NextGen Gaming Slots 
About NextGen Gaming
NextGen Gaming was founded way back in 1999 and pride themselves on being the pioneers of platform-independent content delivery. With 100s of online slots in their portfolio, they aim to deliver extraordinary entertainment and quality. Their design studio is located in Sydney (Australia) with NextGen Gaming slots offering a unique feel compared to other slot providers.
Party of Scientific Games/Light & Wonder
NextGen Gaming was an independent slot provider until January 2018 when they were acquired by Scientific Games (who also own and operate WMS, Barcrest and Bally amongst others). Today, they are known as Light & Wonder.
This makes NextGen Gaming slots more appealing as they can leverage game engines and technologies from their parent company. If you take the Merlin’s Money Burst slot for example, this was created originally by WMS.
NextGen Gaming Slots Portfolio
With hundreds of slot games produced by NextGen Gaming, you will have surely played 1 of their titles. They cover all themes such as ancient Egypt, dragons, vampires, pirates, Asian, animals, Irish luck, ancient Rome, mermaids, fairies, genies, Mexican, Greek mythology, monsters, Wild West, space, Venice, Spartans, Christmas, football, Africa, medieval and Aztec amongst others. They offer low, medium and high variance slots with a wide range of bonus features.
Most Popular Slots
With so many NextGen Gaming slots to choose from, it’s hard to pick their best ones. Their most popular slot is 300 Shields which has achieved cult status. With 5 reels and 25 paylines, the Spartan themed offering is loosely based on the 300 film and can be played from 25p a spin on all devices. It’s all about the Battle feature where you get free spins with a 2x multiplier – the aim is to collect shields which gives you more free spins with bigger multipliers. If you’re lucky, you can play with a whopping 300x multiplier! NextGen Gaming has since released 300 Shields Extreme which has been improved and comes with wins of 17,770 x stake on each free spin.
Best NexGen Gaming Slots
Other NextGen Gaming slots you should play include the Foxin’ series. You have Foxin’ Wins, Foxin’ Wins Again, Foxin’ Wins Football Fever, Foxin’ Wins A Very Foxin’ Christmas and Foxin’ Twins. The best is Foxin’ Twins as this is played on 2 reel sets and sees wilds appear on all reels to transform into green wilds which give you multipliers up to 20x. With random features, there’s a free spins feature where 200 free spins and multipliers up to 20x are up for grabs – you can win 20,000 x stake per spin/free spin!
Then you have Gary the Gorilla slots which features Gorilla Go Wild and Gorilla Go Wilder. The latter is a 5 reel, 25 payline game that has 8 free spins features that reward you with mystery symbols, expanding wilds, up to 200 paylines, wandering wilds, multipliers up to 25x and payouts of up to 37,500 x stake.
You also have Medusa which is a Greek mythology slot based on the snake-haired gorgon – highly volatile, it’s very popular and spawned Medusa II and Medusa II Jackpots.
My favourite NextGen Gaming slot is The Wild 3 which is a Wild West themed game with 5 reels and 10 paylines. There are 3 wild features as well as a Free Games feature where you’ll benefit from sticky wilds. With cash prizes to be won, the SuperBet feature gives you bigger wins and more wild features. More importantly, you can win 25,000 x stake on every spin.
Branded Slots
Being a major slot provider, NextGen Gaming also offers you branded slots. There’s James Dean (based on the actor), Judge Dredd (based on the film), King Kong Fury (no introduction needed) and An Evening with Holly Madison (based on the Playboy bunny).
My favourite has to be The Mask which is based on the iconic movie which starred Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. The 5 reel, 20 payline slot comes with 4 randomly activated wild features in the base game which show up in the Free Games Bonus feature – here, you can infinite free spins and multipliers up to 5x. With wins of 30,000 x stake on every free spin, it features clips from the actual film.
Megaways Slots
Further to the popularity of the Medusa slot, NextGen Gaming licensed Big Time Gaming’s unique game engine to release Medusa Megaways. With 6 reels and 117,649 ways to win, it offers you cascading wins, added wilds and the Free Games feature.
Here you can win free spins infinitely and increase the multiplier every time you get a win. You can even take on Medusa, tempt fate and replay the feature if you’re not happy. You can win 50,000 x bet on every spin too.
SuperBet feature
Many NextGen Gaming slots use the SuperBet feature. You will start off playing at the bottom level with wilds appearing on just the 1 reel. For an increased wager, you can benefit from wilds landing on all 5 reels. What level you choose is up to you. The more wilds, the bigger the win potential. If you take Foxin’ Twins for example, it can lead to 20x multipliers which can result in 20,000 x stake wins.
Play on all Devices
As you’d expect from a major slot provider, all NextGen Gaming slots can be enjoyed on desktop, mobile and tablet devices including iOS, Android and Windows operated devices. Whilst desktop offers the best visuals due to a bigger scree, their games look great in portrait mode (for smartphones).
NextGen Gaming Casinos
With NextGen Gaming being part of the NYX Interactive platform, you have other providers like Thunderkick, WMS, Pragmatic Play, Novomatic, Iron Dog Studio, Blueprint Gaming and Big Time Gaming amongst others who use it. This makes NYX Interactive very attractive to online casinos – as a result, all NextGen Gaming slots can be played at most UK online casinos.
