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LIVE CASINO ONLINE SECTOR OVERVIEW
Live Casino: the moment of ignition Live casino's high barriers to entry, namely the significant
resources required to set-up and maintain a 24/7 military-style operation, has led to the sector's provider pool being relatively small. Compared to the number of slot developers and the number is microscopic. However, the landscape is starting to shift with the global live casino market comprising approximately 30 per cent of the iGaming market.
Hands-do is a robot croupier that performs all of the manual actions of a dealer and offers an alternative gameplay to the player. Dealing cards, demonstrating the outcome, collecting the cards from the table and loading them into the shuffler. Levon
Hambardzumyan, the project's creator, says Hands-Do guarantees an error-free experience. After all, it is a robot with no mood or
mentality so acts according to the way it’s been programmed.
Notable live casino providers one associates with the sector such as Evolution, Microgaming and Playtech are being joined by start-ups looking to make a splash with a differentiated offering and corporations looking to get in on the act through acquisition. Expedited by the dual forces of Covid-19 and the U.S. market, live casino has become the gaming industry's latest shiny object.
SG/AUTHENTIC
We kick off our live casino deep dive with the news of Scientific Games' acquisition of Authentic Gaming. Jonas Delin, Authentic's founder, cites SG's 'unparalleled relationships' with U.S. operators and distribution network as major factors in catalysing the provider's U.S. market entry. Rob Procter, VP Game Development at SG Digital, says Authentic will continue to drive their own destiny, but with the added backing of the SG Digital machine to provide support and push them forward. Rob believes helping Authentic land the US will be a game changer for the industry.
NEWCOMERS TO THE LIVE PARTY
With 80 per cent of live casino players accessing games from mobile, SwinttLive has been developed in portrait mode. David Mann, Swintt's CCO, details how the company's live dealer product has been received by operators and players since launching a year ago, revealing that a combination with SwinttGamifty is on the development roadmap in 2022.
Whilst Stakelogic announced its Live Studio grand opening in Malta in October, pre-launch demand already necessitated the construction of
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a second studio to be undertaken. Anthony Sammut, Head of Live, exclusively tells G3 that in six months both studios will be fully operational serving thousands of players 24/7 and three live game shows.
On Air Entertainment, powered by Microgaming who themselves have agreed in principle the sale of its Quickfire distribution business and portfolio of online games to Games Global), are a new team behind a live dealer suite which will be made available via the studio’s purpose-built platform. With a range of classic and bespoke live casino games set to launch in early 2022, Managing Director Andres Rengifo, likens the studio to LG in the television sector - a company which now gives the likes of Panasonic, Sony, and Samsung a bloody nose - but only after they got the basics right first.
THE LATEST INNOVATIONS
Hands-do is a robot croupier that performs all of the manual actions of a dealer and offers an alternative gameplay to the player. Dealing cards, demonstrating the outcome, collecting the cards from the table and loading them into the shuffler. Levon Hambardzumyan, the project's creator, says Hands-Do guarantees an error-free experience. After all, it is a robot with no mood
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