Playtech’s Marvel slots are truly among the best in the business. “The Incredible Hulk”, “Spider-Man”, “The Avengers” and more have long been hallmarks of the very best that the slot industry has to offer us in terms of brilliant and innovative slots that pushed the boundaries. “The Avengers” was selected by numerous online publications as one of the best slots ever made, and “Spider-Man” is regularly hailed as a shining example of how bonus games can be utilized so that they’re both fun for the player and within regulations. And who can forget about the wonderful and unique Marvel jackpot – a progressive shared between ALL Marvel slots. With their superhero properties, Playtech showed innovation, cunning and thinking outside the box. They treated the franchises they handled with respect, which is why it was such a shame when the deal ended in 2012, after many years of cooperation. This unfortunately prevented us from getting slots for some of the most interesting Marvel movies of the next few years, such as “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Ant-Man” and “Age of Ultron”.

In a very strange and somewhat shocking move, though, Playtech has decided that instead of renewing their deal with Disney and Marvel they’d instead partner up with Warner Bros. For those of you not quite savvy in the world of comic books, Warner Bros. are the owners of DC Comics and as such hold the rights to distribute pretty much anything based on their characters, be it movies, TV shows or video games. As such, starting this year, Playtech will start developing slots based on DC characters, or more accurately, on the TV characters that appear in movies and TV shows coming out in the following years. Confirmed slots include “Man of Steel”, “Batman V Superman”, “The Flash” TV show, “Aquaman”, and, most interestingly, the 1966 “Batman” TV show starring Adam West.

Keep in mind that Warner Bros. is no stranger to slots – many of their movies and TV shows have already been adapted into slot form. DC Comics themselves have seen numerous of their characters depicted in semi-successful slot form. Cryptologic, for example, created three slots based on DC’s Trinity, namely Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Each slot used comic book art (some actual, some drawn for the slot) and attempted to recreate the atmosphere of the action on the page, but never quite managed to capture the hearts of gamblers. IGT has also given it a shot with their slot based on the immensely popular “The Dark Knight” slot, but suffice to say that while the movie was one of the best comic book films ever made, the slot did not follow suit. Here’s hoping that Playtech will be able to replicate their success with Marvel in their new line of slots.