Alliance Gaming announces 14 000 slot machines deal with Boyd Gaming
Alliance Gaming
Alliance Gaming Corp. announced today that it has entered into a corporate agreement with Boyd Gaming Corporation to supply all Boyd Gaming casino properties with a complete slot accounting, cashless and professional services solution covering approximately 14,000 slot machines.
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Brain Injury Association finds no risk in rides
IAAPA
The report today by the Brain Injury Association reaffirmed the findings of two independent scientific studies released a month ago that roller coasters are safe and present no public health risk. The BIA, in fact, heralded the impressive safety record of the amusement park industry and called it "unlikely" that any federal agency could match the industry's efforts to keep its guests safe.
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Record figures for the 15th edition of ENADA Spring
ENADA Spring
Large-scale manoeuvres for ENADA Primavera, the SAPAR-AGIS International Coin Machine Show organized by Rimini Fiera Spa. In fact, there's just a month to go to the opening of the 15th edition, due to be held from 20th to 23rd March 2003, which promises to be full of new products.
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WMS Reports on Shuffle Master Lawsuit
WMS Industries Inc.
WMS Industries Inc. today announced that Shuffle Master, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against WMS Gaming Inc. and Bally Gaming, Inc. claiming infringement of Shuffle Master's Second Event Multiplier patent (U. S. patent number 6,454,651).
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Shuffle Master sues WMS & Bally Gaming
Shuffle Master, ATE-Online
Shuffle Master, Inc. announced Monday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against WMS Gaming, Inc. and Bally Gaming, Inc.
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The first VHS and DVD dispensing machine installed in Prague
AmuPort
The first - and the only for the time being - VHS and DVD dispensing machine has just been installed in the capital city of the Czech Republic. Ms Petra Francova from the operator company Lofra says that the main advantages of the new "Videomat" machine are the non-stop service and the variety of prices to choose from: including the possibility to rent a movie for just 4 hours, which is - of course - cheaper than the usual pay-for-the-whole-day offered by regular rent-a-movie stores.
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Study finds good in computer games
The West Australian
NEW research from the University of WA counters the long-held belief that computer games can make children violent and aggressive. Rather, preliminary findings from a study of about 500 WA teenagers show game play is linked to positive adolescent development.
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Cromptons bear all for charity
Cromptons
UK machine manufacturer Cromptons Leisure International has brought a smile to the face of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) by raising Ł1,000 for the charity in an on-stand promotion at London's ATEI.
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Photo Play updates I.G.O. Ed. 3 and NG 2 with top games
funworld ag
According to Peter Berger, who is responsible for Photo Play games, five of the games which are part of the new update were already tested in advance as "net.game". Since the implementation of alternating net.games, which are transmitted by remote update, eight months ago, over 2 million net.games were played in the Photo Play NET alone. Analysis clearly show which games top our player's lists of favourites and which games are guaranteed to produce high takings for our operators and gastronomes.
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Online gaming growing rapidly
BBC News
Online gaming is proving a winner across Europe as surfers turn to the net to play a variety of games. Nearly six million Europeans visited an online games site during January - more than double the figure from the same time in 2002, according to net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings.
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The creator of the Game Boy will be honored at the Game Developers Conference
GameSpoti
The International Game Developers Association has announced that Gunpei Yokoi will be honored with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony to be held on March 6. Yuji Naka, the recipient of last year's award, will present this year's award to Gunpei Yokoi's family. "I am as deeply honored to be presenting this award as I was to receive it," said Yuji Naka, president and CEO of Sonic Team. "To have a life's work recognized by other game creators is the most meaningful honor one could receive."
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Windows XP Stops I-gamers
Online Casino News
Users of Microsoft's cross platform operating system, Windows XP, may find themselves running into problems when they play their favourite online casinos. Any players of no-download Java casino games will simply no longer be able to gamble at their preferred sites. However the problem only specifically applies to Microsoft customers who have recently downloaded the new Service Pack 1A and wish to play this type of Java game.
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iGGBA announces new Council
IGGBA
The Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association (iGGBA) elected its new 2003 Council at the Association's AGM on 23rd January, held at the ICE Exhibition. The members are as follows:
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Las Vegas casinos ponder war marketing strategies
Las Vegas Sun
As U.S. military officials devise strategies in the event of a war with Iraq, company chiefs in the nation's top tourism market are crafting strategies of their own to try and keep gamblers coming to Las Vegas instead of camping out in front of their living room televisions.
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Harrah's: What makes gaming tick?
The National Business Review
"The gaming business remains badly misunderstood, particularly by policy makers. My colleagues in the industry and I need to demystify the business and reposition it as a mainstream consumer business so that it won't get the somewhat hysterical treatment that it currently gets." That's from Harrah's CEO, Gary Loveman, in a recent interview that should be mandatory reading for gaming regulators here.
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Argosy Gaming, IGT sign deal for cashless slots
Las Vegas Sun
Casino operator Argosy Gaming has signed an agreement to purchase up to 4,000 new "cashless" slot machines from International Game Technology. The deal also allows for retrofits of up to another 1,000 existing IGT machines over the next two years to change the machines over to ticket voucher technology, the company said.
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Nintendo plans Prime console bundle
gamesindustry.biz
GameCube Metroid pack hoped to stimulate console sales Next months launch of Nintendo's hotly anticipated GameCube first person shooter Metroid Prime will also herald the arrival of a GameCube bundle pack - featuring the game, a black GameCube console and a Metroid Prime name plate (whatever that is) for the bargain price of 199,- Euro (c.129.99,-GBP).
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European Casino Summit 2003
ATE
The 2003 European Casino Summit will take place on 8th and 9th May at the Hyatt Regency, Thessaloniki, Greece. Targeted at land-based European operators and the issues directly relevant to their businesses, the event is being described as "the definitive Casino Industry conference of the year" by ATE, which is researching and managing the Summit.
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Firm embeds circuits into casino chips
Las Vegas Sun
Chipco International says its unique process for embedding computer circuitry into the gambling chips it manufactures for casinos could have uses that go well beyond gambling.
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Who's Blocking the Xbox? Sony and Its Games
New York Times
XboX, the video game console that Microsoft introduced nearly 14 months ago, is technologically sophisticated and, by many accounts, the best way to play games against competitors over the Internet.
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Ubi Soft sales jump, company confirms guidance
Reuters
French video games publisher Ubi Soft beat analysts' forecasts on Wednesday with a 15.4 percent rise in third-quarter sales, driven mostly by the strong performance of its Splinter Cell game. Ubi Soft reiterated its full-year 2002/03 sales and profit guidance, betting on "very sustained" activity in the final quarter.
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Xbox outsells GameCube in Japan, falters in UK
Computerbuyer
Xbox has moved ahead of GameCube in weekly hardware sales in Japan for the first time, in what is seen as a significant moment in the history of Microsoft's system in Far East. Despite success in both the US and Europe, Xbox has struggled to find its feet in Japan, being heavily outsold by all major consoles and even Bandai's Wonderswan at one point. But the latest figures might hint at a reversal of fortunes, with Xbox registering sales of 8,862 compared with 8,177 for GameCube in the latest weekly figures.
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Sega Corp. merging with pachinko maker
New York Times News Service
The Sega Corp., the video game maker, said on Thursday that it would merge with Sammy, a leading manufacturer of pachinko machines. Pachinko, a vertical cousin of pinball, is played in arcades in Japan for prizes, much the way Americans may play slots or poker machines where they are legal. The terms of the merger have not yet been set.
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Aristocrat Profit Falls on American Woes
Reuters
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd Chief Executive Des Randall vowed on Tuesday to stay on at the slot machine maker to fix problems at its North American business, amidst calls by shareholders for heads to roll in the company's top management. Aristocrat, the world's second-largest slot machine marker, reported a seven percent fall in its full-year net profit to A$80.2 million ($47.3 million), well below the A$109 million the market had previously expected the company to make, but in line with a recent earnings warning by the company.
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JPM on the Up and Up
JPM International
2003 looks like being JPM's all the way through. New team structures, new R&D policies and an all round positive attitude within the company are already producing great results.
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Slot Maker IGT Profit Up 50 Pct but Unit Sales Off
Reuters
No. 1 slot machine maker International Game Technology on Wednesday reported a nearly 50-percent rise in net earnings as casinos replaced old machines for new ones that use tickets instead of coins, which make it cheaper to operate.
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NEC Gets Back Into the Game Business
Gameinfowire.com
NEC Interchannel, Ltd., a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, announced its plans to enter the gaming industry as a third-party publisher for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance handheld systems, and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft.
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PS2-sized Xbox due to appear at E3 show?
TechZonez
Microsoft is set to unveil a cut-down version of its Xbox console at this year's E3 event in the US, according to numerous well placed industry sources. The new version of the hardware is thought to be more akin to Sony's PlayStation 2 console in size, boasting flatter casing, ideal for stacking.
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