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Enada Spring 2003 - Greater Promotion, New Services In New Expo Centre
Enada Spring
The 15th edition of Enada Spring - the International exhibition of coin op machines organised by Sapar-Agis and Rimini Fair - will be held in Rimini from 20th to 23rd March 2003. The organizers strive to expand the Show's promotion, for they feel the stakes are high since a new law is waiting to be passed. And they promise Enada Spring 2003 will offer much more and address larger business areas than ever before.
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ATEI/ICE 2003 Preliminary Statistics
ATE
The London shows are on the rise. A total of 420 exhibiting companies from 40 countries and over 18 000 visitors. This years ATEI and ICE send a strong message about their ambition to be the greatest and most important amusement and gaming industry shows on Earth. All the details and some pictures inside this article.
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Final report IMA 2003 in Nuremberg - Exhibition sales and visitor number targets exceeded
IMA
Despite bad weather at the start of the trade fair the visitor numbers are slightly up on those of last year. The exhibitors at the 23rd IMA are satisfied with the levels of orders and have also noted a slight improvement in the overall business climate. And a clear trend has emerged this year towards the Internet and networked solutions in the amusement machine sector.
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Photo Play's I.G.O. Online great hit at London's ATEI
Funworld ag
Without doubt, the most interesting novelty where touch-screen gaming is concerned, was experienced at the Photo Play booth: online games in real time with a partner in another country. This is no vision - soon it will be reality. "A quantum leap within the entire industry", so the trade fair visitors who were easily convinced. Yet again Photo Play was able to bring a revolutionary novelty to the games terminal industry, doing justice to its reputation as innovator once more.
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3 Most Innovative Gaming Products of 2002 honored at American Gaming Summit
GEM Communications
International Game Technology, Acres Gaming and WMS Gaming were the big winners at Casino Journal's Most Innovative Gaming Products of 2002 Awards ceremony Jan. 10 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The three winners were chosen by a vote of attendees to American Gaming Summit, Jan. 9-10 at the Rio. The companies received the awards at a luncheon at the conclusion of the Summit.
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Arizona Lottery sponsors study by Mass. firm of gambling problems
AP
A study funded by the Arizona Lottery seeks to find out how many Arizonans have a gambling problem and how best to spend $500,000 a year in education and treatment money.The Lottery Commission expects results from the $140,000 project, believed to be the first of its kind in Arizona, in March.
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Konami releases details on Dancing Stage MegaMix lineup
GameSpot
Konami of Europe has today announced that Dancing Stage MegaMix, which is the first game in the popular Dancing Stage series to be developed specifically for the PS2, will feature the strongest lineup of artists and tracks to date when it's released in May. Dancing Stage Megamix will feature 10 licensed tracks in all, as well as more than 20 original tracks created by members of Konami's development studios. The licensed tracks that have been announced at this time are as follows:
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Vivendi may yet sell Blizzard, Sierra
GameSpot
Major news sources are again reporting that financially troubled Vivendi Universal is in talks to sell its games division to Microsoft or other publishers. Starting with a Reuters story late last week, several news services have recently reported that Vivendi Universal is in talks with Microsoft over the possible sale of its games division, which includes Blizzard, Sierra, and Universal Interactive.
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Mikohn Enters Into Agreement With Cyberview Technology
Mikohn Gaming Corporation
Mikohn Gaming Corporation (NASDAQ: MIKN) last thursday announced that it entered into a distribution agreement with London-based Cyberview Technology providing Mikohn's branded game content to be available on Cyberview's central server-based downloadable gaming terminals throughout Europe.
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Blackjack Switches to Success
Customized Casino Games
Following the recent successes in America Customized Casino Games exhibited Blackjack Switch at ICE 2003 with Playtech who have put the game on their site.
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Konami to Release Casino Game
OnlineCasinoNews.com
Anyone who's ever wanted to run their own casino will soon have the chance. Well, not literally. Computer games software house Konami are set to release the new game Casino, Inc.
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Nintendo announces plans to launch in a new console in 2005 or 2006
GameSpot
According to a Reuters report, Nintendo has announced plans to release a new console by 2005 or 2006, coinciding with the release of new consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
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Nintendo Sold 1.5 Million GameCubes in Europe Last Year
Gamemarketwatch.com
Nintendo reported that it sold over 1.5 million GameCube consoles in Europe last year, maintaining its (distant) second place status in the European market. Some analysts feel that Microsoft may soon overtake Nintendo in Europe, especially if it continues to offer bundled games with the Xbox as it has been doing since October.
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Dracula theme park to be built near Bucharest
AP
A theme park dedicated to the legendary vampire "Dracula" is to be built near the capital rather than deep in Transylvania, where it was originally planned, a tourism official said Sunday.
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2 Studies Find No Risk From Thrill Rides
Los Angeles Times
A pair of medical and engineering studies commissioned by Six Flags, the nation's largest amusement park company and operators of Magic Mountain in Valencia, concluded that roller coasters and other thrill rides do not pose a public health risk.
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Disney brings `whole new world' to theme parks with new `Aladdin' musical
AP
Disney's California Adventure has introduced a new musical, which park officials hope will draw larger crowds while helping redefine theme park entertainment as a forum for Broadway-quality shows.
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Poker.com's US strategy: Skill-based casino games
OnlineCasinoNews.com
Poker.com thinks it has a novel way around the thorny problem of online gambling's legal status in the US: Skill based casino games. Poker.com Inc. last Thursday announced that it will be purchasing a provisional patent application and all the assets for a skill based online gaming system that includes the games of Skill Poker and Skill BlackJack.
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Photo Play REVIVAL: The Legend lives. Remake of Photo Play 2000 terminal
Funworld ag
Classics have what it takes to keep their validity while passing over every kind of trend. Legends impress with even more, because only legends have that historic touch of the unusual. The VW Beetle is probably one of the most concise examples. The remake of the car classic and the way it represents life's emotions of an entire era, revives a palette of historic pictures which are inseparably linked with the VW brand's success.
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Mikohn introduced IGT's EZ Pay Ticket System at ICE 2003
Mikohn Europe
Mikohn Gaming Corporation (NASDAQ: MIKN), Mikohn Europe BV and IGT-Europe b.v., the wholly-owned subsidiary of Reno, NV-based International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT), jointly announced the launch of IGT's EZ Pay Ticket System at the International Casino Exhibition in London. Mikohn's CasinoLink; will now have the ability to interface to the EZ Pay ticket-in, ticket-out (TITO) product.
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Photo Play Launches Skaratoga
Funworld ag
Photo Play new Game Skaratoga, is a fascinating spy game which is about the hunt for crown jewels. Markus Gurlitt fun.net International's manager says "The game will definitely form a maelstrom towards our Photo Play terminals." The thriller will be launched on 1st March 2003 in Germany and will be available for six weeks. Player relations and the winning over of new players is the game's focal point, because only those players who participate weekly for the entire six-week period, have a chance of winning the main prize of gold worth Euro 1,000.
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A Blackjack with 4 Queens!
Customized casino Games
Customised Casino Games have achieved the ultimate accolade by having the new version of "Blackjack Switch" accepted for trial by 4 Queens Casino in Las Vegas to be installed early in the year. The Taj Mahal in Atlantic City have also asked that this new version be installed ready for the busy Summer period. Other States to accept the game are Indiana and Washington.
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Lazer-Tron Coin Op is sold
Lazer Tron
On December 6, 2002 Arcade Planet, Inc. completed the asset sale of its Lazer-Tron business unit to Cadillac Jack, Inc., a South Carolina corporation. In accordance with the agreement between Arcade Planet, Inc. and Cadillac Jack, Inc., Cadillac Jack will assume any customer service issues, board repairs and handle spare parts for Lazer-Tron coin-op ticket redemption games.
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SEGA at ATEI 2003
SEGA Amusements Europe
Once again SEGA will be presenting their very latest games on stand 1030 of the exhibition and look forward to welcoming all visitors. Come and see SEGA videogames on a huge giant screen suspended above the hall the likes of which you may never have seen before. You surely cannot miss it.
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EuroBaz International
EuroBaz International will be participating at London's International Casino Exhibition between 21st-23rd January for the first time, booth no. 5299 in the special online casino area.
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Eastern Accord for JPM and Synot
JPM International
2002 saw the biggest and most successful EELEX yet and it proved the perfect setting for the JPM/Synot distribution partnership.
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