The number of casino buildings has been increasing, not just in Las Vegas but around the world. These locations offer the best games in lavish surroundings alongside live entertainment and fine dining. While some of the most famous casino buildings are in Sin City, here we highlight others in Macao, South Africa, Singapore and the Bahamas.

In 1934, the casino opened, but then got shot down during World War II. After the war, the building served as the Russian headquarters, and everything went back to mal by 1955. Since then, the casino has moved from place to place, finally returning to the original building in 1995 after many years of renovations. In Casino World, you are the BOSS! Play free casino games to your heart’s content — choose from over 27 Slots, Bingo, Roulette, Solitaire, and MORE! Earn even more riches through your buildings, and share special food and drink Charms that let you BEAT THE HOUSE! Every time you win in Casino World, Charms boost your coin winnings — like. Play FREE casino games! Over 50 slots, bingo, poker, blackjack, solitaire and so much more! WIN BIG and party with your friends!

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

Opened in 1966, Caesars Palace is one of Las Vegas’ trademark names on the famous Strip following an ancient Rome theme, one of the first casinos to tap into the theme concept. This luxurious casino offers a vast array of casino games. The oval casino is surrounded by 20 black columns trimmed in white marble and gold leaf as well as a statue of Julius Caesar that stands 20 feet tall.

The opulence of Caesar’s Palace also includes a 141-foot fountain and more than 8,000 pieces of marble. There is also a huge spa featuring Roman baths, with pools surrounded by mosaics and classical architecture for when you want to relax away from the gaming tables.

Atlantis Resort & Casino, Paradise Island, Bahamas

The most famous and largest casino in the Caribbean, Atlantis Resort is probably the most ambitious architectural undertaking in the Caribbean. The casino includes 78 gaming tables with craps, blackjack, Caribbean stud poker, roulette and baccarat along with nearly 1,000 slot machines. What makes it stand out, is the skylights and windows along the gaming floor offering dramatic views of naturally beautiful turquoise seas. This modern masterpiece is sited about 100 miles from Bimini, the site of the famous Bimini Road, which some believe to be remnants of the original Atlantis.

Sun City Casino Resort, South Africa

Sun City is a Las Vegas-like resort, yet it lies in a natural dormant volcanic crater about a 90-minute drive from Johannesburg. Opened in 1979, Sun City Casino Resort quickly became a popular destination for high rollers and all types of gamblers from around the world and offers more than 850 slot machines and nearly 40 gaming tables for blackjack, American roulette, stud poker and Punto Baccarat. The extraordinary Palace of the Lost City complex includes a fairytale palace residence, which has an interior of exquisite mosaics, frescoes and hand-painted ceilings depicting South Africa’s wildlife and culture.

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Marina Bay Sands was designed by architect Moshe Safdie and is one of the most expensive casinos to be built, having cost USD5.5 billion to construct. At 845,000 square metres, the complex contains one of the biggest hotels in the world, famous for its triple towers linked at the top with a dramatically cantilevered sky garden, which extends 65 metres out from the side of the towers. It’s also home to the largest atrium casino on earth, with 500 gaming tables and 2,500 slot machines and much else. Safdie, based in Boston, USA, wanted to create a public realm that is rich and exciting, with landscaped parks and other modern urban ideas

FlowPlay is launching a free-to-play social casino game dubbed Casino World. That’s not exactly a big surprise, but the title has a metagame where you can build out your own virtual Las Vegas as if you were a gambling tycoon.

That’s an interesting combination of social casino and tycoon building genres, and Seattle-based FlowPlay hopes it will inject some new life into what analyst firm Eilers & Krejcik says is a $5.2 billion social casino game market. The number of social casino players isn’t growing like it once did, but the average revenue per user is going up, so the market is expanding.

Casino World is a desktop browser game in which folks play various casino-style games while building their own casino/strip of casinos. The idea is that when players win and collect their fortune, they can use that to become their own casino tycoon to build and run casinos within this virtual world.

FlowPlay’s previous games such as Our World (launched in 2008) and Vegas World (launched in 2012) have more than 75 million registered players to date. Morton hopes that Casino World will bring even more players into the fold.

Above: FlowPlay CEO Derrick Morton

Casino World features more than 40 games, including 30 slot machines. That’s a lot of content, and it’s one reason why it took the company almost two years to complete. FlowPlay launched an open beta in July.

Casino World tycoons can play their favorite games, chat with friends, share virtual goods, host parties, and build their empire alongside thousands of online players. As with FlowPlay’s earlier games, players can compete to host the most friends in their online parties in nightclubs.

FlowPlay’s newest game enables for the creation and customization of an immersive city with interactive, social elements that allow players to beat the house. Players can personalize their Casino World city by constructing and moving new buildings, from luxury hotels, to fun dance clubs to glamorous slot halls. Over time, you can build 250 buildings.

“Many of the major buildings actually have interiors,” said Derrick Morton, the CEO of FlowPlay, in an interview with GamesBeat. “People can actually go into your building and go into one of the rooms there. So there are nightclubs and restaurants and bars. They go to your city map, click on a building, and actually go see some of the rooms and walk around with their avatar in the fancy nightclub that you built. And then you can host events at those fancy nightclubs. Now people come to parties and then there’s a sort of a competition for people to be your parties. So it is a social casino at its core loop, but much, much bigger metagame on top of that, in terms of the city-building aspect of it.”

As they grow their empire, players will be rewarded with additional coins to flaunt their Casino World mogul status. Players can also construct “Party Rooms” that serve as interactive chat rooms, where users can invite friends to chat.

“FlowPlay isn’t just developing the best free-to-play online casino games, we’re fostering social and real-world relationships through the communities that we construct for our players,” said Morton. “With Casino World, we wanted players to experience a new way to interact with the casino landscape, allowing players to build their own slot and bingo halls that reward them with additional coins. Now, players can create the city of their dreams all while sharing the experience with their Casino World friends.”

Above: The metagame in Casino World

Casino World features over 200 new player avatars that have distinct personality characteristics, including movement-based expressions and soundbites. As players acquire Avatar Tokens, they can access new avatar characters with more exclusive personality traits, clothes and styles.

“There’s kind of a funny storyline as soon as you progress through the game,” Morton said. “You’re first introduced to the building by this rich cowboy. But he gets replaced by the mafia at some point. Then the mafia has to leave town because the CIA has come in and run them out of town. Then the aliens come in, and vampires. It’s a very big story that could take you months and months to uncover.”

Casino World is also introducing Milestone Rewards, a new level-based reward system that pays players in exclusive Charms, additional coins, buildings for the player’s Casino World city, and Party Passes, which allow free entrance into user-run parties. As players acquire wealth within the game, they unlock new reward levels that tell an interactive story of the creation of the Casino World universe.

As an opponent to the crowded mobile app marketplaces, FlowPlay has launched Casino World exclusively for desktop play. Casino World players can access and enjoy the full featured, PC-style universe without the loss of ambience that is required to accommodate a mobile device. Casino World is the most immersive, ultra-realistic FlowPlay title with unmatched gameplay capabilities and interactivity.

Above: Casino World

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FlowPlay has also partnered with Publishers Clearing House, a digital entertainment and commerce destination for millions of US consumers, for a Casino World “$25,000 Charmed Life Sweepstakes.”

Participants who register for the sweepstakes by October 27 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern will have the free chance to win a $25,000 guaranteed cash prize. About two weeks after the lucky winner is chosen, the famous Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol, along with Morton, will personally travel to the winner’s home to surprise him or her with the winning check.

“The sweepstakes guys show up to your door with these huge checks,” Morton said. “Well, I’m going to be showing up to the door with a huge check myself personally. That should be fun. So they’re doing they’re running a $25,000 each takes for people to find out about Casino World in general.”

FlowPlay was founded in 2006, and it now has 60 employees, as well as a development team in China. The company has been steadily launching new games in the social sports betting market, but it also got caught up in Adobe’s decision to retire its Flash software, as FlowPlay’s games were built on it.

“We got hit with the end of Adobe Flash,” Morton said. “We had 1.4 million lines of code on our massively multiplayer platform that we had to convert. And so that took us over two years, almost three years to build an entirely new version of Vegas World that would run on mobile, or on a browser, versus the last game that we had in the past. That took up a big chunk of time.”

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As for the future, Morton said the company may experiment with subscription gaming.

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“One of the things we’re experimenting with in Casino World is making it a more subscription-based product versus an in-app purchase product,” Morton said.