Europe and its outer reaches are the new commercial battlegrounds for online operators and PartyGaming has not missed any tricks in launching Beta tests of their platform in numerous European languages.

The world's leading listed online gaming company, has announced that it is now beta testing its French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese language versions of PartyPoker.com. Which effectively means that you can pay, play and get paid in these different languages.

The PartyPoker.com gaming lobbies have been comprehensively translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese as well as supporting functions and services, which include: transaction e-mails, menus, dealer chat, partyaccount and cashier, tournament information and bonus details.

These new sites can only be a good thing, as players in these territories now have the option of the playing in the comfort of their own languages. The commercial reasons and possibilities are obvious, while all punters will welcome more players onto the network.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "We would love to hear back from customers throughout the world to let us know their thoughts on the new language versions of PartyPoker.com while they are in the beta testing stage. We want to take on board as many of their comments as possible so that we can improve the offerings and give customers what they want before making full releases in French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese in the very near future."