Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Unity Technologies and Bally Technologies Enter Strategic Partnership

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:25 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Marketwired  Apr 23, 2013)   Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Bally Technologies, a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, interactive applications and networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry. By combining the power of the Unity engine with the breadth and depth of Bally Technologies’ offerings, Bally Technologies will be able to build the most innovative electronic gaming offerings on the market.

Unity, used by slot manufacturers and online gambling companies around the world to create some of the most exciting and compelling interactive gambling content, is one of the most widely adopted middleware solutions for development in the gambling industry. The Unity developer community is more than 1.5 million developers strong and includes thousands of game studios across the world, both large and small. Unity is an excellent solution for gambling companies (land-based, online & mobile) looking to work with development houses already familiar with the powerful, deep, and efficient development tools.

“Bally Technologies is committed to innovation and delivering the world’s most popular and cutting-edge games,” said Derik Mooberry, Senior Vice President of Games, Bally Technologies. “We look forward to working closely with Unity Technologies and using the Unity solutions to help continue our innovation and development of highly entertaining game content for casino operators and players.”

Unity is known for its efficient design, enabling wild creativity while keeping development cycles and costs down. In-editor play testing allows for lightning fast iteration and the excellent art pipeline enables art assets to be saved from any popular art tool (Photoshop, Maya, Modo, and more) in order to effect change to every instance of that asset across the project automatically.

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, Senior Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, at 702-584-7742, or visit http://www.ballytech.com. Connect with Bally on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

About Unity Technologies Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, a flexible and high-performance development platform used to make creative and intelligent interactive 3D and 2D experiences. The “author once, deploy everywhere” capability ensures developers can publish to all of the most popular platforms. Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of 1.5 million developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. To remain at the forefront of innovation, Unity Technologies tirelessly re-invests in its award-winning 3D development tools and its democratization initiatives, such as the Asset Store digital content marketplace and Union game distribution service. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit: http://unity3d.com.

 

BALLY TECHNOLOGIES’ SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS TO POWER ‘WORLD’S LARGEST SLOT TOURNAMENT’ RECORD ATTEMPT AT MOHEGAN SUN APRIL 27

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:25 PM PDT

 

 

LAS VEGAS, April  23, 2013 — Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, interactive applications, and networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry, today announced  the innovative and award-winning iVIEW Display Manager™ (DM) with Elite Bonusing Suite™ (EBS) will power the quest for a pair of GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® achievements at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., Saturday, April 27.

Bally and Mohegan Sun have partnered to pursue world records for "Largest Slot Tournament" and the "Most Slot Machines Running the Same Game Simultaneously."  More than 5,000 people are estimated to participate in the event

The tournament will include two heats  – 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. − throughout Mohegan Sun's three casinos: Casino of the Earth, Casino of the Sky, and Casino of the Wind. Prizes will be awarded to the top 200 winners with $100,000 up for grabs and the first-place winner walking away with $50,000 cash. Guests can register that morning beginning at 7 a.m. in The Wolf Den club located in Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Earth.

"This is another huge moment for Bally Technologies," said President and Chief Executive Officer Ramesh Srinivasan. "The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS events showcase our ability to deliver a tremendous return-on-investment to our casino partners. Similar EBS events have been proven to increase coin-in, time on device, carded play, and new player's card signups. Working with a world-class casino like Mohegan Sun only further displays the power of iVIEW DM with EBS to create electrifying levels of anticipation and excitement across the casino floor and drive thousands of people to the casino resort."

With Bally's iVIEW DM and DM Tournaments, any machine with the technology installed, anywhere on the floor, can be turned into a tournament game and then turned back to normal game-play mode right afterwards. The technology enables casino operators to remove under-performing games from the floor, rather than retaining them just for tournaments. During The World's Largest Slot Tournament attempt at Mohegan Sun, more than 3,000 games will be switched from normal playing mode to tournament mode and back within moments.

"This is going to be a great day for our property," said Mohegan Sun President and Chief Executive Officer Bobby Soper. "We are thrilled to be working with Bally Technologies to provide our valued guests a one-of-a-kind event that will certainly bring a tremendous amount of entertainment to our players and excitement to the casino."

Representatives from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS will be at Mohegan Sun to validate the records.

Bally and Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, Calif. previously set these records when 2,885 players competed in a slot tournament at the Southern California property in February 2012.

About Mohegan Sun Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, is one of the largest, most spectacular entertainment, gaming, dining and shopping destinations in the United States. Situated on 185 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is home to three unique casinos, a 34-story, 1,200 room luxury hotel, a world-class spa and golf course, over 75 shops, restaurants and bars as well as three award-winning entertainment venues including a 10,000-seat Arena.  Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country. More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or visiting mohegansun.com. Connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, find us on Pinterest and view us on YouTube.

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, Senior Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, at 702-584-7742, or visit http://www.ballytech.com.  Connect with Bally on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

 

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FutureLogic’s Ticket2Go™ Ticket-Out Solution Leads the Way in Asia

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:18 PM PDT

 

GLENDALE, CA  April 23, 2013  FutureLogic, Inc., the world's leading developer of innovative ticket printing and couponing solutions, announces today the launch of its Ticket2Go™ ticket-out solution for the Asian market. FutureLogic's Ticket2Go™ solution offers a networkless ticket-out payment solution for machines that have a serial or parallel coin hopper, making it the only ticket-out payment solution that works with both state-of-the-art as well as legacy machines. Multi-lingual and multi-currency, the Ticket2Go™ solution can be installed across multiple sites enabling operators to replace coin payout technology with a simple ticket-based solution. With the addition of the Ticket2Go Cash Redemption Module™ which can be integrated with any third party cash redemption terminal, FutureLogic offers a secure and automated solution for operations or venues.

At this year's G2E Asia show in Macau, FutureLogic will also present the PromoNet® promotional couponing solution installed in over 12 locations worldwide . FutureLogic will also showcase PromoNet Online™ – PromoNet® solution's newest module, linking land-based game-play with online promotions and rewards, critical for land-based operations currently considering their online strategy.

In addition to the Ticket2Go™ and PromoNet® solutions,  FutureLogic will demonstrate its award-winning and industry-leading range of gaming printers; the GEN3 Evolution® printer, GEN2 Universal™ printer, CouponXpress™ printer and TableXchange® printer/scanner at G2E Asia stand 829.

About FutureLogic, Inc.
Founded in 1983, FutureLogic is the leading developer of innovative ticket printing and couponing solutions to gaming technology providers and operators around the world. As the premier supplier of super-robust thermal ticket printers to the global gaming industry, FutureLogic has shipped more than 1.5 million printers for casino gaming, video lottery, AWP, LPM, SWP and kiosk applications worldwide. Headquartered in Glendale, CA and with offices across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, FutureLogic's sales and engineering teams are ready to provide direct support and local knowledge for manufacturers and operators around the world. For more information or to contact us, please visit futurelogic-inc.com.

 

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SPIELO INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS SLOTS BASED ON POPCAP® GAMES, AND GALAXIS BONUSING MODULE AT G2E ASIA

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 05:45 AM PDT

MACAU SPIELO International's showing at its distributor RGB's booth #213 at G2E Asia at from May 22  23, 2013 will feature three slot games based on the PopCap® mega-brand, new diversity™ multigame suites, and popular core games. On the Casino Systems side, the spotlight is on several GALAXIS™ modules, in particular GALAXIS BONUSING, the new GALAXIS ANALYTICS, as well as SYSTEM2go™ for multi-site slot operations.

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Casino operators should get ready to soil their plants with three exciting licensed titles that casual gamers know and love from PopCap® Games, a division of Electronic Arts. The new slot games, based on internationally recognized PopCap franchises, are Plants vs. Zombies™ Gargantuar, Zuma®, and Bejeweled®. SPIELO International has worked closely with PopCap to stay true to the spirit of their brands and create terrifically fun and engaging new slot gaming experiences.

The spotlight is also on the company's diversity™ multigame suites, Absolute Azure and Sweet Sunshine. Each suite features 10 varied games, grouped in categories, which can be selected by players through the touchscreen.

On the casino systems side, SPIELO International will demonstrate SYSTEM2go™, a complete multi-site slot system with fully automated accounting and reporting from any remote location with internet access. It includes a jackpots system, as well as optional ticket-in/ticket out (TITO), card cashless payment, player tracking, and points redemption.Additionally, SPIELO International will showcase the entire diverse GALAXIS portfolio of casino systems solutions for casino slots and tables operations with features that offer an enhanced experience for players.

Special focus will be on GALAXIS BONUSING, offering the industry's largest choice of bonusing options tailored to casinos' needs, including Points Bonusing and Jackpot Bonusing features. All modules can be flexibly combined with each other and may be implemented independently of slot machine types, brands, and denomination. GALAXIS ANALYTICS, a new module for advanced gaming analytics, will also be featured for the first time at G2E Asia.

GALAXIS features nine modules with solutions and applications that manage operations across every area of the casino. Other modules to watch out for at G2E Asia include GALAXIS SLOTS, GALAXIS TABLES, and GALAXIS JACKPOTS.

SPIELO International is committed to the Asian gaming market, and its Casino Systems division increased its market penetration by nearly 300% in 2012. As the business continues to grow significantly, the company will continue strengthening its local support teams and working closely with its customers. The SPIELO International team is looking forward to welcoming customers to booth #213 at G2E Asia.

 

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