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missing link for Pac-Man Te evolution of Ainsworth’s Pac-Man series continued apace at G2E Las Vegas with the unveiling of the four- game Pac-Man Link with a new base game for each of the Pac-Man ghosts
Steve Rogers, CCO Digital Games of Inspired Gaming Inspired adds more markets to growing US tour
Having floated on the New York Stock Exchange and relocated its headquarters to the East Coast, Inspired Entertainment is now very much a US-facing company.
New legislation allowing sports betting and Virtual Sports has given Inspired the chance to replicate its successes in the UK, Greece and Italy over a much bigger landmass Stateside. It was at G2E Las Vegas, having launched a spectacular Virtual Sports project at retailer locations in Pennsylvania, that Inspired capitalised on its deal with the Pennsylvania Lottery and Scientific Games. Integrating with the Pennsylvania Lottery’s central gaming system provided by Scientific Games, Stock Car Racing and the new 1st Down Virtual Football are the first products to be offered. Scheduled events are streamed into a mixture of retail venues and bars and taverns throughout Pennsylvania via two dedicated channels throughout the day. Te product offering will be branded Xpress Sports.
Inspired has also partnered with IWG, a supplier of online, instant win games, to deliver a brand new vertical for North American lotteries – instant win versions of virtual sports. Each predetermined game will be tailored to ensure best practices in instant win game mechanics are
Probability Gaming took its chance to shine at the Vegas gaming exhibition
India-based game studio, Probability Gaming, was exhibiting at G2E Las Vegas for the second time with a collection of games for all segments
Probability Gaming’s latest titles being shown in Vegas included Warrior Empress, Legendary Asgard and Katana Warrior.
Manish Tripathi, CEO of Probability gaming, said: “We are experts in maths. We aim to come up with out-of-the-box ideas for game development and back it up with a robust mathematical and programming framework. Casino math development is our core strength. Tis allows us to develop games which are fun, fresh and innovative to keep gaming audiences engaged and entertained. Our team of game designers, graphic artists, animators and sound
The Probability team at G2E
engineers work closely with developers to understand the vision of the game. Tey also scrutinise the gaming elements that are popular in the target market to make sure the audience has a more stimulating experience. Tese are complemented by Original Music Composition and other custom sound effects like Reel Spin Tunes, Bonus Game Loops, Win Reinforcement Tunes or Stingers, Voice-Overs, Jackpot Loops, etc. as well as custom SFX and VFX.”
intact, while also capturing the exciting gameplay that has made virtual sports grow to become an important product for lotteries and operators around the world.
Steve Rogers, CCO Digital Games, Inspired Gaming, said: “As sports-betting and mobile betting opens up across the US, operators will need to get more creative in order to compete and will also look at ways of boosting the number of events players can bet on. Digital players want content delivered constantly, which is where Virtual Sports and Instant Virtual Sports really comes into its own. We launched in Nevada in late 2016; we signed our first US lottery contract for Virtual Sports early in 2017; and last year we launched our new 1st Down Football product. We launched online in New Jersey in November 2017 with Golden Nugget, Caesars Resorts, Rush Street Interactive and Betfair and this year we have the Pennsylvania deal. As more states come on board we’ll deploy more people in more areas but we’re also looking at the VLT market, which would be a huge opportunity for us.”
Ainsworth’s Danny Gladstone
Ainsworth’s latest games debuted in Vegas on the new dual-screen cabinet, EVO with its edge lighting and LCD button deck. Having forged its Pac-Man games through a partnership with Bandai Namco, Ainsworth has further utilised the partnership to bring the classic arcade game Galaga to the slot floor with bonuses that pay homage to the original game. Te player controls a star fighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bullets at and attempting to crash into them.
In total, Ainsworth, a growing force in North America, was showing 130 slot titles in Class II, Class II, Washington State and historical horse racing product lines.
Ainsworth’s A640 cabinets were demonstrating the latest QuickSpin titles in Super Money 7s and Super Crystal 7s both featuring the large wheel bonus for which the series is famed. Super Charged 7s MultiPlay offered players the chance to play four reels of Quickspin at once.
Also available on the A640 cabinet were Triple Challenge, which offers a unique Sic Bo bonus, Cards of Cash, which offers a base game using poker symbols and a bonus game mechanic where players build poker hands. Also on show were Multi Win 7, a top performing High Denon title now available in a new format, and Redbeard’s Riches and Cash-O-Tron, a pair of games with a new Symbol Collection bonus. Bubble Bucks lets players pop bubbles to multiply their prize whilse Tres Chiles sees a collecting-style bonus.
Te past year has brought decent gains for Ainsworth in the central determination gaming market with a move into Class II jurisdictions across the US, a launch into Washington State markets and its first installation of historical horse racing games.
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