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discovery, configurability and delivery using Gaming Platform as a Service (GPAS) and the Playtech Games Marketplace, both working together to reinvent content creation and delivery. Playtech has developed a next-generation
content ecosystem with GPAS at its core. GPAS is the power behind Playtech’s next generation content and the Playtech Games Marketplace, a unified games delivery platform and developer programme, enabling accelerated maths creation for games and full licensee game discovery capabilities across all channels. GPAS delivers high quality, best-performing
content in an instant, using a drag and drop maths engine to create any type of game with any array of features for any type of market or player. GPAS also enables HTML5 games to be
delivered not only to online devices, but also to land-based slot machines. The Playtech Games Marketplace is a highly
secure web-based system for both operators and game developers, completely reinventing the way content is discovered, created, configured and delivered. Logging into the app store style layout
operators can access, browse, install and manage any or all their Playtech Omni- channel games content on Marketplace in an instant. Select from more than 600 smash hit Playtech games, plus, the industry’s best third-party content and configure any game in a single click, anytime, and anywhere. Developers and content providers can use
Marketplace to access its cutting-edge content management tools and ensure their games enjoy the most attractive presentation opportunity to bring their content closer to Playtech licensees and access the world’s widest distribution network. Combined, all of this opens a new gaming gateway to more sales and more success.
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supplier with an eye on roulette. At ICE we were treated to the new range of dealer-assist tables, which the company has apparently developed following research into operational challenges faced by dealing staff. The first phase of these solutions includes tables with large storage areas that incorporate specially created spaces for float tray covers – previously always seen being resisted against or under tables. Innovative slide-out storage areas under the table maximise storage and hardware technology requirements, providing well-defined areas for data and power.
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CSJOHNHUXLEY has evolved into a serious technology provider, while retaining their routes as an equipment
Zytronic Z
ytronic used ICE to launch the company’s new range of multi-touch controllers, raising the bar for the
design, speed, accuracy and performance of large-format touchscreens. Zytronic gives free rein to the creativity of slot machine designers with its capability to supply high performance touch sensors with very low or no minimum order quantities. Ian Crosby, sales and marketing director, said: “Zytronic is setting a new standard for touch performance at ICE enabling new features like contactless payment and Qi charging for phones. This allows designers to create interfaces that are more exciting and more capable than ever before.” The new Zytronic controllers feature a significantly higher electromagnetic ‘noise’ (EMI) immunity, allowing technologies such as RFID, NFC and Qi wireless battery charging to be integrated immediately adjacent to or even within the touch sensor without impairing normal touchscreen performance. These technologies emit signals which can interfere with the operation of conventional projected capacitive touch screens.
Of course, tables need to cater for all
heights and previously, shorter dealers have struggled with the height of the playing surface or used bulky platforms which needed to be removed and stored when a taller dealer started a game. The new designs come with a useful pull-out step integrated in the base. The tables also include integrated wireless phone charging points for players as well as USB points. Solid surface drinks/chip rails provide increased durability, but also allow table layouts to be changed quickly and easily without the need to remove armrests, as they surround the circumference of some tables, leaving just the playing area as a removable insert. Elsewhere, the company showed Chipper Champ Pro which incorporates all new stand out features including built-in camera to identify suspected jams or rogue items in the hopper and a unique fold-away 10” digital screen that can display chip column counts. Wheel Bias reporting and Inclinometer levelling information are available as an optional feature, requiring limited additional hardware connecting to the wheel. These powerful wheel insights are delivered direct to the digital display screen, removing the need to connect a PC to download data from the Roulette Wheel. Now operators can quickly and easily identify any potential issues discreetly from the gaming floor.
Gaming Standards Association
Technical Committee dedicated to blockchain use. GSA made the announcement from its stand at ICE Totally Gaming, where the organization celebrated its 20th anniversary. Blockchain technology is poised to
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revolutionize data sharing, security and has the ability to provide regulatory authorities with previously unobtainable levels of transparency. GSA’s new Blockchain Technical Committee will collaboratively address the technology and advise on possible areas where standards could be developed. “GSA was created to help drive innovation in the gaming industry for the benefit of manufacturers, suppliers, operators and regulators,” said GSA President Peter DeRaedt. “By creating a new Blockchain Committee, we are once again proving how, by creating a standard way to use technology, GSA is achieving our mission.” GSA Europe Managing Director Mark Pace said, “Many industries are evaluating how the blockchain technology can enhance data sharing security and increase operational transparency. GSA will launch this new committee and evaluate the creation of a gaming industry standard. This is very timely and may have significant impact on how companies can achieve GDPR and AML requirements.”
Cammegh C
ammegh’s new stand looked amazing, and reflected their commitment to international exhibitions. The stand
featured a new video wall, allowing them to show off their wares to even greater effect. The Cammegh range starts with the classic
Mercury 360 and Crystal roulette wheels, with an extra special custom-wheel demonstrating Cammegh’s expertise in bespoke customisation. The Slingshot 2 took pride of place alongside Cammegh’s extraordinary new Mini-Wheel, designed for high volume, high productivity and high game turnover gaming, specifically focusing on stadium configurations. In this guise, the Mini-Wheel is capable of delivering 120 games per hour, increasing productivity and game turnover for customers, which currently includes Aspers Casino Group in the UK. After launching Spread-Bet Roulette and
Spread-Bet Blackjack to industry-wide acclaim, Cammegh is becoming known as a forward-thinking company that is always innovating, always adding value to their core
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he Gaming Standards Association (GSA) and Gaming Standards Association Europe (GSA Europe) have created a new
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