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Property (IP) to the casino gaming industry. “The release of Neo Contra is important because it sends a message to the industry that Konami is uniquely positioned to combine a library of popular video game brand IP with our dependable math models and reliable hardware to create yet another way to deliver more to the operator,” said Matt Reback, vice president, marketing at Konami. “Additionally, brands like Neo Contra provide one targeted way for operators to attract and entertain coveted Gen X and Millennial patrons, as well as core players who enjoy the action adventure genre.” Rooted in a 42-year heritage of world-wide gaming hits spanning everything from Frogger to Metal Gear Solid, Konami is now bringing its iconic entertainment legacy to slot players with two premiere Neo Contra game themes on KP3: Mighty Warrior and Supreme Samurai. Each theme comes equipped with a four-level standalone progressive, as well as proven Konami game mechanics such as Xtra Reward and cascading reels to generate excitement with a broad range of slot players. Neo Contra is featured on a custom Podium cabinet with exclusive machine features such as an expanded top box, eye-catching dual topper, and Konami’s new 3D Sound System, which harnesses all the power and awe of 3D audio technology while eliminating the need for separate in-chair or rear-satellite surround sound speakers.
Another game that really caught our eye was
quite unexpected. Rolling Riches is a simple dice-based video slot where the player is trying to roll dice to match vacant number slots; if you roll, for example, a two and four, you can fill the two, four or six slots – but if none of those are available, it’s game over. It’s simple and fun, and would be amazing on a bar top but for now, it lives elsewhere as Matt Reback told CI: “We have put this into our Selexion multigame cabinet, as we don’t yet think it is a standalone product but someone that likes video poker, keno or bingo is going to like this game. It’s our first foray into non-reel-based game content, and we think Selexion is the perfect place to launch it.” There was a lot more on the Konami booth, which we hope to go into in more detail in a future edition of Casino International.
TCSJOHNHUXLEY Three words you need to have taken away
from G2E: Gaming Floor Live. This was the global launch of TCS’s complete network platform and gaming table management system. This open platform allows a wide range of data gathered from each table to be analyzed in real-time enabling active and pro-active management of gaming floors. Cath Burns, Group CEO comments, ”Gaming
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Floor Live provides a groundbreaking solution for operators and their table games. For the first time it is possible to provide the same levels of real-time data collection that operators currently enjoy from their slot systems. You only have to think about the multiple vendors products there are on a single table that stand alone unable to connect and interface, to understand how
compelling the GFL solution is.” Gaming Floor Live provides a constant flow of gaming data feeds into the system offering insights to the performance of dealers, tables and game speeds, highlighting areas and processes that can be improved upon in real- time. With over 800 tables already installed in Macau, Gaming Floor Live is maximizing efficiencies on the casino floor and improving dealer speed to increase revenue. Designed as a modular system, Gaming Floor
Live is scalable and offers configurations geared to create an increase of the casino floor’s turnover. Using a robust, universal platform with newly developed protocols, enabled equipment from TCSJOHNHUXLEY or other manufacturers can feed important data into the system for analysis. Using Gaming Floor Live’s real-time insights and additional modules it is possible to increase a table’s hands / spins / dice per hour, customer engagement and bet frequency and in turn help to drive revenue increases.
Cummins Allison New features and products backed up by
reliable staff (who are direct employees of Cummins Allison, not agents) and great service – that’s what Cummins Allison brings to the gaming table, as Bob Gibson, VP Branch Operations in the US, told Casino International. “This year we have some new features and products in the booth. We have a JetScan iFX i400 currency sorting system that we introduced a couple of years ago; what’s new about the product this year is that we have added the ability to sort in to many more sorting pockets, so we are showing a machine here that can handle up to 17 different pocket locations. We are also offering fitness in that product, so we can do sorting and detection by the fit condition of the note as well as handling all currency denominations and tickets. The more pockets you ad to the system, the more
you can do with it – it’s a very modular solution, it can have as few or as many pockets as your application requires. “We can support casino properties of all
sizes, that’s an important benefit for our customers. If it’s a small location with a few hundred games up to 3000 or more slots, we can scale the products we offer and have a solution that fits their budget.” G2E 2014 was certainly a success for the company, as Bob explained: “We had more visitors in the first day of G2E this year (2014) than we had in the entire show last year, so we are very pleased about that and it speaks well for what is happening in the economy.”
Interblock Perfection is the name of the game for
Interblock – perfecting their current products, refining, streamlining – and building for the future. Tom O’Brien, CEO Interblock Gaming USA, spoke to Casino International. “Right now, we are trying to perfect our products. You don’t see a lot of brand new product on the booth here at G2E but what you do see is 15 new products we have worked on over the last two years, and it took forever to get it all approved and through the system. So this year, rather than come out with five more new products, we are working on perfecting what we have. We feel we have done that, and we have come out with some great products, about 95% of what is on the floor here is approved already in most markets and that is a first. Normally you come to a gaming show and you are showing off all your new stuff and it takes 1-2 years just to get it approved. The next part of our migration is the bar tops
– we have come out with a new game called the Star Bar, which is a bar top which has multi- play software on it that we have developed. This allows customers to play three or four of their favourite games at the same time – so they can play three of their favourites electronic table
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