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Cool New Ways to Get Gaming

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One industry that hasn’t been shy in embracing the latest leaps forward in technology is gaming. Not just console gaming, but casino gaming, sports betting, bingo, slots – the entire gaming sphere. Bingo is a perfect example – not too long ago the only place you could daub off those numbers and listen to a man call out “two fat ladies!” was at your local bingo hall – a bricks and mortar establishment usually found in shopping parks – you remember them?

And casinos too. Fancy a flutter ten years ago and the only place you could roll those dice or spin the roulette wheel was by becoming a member of a casino in your city. Just a few short years later and, thanks to the industry’s faith in new technologies, there are more ways to get your gaming fix than ever before.

Just take a look at a gaming and betting portal like Completebetting.com. It aims to collect together all the info gamers need, as a resource for how to play and where to play. Its gaming selection is incredibly broad – from live casino games like Blackjack and roulette, to 3D slots, available online, via mobile or tablet. It shows you just how far gaming has come.

So we’ve taken a look at some of the latest advancements to bring you a roundup of the freshest ways to play in 2013.

Going mobile

We’re now an app-obsessed world, and it’s easy to see why. Games on the go means no more boring commutes, and it’s great for killing time at the bus stop, or while you’re waiting for your mates down the pub. Gaming apps are being added by every gaming site worth its salt, and some are pushing the gaming-on-the-go angle even further. Betfair’s latest ad shows you that it’s not just traditional 2D casino games that are available to play on the move – these days you can actually play live casino games too. That means playing with a real dealer, via video streaming – taking live gaming to the next level.

Social network it

Nothing kills time better than Facebook, right? In fact, it can be a little too absorbing. And nothing kills time better than putting your fingers and mental agility to the test with your favourite game, right? So what if the two combined? Then you get literally millions of people playing the latest Facebook gaming apps. From Candy Crush to bingo and slots, you can now play along with your Facebook friends – and plenty of these games are available to play via social networking sites on your smartphone too, not just on your PC or laptop.

On the telly

Ever dreamt of being on the telly? Well now you can be. Sort of. An increasing number of casino games – like live roulette and blackjack – are available to play via TV now. So if you’re a lucky winner you’ll have your name emblazoned across that screen. It’s a fresh way to play live casino games, with your dealer interacting with you live via your TV – we’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty exciting.

Who knows where gaming’s headed next? Place your bets!

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Babs Windsor’s Funniest Jackpotjoy Ads

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She’s the pint-sized Walford landlady-turned-bingo queen, and this week Babs Windsor is back in another hilarious ad for Jackpotjoy. This time around it isn’t online bingo she’s touting, but a brand new online game from the UK’s leading bingo site called Quickity Pick. The Quickity Pick ad sees Babs hosting her very own saucy gameshow, complete with three very special contestants.

While the name of the game’s clearly based on Blankety Blank, it’s also got more than a touch of the Full Monty about it! If viewers of the Quickity Pick ad want to see more, they need to head online to the Jackpotjoy website to play Quickity Pick for themselves. It’s a completely free game where players who successfully choose which of the three men on display is a ‘true Scotsman’ under his kilt are automatically entered into Jackpotjoy’s prize draw.

The prizes up for grabs at Quickity Pick include LCD TVs, iPads and cash prizes of up to £150 too. Jackpotjoy will be hosting free Quickity Pick prize draws every single day until 11th July 2013, and then every Monday after that until further notice, until they’ve given away a whopping £250,000 worth of prizes – and all for peeking under a couple of kilts!

This Quickity Pick as is just the latest tongue-in-cheek ad that Babs has fronted for Jackpotjoy since she became their official Queen of Bingo. If you ask us, she’s been doing a bang up job of making the game more appealing to all ages, and egging us on to have some with her at the online bingo hall. So we thought we’d take a look back at some of our favourites so far.

Jackpotjoy Drag Race

Keen to get us all to do something fun “Just for the Jackpotjoy of it”, when she’s not looking up men’s kilt on Quickity Pick she’s raising mayhem down at the racetrack. It’s not too often you see two OAPs going head-to-head in a drag race, but that’s exactly what Babs had lined up for us with this ad. This dear old couple might look like butter wouldn’t melt, but they’re revving up the motors on their motorized scooters for the race of a lifetime – showing us all that you’re never too old to be a daredevil.

Jackpotjoy Cream Pies Larry Lamb for Comic Relief

Well, if you ask us, Archie Mitchell had it coming. Babs might not be much of a whiz in the kitchen, but she manages to rustle up a delicious cream pie just ripe for the throwing in this Jackpotjoy ad. Reuniting Barbara with her Eastenders co-star (and nemesis) Larry Lamb, he takes a pie to the face for all the trouble he caused down on the Square, and all in aid of Comic Relief too.