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The license for the Playboy Gold video slot has been entrusted to the reliable online gambling giant Microgaming. You'd have to be a rookie in slots not to have come across the company name or played one of its games. Alongside slots, the company builds online casinos and can produce everything you would want that casino to contain, from internal management to table games, a live dealer and a mobile platform.

The development team's online slots catalog is mammoth-sized, with a theme, style and genre to suit any gambler. This can be the Achilles heel of the company, though, with quality and originality sometimes taking a back seat over speed and quantity.

Some of the newer, smaller firms like Thunderkick, Yggdrasil and Elk Studios are setting a benchmark with quality of design, graphics and innovation that Microgaming may struggle to keep up with.

The Playboy Gold video slot, however, is the inaugural release of a joint venture between Triple Edge Studios and Microgaming. This smaller and more innovative design studio uses Microgaming's reliable Quickfire platform on a thrilling new game with the infamous Playboy brand.

The Playboy brand is instantly recognizable from the two Playmates who stand beside the reels in their satin leotards with bow tie and bunny ears. The large reel set contains six reels of ten rows each filled with simple symbols of playing card suits, casino chips and colored Playboy logos.

Prize payouts are achieved with matching combinations of three to five of these symbols, and while the cost of 100 paylines is high, it also means a higher chance of hitting multiple win lines. There's a gold wild symbol that substitutes to increase potential win lines, and although it's rare on the base game, it becomes more significant during features.

A seasoned player will guess by the pay table that volatility here is very low, which means there are lots of low top-up wins. For the real action and big cash prizes, we need to look at the game's special features. And these features are what the slot is all about.

The large reel set allows the base game special feature to take center stage, literally. A jumbo block of 4x6 Playmate symbols will occasionally appear on the central reels. It could be any one of the four Playmates, and it will reward players with one of four modifiers for big cash prizes.

Players could win a multiplier of up to 5x on all win lines, or it could be an instant win of up to 30x the total bet. The modifier that we found to be the most lucrative is the reel respins.

The jumbo block will expand to fill the 4x10 central reels, and reels one and two will respin up to four times. The respin reels will contain wilds and blank spaces. Each time a wild lands, it will lock in place for the remaining spins. In this way, players can build up huge stacks of win lines for some massive prizes.

And yet, there's even more feature action and prize potential from the bonus games. Land the three gold and red Playboy logo scatter symbols, and you'll trigger the Wheel Bonus. This awards another bonus game, free spins or an instant cash win of up to 100x your bet.

The free spins bonus features 10 spins on which a jumbo block will land on every spin, showering players with cash-boosting modifiers. It's a generous bonus, but we've also had mighty handsome rewards from the Match Bonus.

This is a pick 'em game where players need to find matching pairs of Playmates to win that Playmate’s prize. If you're lucky enough to select a matching pair straight off, you win all the Playmate’s prizes – but you can still win big if you don't. After two picks, a multiplier will increase with each pick, going up to a possible 10x the Playmate's prize.

The Playboy Gold video slot is not Microgaming's first venture with the bunny brand. An earlier game simply titled Playboy doesn't feature the Playmates so heavily, but it does boast an even more impressive prize potential with over 300,000 coins up for grabs.

However, you don't have to look far in the online gambling for sexy-themed slots titles or games featuring women in skimpy outfits. Some, such as Studio 69 by Oryx, are more overt than other titles like Spin Party by Play'n GO. But there's always something for everyone in online slots.

Indeed, if these sultry themes are not your bag at all, then Yggdrasil's Power Plant also offers a massive reel set with a whole host of cash-boosting features. The difference is that this game is themed on industrial waste, which is probably the complete opposite of Playboy Gold's sexy theme.

The Playboy Gold video slot does exactly what Microgaming does best. It doesn't offer tons of top innovations or outstanding design. Yet, it does offer a safe game with fun bonus features, plenty of big-brand familiarity, and masses of real cash potential.

Whether you choose to play this game or not will have little to do with mechanics or prizes, and more to do with what you think of the Playboy brand. All we can say is, like the brand or loathe it, this online slot offers a great online gambling game.