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CASINO NEWS
News in brief
UK ponders licensing
Rank closes one, opens
Comma 6a platform
foreign gaming sites another in Sheffield, UK
Quixant will be showing a range of
gaming platforms and motherboards
at IGE in London this month, O
nline gaming firms based outside the UK may
have to apply for a British licence if they want to
serve customers in that country. R
ank Group subsidiary Grosvenor Casinos
opened its G-branded venue in the northern
English city of Sheffield in December, just a
including the QXi-106, based on week after closing its Grosvenor-branded site in the
AMD’s 690E chipset. Priced at British Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe is proposing same city.
$400, it is designed specifically for that licensing by the country’s Gambling Commission
the Italian Comma 6a market. Also should be a requirement for companies wanting to Ian Turver, General Manager of the new casino, said:
on display will be the QXi-100, advertise or provide online gaming services in Britain. “It differs from the Grosvenor Casino in that we’ll be
based on the AMD RS780E chipset putting as much emphasis on the non-gaming activities
and aimed at price-sensitive users, They would have to share data about suspicious such as the live entertainment and the restaurant as we
and the high-end QX-30, which can betting activities with sports governing bodies as well as will on the gaming. And of course the environment
drive four screens simultaneously. the Gambling Commission. Sutcliffe added: “This is also makes all the difference. The new G Casino will have a
about making sure overseas firms contribute their fair modern, contemporary look and feel.”
Hellboy slot share towards regulatory costs and vital services like
Online gaming software provider problem-gambling treatment.” The 23,500-square-foot facility has ten gaming tables
Microgaming has licensed the offering Roulette, Blackjack and Three Card Poker, 33
Hellboy character from Dark Horse The plan is currently in a consultation phase. But it electronic gaming terminals for Roulette and Blackjack,
Comics. The character appears in a may face stiff opposition from the likes of the industry- and 24 jackpot slots.
five-reel, 20-pay-line video slot with backed campaign Right2Bet, which is pushing for cross-
comic-book-style artwork. Other new border gaming to be permitted throughout the EU – just The electronic terminals are linked to both live and
slots from Microgaming are Arctic as trade in most other industries is free among the automated Roulette, while the Blackjack is semi-
Fortune and Robot Butler. member nations. automated.
Separately, Isle of Man Newspapers
has named Microgaming as winner Right2Bet is particularly opposed to national Among the slots, 20 are Category B1 with a 4000
of its 2009 Award for Innovation monopolies, which it says run against EU principles of Euro ($6400) jackpot, while four are Category B3 units.
and Independent Thinking, citing free trade. A tool on its Website allows voters to petition
technology achievements, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), saying “I The 5m Euro ($8m) casino, Grosvenor’s tenth G-
commitment to responsible gaming, want the right to use the Internet to bet online across branded location, also has a 100-seat Poker room. Non-
and activity in the local community. borders of all EU member states” and “I want you to take gaming facilities include lounge, stage and restaurant.
firm action against governments of EU member states
Bally for StarWorld that will still not allow me to exercise this freedom”. It is a conversion of the former Rank-owned Mecca
Bally Technologies is supplying a Bingo building in Duchess Road, empty since bingo
table, slot and casino management The campaign aims to gain a million signatures. ceased there nearly three years ago.
system to Galaxy Entertainment
Group (GEG) in Macau. The rollout
at the StarWorld Hotel and Casino,
888 claims responsibility
It also donated $232,485 to charities in cash and in
kind, and its second annual charity event raised around
beginning in May, will replace
existing systems from another firm O
nline gaming firm 888 has published its first report $50,000 from employees.
on corporate responsibility, covering 2008.
and include Bally’s TableView, SDS It reduced electricity consumption per square meter in
Windows version 11, iView Display During that year, 888 jointed FTSE4Good – a London its offices by 13 percent, and launched data-mining
Manager, Stock Exchange index “designed to measure the system ‘The Observer’ to identify problem gamblers.
eTicket, Power Winners; Power performance of companies that meet globally The firm appointed Ruth Tanami as a dedicated Director
Coupon, and Power Promotions. The recognised corporate responsibility standards”. of Responsible Gaming in 2006.
same systems will be deployed in
the new Galaxy Macau on the Cotai
Strip when it opens early next year.
Gioia offers online Poker with real decks of cards
OffsideBet adds games
E-gaming firm
OffsideBet.com has O
nline gamers can play Poker with real cards –
kind of – after a deal between Gioia International
and Red Planet Gaming.
added a range of CTXM casino and
fixed-odds games to its Websites. The
RealDealPoker.com Website, run on a Red Planet
“As OffsideBet is a new company, it platform, will use Gioia’s new Cut N’ Shuffle dealing
is important for us to capture our system when it launches in February.
audience, so it is essential we give
an exceptional gaming experience to Four years in development, Cut N’ Shuffle deals
our players,” said Matt Jellicoe, CEO physical decks of cards and then represents the
RealDealPoker.com was established by Gioia’s
of
OffsideBet.com. The firm plans to results digitally on the online Poker table. Most Poker founder Gene Gioia, who has also developed another
target Latin America this year. sites, by contrast, use random number generators to system, Game Check, to manage post-game audit
simulate shuffling and dealing. results.
8 FEBRUARY 2010
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