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CASINO NEWS
Rank takes Coventry site as
News in brief
Isle of Capri exits Europe
Table tech
Multitouch technology could be
R
ank Group has taken over Isle
Harvir Sahota (left) from Mahir’s
used to replace individual screens
of Capri Casinos’ property at
Experience and G Casino’s Paul Davies
at electronic table games, says
the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, Moto Development Group. The San
England, rebranding it under the G Francisco firm has prototyped a
Casino marque and confirming Isle of multitouch table for blackjack and
Capri’s departure from markets Texas Hold ‘Em in which the entire
outside the US. table surface is a touch-sensitive
screen, allowing players and dealers
The acquisition brings Rank’s G to slide cards, drag chips, and hide
Casinos estate in Britain to a total of and show hands.
nine sites, with a tenth set to open Director for G Casinos, said: “We
soon in the northern city of Sheffield. consider G Casino’s competition to be Fulgent infringement?
the whole leisure market rather than US company Shuffle Master has
Rank spent £1m ($1.7m) on other casino operators. We also filed a suit against Taiwan Fulgent
developing the Coventry venue, in appreciate that dining is a hugely Enterprise Company in a Nevada
addition to the £650,000 ($1.1m) important part of the leisure offering court. It says Taiwan Fulgent’s A Plus
cash purchase price that it paid to for today’s consumer.” Shuffler infringes three of its patents.
Isle of Capri.
Underlining that approach is Rank’s 3D games
Since the first G Casino site decision to open in Coventry what it Magnetic 3D and Tatung
opened in Manchester in 2006, Rank says is the first ever Punjabi Company of the Americas are
has added locations in Aberdeen, restaurant in a British casino, run by teaming up to develop 3D systems
Blackpool, Bolton, Dundee, London, local caterers Mahir’s Experience, for gaming that do not require
Luton, and Thanet, as well as an which was already working extensively special glasses. Employing
online casino at
gcasino.com. at the Ricoh Arena to cater for Asian Magnetic 3D’s Enabl3D format,
weddings. Coventry is close to the their technology will let developers
And by 2012, Rank plans to grow traditional West Midlands heartland of build new 3D games from scratch or
the brand to 20 locations, pursuing a British Indian food. add 3D to existing products.
strategy of offering customers a wider
than usual range of gaming and non- The Ricoh Arena development, Revenue down
gaming choices. which opened in 2005, is the home of Revenue at U.S. commercial
Coventry City Football Club. It also casinos dropped 5.5 percent year-
The 44,000-square-foot Coventry hosts concerts from the likes of Take on-year during the third quarter,
venue, for example, has a sports That and Oasis, and includes according to the American Gaming
lounge, bar and restaurant as well as conference and exhibition facilities as Association. The $7.94bn figure
20 gaming tables, 50 electronic well a boutique hotel and several excludes tribal gaming. Economic
roulette tables, gaming machines and leisure businesses. conditions and particularly a drop in
a poker room. travel to business conventions –
For Isle of Capri, meanwhile, the especially noticeable in Las Vegas –
The non-gaming mix follows a Coventry deal is paralleled by a caused the decline, said the
similar pattern to that at the new £5m departure from the Bahamas, where it association’s President and CEO
($8.4m) G Casino in Dundee, has disposed of its Our Lucaya Frank J. Fahrenkopf, adding that
Scotland, a 30,000-square-foot venue property to Treasure Bay Gaming. gaming industry recovery will likely
also featuring restaurant, bar and be a few months behind any
sports lounge. Isle of Capri’s activities are now broader economic upturn.
concentrated in the U.S., where it has
Richard Edwards, Operations 14 locations. Simple slots
French progressive “uses world’s biggest network”
New products from Iverson
Gaming Systems include SlotMaster
T
he progressive Magic Casinos participating, with 331 slots hooked Smart, offered as a low-cost, entry-
Jackpot launched in France in up to the network. level system for smaller casinos
September is based on the The project brings together five casino which want to capture customers’
world’s largest network of groups and 19 independent sites. points data but don’t need a full-
interconnected casinos, according to The project got the green light when blown player-tracking system. Also
Atronic, which provided the underlying France’s gaming regulatory body new are Ticket-Out Manager, for
technology and is operating the system. approved Atronic as its wide-area coupon verification, Cage Manager,
About a hundred casinos – more progressive provider and the firm’s and Table Rating Manager, as well
than half of the country’s total – are systems division as its operator. as the player-facing Jackpot Viewer.
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