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This week, I’ve given a significant overhaul to the Slot Tournaments guide and added plenty of new reviews and demos of upcoming games. Below, you’ll also find a list of new releases you can play at UK slot sites.
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Revamped Slot Tournaments Guide
The new guide has been reframed, leading with the best slot sites for tournaments first, then the guide itself. With new sites added to the top 10 list, I’ve added a new strategy section and a comparison table. Here's what's inside the newly updated guide:
- Slots Temple at #1: a UKGC-licensed specialist running no-deposit tournaments with real-cash leaderboards and pools up to £10,000
- Pragmatic Play's Drops & Wins: the UK's biggest tournament, with a £2 million monthly prize pool
- 10 top UK sites compared: prize types, formats and entry details for each
- How to win: how tournaments are scored, and which games suit each format
- Independently tested: every site is UKGC-licensed and vetted by OLBG
Best Slot Sites for Tournaments (UK 2026)
New Slot Games Released this Week
This week, there are 3 new games from Pragmatic Play:
31/08/2026: Gates of Olympus POP (Pragmatic Play)
Gates of Olympus POP is a stripped-back Greek mythology Scatter Pays slot, part of Pragmatic's simplicity-focused POP series built for casual players. Played on a compact 3x5 grid from 10p, wins need 5+ matching symbols anywhere, with Tumbles after every win. Multiplier symbols up to 1000x stay on screen through tumbles and combine at the sequence's end. The Free Spins feature awards 15 free spins with a progressive total multiplier. 3 POP jackpots can also be won with the Burst Jackpot worth 25,000 x your total bet. Importantly, it comes with a high 97.05% RTP rate: the highest of all Pragmatic Play games.
31/08/2026: Hearts of Venus (Pragmatic Play)
Hearts of Venus is a Roman mythology Scatter Pays slot themed on the goddess of love. Played on a 6x5 grid from 20p, wins need 8+ matching symbols anywhere, with Tumbles driving successive wins. Multiplier Spots carry random values from 2x to 1024x, climbing each time a win explodes on them. The Free Spins feature starts with 6 free spins and a 2x-16x starting multiplier, with every third Collect Scatter adding 2 free spins and doubling the multiplier boost: reaching 1024x awards 10 more free spins. Max wins can reach 25,000 x your total bet.
03/09/2026: Ra vs Osiris (Pragmatic Play)
Ra vs Osiris is an ancient Egyptian slot pitting sun god Ra against underworld god Osiris, played on 5 reels and 15 paylines from 10p. You first pick a mode: high volatility Ra (red) or very high volatility Osiris (green). Both modes centre on VS Expanding Wilds, where 2 multipliers (up to 1000x) battle to fill a reel. In the Free Spins feature, expanded wilds become walking wilds with respins, and a pre-feature gamble lifts the minimum multiplier up to 100x. Max win potential is 25,000 x your total bet.
Upcoming Games Added
Below, you’ll find summaries of upcoming slots I’ve added this week (including in-depth reviews and free demos):
Le Vampire (Hacksaw Gaming)
Le Vampire sinks its teeth into the vampire theme for the 14th 'Le' series outing, sending a fanged Smokey the Raccoon in search of immortality inside a bat-filled castle. This Cluster Pays slot plays on a 6x5 grid from 5p, with a headline-grabbing 97.57% RTP. Super Cascades and Rainbow-activated Golden Squares reveal Coins up to 500 x bet, multiplying Clovers and Pot of Gold collectors, with fresh Blood Squares unlocking richer Coins. 3 free spins modes upgrade symbols to Epic and add extra free spins via the Symbol Bar. Max win potential is 15,000 x your total bet.
Forever Split Megaways (Pragmatic Play)
Forever Split Megaways is a vampire/horror-themed slot with 6 reels and up to 72,030 ways to win. With undead exes out for blood, it comes with Tumbles and a Settlement Multiplier up to 15x. In the Free Spins feature, symbols landing on the horizontal reels build the Settlement Multiplier for up to 10,000 x bet max wins. The RTP rate is also high at 96.58%.
Royal Potato Dream Drop (Print Studios)
Royal Potato Dream Drop is the third instalment in the aristocratic-spuds series. Played on 5 reels and 30 paylines, the signature SuperSpinners mechanic sees multipliers sit between the reels and apply to any winline passing through them, while the Royal Levy feature lets King and Queen symbols randomly award a bet-multiplier prize boosted by all SuperSpinners. The Jumbo Free Spins feature begins with up to 12 free spins, where completing symbol panel wins grows the Jumbo Potato Wild up to 5x5 in size and adds up to 13 extra free spins, a mechanic akin to Push Gaming's Fat Rabbit. Landing 3 overlay DD Icons triggers 1 of 5 Dream Drop progressive jackpots, with the Mega Jackpot guaranteed to land before hitting €2 million. Jackpots aside, max win potential is 30,000 x your total bet.
Gates of Olympus 2500 (Pragmatic Play)
Gates of Olympus 2500 is the supercharged entry in the Greek mythology Scatter Pays series. Played on a 6x5 grid from 20p, wins need 8+ matching symbols anywhere. Tumbles drive successive wins, while Orb Multipliers now reach a huge 2500x, combining at the end of each sequence. 4 free spins modes, awarded via a wheel, add values to a persistent total multiplier, with Super versions guaranteeing a 10x minimum. With a 96.52% RTP rate, it comes with 25,000 x bet max wins.
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