LONDON, July 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Zuma Slots, the latest release fromthe Gamesys / PopCap partnership, has just been launched on Jackpotjoy andits partner sites. The game is based on PopCap's award winning 2004 puzzlegame and offers members of Gamesys flagship site the chance to search forriches amidst a South American jungle landscape.

Zuma Slots is based on PopCap's famous Zuma puzzle game, where playerstry to eliminate a snake-like chain of coloured balls by firing othercoloured balls from the mouth of a stone frog. Sound too surreal to be true?Probably, but then so do a lot of classic games.

The new Zuma Slot doesn't have coloured balls but it does feature anumber of the original game's characters alongside the chance to win ahealthy cash prize. For more info on Zuma Slots please click here:https://www.jackpotjoy.com/games/zuma-slots

"Working with the Zuma characters has been a really exciting experience,"explains Adele Lawton, head of Jackpotjoy. "I know quite a few of thedesigners and programmers around the office were on a real nostalgic buzzwhen they saw the creative, and the model's a particularly exciting one aswell." For more on the new games, see the Jackpotjoy blog on:http://blog.jackpotjoy.com/2010/07/14/brand-new-games-mean-new-ways-to-win/

The new model features a Gamble Bonus Round that offers the chance todouble, quadruple or multiply your winnings by x5 or x10.

"The Gamble Feature's very strong," Adele confirms. "The potential win inthere is limitless, and because the odds are fixed, I imagine we'll see a fewcostly winning streaks in there once the game's launched!" For more info onJackpotjoy's Winners, please see: https://www.jackpotjoy.com/winners/storiesor http://www.jackpotjoywinners.com/

The Gamble Bonus Game sits alongside a very strong Free Spin featurewhere players are taken to meet mythical creatures who award Free Spins atwill.

"We're finding more and more that Free Spins are a really excitingfeature of any slot, and we wanted to make sure we were making the most ofthe Zuma characters - they're so strong creatively."

Zuma Slots is one of the first of a string of co-launches between PopCapand Gamesys, other plans include Bejeweled Hypercash which was launched todayas well, and Bejeweled Bingo, which should be arriving soon. For more info onthe other games Jackpotjoy has launched, please see:https://www.jackpotjoy.com/viewgames/home-top

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For more on Jackpotjoy's games, please see the Jackpotjoy blog athttp://blog.jackpotjoy.com

GAMESYS

The Gamesys Group was founded by Noel Hayden in April 2001 with a smallteam of developers. The aim was to build a profitable online entertainmentbusiness providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwideaudience using proprietary gaming software.

After eight years, the Group's leading brand Jackpotjoy.com has built anaudience of over 3,000,000 members and pays out in excess of GBP90 millionevery month. The success of Jackpotjoy.com has established the Gamesys Groupas one of the UK's leading online gaming businesses. In 2006 they were namedNo. 1 in the Microsoft/Sunday Times Tech Track 100 League Table, and they'renow one of only four companies to have appeared on the list four years in arow. This feat reflects both the company's capacity for sustained growth andits remarkable resilience during periods of financial instability.

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