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WMS experience they are looking for.
More great product from the slot “We recently signed an extension to our
innovators, and no doubt more happy contract with Hasbro for the Monopoly
customers too. There was so much of interest brand; it’s a theme players have come to
on the stand, we’re just going to focus on a love and we have underlined our
few things, like Ultra Hit Progressive, their commitment to that.
Progressive add-on that could rejuvenate any “We’ve furthered our Adaptive Gaming
slot floor. Operators can take a base game and category with Lord of the Rings, which was
simply add the Ultra Hit Progressive to it – or at G2E; it takes Adaptive Gaming, which
to a bank of slots, or a section… And was episodic, and has got us looking at
eventually, WMS say, to a whole floor – Epic Gaming. It wasn’t wide open on the floor, finished cabinet from WMS. The sound quality
regardless of where the slots come from. For only a few customers got to see it. It takes on these cabinets is something else entirely, it
now, it only applies to WMS slots, but watch customer excitement and the experience and really drags you in to the experience; add on
this space as the plan is to make it an comfort of casual gaming, and gives them the crisp and frankly brilliant graphics, and
enterprise-wide product for those that want it. some of those things in a slot game. You get to you have a winner.
Candace Lucas, Executive Director, a certain level, then when you come back to The Bluebird xD cabinet also brings
Marketing Operations, told us about the the game say a month later, you can pick up something new to their line-up, following on
company’s commitment to all aspects of its where you left off. We have a generation that from the extremely popular Bluebird 2 and of
gaming product. “We’re still very committed to grew up on arcade games and another now course the Bluebird. It comes in either a video
all our player types, including those who want that grew up playing consoles, and our slot version or a Transmissive Reel version, and
to play three-reel mechanicals. We have several products have to appeal to those players, too.” very interestingly combines the comfort of a
new products in that space; our new The Great and Powerful Oz stands out from slant-top model with the footprint and
Community Gaming Wizard of Oz Transmissive a crowd of excellent games on the WMS stand, sightlines of an upright, almost creating its
Reels product [The Great and Powerful Oz] we with beautifully themed bonus gaming, own category in the meantime. Most
are introducing is a three-reel mechanical, for character options which influence the colour importantly, this hybrid sensibility really
example. We want to offer real variety in game scheme and overall look of the player works, especially when combined with WMS’s
types and volatility so players can find the experience, and the now-expected beautifully- great games.
free – there’s no incremental cost to the network, which will be a real bonus for casinos emerging Latin American areas, including a
operator. that are not open 24 hours a day. You could number of provinces in Argentina and, more
Many other products on the stand were even close off quiet areas using the network to recently, Colombia.
probably more geared toward the AWP market, power down the machines, saving money and Spot The Ball comes from Gextech’s stable,
though we left impressed by the c2 Spider coin electricity.” creators of Fantastic League, a virtual football
recycling system, which can recycle up to eight Jackpot Junction Table Bonus module was game with excellent graphics. Spot The Ball
denominations (or six denominations, with two also on show, a big favourite of Casino brings a globally recognised game concept into
at high capacity). It uses a high-speed sorter in International’s, and the company’s new hi-tech, real-time rendered soccer stadia,
tandem with the c2 coin management system, wayfinding solution also impressed. It’s a kiosk- complete with different teams and atmospheric
with h2 hoppers employed for greater storage. style wayfinder for customers, ideal for larger crowds, audio and lighting, and demonstrates
That means the c2 Spider can enable the resort casinos. With it, customers can find how variants of Octavian’s Symphony platform
recycling of up to 2,000 coins! restaurants, bus stops, the actual route to where can run and manage games from third-party
you want to be… All the information of the content development partners.  The game runs
Gaming Support resort can be at the customer’s fingertips, it’s a on Octavian’s highly adaptable Symphony DE
Slot Timer is getting a lot of attention for great looking touchscreen solution. (Downloadable Games Edition) system and is
Gaming Support, as Damien Connelly explains: available for land-based fixed-odds betting
“It acts as a timing device for slot machines in a Octavian terminals worldwide.
casino. It’s environmentally friendly, saves Octavian occupied their own stand at IGE,
money for the casinos and saves time, because with their Symphony CE Slots and Tables Shuffle Master/CARD
they don’t have to have technicians manually management system taking the bulk of Two products stood out from the range – the
switch machines off or on. The version we are attention, though the Slot The Ball game was brilliant i-Table, which continues to evolve
currently developing will be usable on a also pretty eye-catching… nicely, and Rapid Craps, which could certainly
Symphony CE (Casino Edition) is Octavian’s find a user base in Europe; Craps is such a
end-to-end slots and tables casino management
system, which offers integrated TITO, cashless,
player tracking and jackpot modules. The
modular form of the system means customer
can just take – and pay for – what they need
rather than having the shell out for a system
they might only use 40 per cent of.
Since its release in 2009, Symphony CE has
attracted wide international appeal and has
been selected as the ‘system of choice’ in
government-mandated applications in many
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