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DigiDeal announce first mobile app
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lectronic multi-player table game products developer, DigiDeal Corporation, has announced its new mobile game app, Pocket Pickit Poker, which can be downloaded from both the iTunes App Store and the Google Play/Android Market. The app is a five card stud poker game played against a dealer’s hand and features three side bets. Other features include multiple awards, achievement levels, and - if the players log into Facebook - their friends’ profile photos on the card backs. Pocket Pickit Poker is the mobile version of DigiDeal’s popular electronic table game Pikit Poker available on its DTS-C and V platfortms approved for installation in casinos around the world. “We didn’t just want to create another mobile poker game. We wanted a unique card game with poker elements and something the consumer hasn’t seen before,” said Don Evans, Senior VP of Engineering at DigiDeal Corporation. Other exciting DigiDeal mobile game themes are in development and are scheduled for release in the coming year.
Spain gets busy F
ollowing the issuing of Spanish licences, various companies have been quick to announce their immediate launch into the region. Prima Networks Spain plc (PNS)
went live with premier operators in Spain including CIRSA Gaming Corporation the largest land-based operator in the country. PNS confirmed that it is also supplying its software to other leading online operators including Ladbrokes, Betway, Interwetten and Stan James. Sonia Carabante, General Manager of eGaming at CIRSA, said: “These are exciting times for CIRSA, having just launched into the online sector in a country where our brand already has a great presence and reputation. As such we want to provide the very best offering for our players, reflecting the professional
experience our customers are used to. To do so we have chosen the most innovative company in the marketplace enabling us to offer players the best gaming experience in the market.”
Hot on the heels of this news, GTECH G2 announced the launch of the Spanish Poker Network (SPN) with operators such as Poker Heaven and Orenes joining together to create the ‘premier network in Spain’. GTECH G2 now operates more networks in regulated markets than anyone else in the industry, including the only legal poker network in North America, the Canadian Poker Network. The company is the partner of choice for regulated markets having been awarded 10 licenses in the newly regulated Spanish market and holding over 400 gaming licenses as part of Lottomatica Group. Walter Bugno, CEO of GTECH G2 and SPIELO International, said: “We are delighted to announce the launch of the Spanish Poker Network, and to have been awarded 10 licenses that will enable us to provide our partners, and, in turn, their players, with a simply great gaming experience.”
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Zynga releases second mobile title
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merican social media and gaming firm Zynga Incorporated has launched its second casino-themed mobile app, Zynga Slots, designed for use with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch handsets.
San Francisco-based Zynga stated that Zynga Slots was developed ‘by the same team that created the wildly popular mobile Zynga Poker game’ and is available to players for free via the Apple Online Store.
The American firm declared that Zynga Slots marks the third game in the franchise after Zynga Poker and Zynga Bingo and has been designed to ‘up the ante in the mobile casino experience’ with the use of ‘innovative features including seamless gameplay, high-quality graphics and never-before-seen social elements’ in order to deliver ‘the ultimate slots experience for casino fans and new players alike’. Justin Cinicolo, Vice-President for Zynga Mobile, said: “We’re continually listening to player feedback on the kinds of games they enjoy playing and we’ll be sure to bring more high-quality iOS games to players based on the genres they enjoy.”
Zynga Slots has been designed with a global audience in mind and, as such, can be enjoyed in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean in addition to English, and follows the recent launch of its Matching With Friends, Zombie Swipeout and Scramble With Friends titles.
Playtech signs with Skywind
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nline gambling software designer and supplier Playtech Limited looks set to enter the social games arena following the signing of a software licensing agreement with Skywind Holdings Limited.
The software licensing deal will see Playtech pay €6million per year along with a 20 percent royalty fee on any associated revenues and will provide it with ‘access to a broad range of social gaming platforms and products in addition to complementary real-money products’ in order to give it ‘a unique position in the market’.
In a statement, Playtech said: “The directors believe that the combination of Playtech’s wide distribution channels, expertise in content development, back-end and online marketing capabilities and the broad range of products licensed under the software licence agreement will position the group as the leading business-to-business provider to the social gaming market. Playtech will have the ability to offer cross platform capabilities for a full suite of products including social casino, poker, bingo and rummy.” Skywind is a firm associated with Teddy Sagi, who also controls 48.3
percent of Playtech’s issued share capital, and has more than 150 developers working on social gaming solutions and real-money mobile software. The agreement will also see Playtech provided with ‘exclusive access to significant complementary real-money software’ to supplement its existing offering particularly in relation to mobile casino and poker.
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