News & Updates

Experience gained from purchasing drinks at bars no longer counts towards experience-based crew battles or wars.

New crews now start with 2 weeks of free protection.

Fixed various bugs on both client and server.

Team balancing for crew wars has been completely overhauled. Instead of a completely automated system, we thought we'd leave it up to you, in a similar fashion to picking teams on the playground. The top 2 eligible crews will be selected as team leaders, and all other eligible crews will be placed on the temporary 'gray' team. The two team leaders then vote on the crews they want on their team (all members can vote). After 24 hours, a round-robin selection is made to select all teams, using ranking as a tie-breaker and for teams with 0 votes.

Level 20+ players that own a casino can now hire contract workers to promote their casinos. Simply go to the "Manage" menu inside your casino, purchase a contract, then go to any outdoor location and click on the contract to place the worker. You can rotate them, move them and change the casino they are promoting for 24 hours. In the future, more advanced contract workers will be added as well.

Poker Cash Games can now be created as either Chip or Casino Point tables (level 10+ only).

There is a new type of bar item available for purchase: Espresso Bar. Drinking from this bar can help to sober you up more quickly!

The scoring system for crews has now been reworked to take into account how competitive a battle was (more competitive battles get a bonus).

There will now be an alert at the top of the screen every 30 minutes during war showing the current scores.

Your monthly ranking now shows on your goldfire.me profile/homepage and on the notification center in the bottom left of the screen.

The rotate button is now disabled for items that can't be rotated.

Tweaked the size and position of several window elements that didn't look quite right on smaller screen resolutions.

Quick chat is now hidden while NPC alerts in the bottom left of the screen are showing.

The image of your casino is now shown in the new casino listing tab of the Real Estate Market.

Upgrading a casino now works much more smoothly on touch-screen devices.

The button to open the "Manage Properties" window has been changed from a location market to a smartphone. How else are you getting live updates on all of your casinos stats and instantly calling your personal driver?

The slots pay tables now display the correct values at all bet levels.

Team colors correctly get removed from crew listings at the end of war.

Fixed a missing address in a few zones.

Fixed an issue where mission giver icons would sometimes flicker.

The casino upgrade alert messages should now be displaying again.

Fixed an issue with saving audio settings after marking "Mute Effects."

A native PC/Mac version of CasinoRPG is now available from the Desura store here: Download CasinoRPG on Desura.

Created a new zone naming system that should make much more sense and much easier to both know where you are and navigate the map. It now uses your standard directions, so if you are in Zone N1E2, you know that you are 1 zone to the north and 2 zones to the east.

Casinos now have unique addresses, which you can now type into taxis to travel directly to that casino! This will allow you to share your casino's address so that people can find your casino without issue. You can find your address by walking up to the door of your casino.

When spawning from your condo, you are now alerted as to what zone you just entered.

When clicking to walk, the location where your character is walking to now briefly highlights to make it more clear where you are headed (both inside and outside).

You can now challenge players to sprints while sitting at a blackjack, poker or roulette table. Click their avatar for various actions.

The tools provided to Community Ambassadors to keep the peace in chat and around the game have received an overhaul to make their job easier and more consistent.

In addition to an address being displayed, the name display outside of casinos has been improved visually.

Improved our Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm for better shuffling performance and the best possible simulation of real-world card shuffling.

Improved the stability of our database system to prevent hosting provider issues from causing outages in the game.

Added a fresh coat of polish to the new player tutorial.

When walking out of a building, you will now move one extra tile out so that the arrow to walk inside isn't showing.

Clicking the NPC staffing something like a bar, bank desk, etc now works the same as clicking on the item itself.

More live activity will now display around poker and blackjack tables.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause your character to show one tile over from where you were previously after a reload.

Extra time is now correctly applied to the Slots Addict 2 mission.

Various bug fixes and tweaks around the game.

The Auction House now has exclusive items of its own. To start off, one item will be put up for auction every Wednesday morning. This item can only be purchased from the Auction House and acts just like any exclusive (can't break). To kick this off, we've created 3 different versions of a Diamond Display item, one of which will go up for auction tomorrow.

There are 5 new sculpture items available for casinos and crew buildings.

There is now an info tooltip on the vault upgrade screen to make it more clear how the upgrades work.

Fixed a few random bugs in the Jungle Slots bonus game.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes show slot unlock items as still being locked.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.

After the first load of the game, subsequent loads will now be much faster (this could take a few hours or days to kick in depending on your computer/browser/network).

The interaction with clickable elements of the game have been improved for touch-screen devices.

Clicking on a casino game, door, etc will now highlight the action text until you stop walking.

Improved support for adding the game as a home screen web app on Android and iOS (iOS is not recommended until iOS 8 later this fall, as home screen web apps aren't hardware accelerated).

The icon that shows in your browser tab has been updated to show a stack of chips.

Fixed a bug in the scout pigeons mission that would sometimes prevent completion.

Clicking away from the bar menu now closes it.

Fixed an issue where the hedge guy mission wouldn't always be available when it should be.

Chat messages that are deleted in global chat are now correctly deleted from quick chat.

12 new lot items are now available (all trees). 9 are available from the edit lot menu, and the other 3 can be won while playing Daily Slots.

Items can now be sold directly from the vault, even if they can't be placed where you currently are (so those of you without casinos can now sell your casino items).

There is now a 4th and 6th mission available in the poker series.

An issue causing some of the flag items to stop animating should now be fixed.

Fixed another possible error in the jungle slots bonus game.

A rare issue that could prevent you from switching slot machines should now be fixed.

Fixed bug that would sometimes display the wrong XP client-side from slot bonus spins, making it look like you lost XP when leaving the machine.

When using the Windows 8 App, the fullscreen button no longer displays on the main menu (since the app is fullscreen by default).

An issue that sometimes would cause multi-table poker tournaments to not merge correctly should now be fixed.

Fixed a bug with editing floors when using a Windows 8 touch-screen laptop.

Fixed a few issues with leaving floors when clicking just past the door.

Reloading the game will no longer reset your progress when scouting for pigeons.

While a crew war is happening live, you can visit your crew's battle tab to see a live list of all participating players, ordered by score, as apposed to just the crew scores on the main view.

Double-XP Day is now working correctly (timezones make things tricky). We've extended it by 24 hours from the time of this update, so nobody is losing any double experience.

When leaving the live war view, you will now correctly stop receiving the live updates.

When playing slots or other delayed events, you will no longer see your war/battle points update before you see the XP on your own game.

If you aren't in the war, your crew's battle tab now correctly shows 'N/A' for team name.

Fix shadows on main menu text that weren't displaying correctly on some browsers.

All audio has been re-encoded to have both a smaller file size and better quality, meaning audio will load faster and sound much better!

We've made various updates to our database to improve efficiency and performance.

Fixed a bunch of small issues with the new user introduction series.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause a visual "draw in" of the map when leaving a building.

Expanding the mini-map no longer shows behind your missions list.

If a crew isn't in the current crew war, show 'N/A' instead of 'Black.'

Fix an occasional lag issue with mail pickup mission.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.

Several new casino game missions have been added for each game type.

There are a few new alternate mission givers for casino games scattered around the city.

Pressing of buttons now works dramatically better on touch-screen devices.

The full screen button now works correctly on all browsers and devices.

Fixed issue with slots sometimes getting stuck in an infinite spin (especially after switching tabs).

Updated our audio engine to fix a few different browser bugs.

Fixed a few bugs with the tile editor that would sometimes cause the placement of tiles to get stuck and be placed where you didn't intend.

Fixed a few bugs with the new Jungle Slots bonus game.

Fixed a bug that could cause the poker pot display to get off when a new player was in the hand.

Fixed a few random bugs in the lot editor.

The poker jackpot is now only awarded once per hand, so that you don't win it multiple times from the main and side pots.

The bonus game on Jungle Slots has received an incredible overhaul. It is now its own unique game that includes stunning artwork, animations and prizes!

The last saturday of every month is now Double-XP Day! This means, for a 24-hour period, you'll see a 2x flag when logging in, giving you double the experience from every activity in-game.

We've recreated the new player tutorial flow to use less words and more visuals.

Fixed bug on the Windows app and for Internet Explorer users that would sometimes cause the game to freeze when a Party Bomb went off.

Poker jackpot winners are now being logged correctly.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.