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Blueprint Gaming acquires Games Warehouse U
K-based game studio Blueprint Gaming, part of the Gauselmann Group, has
completed the acquisition of omni-channel gaming provider Games Warehouse from the Harbour Group. The deal will see Blueprint significantly boost its operations, delivering a greater number of high quality games to the market.
Games Warehouse, based in
Derby, England, supplies innovative content to the global gambling
operate out of its existing office, where both the igaming and Skill With Prize (SWP) machine teams will support Blueprint’s development plans.
market, with its games available across online, mobile and retail channels. Popular titles, including Wild Bandits, Birdz and Gold Strike, are already live across numerous websites and retail outlets of some of the leading operators. Staff members will continue to
Brandon Bezzant, Harbour Group said: “Games Warehouse first created the SWP market and more recently successfully evolved into a standalone games developer for online and mobile. We are sure that as a part of Blueprint Gaming and the Gauselmann Group, the team can go from strength to strength.”
Authentic Gaming partners with Foxwoods
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ive casino pioneer Authentic Gaming has signed a partnership with Foxwoods Resort Casino to live-stream roulette games from its casino floor to
online players. Foxwoods Casino Resort is North America’s largest resort casino, and the fifth largest in the world, featuring over nine million square feet of gaming, dining, hotel, shopping and entertainment spaces. The deal marks the first time live casino players in
Europe and around the world will be able to access live table games from the floor of a US land-based casino via the supplier’s Authentic Roulette product. Authentic Roulette allows land-based operators to live
stream games from roulette tables located on their gaming floors to an unlimited number of online players via the supplier’s network of B2B clients, including Unibet, LeoVegas, MrGreen, NYX Gaming Group, EveryMatrix and Bethard Group amongst several others. The first table to go live from Foxwoods Casino Resort will be a single zero, European roulette table streamed live from the Club Newport VIP room at the Grand Pequot Casino; one of several gaming floors located within Foxwoods. Authentic Gaming and Foxwoods will take Authentic
Roulette to the next level and offer online players a truly unique and thrilling experience, driven by the supplier’s
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latest HD audio/visual installation technology. The partnership will also allow online operators to offer their players unique and never-seen before promotions, such as sending players to Foxwoods Resort Casino on VIP trips that include shopping sprees and nights at the casino where they finish the night off on their favourite table game that they have already grown accustomed to online. Jonas Delin, CEO of Authentic Gaming, said: “This is a
breakthrough deal for us and the wider online gambling industry. It marks the very first time any live casino game has been streamed from the floor of a US casino to European players. Foxwoods Resort Casino is the largest casino complex in the US, offering thousands of slots and several hundred table games in addition to world renowned restaurants and night clubs. I’m sure players will be drawn to games streamed from Foxwoods, porting them right to the heart of the action.” Seth Young, Director of Online Gaming at Foxwoods
Resort Casino, said: “We are thrilled to be the first US casino to stream live to online players in Europe and around the world. This is a fantastic opportunity for Foxwoods to extend its brand internationally, and to show the world what it means to experience Foxwoods hospitality.”
Ladbrokes Coral agrees £4bn GVC takeover
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VC is set to acquire Ladbrokes Coral after having a bid of up to £4bn (€4.5bn/$5.3bn) accepted by the gambling giant’s board. GVC chief executive Kenneth Alexander – whose company already owns the Bwin, Sportingbet and Foxy Bingo brands – described the takeover deal as “a truly exciting prospect”. The acquisition is expected to be
completed during late Q1 or early Q2 2018, with GVC shareholders to hold 53.5% of the combined group. The companies said the group will be “a fast-growing, diversified, international online and retail sports betting led gaming group with more than 90% of net gaming revenue generated from locally regulated/ taxed markets.” The base value of the deal is £3.2bn, rising to £4bn under certain circumstances, with annual savings of £100m anticipated. Alexander said: “The creation of one of the world’s largest listed sports betting companies, combining a portfolio of established brands, proven technology and leading market positions in multiple geographies, is a truly exciting prospect. In a dynamically evolving industry, the transaction creates an enlarged group with the scale, diversity, proprietary technology and management expertise to pursue many opportunities globally.” As revealed when detailed talks
between the two parties were first announced, the final worth of the deal is dependent on the government’s review of gaming machines. The bid would be worth around £4bn should FOBT stakes be limited to £50, with the offer dropping to £3.2bn if the limit is £2.
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