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Kare selects Innocore
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hanks to the support of its customers and staff this year, Gala
Bingo have raised just under £212,000 to fight breast cancer as
are Technology has selected Innocore Gaming to supply the platform for its
part of the annual Bingo industry fundraising campaign, Bingo for
next generation games.
Breakthrough.
Kare Technology is one of the largest Russian based manufacturers of
The campaign, raising money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, is now
gambling equipment with more than 14 years of experience in the gaming
in its sixth year, saw Gala Bingo bring together staff and customers at
industry. After careful research of the market for a new technology partner, Kare
each of the 156 clubs throughout the UK for one week of fundraising
Technology announced at the Kiev Entertainment Show the signing of a deal with
during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
UK-based Innocore Gaming. The deal will see Kare utilising the latest technology
Customers of Gala TV and galabingo.com also supported the
from Innocore’s Intel-based gaming board range.
fundraising initiative once again this year, and despite the economic
Kare Technology chose the DPX®-S410 as it provides a highly integrated
downturn, staff and players gave generously and had one of the most
industrial single board computer that offers unrivalled performance range, long
successful fundraising campaigns yet, beating last year’s total by
lifecycle and low power with Intel®’s CPUs. Moreover, the product includes a  full
£30,000 to support the vital work of the charity.
feature set of I/O and COMs designed specifically for gaming devices with a
Gala Bingo club staff really got behind this year’s campaign and drove
comprehensive and easy to understand software API.
its success, organising fundraising themed bingo games, parties and
Oleg Indrishenok, Kare's Deputy Production Director, said, “From a technical
even a sponsored bike ride – taking place on exercise bikes in the foyer of
standpoint, Innocore meets all our needs. The compact size of the board
a club. Male staff and members were keen to do their bit to support the
combined with efficient cooling and excellent universal connectivity enables us to
girls, with sponsored shaving or waxing being amongst the most popular
create the products we need to compete in the marketplace. The board also gives
fundraising ideas.
us the ability to choose the number of monitors we want, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. with
Simon Longbottom, Managing Director of Gala Bingo, said: “Bingo
concise technical documentation and speedy service and support.”
for Breakthrough has once again been a fantastic success. We’re
Mr Indrishenok continued, “ Such has been the speed of the service, that from
delighted to have been involved in the campaign this year and a make
initial development kit to implementation has spanned a little over six months.
difference to such a worthwhile charity, thanks to the tremendous
During this period, Kare has been working with Innocore to ensure the adaptation
support of all our customers and staff. They really enjoy giving
of its games to the new board and reported that the integration has been
something back to such a good cause and as you would expect from our
performed without a single problem. “From the initial meeting at the ICE 2008
players, had a lot of fun raising the money!”
tradeshow, we were inspired by the additional benefits offered to us by Innocore.
All of the money raised helps to fund Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s
This first point of contact through to production has been a great experience and
vital research, campaigning and education work. Breast cancer is an
we’ve developed an excellent relationship very quickly.”
issue of real importance to the UK’s three million bingo players, as over
Koen Stomph, Sales Director at Innocore Gaming added: “It has been a true
seventy percent of them are women. Bingo for Breakthrough provides a
pleasure to work with Kare on the integration, although our input has been fairly
valuable opportunity to raise awareness amongst bingo players as well
limited; our clear and consistent API is very easy to deal with. In those cases
as funds for research into the disease.
where support was needed, communication has been excellent and efficient. The
Gala Bingo staff and customers have contributed over £1.5 million to
DPX-S410 all-in-one board will be a reliable and versatile core component in
the Bingo industry’s Bingo for Breakthrough campaign over the past six
Kare’s line-up, offering an extremely long lifecycle, all typical gaming features on-
years to support the charity’s vision to work for a future free from the
board, consuming very low-power but offering high-performance at the same
fear of breast cancer.
time. Its implemented security features are unrivalled, addressing the high
requirements of today’s markets.”
Embed installed in Kuwaiti children’s centre
E
MBED, a leading provider of Debit Card and Point of Sale Systems for the amusement and
family entertainment industry has installed the Embed System in Kuwait’s first Baroue
store located in the Avenues Mall. The brainchild of MS Retail, this 6,500 square metre location
is the first of its kind in Kuwait and is designed especially for children.
Baroue is a 100 percent Kuwaiti company focused on providing a venue unique to Kuwait – an
innovative, educational, fun and safe environment for kids. The main attraction is the Serpent
playground, which can accommodate up to 250 children. The Serpent playground is a parent-
free zone monitored by staff and managed with the wireless Embed Card System. Within the
Serpent playground is an upstairs game arcade, fitted with the latest Embed hardware. This
area features Embed’s trademark Color-Glo swipers on each of the 100+ games and attractions.
To manage children inside the Serpent playground, parents and children are issued their own
Embed swipe cards which are linked together. Parents can load value onto their card which can
then be accessed by their children through their linked swipe cards to play any of the games or
attractions in the arcade. At the time of collection, parents present their card to a staff member
who can then see which children belong to that parent.
Embed’s electronic ticketing system was also installed to handle all redemption game
payouts. Customers have the opportunity to redeem their electronic tickets in the Baroue retail
store for a wide variety of merchandise including toys and clothing.
This Baroue installation was a joint project between Embed and the LAI Group who provided
the games and technical assistance. MS Retail is set to open their next Baroue in Saudi Arabia
by next year with more projects throughout the Middle East still to come.
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JANUARY 2009
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