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Aristocrat, Ainsworth and JCM Global outline G2E 2011 lineup
With G2E 2011 just around the bend, Canadian Gaming Business has acquired more details on what some of the biggest exhibitors are planning to showcase at the big event in October. They include:
Aristocrat
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At G2E 2011, Aristocrat will show operators how that experience is created with incredible new game technology, exciting new game categories, entertaining new games, and advances in systems and technologies that are unlike anything seen before from the company.
New to the gaming industry is Aristocrat’s VIRIDIAN Hybrid™ with Active Reel Technology™. This stunning new line of games has the potential to feature a 5-reel stepper base game, a full screen video and a 3-reel stepper bonus, all in the same game! The magic is made possible with Aristocrat’s innovative LCD with Reel Windows™ Shutters.
The first product category in the VIRIDIAN Hybrid line is Winning Wishes™, launching with three game titles: Persian Prize™, Pixie Riches™ and Tahitian Treasures™. Winning Wishes is an entire series of bonus bank games with a fun and playful genie character that players will love as he randomly awards bonuses during bought games.
Ultra Spin™ is a new series of bonus bank games with free games and progressive and/or credit awards bonuses. Ultra Spin will launch with two exciting base game titles: Diamond Destiny™ and Ruby Saloon™.
Stormin’ Jackpots™ are games that contain bonus features and can be configured as either non-progressive or as a standalone progressive. Players are challenged to collect Storm symbols for progressive or credit awards.
G2E 2011 marks the triumphant return of Zorro™! Players everywhere have come to love Aristocrat’s Zorro game, and it has been one of the company’s top-performing titles for many years. Now the legend is back in Zorro: The Legend Returns™ and in Zorro: The Mask & The Rose™. Housed in the VIRIDIAN Hybrid cabinet with Aristocrat’s exclusive and dynamic Nteractiv™ LCD buttons, both new Zorro games are three-level progressives with five different features.
Speaking of games players love, Tarzan Lord of the Jungle™ is hands-down one of the top performing game in North America. At G2E, the adventure continues with Tarzan the Adventures Return™, with incredible, all-new features. Aristocrat will also be unveiling an additional new Tarzan link.
Aristocrat invites players to accept a mission on the newest entertainment-style exciting video slot, Mission: Impossible. This game features a wide area progressive with a $250,000 top award and with three local area progressive jackpots and six pulse-pounding bonus features. It is housed in the stunning VERVEhd™ cabinet and utilizes a 31.5” portrait monitor.
Aristocrat is also unveiling Cash Express Gold Class™. Based on the wildly popular original Cash Express, Cash Express Gold Glass features new Gold Class and multiplier wheel features, high frequency base games, bonus and jackpot features and a five-level progressive.
The top performing Jaws™ slot series introduces its fourth title in Jaws Bounty Hunter™. This proven top-performing licensed theme game is better than ever with a new chair which enhanced the players audio experience.
Aristocrat is also upping the ante by adding new titles to proven game categories. The extremely popular Mega Pay™ category, in which players can play up to 4 sets of reels in the feature, is expanded with More Pearls™ and Rise of the Incas™. The standalone progressives line has added new titles Barbershop, Jackpot Catcher and Wild Romance™. The Remix ™ category, with its exciting shuffle feature where all symbols are rearranged randomly, has added new titles of Amazing Dave™ and Touch of Magic™, and Win Your Way™, where players select their own volatility level, now offers Miss Kitty™.
Aristocrat will also unveil amazing new technology now incorporated into player favorite titles. Imperial House™ is back with the added excitement of Aristocrat’s exclusive Drag n’ Drop™ technology, and player-favorites Wicked Winnings III™ and Samurai’s Honor™ are back in new, fun 6-reel games!
There are also new standalone games that use existing games styles. New in Aristocrat’s popular Reel Power™ product offerings are Amazon Temple™ and Crystal Customs™, and Peeking Duck™ is new to the Xtra Reel Power™ line up. The Multi-line category has added the titles Bunny’s Rabbits™, Cool Shark™, Hero’s Fortune™, Vegas Baby™ and Queen of Hearts™, and the 50/100 Line category welcomes Timber Jack™.
Of course, every great game deserves a great system, and Aristocrat’s Oasis 360™ is as good as it gets. Now Oasis 360 now offers its customers even more freedom and flexibility with the introduction of three exciting new products. First is nRich™, a totally new form of bonusing engine that focuses on dynamically rewarding individual players.
Next is nVision™, a powerful business intelligence tool that delivers the most advanced data reporting possible. Reports are available in both standard formats, or users can create ad hoc reports that deliver exactly the information they want, based on the parameters they set, and to be delivered at exactly the time they request.
Also new from Oasis 360 is nCompass™, a single solution that delivers video or animated content, provides state-of-the-art touch-screen interactivity, displays player points earned in a day (or points earned based on tier ranking), and gives a property and/or their vendor(s) the power to develop custom content.
The Aristocrat Live Network™ - ALIVE™ - is the advanced technology infrastructure driving Aristocrat’s vision for the future. ALIVE powers the world’s greatest gaming experience across a number of distribution channels – from Class III casinos to Internet Gaming. At G2E, Aristocrat will feature evolution in the company’s core Class III slot offering. There will be games developed on Aristocrat’s Game Development Kit (GDK); a simplified, standard toolkit for Aristocrat and third-party game developers. Also, Aristocrat will feature connected games that leverage its GSA standards-based bonus and jackpot controller Vertex™.
ALIVE is the force behind Aristocrat’s downloadable gaming capabilities. At G2E, the company will be debut its G2S-based floor management solution along with a downloadable game library chocked full of the most popular titles. Finally, the Aristocrat Live Network fuels Aristocrat’s internet gaming offering. Aristocrat’s unique product in this area enables U.S. operators to get a head start by establishing an online, free-play casino that links to their physical casino and generates player loyalty across both mediums.
See the technologies that give players the best gaming experience every day only in Aristocrat’s booth #1141
Ainsworth
Shooting onto centre stage of G2E Las Vegas this October is Ainsworth’s stunning line-up of product innovations, beginning with A560 Mega Top Players Paradise Platinum, the dynamic OLED button panel, and “World of Jackpots” featuring a kaleidoscope of unique jackpot brands and games.
Showcased on the highly innovative Super A560 cabinet, World of Jackpots is the first of its kind in the industry, not only offering different game titles, but more excitingly, offering players many different overall jackpot themes to choose from, this provides a new universe of jackpot marketing. The Super A560 cabinet features three (3) large LCD screens to incorporate the game with multiple progressive levels; a host of themed attract graphics and eye-catching game interactive LED lighting.
The extensive World of Jackpots product library provides super-store quantities of linked progressive-centric brands, with 7 spectacular jackpot themes featuring at G2E; Thunder Bucks, Rapid Strike, Players Paradise, Lights Camera Action, Rio Grande Rapids, Jackpot Zone and Dragon. Many more new progressive World of Jackpots brands due for release in 2012.
The firm is also introducing Mega Top, Ainsworth’s newest A560 cabinet, with a stylish new 32” LCD top box with exciting event driven LED lighting. Standing over 7 feet tall with 6 levels of progressives, the Mega Top range offers an imposing centrepiece for any gaming floor. Most importantly, it launches with the all new progressive brand Players Paradise Platinum, the next breathtaking extension in Ainsworth’s phenomenally successful Players Paradise jackpot series.
Ainsworth is set to expand their hugely successful GamePlus range with 25 new standalone games including 2, 3 and 4 level stand-alone progressive brands: Double Shot Deluxe, Triple Shot, Double Hit, Super Game, Play 100Lines /Play 50Lines an all-new High Denomination game range and the revolutionary ante-bet product Hot Reel.
The company will be present at booth number 3254.
JCM Global
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At G2E 2011, JCM Global will feature six key in its booth #3631:
The award-winning iVIZION® is the most advanced bill validator the gaming industry has ever seen. This year, iVIZION has won every installation RFP it has competed for, and at G2E, JCM is celebrating that it was exclusively chosen for the new Resorts World Casino New York (Aqueduct) with nearly 5,000 gaming devices! iVIZION is the better, faster, smarter solution for the gaming industry and forever changes the way the industry sees banknote validation. iVIZION is the foundation of intelligent validation with a development roadmap that allows for market-generated enhancements to be developed and implemented without changing platforms. It is complete with Contact Image Sensor (CIS) Technology, 99%+ acceptance rate, the most diligent counterfeit protection, RFID ICB cashbox with encrypted and web-enabled data, 64 megabit FLASH memory, a self-calibrating sensor package, modular component design, ability to read barcodes horizontally and vertically, two high-speed processors, sealed 85 mm banknote path, patented and proven removable stacker mechanism, “Blind Mate” and “Hot Swap” hardware design and complete compatibility with all gaming protocols.
Compatible with iVIZION is JCM’s Intelligent Cash Box (ICB®) version 2.5, which is better than ever because it now allows users to access reports anytime, anywhere, and from any web browser, and to use them to customize data presentation to your specs and streamline the entire drop process, all with a new, more user friendly interface. ICB 2.5 also gives the user the option for auto report notification via email. It has a language package that includes English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Italian and German, making the industry’s best cash box even more universal.
The next generation of bezels is the amazing Sentry 2.0™ display bezel, available exclusively on iVIZION. Sentry 2.0 has amazing graphic capabilities that come to life in high resolution, high contrast, two color LCD. Operators can easily customize and program messages to display in English, French, Spanish and Simple Chinese or any combination of two languages. Attendant messages are clearly displayed at the push of a button for quick dispute resolution.
Next is the new PayCheck 4 thermal printer, the only printer that’s as fast as the gaming action on the casino floor. Only the PayCheck 4 can print a ticket in just 0.6 seconds. In fact, the PayCheck 4 is so lightning fast, there’s no need to rely on a “burst,” like some other, lesser printers do. The PayCheck 4’s 8mb of standard memory enables operators to store more fonts, images, logos and barcodes so they can personalize their players’ gaming experience. Plus, it has a lifespan of approximately 640,000 slot-type tickets, the longest-lasting head of any printer in the industry.
Rounding out JCM’s key products at G2E are the UBA-RC® and Vega-RC™. Built on JCM’s robust validation and anti-stringing platforms, the UBA-RC and Vega-RC validators add note recycling technology, making them the perfect solution for every type device. These devices are already extremely popular with gaming route operators across Europe, and the Vega-RC was recently named the “Most Innovative Product of 2010” by the UK Independent Operators Association.
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