New games from Chartwell Tech

The Canadian online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology has released a batch of new games just in time to showcase same at the ICEi exhibition next week. The company enjoyed success and player plaudits with last year’s new releases and hopes to continue that trend through 2011, starting this month with four new slots with […]

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Tue, January 18th, 2011

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