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PERU – SHINING NEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM NOVOMATIC Latin American subsidiaries, Crown Gaming Peru and Octavian, will represent the NOVOMATIC Group of Companies’ latest innovations and solutions at the Peru Gaming Show, to be held in Lima from June 11-12.
Visitors will find a presentation of all the latest international product highlights at the NOVOMATIC booth in the Jockey Plaza Convention Center. The stars of the booth will be the new Dominator cabinet – a shining new highlight on the international casino floors – and the Panther Roulette – the latest evolution of the former Pinball Roulette.
The Dominator will be presented with a range of NOVO LINE INTERACTIVE multi-game mixes, connected to the card-ani- mated four level mystery progressive Magic Joker Jackpot as well as with the new hybrid jackpot JEWELS FACTORY. This new jackpot is an innovative combination of a Community Jackpot and Mystery Jackpot in one product. The Dominator’s flexible-use 18.5ins. TFT topper will be used for the jackpot animation and the machine’s third screen for the constant display of the jackpot levels. The Dominator serves as a com- plete jackpot installation in its own right: without the need for extra jackpot signage.
One very special premiere to take place in Peru will be the presentation of the new NOVOSTAR V.I.P. slant top, complete with the luxurious Crown V.I.P. chair with integrated sound system and a start button in the arm-rest. In combination with the FLIPSCREEN functionality, that transfers the game screen onto the giant 46ins. LCD screen, this slant top guar- antees true V.I.P. comfort in panoramic style. It will be pre- sented with NOVO LINE Interactive multi-games as well as the single player video roulette game Mystery Roulette.
Further cabinets on show will be the Super-V+ Gaminator III, the Novo Super-Vision and the NOVOSTAR SL2 with a selec- tion of multi-game mixes based on NOVOMATIC’s propri- etary gaming platforms Coolfire II and NOVO LINE Interactive. Yet another highlight will be the Panther Roulette. This is the successor to the Pinball Roulette that has already proven extremely popular, especially in Latin American mar- kets. It will be presented in two versions, Panther Roulette and Panther Roulette II. The Panther Roulette comes with a new start button on the right hand side of the hand rest for increased player comfort.
PANAMA - JCM GLOBAL HOST IN-DEPTH TRAINING JCM Global played host to an in-depth training session for Latin American operators the day prior to the SAGSE Panama Trade Show. JCM’s team of engineering specialists conducted the training in order to give operators an inside view of JCM’s UBA and iVIZION bill validators and PayCheck 4 thermal printer, allowing operators to better understand the products’ technical functionality.
“Our goal with this training is to help operators further under- stand our products from a technical perspective so they can better understand their workings and how to best maintain the products,” said JCM LA Sales Manager Eduardo Rozen.
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Zitro Experience 2014, with Johnny Ortiz at the helm, brought the entire Mexican gaming sector together under one roof
Mexico - Video Bingo
The entire Mexican video bingo market gathered to celebrate the Zitro Revolution 2014 (ZR14), with trade associations, large and small operators, and many of the most important people from the gam- ing sector in Mexico, all coming together to attend a fabulous party staged by Zitro.
Amidst the current political turmoils in the Mexican market, the event provided a serious forum, which was also relaxed enough for debate and sharing of different perspectives and individ- ual views on all matters concerning the gaming sector in Mexico.
The union provided by this event generated even more confidence in the company and many praised the dedication and seriousness of Zitro’s work, which will undoubtedly reflect on an ever improving future for the company.
During the historic gathering, which took place mid-May, for which the entire sector came together for the very first time, Johnny Ortiz took the opportunity to present all of the Zitro Revolution 2014 innovations and gave a few hints as to the novelties we’ll be seeing in 2015.
ZR14 was warmly welcomed and the reaction from the operators was as amazing as the games and novelties which were presented. Zitro sur- prised those attending with the presentation of something which no other company had managed to do up until now: a new system with many more prizes and surprising functionalities that have been combined in a single platform.
Controversial online monitoring plan for slot machines ongoing
ARGENTINA With controversy continuing to grow around gaming in Argentina’s capital, lawmakers are pushing for more control over the sector via the connection of all slot machines in Buenos Aires to a government centrally controlled server. Members of the Frente Amplio-UNEN (United) party have called for stricter control and the proposals were initially put forward last month by legislator Inés Gorbea and are now being discussed in the Commission of Economic Development.
“The idea is to create a system of control online such as the province of Buenos Aires possess The Institute of City Gaming should have terminals which pro- vide access to this information. The deputies of the PRO party (the right wing party led by city mayor Mauricio Macri ) have to go along with this project. We have to see if there is a will to control to control the industry and be part of a mod- ern state,” Gorbea said.
The issue of gaming in Buenos Aires is becoming increasingly
acrimonious with controversy revolving around how slot machines should be taxed and whether it should be the federal government or the autonomous city of Buenos Aires who should receive the lion’s share of gaming tax revenue.
City Mayor Mauricio Macri has made a number of attempts to increase gaming tax revenue. While the city of Buenos Aires has been autonomous since 1994 it is the National Lottery Commission which has control over gaming. While a 2007 Supreme Court decision ruled finally that the casinos came under federal, not city jurisdiction both parties have continued to battle it out over who should have final say when it comes to casino gaming in the city. In November 2013, city legis- lators agreed to draft a new gam- ing law which could not be sub- ject to appeal and could not be overruled in local courts. However the new law stalled over the issue of back taxes as casinos located in the city owe a debt of between $1.5bn pesos and $2bn pesos in gross gaming back taxes.
Mexico The head of a committee charged with investigating the gaming industry in Mexico, Fernando Zárate Salgado, has stated that the Chamber of Deputies needs to promote modern legislation, under the principles of legality and transparency and that any new law must reflect the recent changes and developments in the casino and sports betting industry. The Deputy, who replaced Ricardo Mejía Berdeja as head of the committee in March, highlighted the urgent need for the House of Deputies to press for constitutional reform. Any reform he said would mean revoking Mexico’s outdated Betting and Raffles Law of 1947. The Deputy called for “updated federal legislation” taking into account the new gaming landscape in Mexico while the ultimate goal is “knowing what is going on specifically in every gaming centre in the country.”
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