As the iGaming industry heads into the fourth and final quarter of 2016, business activity is picking up across the board. Top gaming providers like Evolution Gaming, Microgaming and Yggdrasil have all been actively signing new content deals and/or releasing new and exciting games. Here's a couple of important news items from a couple of the industry's smaller, but growing, players.

In recent months, Yggdrasil Gaming has shown itself to be one of the top innovators in the iGaming industry. After the introduction of new value-added tools like BOOST and BRAG, the company has just launched its new Missions feature within its BOOST marketing platform.

iSoftBet, an international iGaming company based in London and Luxembourg, has yet again diversified its Game Aggregation Platform (GAP) with a new deal with MrSlotty. The latter is an up-and-coming Lithuanian gaming brand owned by Loberta UAB, which has already over 40 Full HD HTML5 slots in its portfolio.

Three iGaming behemoths – Playtech, Evolution Gaming and NetEnt – have just announced new games, partnerships and innovations that will improve players’ gaming experience at least tenfold.

In recent months, leading iGaming software developer Microgaming has been making a lot of noise with its recent activity. As the company continues to work to improve its already elite gaming portfolio, they have announced the signing of an agreement to add software provider Pariplay to its roster of integrated partners.