In the Candy Cottage fruit machine, the main ingredients of old Germanic tale “Hansel and Gretel” provide colourful decoration for the five reels.

From Rival beckons a bombastic boxing blast of a slot called Heavyweight Gold. Beat the bags, bounce to the bell, and beat boxers bloody in the video rounds...

Rival Software invites you to solve a mystery, online slots-side, in Moonlight Mystery, a 15-payline slot that may cause Clue déjà vu in some board game fans...

An online slot plus a gaggle of pop music icons? Simply put, Rock On! really rocks.

It’s a blast from the past – an atomic blast, to be precise. The Atomic Age’s reels are packed with attractive 50s clip art-type big television sets, Sputnik, hi-fi high-tech, and malt shoppe goodies set against the geometrical backgrounds characteristic of that era’s advertising; why has this style become so loved...?

A no-lose proposition: online slots plus football. Brightly colored with reds, greens and whites, Pigskin Payout is loaded with stirring music and college-football feel. Slight disappointment there is in discovering Pigskin Payout has no video round, but overall Pigskin Payout is another solid effort from Rival Software.

In the tradition of all successful horror movies these days, horror-themed Scary Rich gets a sequel just in time for Halloween. A murderer's row of horror lore icons star in Scary Rich 2; play is hypnotic like an edge-of-the-seat thriller and the bonus round is lively with, um, mummies.

Rival Software adds another top-notch online slot to the catalogue with Thanksgiving-themed Gobbler’s Gold. This one’s nicely done in autumnal colors and promises some serious high potential for winnings – up to 30,000 coins in the bonus round. Online slots players’ll surely be giving thanks to Rival for Gobbler’s Gold.

Howdy, pardner, t’ th’ wild wild west, online slot-like: The 5-reel 20-payliner known as Western Wildness. It’s good guys (The Os Man calls ‘em Annie Smokely and Dudley Do Right) vs. bad guys (Black Bart). Fun game play, LOCOs for WILDs, and a rootin’ tootin’ good video round at the O-Kee Doke Corral.

Cooking-themed Jacques Pot is a 5-reel 20-payline video slot with all the requisite free spins, expanding wilds, and multipliers strewn amongst kitchenware and food characters. Until the “Burger Creation” bonus round, there’s some pretty quick-moving action and clean-looking cartoony graphics. The bubbly music is good and the old brass riffs – they remind the Os Man of ‘70s game-show music hooks – almost always raise a chuckle.