Review ICE TOTALLY GAMING 2015 PLUTO RISING AND IN ASCENDANCY FOR HEBER
Heber used the ICE show in London as its platform to launch two new products, the Pluto A100 and the Pluto T100
The Pluto A100 is an all-in-one PC-based electronic gaming machine controller, uses the latest AMD Embedded “Steppe Eagle” G-Series technology and PCI gaming I/O. This low power fanless solution provides a highly reliable and integrated solution targeted at customers in the casino, bingo and street gaming markets.
The Pluto T100 is a fanless Mini-ITX platform based on the same AMD Embedded G-Series “Steppe Eagle” technology as the Pluto A100, and has been designed to complement the very popular Heber X10i USB peripheral, which provides a range of gaming I/O ports and interfaces via a simple USB connection. The Pluto T100 is targeted at the video lottery terminal, bingo, and street gaming markets.
Both controllers have a seven year supply guarantee, and provide superior graphics performance, enabling game developers to produce visually stunning games at a price/performance point that will make them
Heber’s Graham Jackson and Wendy Holloway highly attractive to manufacturers.
Heber will also be demonstrating a new through-glass switching technology, allowing players to interact with games in a new and revolutionary way.
Les Ashton-Smith, managing director of Heber, said: “We’ve now been a major player in the
gaming and amusements market for over thirty years, supplying over 750,000 Pluto gaming controllers. These new products take our capabilities to a new level and will enable both developers and manufacturers alike to usher in a new generation of high-performance gaming systems at an unbeatable price point. We look forward to showing our customers what the new Pluto controllers can really do at ICE.”
BMM HAS US BREAKTHROUGH IN ITS SIGHTS IN 2015
BMM Testlabs celebrated a record year in 2014 and has plans this year to ensure success in markets including the US
BMM Testlabs was at ICE Totally Gaming celebrating a record year which has seen it increase its global work force by more than 300 people, whilst relocating its European headquarters in Austria, as well as becoming an Approved Testing Service Provider in Singapore.
Whilst Europe remains a key focus, with a doubling of its workforce on the cards, there is no doubting the market that BMM wants the most; the United States.
Martin Storm, BMM’s President and CEO, told G3 at the ICE show: “We really want to be able to compete across all the markets in the United States. At the moment we are fighting against regulation that prevents us from doing that and we’re making headway. We won’t be making any bold statements about taking over the market but we are looking forward to simply being able to compete.
Certainly within a year’s time we would expect to be able to compete for business in the US. We feel that this is out right,” commented Mr. Storm at ICE 2015.
2014 was a record year for BMM globally, but the plan is to continue the dramatic expansion of the company...
BMM’s Marzia Turrini and Martin Storm
“We already have a Nevada licence and are pretty well connected with 60 people in Nevada, 40 in Canada and six in corporate in the US. We are in negotiations with 10 Indian tribes and are looking at markets such as Delaware and Kansas.
Mr. Storm added: “As we continue to broaden our skills and capabilities in compliance technology and software we have also expanded our testing facilities in America, Europe and Asia. We opened offices in Bologna and Vienna earlier this year and have recently added 10,000 square feet to our testlab in Las Vegas. The expansion at the Las Vegas Headquarters houses a specially designed customer facility, a dedicated interoperability infrastructure, a studio for BMM’s software development team and the capacity for an additional 100 testing engineers. In Europe we have grown to 40 people but we will be looking to double that figure. In Moncton, Canada, we’ve grown from just one person to 40 but see room for up to 100.”
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