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BALLY TECHNOLOGIES TO SHOWCASE PROMINENT BRANDS AND INDUSTRY-LEADING SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS AT OIGA CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 01:56 PM PDT

 

 

LAS VEGAS, August 7, 2013 — Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, networked systems, and iGaming and mobile solutions for the global gaming industry, today announced that it will exhibit a variety of popular games, along with a host of award-winning systems and interactive products, at the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association (OIGA) Conference and Trade Show Aug. 12-14 at the Cox Center in Oklahoma City.

"We're excited to showcase our newest games, systems, and interactive technology to our important partners in tribal gaming," said Bally Technologies' Senior Vice President of Games Derik Mooberry. "This trade show offers a great opportunity to demonstrate how our innovative products can create exciting gaming experiences for players and deliver a

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strong return-on-investment for casino operators."

The Company will exhibit more than 30 unique game titles. Games expected to draw a crowd include the world-class licensed branded game NASCAR®, featuring a high-energy auto-racing theme that delivers anticipation, interactive bonus features, and tremendous entertainment.

The NASCAR video slot features a lineup of who's who in racing royalty – Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, and Jimmie Johnson. NASCAR is delivered on Bally's ALPHA 2™ Pro Series™ V22/32 cabinet with a wide-area and near-area progressive jackpot award. Players select their favorite driver and the game screens change to reflect that driver's team colors and branding. This high-octane experience features three bonuses: The Pit Stop Bonus, Burnout Free Games, and the U-Race™ Bonus.

Attendees also will experience Hot Shot Progressive®, an awe-inspiring double-wheel configuration of the popular brand featured on a 42-inch vertical display sitting atop a 22-inch high-definition screen. The game features popular play mechanics, touch-activated interaction, progressives, and free games.

Bally will also showcase its cutting-edge systems offerings and Interactive solutions. OIGA visitors will experience Bally's Elite Bonusing Suite™ (EBS), which, when combined with iVIEW Display Manager™ (DM), adds dramatic new levels of excitement and anticipation to the slot-play experience. The EBS applications deliver floor-wide, personalized promotions, second-chance-to-win events, and the ability for players to earn valuable rewards, all without interrupting play on the base game. EBS and iVIEW DM have delivered world-record-setting floor-wide slot tournaments and virtual-racing events that add tremendous levels of energy and excitement on the casino floor.

Bally Interactive will showcase solutions to meet the needs of any casino operator, from Bally's award-winning iGaming platform to mobile concierge apps and mobile websites for casino patrons and back-of-the-house applications. The open architecture of Bally's iGaming platform enables casinos to deliver play-for-free and wager-based poker, table games, video slots, bingo, and sports betting and other best-of-breed content.

Bally integrates traditional casino systems with online, mobile, and social better than anyone else. As a result, operators can conduct marketing, bonusing, data tracking, and collection seamlessly, enabling them to understand and market to their players in ways never before possible. Players can play the same games, receive the same bonuses, and earn the same points on the casino floor, at home, or on the move.

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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All Slots Casino Presents a Basket Full of New Games

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 01:46 PM PDT

7 August 2013 (Ta Xbiex, Malta) – All Slots Casino presents five fun-filled new video slots games this month, including three games optimized specifically for mobile devices: Big Top, Break da Bank Again, and Lion's Pride. Rounding out the list are the 5-reel, 20-payline Sweet Harvest – available for Download or InstantPlay – and the Instant Play exclusive Wild Catch.

Sweet Harvest features a romantic twist on gathering the harvest from the fields.  Turns out a handsome young man and a lovely young woman may run into each other as theytoil away, adding to potential winnings.  Sweet Harvest offers a cornucopia of winning payouts, including a maximum of an unbelievable 50,000 coins and double that on Free Spins.

Released exclusively for Instant Play, Wild Catch takes players out into the deep seas in an attempt to land the prize marlin and reel in huge bonuses.  Other features that help increase the day's catch include wilds, scatters, multipliers and free games, and in all there are 243 ways to win with Wild Catch.

New Mobile Slots: mobile users are treated to three new videoslots games this month, all of which have already been big hits in the PC marketplace. All three of these games, including the very popular Lion's Pride, are compatible with almost every mobile device including iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

·      Lion's Pride Sense the nervous excitement of embarking on an African safari.  This beautifully illustrated game offers a host of ways to maximize wins, including wilds, free spins, scatters and stacks.

·      Big Top Like a three-ring circus, Big Top has a whole lot of action going on at once, providing players with a visually interesting and humorous gaming experience.

·      Break da Bank A great slot for those who have ever thrilled at the thought of a bank heist.  Unlike real safecracking though, with this game players can win enormous amounts of money rather than resorting to steal it.

"We continue to be astounded by the amazing new games we are able to offer our players on a regular basis," said David Brickman, the casino's Vice President of Player Affairs. "We tirelessly search for products that will provide our customers with exciting entertainment, and these games fit the bill brilliantly."

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Wirex Empowers World Class Live Casino Platforms with Weswit’s Lightstreamer Technology

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 01:42 PM PDT

MILAN, ITALY  (Wednesday, August 07, 2013) Weswit, a leader in real-time data streaming solutions, and Wirex, a leader in iGaming software solutions, have signed a partnership agreement to empower innovative live casino platforms via Lightstreamer real-time data streaming technology.

Lightstreamer, Weswit's flagship product, is a massively scalable solution for pushing live data over WebSockets and other web protocols, with up to millions of users.

Wirex offers live casino, RNG casino, and sports betting platforms, all of which are easy to integrate. The company has offices in Italy and Malta and works with a number of significant internal customers including Sportingbet, PKR, Playbet, and Mybet.

Wirex deployed Lightstreamer for its successful online integration with Portomaso, the famous Maltese land-based casino.

"Live casino platforms must handle huge volumes of frequently updated data to keep the user interface responsive and offer players a pervasive and truly 'live' gaming experience. The overall complexities are drastically higher compared to a standard and even large-sized RNG online casino. Lightstreamer simplified the overall software architecture for real-time data transfers, and allowed us to release a robust iGaming application in a short space of time, with everything working perfectly from the beginning," said Alessandro Negro, CTO at Wirex.

Wirex has incorporated the Lightstreamer technology for in-game live data delivery on a specific one-on-one variant of blackjack, several real-time monitoring systems, as well as the entire player and croupier chat systems.

Following the initial success of Lightstreamer the scope of the partnership is due to expand, added Negro. "We are working with Weswit to integrate Lightstreamer on another online project for an Italian land-based casino, while we keep exploring its usage for other scenarios, including in-running betting platforms," he said.

A growing number of businesses, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, are turning to Lightstreamer for the streaming of real-time data and messaging across multiple channels and apps, including HTML5, Android, iPhone, iPad, and many other platforms.

"We are glad that Lightstreamer is being used and is making a significant difference to operators and suppliers within the iGaming industry," said Mauro Fantechi, co-CEO and Chairman at Weswit, whose other partners in the sector include spread betting company City Index and bwin.party, which recently chose Lightstreamer for its online poker, casino and bingo products.

"Wirex offers outstanding platforms in which the potential of our technology can be fully unleashed," Fantechi added.

"iGaming platforms need a high level of interactivity and require dramatic performance in bi-directional data push in order to guarantee an enjoyable gaming experience," said Alessandro Alinone, co-CEO and CTO at Weswit. "Lightstreamer can enhance any kind of gaming platform with a highly scalable real-time server and a rich set of client APIs."

Lightstreamer is a highly engineered server for the streaming of real-time data to and from mobile, browser-based and desktop applications. Based on HTTP and WebSockets, it is able to pass through any kind of proxy and firewall. Features include bandwidth and frequency control, delta delivery, and total control over security and quality of service.

 

UK MP’s complaints rejected by ASA

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 01:39 PM PDT

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today rejected five complaints made by Shipley MP Philip Davies about advertisements run by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling. The ASA found no justification for upholding his complaints.

Mr Davies, who has already been subject to scrutiny[1] for his close links to the betting sector, submitted the complaints on a personal basis but portrayed his complaints to the media as being on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Betting and Gaming Group, of which he is a co-Chairman.

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling advertised in Parliamentary magazine The House, which is read by politicians, calling for them to “Pull the Plug” on roulette machines in betting shops, known as Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs). It recommended a reduction from the current £100 stake to a £2 maximum stake, in line with the maximum stake on other British high street gambling machines. The advertisement drew complaints from Mr Davies on the following points:

“FOBTs are the scourge of the high street”

  1. “FOBTs with their addictive roulette content”
  2. “FOBTs … have since [2005 Gambling Act] multiplied to such an extent that they are now known as ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’”
  3. “Now is the time to take a stand on FOBTs and protect the thousands of families who fall foul of FOBT addiction each year”
  4. “The reason so many new betting shops are opening on our high streets is to offer more FOBTs on which you can bet up to 100 nearly every 20 seconds. It is time to act to prevent exploitation of poorer communities during a time of recession”

However, the ASA has determined that these claims were not misleading and that the Campaign provided relevant substantiation of the assertions in the advertisement.

Commenting on the decision, Derek Webb, who founded the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, said: “Mr Davies was able to get media coverage attacking our Campaign by complaining to the ASA. Although his complaint should have been confidential he disclosed points in it to the media. Our House ad content has been vindicated by the ASA, whilst Mr Davies has run true to form and been exposed as acting in the interests of the bookmakers yet again.

“Every time Mr Davies speaks about gambling in Parliament or in Committees, he speaks on behalf of the betting sector. He calls for lower taxes, less regulation and for more addictive FOBTs to be allowed, whilst he has enjoyed the generous hospitality of the bookmakers.

"FOBTs, the most addictive form of gambling, were first allowed based on deceptions by the betting sector. It’s time for Government to disregard the claims of the bookmakers and their allies and pay attention to our substantiated and not misleading Campaign claims. Government has the power to reduce the maximum stake on these addictive betting shop roulette machines to £2. It’s time to Stop the FOBTs now.”

References:

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/mar/19/mp-apologises-code-breach-cheltenham

About the Campaign for Fairer Gambling

It is a campaign striving for fairness in gambling. So, the campaign is centred around the three licensing objectives of the Gambling Act 2005, aimed at:

  1. preventing gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with crime or disorder or being used to support crime,
  2. ensuring that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way, and
  3. protecting children and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling.

The Campaign aims to:

  1. Engage with politicians to toughen legislation
  2. Gather evidence of unfairness and non-transparency
  3. Rally support from special interest groups to highlight the negative social and economic impact caused by problem gambling under the current legislation

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling www.fairergambling.org is a not-for-profit entity funded by Derek Webb and Hannah O'Donnell. It recently launched the "Stop the FOBTs" campaign to highlight the problems associated with Fixed Odds Betting Terminals www.stopthefobts.org.