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EUROPEAN UPDATE Aristocrat broadens gameplay
French players get first taste of Aristocrat’s VIRIDIAN WS Widescreen across Europe
Casino de Balaruc-les-Bains became the first venue in Europe to go live with Aristocrat’s new VIRIDIAN WS (Widescreen) games as eager players queued to experience new forms of entertainment offered by the company’s recently released gaming options.
Located 20 minutes from Montpellier Airport on the seafront of renowned French spa resort Balaruc-les-Bains, the independent casino unveiled the multi line game Don Quixote featuring Remix; Gazellions, running on Reel Power and sporting the new Multi Mega Pay feature; and the 25 line Power Pay game Persian Palace – all benefitting from the advanced technological capabilities offered by VIRIDIAN WS and installed in association with Aristocrat’s local partner Tranchant Gaming Technology.
Antoine Constantini, Proprietor of Casino de Balaruc-les-Bains, is a long-standing Aristocrat aficionado as he explains: “When I visited Sydney many years ago I immediately saw the appeal of these games and was one of the early adopters in France, placing 30 machines at a time
Russia crackdown on online operators
The State Duma of the Russian Federation has received a draft law which proposes to assign official and exclusive gambling websites to the four RF gaming zones. This move would effectively ban all other online casinos from operating in the country. The draft law was submitted by the Senior Deputy Chairman of the Duma Legislative Committee Vladimir Gruzdev. “Official gambling websites may be a good tool for confronting illegal online casinos,” the deputy commented on his proposal. The regulation of online gaming came to the fore of public consciousness after the Ministry of Internal Affairs sought to close Internet casinos operating in Russia. Law enforcement authorities are now forming their first criminal cases relating to online gaming operations.
ComTrade a signé un accord avec le four- nisseur belge de jeux et de machines d’arcade, Pascual Games, en vue de proposer une plateforme d’iGaming sophistiquée qui aidera ses clients à lancer des activités en ligne. Cet accord verra la livraison d’une plateforme complète de jeux en ligne qui inclura le serveur de jeux à distance de ComTrade, qui permet aux opérateurs d’intégrer de nouveaux contenus plus rapidement et d’acquérir un meilleur contrôle de l’expérience en ligne de leurs joueurs.
La société italienne Zest Gaming est sur le point de lancer trois casinos électron- iques de nouvelle génération sous le nom de Winpalace, dans les villes itali- ennes de Trieste, Olbia et Alghero au début du mois de juin. Ces bâtiments auront une superficie d’entre 200 et 300 m² et contiendront chacun environ 70 machines, combinant des Comma 6 As et les nouveaux terminaux de loterie vidéo.
Antoine Constantini, Proprietor of Casino de Balaruc-les-Vains, pictured with Europe’s first
installed VIRIDIAN WS games.
when other operators were sampling just one or two. The games’ performance put me at a great advantage with some of my high fliers including Zorro, Outback Jack, Wild Panda and Cash Express.
“I regularly travel to trade shows around the world, continuing to look for a competitive edge from the latest innovations and seeing VIRIDIAN WS first-hand several months ago I have been awaiting its arrival with anticipation. Being the first in Europe to offer this to customers is an unexpected bonus.”
He added: “Currently under construction right next door to the casino is what will be the biggest and most technologically advanced hydrotherapy centre in France, so it’s vital that the mix on my gaming floor continues to offer a variety of the very best games as I expect patronage to build over the coming years.”
Advantech Innocore’s widest Italian VLT range
Advantech Innocore introduced a new board to the Italian Comma 6a market at the Rimini ENADA Spring show, the DPX-E125, specifically designed for this market based on the Intel Atom chip set. Featuring an integrated S3 graphics accelerator on the board, the DPX-E125 completes Advantech Innocore's wide range of Comma 6a products, with every board offering specific benefits to meet the wide range of requirements of OEMs.
"We are seeing a shift in the Comma 6a sector in Italy as
OEMs progress from low-end graphics requirements towards VLT style games, which puts a high demand on the graphics chips," stated Advantech Innocore's Koen Stomph at the Italy show.
The range of the company's board offerings now spans the low-end 110; 125 middle and 115D at the top-end of the gaming board spectrum. The company also currently offers the widest range of products for VLT gaming in the S415 and 425 range with both Intel and AMD chips offered across its comprehensive Comma 6a range.
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Blueprint Gaming a annoncé un accord selon lequel le développeur de machines à sous renforcerait davantage son parte- nariat avec William Hill. Sous ce nouv- el accord, un certain nombre de ces jeux aux excellentes performances, notamment Cop the Lot et Super Diamond Deluxe, sera lancé sur
Williamhill.com
La Douma d’Etat de la Fédération russe a reçu un projet de loi proposant d’assigner des sites Web de jeux officiels et exclusifs aux quatre zones de jeux libres de droits. Cette décision interdi- rait efficacement à tous les autres casi- nos en ligne d’opérer dans le pays.
Advantech Innocore a lancé une nouvelle carte sur le marché italien de Comma 6a lors du salon Rimini ENADA Spring, la DPX-E125, spécifiquement conçue pour ce marché en se basant sur le jeu de puces d’Intel Atom. Disposant d’un accélérateur graphique S3 intégré, la carte DPX-E125 complète la large gamme de produits Comma 6a d’Advantech Innocore, chaque carte offrant des avantages spécifiques pour répondre aux diverses exigences des OEM.
Le Complexe de casino de Grand-Sault situé dans la ville de Grand-Sault, dans l’Iowa, a choisi le Système de gestion de casinos de Konami (Konami Casino Management System - KCMS) pour gérer son reporting analytique et ses campagnes de marketing, de compt- abilité et de suivi de patrons de machines à sous et de jeux de table. Le Complexe de casino de Grand-Sault devrait ouvrir en été 2011, avec 900 machines à sous (dont 15 % seront fournis par Konami), 24 tables de jeux et 8 tables de poker.
Suite à une période d’évaluations et de tests exhaustifs, Star City Casino a lancé un essai de Novo Unity II produit par Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH, une filiale entièrement détenue de Novomatic AG. Cet essai compte 10 ter- minaux multijoueurs NovoStar SL1 connectés à une Roulette automatique et deux tables de roulette en direct.
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