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- BALLY TECHNOLOGIES EXPANDS MOBILE APP GAMES LIBRARY WITH FOUR NEW TITLES
- Marc Etches appointed as Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Trust
- Rank bids for Gala takeover
- STATION CASINOS TO GIVE AWAY $5M IN CARS AND CASH DURING FEBRUARY CAR A DAY GIVEAWAY
- Dallmeier USA at ISC West 2012
| BALLY TECHNOLOGIES EXPANDS MOBILE APP GAMES LIBRARY WITH FOUR NEW TITLES Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:16 AM PST
Based on the successful full-size casino versions, these apps are available to download now from iTunes® for iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad®. With nine titles now available, Bally's play-for-fun mobile apps have been downloaded more than 92,000 times in just over a year. "Cash Wizard, Golden Pharaoh, Fireball, and Betty Boop's Love Meter are all standouts on casino floors," said Dan Savage, Bally's Vice President of Marketing. "With bonus features, outstanding interactive-gameplay, trailblazing play mechanics, and a GPS-enabled locator feature to help players find the real slot in a nearby casino, these apps are also standouts among mobile casino games."  Bally Technologies Cash Wizard iPad Cash Wizard, Golden Pharaoh, Fireball, and Betty Boop's Love Meter join Bally's other play-for-fun app titles Cash Spin™, Vegas Hits™, Playboy Hot Zone™, Triple Trouble Poker™, and Code Red™. The Cash Wizard mobile app comes to life with incredible animation and graphics. Like the real version found on casino floors, the game offers gameplay and bonuses like the Pick-A-Potion, Wizard Bonus Bet, Mystery Wheel, and more. The mobile version of Cash Wizard also includes the 1970s hit-song "Magic", which can be downloaded directly through the app from iTunes.  Bally Technologies Golden Pharaoh iPhone Like Cash Wizard, Golden Pharaoh delivers outstanding gameplay like the land-based casino game. This app features game mechanics like U-Spin™, a gesture-control technology that enables players to touch and spin a virtual wheel during a bonus round. Another player-favorite play mechanic offered in Golden Pharaoh is Directional Wilds™, where a "wild" dial appears on a reel and spins, making every symbol in line with the pointing dial wild. The Fireball delivers a casino-favorite to life in the palms of players' hands. Featuring a towering, eye-catching upper screen and upbeat music, Fireball offers Bally's popular Game-in-Game™ feature as a unique eight-level progressive. Incorporating Blazing 7s 7x Pay, Fireball Frenzy™, Triple Jackpot Triple Blazing 7s, Triple Bonus Frenzy™, Double Jackpot Triple Blazing 7s, Diamond Line™, Bonus Frenzy™, and Blazing 7s, Fireball delivers a host of classic and popular Bally titles in this one amazing game. Betty Boop's Love Meter brings to life America's sweetheart in an engaging and fun mobile game. Featuring Betty and her lovable sidekick Pudgy, this slot game offers nine great bonuses available at any bet and a variety of enticing progressive jackpots to be won. Like the real game, players will especially love bonuses such as "How Hot Are You?", where they place their thumbs on the touchscreen to have their "love temperature" read. Each of these apps from Bally are Game Center-enabled, allowing players to track their progress and compete against each other on leader boards and against themselves to earn virtual badges and rewards. Players and casino operators alike will appreciate the GPS-enabled locator feature found in these and many of Bally Technologies' other mobile play-for-fun apps. This functionality allows players to find the real slots in nearby casinos and plots the location on a map for them. "We're growing our mobile play-for-fun application library at a rapid pace and we're looking forward to introducing additional titles like Betty Boop's Fortune Teller™, Hot Spin™, and Lighting Jackpots™, Savage said. "When you combine and integrate these play-for-fun slot apps with our impressive collection of custom casino property mobile apps through our Bally Interactive mobile business, you can see that Bally delivers an unmatched mobile experience for both operator and patron." About Bally Technologies, Inc. With a history dating back to 1932, Las Vegas-based Bally Technologies designs, manufactures, operates, and distributes advanced gaming devices, systems and technology solutions worldwide. Bally's product line includes reel-spinning slot machines, video slots, wide-area progressives, interactive and mobile applications, and Class II, lottery, and central-determination games and platforms. Bally also offers an array of casino management, slot accounting, bonusing, cashless and table management solutions. For more information, please contact Laura Olson-Reyes, Director of Corporate Communications, at 702-584-7742, or visit http://www.BallyTech.com. Connect with Bally on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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| Marc Etches appointed as Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Trust Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:46 AM PST
The Responsible Gambling Trust is dedicated to minimising the level of problem gambling in Britain through effective education and prevention techniques, which stop people getting into problems with their gambling, and ensuring that those that do develop problems receive fast and effective treatment and support. The Responsible Gambling Trust plans to become the industry brand for responsible gambling and to ensure that legitimate business growth and job creation is balanced with social protection of the weak and vulnerable in society. Speaking today, Marc Etches – Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Trust – said: "It gives me great pleasure to take on this new and exciting role. As Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Trust, it is my intention that we continue to build on and maintain effective partnership working with industry executives and representation bodies; treatment service providers and the research community; as well as legislators and regulators to ensure that the national responsible gambling strategy is delivered successfully and that the Responsible Gambling Trust becomes the industry brand for responsible gambling. Furthermore, in bringing the fundraising and commissioning activities together under one roof, we aim to significantly reduce our overall running costs to ensure that donations are used to maximum effect and support the beneficiaries for which they were intended." Neil Goulden – Chairman of The GREaT Foundation / Responsible Gambling Fund / Responsible Gambling Trust – added: "On behalf of the Trustees, I would like to congratulate Marc on his new appointment as Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Trust. The Responsible Gambling Trust plans to become an independent, authoritative and respected voice for responsible gambling in Britain. It will commission effective and value for money services from treatment and education providers through a commissioning approach focussing on partnership working and appropriate evaluation, which is proportional to the relevant grant. Over the next few weeks the merger of the Responsible Gambling Fund and The GREaT Foundation will be completed and announcements regarding further staff appointments will be made in due course."
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| Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST The UK gaming group, Rank, has launched a £250m ($392m) bid for Gala Coral's casino division. The combination of the two estates would create the UK’s largest casino operation by number of venues, with Rank presently operating 36 casinos, while Gala has 25. Rank aims to widen the reach of Gala’s venues to a youthful more female orientated player-base in the successful mould of its G Casino brand. Gala Coral has net debt of £2.1bn, though its casino business generated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of £26.7m in the year to September 2011, on revenues of £134.4m. In its full-year results last September Gala reported a post-tax loss of £643.4m, mostly due to exceptional costs. Rank, which has about £30m in net cash, would fund the deal with a mixture of cash and debt. Rank's Grosvenor casinos division, which plans to expand to 45 casinos by 2015, accounted for more than a third of group revenue in the first half of 2011 and two-thirds of the company's £29.5m operating profit in the period. A deal would see Rank, 74 per cent owned by Malaysia-based Guoco, overtake Malaysian business rival Genting, which has 46 UK casinos.   |
| STATION CASINOS TO GIVE AWAY $5M IN CARS AND CASH DURING FEBRUARY CAR A DAY GIVEAWAY Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:17 AM PST
Generous promotions with cars are a long standing tradition with Station Casinos that date back to the company's founder, Frank Fertitta Jr., who created the original "Car A Day in May" promotion. In the 70's and 80's, Fertitta saw many casinos tout a single car as a prize, but rarely were they given away. He created the "Car A Day In May" promotion with a commitment to create several winners by giving one car to a customer each day of that month. The company, now run by his sons, expanded Fertitta's legacy by reviving this idea and expanding it last year to a promotion worth millions of dollars and an opportunity for guests to win a car a day at multiple properties. Drawings for the "$5 Million Car-A-Day Giveaway" car winner will be held daily, beginning February 10, at 8:15 p.m. in each casino. Vehicle winners will be able to choose from four select Chevrolet models: Camaro, Sonic, Silverado and Cruze. In addition to one car winner each night, four $500 cash winners will be drawn at each location, which breaks down to a total of 50 big wins each day across Southern Nevada. When the contest is completed, there will be a total of 1,000 wins guaranteed from the promotion. Winners do not have to be present at the drawing, but prizes must be claimed within 24 hours. The contest eligibility period for members of the free Boarding Pass rewards program begins on February 6. Entries are good all month long and must be activated by swiping rewards cards daily at Boarding Pass kiosks by 8 p.m. Members of the program will get one entry for every 50 slot points earned at any Station Casinos or Fiesta location. Additional entries may be earned by playing table games, live poker, bingo and with select race and sports wagers. Boarding Pass members will also receive 10 free entries daily February 10-29 just for swiping their cards at a Boarding Pass kiosk. Full contest details are available at www.stationcasinos.com. About Station Casinos Station Casinos owns 17 properties throughout Southern Nevada including Boulder Station, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Fiesta Rancho, Fiesta Henderson, Palace Station, Red Rock Resort, Santa Fe Station, Sunset Station, Texas Station, Wild Wild West and several smaller properties under the Wildfire Gaming division such as Gold Rush and Wildfire Casinos. Additionally, the company manages Aliante Station. For more information, visit www.stationcasinos.com.
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| Dallmeier USA at ISC West 2012 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:10 AM PST
The award-winning and much-lauded multifocal sensor system Panomera® is a novel camera technology with a special lens and sensor concept. This makes it possible to display expansive areas and large distances with a completely new resolution quality – in real time and with high frame rates of up to 30 fps. In so doing, Panomera® far surpasses the HD 1080p standard: The "Panomera® effect" begins where conventional HD and megapixel cameras reach their limits.
Another decisive advantage is the cost-efficiency of the system: where previously several HD cameras had to be installed, a single Panomera® system is now enough – which also means only one installation site is necessary. Since fewer camera installation locations are needed, the requirements for the infrastructure (masts, cables, electricity, etc.) are substantially lower, along with expenditures for servicing and maintenance. Besides Panomera®, Dallmeier will also present other highlights from its extensive range of video over IP solutions at ISC West in Las Vegas, e.g. the high-performance video management software SeMSy® III or the energy-saving recording systems of the Smatrix series. About Dallmeier Dallmeier has at its disposal more than 25 years of experience in transmission, recording as well as picture processing technology and is an outstanding pioneer of CCTV/IP solutions worldwide. This profound knowledge is used in the development of intelligent software and high quality recorder and camera technologies enabling Dallmeier to not only offer stand-alone systems, but complete network solutions up to large-scale projects with perfectly integrated components. Right from the beginning the company always focused on own innovative developments and highest quality and reliability. Dallmeier is the only manufacturer in Germany that develops and manufactures all components on its own. This includes the entire product range, from cameras to picture storage and transmission to intelligent video analysis and even individually adjusted management systems. Quality made by Dallmeier, made in Germany! Over the years, Dallmeier has repeatedly given fresh impetus to the market with new developments and extraordinary innovations. The world's first DVR for example, which introduced digital recording to the entire CCTV industry, came from Dallmeier. The multifocal sensor system Panomera will have a similarly groundbreaking effect: This unique and novel camera technology will revolutionise the market and open up completely new possibilities to the video security industry. This and the extensive experience in the CCTV and IP field have lead to a top position in the international market for digital video surveillance systems. www.dallmeier.com www.panomera.com www.caminpix.com www.casino-surveillance.com www.videonetbox.com
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