much more confident in the financial management and security systems used by the site operators. That means that the most important element of the regular online casino reviews we carry out is now definitely the choice of casino games each site has to offer rather than any site management issues. Even the layout of most of the online casinos is now usually fairly conducive to easy site navigation, although by their very nature the sites which also enable sports gambling can be a little more confusing at times.
When the idea of adding games to the first online gambling sites was conceived, the games were clearly targeted at existing traditional casino games fans who regularly visited a real casino, plus of course the thousands of existing bingo fans who again were already customers of our bingo clubs. As the range of accessible online casino games began to rapidly increase however it was the slots games which became the dominant feature of every online casino site. Nowadays the slots games usually represent at least 80% of all the casino games featured on every online casino site, and they are therefore the main feature of any online casino reviews we carry out. This is also where the growing influence of the casino software companies is most apparent, because all these slots games have been designed and supplied by these specialist software companies. One of the first and perhaps most important of these online casino software companies was Playtech, and there is no doubt that Playtech is still a dominant force in the casino software sector. William Hill, Ladbrokes and several other online casino sites operated by well-known bookmakers still feature casino games supplied by Playtech, whereas Ireland’s favourite bookmaker chose to use a company called Wagerworks. In many respects that was a good decision by Paddy Power because it meant that the range of casino games they featured was significantly different to that offered by other bookmaker’s sites. The advent of the new specialist online casino sites has however introduced us to a whole new set of online casino software companies. The All Irish casino for example has chosen to feature casino games supplied by NetEntertainment, whereas even more recent online casinos such as CasinoLand, Yako and Instacasino offer a range of games supplied by several different software companies. It may be that the idea of confining your range of casino games to those supplied by a single casino software company is now a thing of the past, although another of the new online casinos CasinoCasino has chosen to still do that. The difference is that CasinoCasino have chosen to feature slots games from the very popular slot machine company Amatic Industries. Serious slot machine enthusiasts will know many of the more iconic slots games supplied by Amatic Industries, and CasinoCasino have now made many of these extremely popular games available exclusively online for the first time. Let’s hope that it proves to be a good decision on their part because we should always welcome innovation.