Online casino software manufacturer, Cryptologic - who will be changing their company headquarters from Canada overseas to Ireland - is making true on their word to continue diversifying their product offering to the online gaming industry. The company just announced they have signed a five-year contract with FreshGames to develop an online slot version of the popular casual game, Cubis. Similar to the classic Rubix Cube, Cubis is a three-dimensional puzzle game that has garnered a popular following with online casual gamers.

No longer doing business with U.S. players, Cryptologic is undoubtedly seeking to pull from as many resources as possible to make up for the lost business that U.S. players brought to the company. Cryptologic actually played their cards right, for although U.S. players will still continue to gamble at online casinos (who will continue to keep processing bets outside of U.S. jurisdiction), they have been focusing their assets and future developments in the European and Asian online gambling sector.

Now, much like they did with the popular casual game, Bejewelled, Cryptologic will be offering a new casual game turned slot machine to their online casino licensees who will soon offer the game as an upgrade to the software platform. Existing players will be able to selectively download the Cubis game in addition to the existing offering of Cryptologic games. The expected release date for the game will be sometime near the end of the fourth quarter of 2006, and will be available through Cryptologic's subsidiary online casino software developer, WagerLogic.

As for Cubis, the online version of this casual game already gets downloaded seven million times a month, and will invariably be popular with the horde of slot machine gamblers who hitherto made the Bejewelled casino slot machine the popular game it is today. Cubis consistently ranks as one of the Top Ten games played by user's of AOL, Yahoo and MSN, and is on tap to be one of nine casual games released with the latest iPods. The slot version will feature fifteen paylines, a maximum payout of 50,000 coins and coin sizes as little as one penny to as high as $300 per spin. The release of Cubis will make over sixty new online casino game releases by Cryptologic since 2004.