Mikohn Gaming introduces TRIVIAL PURSUIT
Mikohn Gaming Corporation today announced that DGE Laboratories has concluded its evaluation of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT(R) Easy as Pie(TM) game and has granted Mikohn full approval to place the game throughout the New Jersey casino market.
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New Game Mobile Phone
ATELAB Research Group unveils the first details about Chameleon - a new mobile phone for players. The device operates in two positions; vertical as a mobile phone and horizontal as a game console.
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SN Systems Signs Technical Alliance With Sega
Last week, SN systems, an independent games software tool producer based in Bristol, England announced it has opened a dedicated office in Tokyo and signed a technical alliance with games developer and publisher giant Sega.
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DSA Forces Arcade Game Manual Archive Offline
Coin-operated video game manual and technical information archive Stormaster.com was shut down by the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) on Friday. The site was taken down because of infrigements to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Microsoft CEO Quashes Sega Buy-Out Rumours
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced at a conference in Redmond, Washington that his company has no intention of buying a majority stake in Sega, putting an apparent end to one of the game industry's most pervasive buyout rumors. "There are no plans for that," the Kyodo news service quoted him as saying at the conference. "I don't think that will happen."
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Mikohn Gaming signs an agreement with DP Stud Inc.
Mikohn Gaming Corporation (NASDAQ: MIKN), producer of table games, today announced that it has entered into a joint development, licensing and marketing agreement with DP Stud Incorporated, the well-known exclusive licensee of the CARIBBEAN STUD table game in Nevada.
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The "KOPA 2003" exhibition
The "KOPA 2003" is supposed to be an opportunity to bring together domestic and foreign amusement technologists, companies, industries as well as related mass media, governmental officials, representing the two sectors which deal with mutual cooperation and information exchange of amusement business for the purpose of marketing directly.
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GTI Show Will Go On
The GTI expo has been rescheduled and will run from the 5-8 September this year at Hall C, World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, despite being cancelled earlier due to SARS fears.
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Mikohn Receives an Approval for its new Video Slot Game
Mikohn Gaming Corporation today announced that its newest game Looking for Love(TM) based on the YAHTZEE(R) game from Hasbro, Inc. has received regulatory approval from both the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Gaming Laboratories International, Inc. The game offers operators a fully configurable product with multiple hold percentages, denominations, maximum wagers, and either coin or ticket-in-ticket-out technology in GLI jurisdictions. The cashless solution has been submitted to Nevada regulators for approval.
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IGT Quality Receives NSSB Certification Recognition
IGT, a subsidiary of International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT), has received Certification Recognition from the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB). The NSSB certification establishes IGT's technician certification as meeting a national quality assurance standard for technicians in the repair and service of gaming machines.
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Electronic Games Boost Licensing Revenue
Facing an industry-wide decline in mechanical royalties, music publishers and songwriters are increasingly turning to a new revenue source - video games.
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"Stack it" - new Photo Play free game
"Stack it" will be available in the Photo Play NET in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and possibly in Belgium, Austria and the United Kingdom from 7th July to 3rd August. The game will be supplied free of charge by remote update and it allows operators to provide a summer-time alternative, in addition to MASTERS tournaments, on their networked terminals.
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Technical requisites fixed for entertainment machines in Italy
The Ministry of Economy and Finance, with the decree of April 10th 2003 has fixed in detail the technical and technological requisites any entertainment machines and devices will have to respond to. These requisites are in conformity with what indicated in the Financial Budget law 289/2002, Sect.22. Technical requisites fixed for entertainment machines Such dispositions are adopted to fight fiscal evasion and prevent people from illegal use of entertainment devices.
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Mobile Phone with Color TV Function
Samsung Electronics has introduced the TV Phone (model: SCH-X820) in Korea that accesses color TV in real time over VHF/UHF channels (local stations KBS, MBC, SBS and EBS). Previously, mobile phone users have had to pay separate fees to service providers to watch TV. However, the SCH-X820 has a built-in TV tuner that receives TV broadcasts directly from the station free of charge.
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How political climate forced closure of online brand
The legal/political climate in the United States and its impact on stifling the development of otherwise successful online gambling brands will feature in the presentation being made by James Hilton, marketing director of MGM Mirage Online at the upcoming Marketing and Advertising in Gaming and Gambling Conference (Earls Court Conference Centre, 24th and 25th June).
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American Bars unplugs lottery machines in protest
Angered by the anti-smoking law that takes effect this summer, US coalition of bar and restaurant owners planned a second round of protests by unplugging their lottery machines to deprive the state of lottery sales.
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"House of Cards" - another free game for SILVERBALL
A new card game can be found on the SILVERBALL terminals of TAB-Austria "House of Cards". This game will be transmitted via ChampionsNet onto all linked terminals - free of charge. "House of Cards" is the start of the new game series for SILVERBALL version 8.0. As in the past years several games will be transmitted free of charge, spread over the year. (On condition that the SILVERBALL with version 8 is online).
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London show figures illustrate convergence of markets
Of those buyers who registered for ATEI, 8,582 - which is close to 60 per cent of the total - also took advantage of the opportunity to see the latest technology and trends upstairs in the casino exhibition. However the migration of visitors wasn't all one way. 78 per cent of ICE pre-registered visitors said that they would also be visiting ATEI to see what the coin-op sector had to offer their businesses.
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International Exhibition & Conference in Russia
Russian Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (RAAPA) On September 21-23, 2003 will host a single of its kind International Exhibition and Conference for Amusement Industry Development in Russia, take place in Gelendjik, on a Black Sea Coast, in a Krasnodar Region of Russian federation, where the first-ever Russian theme park was established and is successfully working.
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MGM to Close Online Casino
MGM announced on Wednesday that they will close online casino PLAYMGMIRAGE.com on June 30 2003. MGM established the online casino in September 2001 with the aim of providing customers "the same exciting content found in Las Vegas and other U.S gaming markets" with a system safe from money laundering. MGM have decided to close due to lack of regulation in several countries including the U.S despite the online casino's success in achieving their goal.
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PhotoPlay Launches New Quiz Game
Last year, the best-known Finnish private radio station, KISS FM, had launched a news quiz together with Photo Play. During its entire running period of three quarters of a year, the news quiz was able to position itself amongst the top five games. This is quite a phenomenon because it is seldom that quiz games can be found ranking top in games statistics.
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