Friday, March 23, 2012

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WMS LAUNCHES NETWORKED GAMING WAGE NET™ SOLUTION IN SAN REMO ITALY

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 04:50 PM PDT

Waukegan, Ill March 22, 2012 WMS Gaming Inc., a subsidiary of WMS Industries Inc. (NYSE:WMS), announced the successful launch of the Company's WAGE-NET Networked Gaming solution in Italy at Italy's renowned Casino San Remo. The WAGE-NET solution, with cloud-based Remote Configuration and Download functionality, delivers unprecedented gaming experiences while leveraging industry-standard protocols to give operators heightened flexibility on their casino floors. The 30-game installation, which includes 24 Piggy Bankin'™ machines, the second theme from the Ultra Hit Progressive™ portal family, reinforces the WMS commitment to Engaging Players. Delivering Results™.

Sebastian Salat President WMS International

Sebastian Salat, President WMS International, said, "WAGE-NET reinforces our commitment to push the evolution of the casino floor to new heights while remaining dedicated to a focus on standardization, usability, simplicity and flexibility. Recent launches in international and domestic markets provide an opportunity for our casino customers to increase revenue while delivering an unmatched gaming experience for the casino guest."

WMS WAGE‐NET solutions are designed from the ground-up, and leverage computer industry and GSA standards‐based architecture to enable cross‐vendor interoperability. These solutions provide customers with the freedom of choice and flexibility to utilize systems and applications best suited to their own needs and designed to increase revenue-generating capabilities while providing differentiated player experiences for installed base games.

The Remote Configuration and Download functionality enables operators to deploy and manage any Networked Gaming application throughout a casino slot floor and quickly perform slot management tasks from a remote location.

The Ultra Hit Progressive series, a multi-level progressive that adds a secondary bonus opportunity to a player's favorite slots, is designed to enhance base game performance by creating a second game dynamic, and runs on a Central Game Controller server. The WMS installation at Casino San Remo includes the Piggy Bankin' theme, from the Ultra Hit Progressive series, which features coins that pile into a piggy bank, making it grow bigger and shake until it cracks. Both audio and visuals amplify as the game nears a progressive trigger, ultimately reaching critical mass as the bank explodes and awards the lucky player one of four progressive awards.

Marco Calvi, San Remo Casino Slot Manager, said, "We are very excited about the WMS WAGE-NET solution, which will allow us to increase game performance with fresh, on-demand content and minimal changes to our existing IT infrastructure."

About WMS WMS is engaged in serving the gaming industry worldwide by designing, manufacturing, and marketing games, video and mechanical reel-spinning gaming machines, video lottery terminals and in gaming operations, which consists of the placement of leased participation gaming machines in legal gaming venues. WMS is proactively addressing the next stage of casino gaming floor evolution with its WAGE-NET networked gaming solution, a suite of systems technologies and applications designed to increase customers' revenue generating capabilities and operational efficiency. More information on WMS can be found at http://www.wms.com or visit the Company on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

 

9th Annual Responsible Gaming Academy

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 04:40 PM PDT

Vienna, 22 March 2012 The international gambling addiction elite met recently in Vienna for the 9th Annual Casinos Austria/Austrian Lotteries Responsible Gaming Academy. The keynote speaker, Jeff Derevensky, attested the two companies a "prominent international pioneering role in responsible gaming".

In addition to Dr. Derevensky, the top caliber speakers at the event included Peter R. Darke of York School of Business in Toronto, Dr. Jens Kalke from the Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research at the University of Hamburg, Doris Malischnig, Head of the Prevention Department at Casinos Austria/Austrian Lotteries, Professor Herwig Scholz from Krankenhaus de La Tour in Austria, Herbert Beck, Head of the Responsible Gaming Division at Casinos Austria/Austrian Lotteries, and Michael Auer from a2mlab.

For further information and to see the complete Press Release, please click on the following link:

9th Annual Responsible Gaming Academy

 

Best regards

Hermann Pamminger
Casinos Austria AG, Rennweg 44, A-1038 Wien
FN 99639 d, Handelsgericht Wien,

 

THE GLOBAL DRAW’S PREMIUM CONTENT CREATES LONG TERM LOYALTY, NOT SHORT TERM NOVELTY

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 12:06 PM PDT

The Global Draw, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) is proud to announce that its dedication to providing premium quality content is helping to drive long-term player loyalty and stronger cash box performance.

With an expert in-house content development team that has 150 years of combined experience, The Global Draw is constantly striving to provide its customers with exclusive premium games and titles that encourage deeper player engagement.

Following the company's acquisition of Barcrest and its expansive games library in 2011, The Global Draw has combined this wealth of experience and catalogue of premium licensed titles to bring a creative and unique perspective to content development via a 'one vision' approach.

Rick Mountney, content development director at The Global Draw, commented, "Our aim is to develop titles that create long-term consumer loyalty, not short-term novelty. Pushing the boundaries of innovation is what keeps our content ahead of the game.

Our dedication to providing exciting games that keep players engaged is key to helping our customers increase cash box revenue. The better the game, the longer its life span – it's about getting the whole content 'recipe' right. We have created some of the industry's most iconic titles including Key Bet Roulette and Rainbow Riches. With on-going development and enhancements, these titles have attracted and retained a loyal audience."

Key Bet Roulette, one of The Global Draw's flagship games, goes beyond a standard roulette offering to incorporate a progressive pot, bet multiplier and additional side bet. This distinct approach to the innovation of popular long-term titles, as well as the introduction of new titles, demonstrates The Global Draw's experience in implementing successful game formulas.

Through the development of a mixture of styles, profiles and themes, key titles such as Deal or no Deal have been introduced, enhanced and developed to maintain popularity with players. This ultimately helps to drive on-going business for The Global Draw's customers.

Mountney continued, "We've had some great feedback from our customers regarding how our compelling content, operating excellence and leading platform are helping them to drive business.

Ladbrokes, one of our key customers, generated a strong increase in their cash box performance as reported in their recently released fourth quarter 2011 financial results. Having installed 100% of Ladbrokes' estate in 2011, we are very proud of these results and we look forward to continuing to provide them with the latest, most innovative content, exclusive to our customers."

About Scientific Games: Scientific Games Corporation is a global leader in providing customized, end-to-end gaming solutions to lottery and gaming organizations worldwide. Scientific Games’ integrated array of products and services includes instant lottery games, lottery gaming systems, terminals and services, and internet applications, as well as server-based interactive gaming machines and associated gaming control systems. For more information, please visit our website at www.scientificgames.com.

About The Global Draw: The Global Draw, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games, supplies server-based gaming machines to betting shops across Britain.  The Global Draw also operates betting and gaming products in Northern Ireland, mainland Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

LVS appoints ex- Ladbrokes veteran

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:57 AM PDT

22 March 2012 (London, UK) — LVS, the sports book software provider owned by La Française des Jeux, announced today that Nick Dutton has been appointed into the new role of Programme Director. Dutton will be responsibility for overseeing and directing significant development and delivery programmes.

Simon Ordish LVS CEO said, "LVS are expanding at a rapid rate as we continue to win new clients and we needed an industry heavyweight who could operate at a very senior level and also manage all aspects of our development. Nick's played a major part in defining and implementing Ladbrokes IT strategy in retail, e-gaming and Internationally. His experience speaks for its self and I am delighted to have him on board."

Nick Dutton, the former Director of Information System for Ladbrokes said, "After 20 years with Ladbrokes I am delighted to be joining LVS. One of my key reasons for joining is the superior technology stack they are able to offer their customers. This is a very exciting time to be joining LVS and I look forward to being a major part of their future development."

 

AMATIC INDUSTRIES THE RIGHT SOLUTIONS FOR THE RIGHT MARKETS

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:45 AM PDT

Following on from very busy shows in January at the German IMA in Düsseldorf and the ICE in London, Amatic Industries has been underlying its strong local presence in individual European countries at the corresponding national gaming exhibitions.

Hans Bierrum of Genesis Games and Thomas Engstberger of Amatic Industries

Comatel is the experienced partner of Amatic Industries in Spain. The FER exhibition in the last week of March is the perfect platform to display the Amatic Industries' gaming solutions. These include the Multi Line slots and the wide range of electronic roulettes. Amatic Industries is a firm favourite amongst Spanish players for electronic roulette.

Mr. Leopold Öller, Director at Amatic Industries, comments, "With almost twenty years of experience in the gaming market, Amatic Industries has been able to build up such success due to an in-depth understanding of player needs in each individual country. The countries where we are exhibiting at the moment are a perfect example for this. Our multi-game slots are very popular in Ireland, our online GrandX gaming is up and running in Greece and our Grand Jeu electronic roulettes are very successful in Spain. I am particularly pleased that we will be displaying our new Grand Jeu Double at the FER – our 10-player electronic roulette with two integrated roulette wheels with four large display screens. We at Amatic Industries listen to our customers and provide the right solutions for the right markets".

The GrandX online gaming solutions were on display at the Greek GAMEnet exhibition and can now be played in Greece. Amatic's long-standing partner – AK Electronic Games – has attained a licence for online gaming in Greece for Amatic's GrandX. This is the second European country to attain the licence with more countries set to offer the exciting games of Amatic Industries. AK Electronic Games was successful in attaining a licence for operating GrandX in Greece in a very challenging application process.

During the same week, another Amatic Industries gaming solution was on display at another European gaming exhibition. Amatic Multi Game slot solutions continue to be a firm favourite in the Irish gaming market. Thus, Amatic Industries as ever was present at the Irish Gaming Show in Dublin together with the local partner Genesis Games. Both Hans Bierrum of Genesis Games and Thomas Engstberger of Amatic Industries spearheaded the team at the Dublin show.

 

 

Triple Win for Badbeat.com Sponsored Player, Edijs Grins

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PDT

(LONDON, UK)- Edijs Grins is yet another newly sponsored and mentored Badbeat.com player to have three big wins in less than a week. For his double MTT win, Grins first took down the $22 Short Handed (6 Max) $3.5k GTD for $850 and also the $54 Canadian $5k Guarantee for $1530. He went on to complete his spectacular performance by winning the $16k GTD Rehab by beating a tough field of 520 to take home the first place prize of $3175.

Badbeat’s, MyGame Poker Training Service, has introduced an innovative and brand new Multi Table Tournament "MTT" Scorecard to help get to the winning level like Grins. The new MyGame feature explains how your scores are graded and how you are guided to tutorials and videos to help improve any part of your game that is struggling.

Grins explains how Badbeat.com has helped him to achieve this potential in such a short space of time: "Without Badbeat.com I would not have this chance to earn enough money to play live events. I have way more motivation to grind for Badbeat.com than I had on my own."

Badbeat.com, the original and leading poker staking and poker training site, has been sponsoring and mentoring promising players like Grins since 2005. This summer it made its revolutionary new MyGame poker training system, modelled on that experience, available free to anyone that wants to learn, win and transform the way they play. It builds players' poker skills from the ground up by analysing actual play. Access to tutorials, the unique hands analysis tool, Report Cards, and Social gaming features are all free after registering a new account with any of Badbeat's partner poker sites. A new iPhone app now enables MyGame poker trainees to compare Report Cards with others enrolled in the program and even get advice and access training videos from their phone.

 

WORLD MATCH PRESENTS MINI BLACK JACK

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:33 AM PDT

This side game from World Match has been designed to be opened next to another game and take advantage of its waiting time to make new additional and fast bets, thanks to the highly ergonomic interface.

All the excitement of the classic Black Jack in a Game Area purposely designed for the

side-game mode: this is the new Mini Black Jack by World Match, specifically conceived to be put aside to another game (typically Poker).

The dimensions of Mini Black Jack game area have been carefully studied to allow the player to engage simultaneously multiple game experiences, in order to capitalize the waiting times of main game.

Graphics have been improved to be legible and user friendly, without sacrificing the details that embellish the game and recreate the atmosphere of real casinos.

Its game interface and control panel enhance game speed and ergonomics, without losing any of the features of the original Black Jack: Double, Split and Insurance.

This side game is also equipped with History feature, which works like a time-machine, to provide an extremely simple and intuitive chronological record of all hands.

Choosing this function the detailed history of bets, winnings and losses and the respective times and dates will be displayed immediately.

Mini Black Jack is available in three settings: Standard, Pro and Privée, according to minimum and maximum bets set by the Licensee.

For further information: http://www.wm.com.mt/Mini Black Jack Standard http://www.wm.com.mt/Mini Black Jack Pro http://www.wm.com.mt/Mini Black Jack Privee E-mail: sales@wm.com.mt Tel: +356 3550 5808

 

Greek market welcomes VNE

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:23 AM PDT

The Greek market is moving towards video lottery terminals (VLTs) with 35,000 VLTs to be introduced in the near future. This will be a completely new gaming sector for Greece and create a strong, legal gaming base. VLTs are becoming increasingly popular around the world. In Europe the Czech Republic and Slovakia led the way. The remarkable success in Italy has shown how popular VLTs can be.

Valentina Santarelli of VNE and Thanasis Michail of Million King at the Greek GAMEnet exhibition

The increased stakes and prizes with the possibility of progressive jackpots introduce a whole new world of gaming opportunities. The fact that the VLTs are controlled online and the games stem from a server allows the government tax offices to have real time access and control of the VLTs. In Italy the tax revenue from VLTs is high enough to be of major importance to the state. Therefore, the Greek government, gaming operators and players alike are looking forward to the introduction of VLTs. New partnerships are arising in Greece with VLT manufacturers set to bring their technology to Greece. The market for change machines is set to grow strongly. However, these change machine manufacturers must have very specific knowledge to compete in this market.

Italy is the largest market for VLTs in Europe. The number one supplier of change machines for both the AWP and VLT markets is VNE. The sheer size of requirements in the Italian market has led to a large and very strong product range at VNE. Thus, VNE can provide the ideal change solutions to the forthcoming Greek market.

The GameNet exhibition took place between 9th and 11th March in Athens. This was the ideal opportunity to introduce VNE to the Greek gaming market. The partnership between Million King and VNE was formally announced at this show. Million King is a fast-growing Greek gaming company. The large stand underlined the international partnerships the company has formed in the gaming industry. VNE plays a prominent role, as Managing Director Thanasis Michail explains, "The Greek VLT market needs the best VLT change solutions. Naturally we look in Greece to Italy for their experience and support. We are very pleased that we are bringing Italy's number one change machine manufacturer to Greece".

Mr. Lorenzo Verona, Commercial Director of VNE, enthuses, "We have the perfect products for change giving for the VLT sector. We have many years of experience and the fact that we are the most popular VLT change provider in one of the largest markets in our home market in Italy underlines our reputation for excellent product quality and service. Furthermore, the fact that our VLT change machines are all connected online means that we can provide remote service – another reason why VNE is the preferred choice".