Asia
Scientific Games Showcases the Latest in Gaming and Entertainment at Global Gaming Expo Asia 2019 May 21 – 23 in Macao
Scientific Games Corporation will showcase the gaming industry’s most innovative products, content and technology at the Global Gaming Expo Asia (“G2E Asia“) May 21-23 at the Venetian Macao.
Scientific Games will highlight new and innovative slot game content and platforms, proprietary table games and utilities, electronic table systems, casino management systems solutions and its new digital and global leading sports betting products — all designed to engage players, enhance operating performance and drive customer revenue.
Barry Cottle, Scientific Games President and CEO, said, “Scientific Games is consistently looking to improve and innovate, and to deliver products that will help grow, develop and improve our customers’ gaming business. This year at G2E Asia you will see how we continue to create the most dynamic games that delight our players.”
Exciting new games
From its slot game hardware and game content portfolio, Scientific Games launches its newest gaming cabinet, DUALOS™X, with two player-favorite titles: Duo Fu Duo Cai® 5 Treasures® and Diamond Eternity®.
This new cabinet has the signature 27–27–27 look: 27″ high definition LCD topper, main monitor and top box for higher luminance, CPU4x processor and runs on Scientific Games’ new ArgOS platform to deliver a more engaging gameplay experience.
Together with DUALOS X, Scientific Games will also highlight seven new games for the Asian market in the DUALOS CABINET ON SL-V™ PLATFORM with engaging new mechanics and features:
- Jin Ji Bao Xi™ and Jin Ji Bao Xi Gold Prancing Pigs™ – the third linked progressive game in the series
- Jin Ji Bao Xi™ VIP Echo Fortunes® and Endless Treasure™ – standalone progressives
- THE PINK PANTHER™ Riches of Ra® – the third linked progressive game in the series
- Rolling 777™ – a new standalone progressive game
- Cash Connection® Sweet Tweet – a new standalone progressive game
As the leading supplier of casino management systems for the Asian market, Scientific Games will highlight the industry’s broadest end-to-end suite of solutions, presenting key new offerings:
Bet by Bet System
The Bet-by-Bet application is a powerful new tool that tracks all the individual bets wagered at the baccarat games. Designed for the VIP table games market, it provides a fluid solution for VIP hosts to easily track each bet in a mobile application that feeds baccarat results directly from table devices, leveraging the power of the Shufflink® and TableView™ table management systems.
TableView Table Management Solution
TableView is an innovative table management solution that allows casinos to replace their existing manual rating process with the ease and simplicity of electronic automation. Casinos can create an almost paperless environment in the pit and eliminate the delay of manually entering and updating ratings into the casino management system. TableView is perfectly placed to enable operators to drive new innovations such as real time table data collection and anonymous tracking technologies.
Shufflink System
Shufflink creates a network and user interface that collects real time data from utility products, including shufflers, chippers, and related table peripherals for table performance analysis and player ratings. This advanced product not only provides new metrics and reports to significantly enhance a pit operation’s ability to quickly identify and forecast improvement opportunities and operating constraints, but a powerful middleware data bus enabling vital live data flow into a casino data ecosystem that can be leveraged for system integrations for surveillance, security, and other applications.
iVIEW® Web Content Management
The iVIEW 4 web-based content management solution allows for drag-and-drop content design within an exclusive web interface to create new iVIEW content and publish it to the casino floor. With analytics, rules, and scheduling features, the iVIEW 4 empowers a new level of player engagement for casino marketers.
From the Company’s proprietary table games portfolio, highlights this year will include 5 Treasures Baccarat™, EZ Baccarat®, Face Up Pai Gow Poker, Paris Poker, Blazing 7s™ Pontoon and Vegas Blackjack Fever. They are also all linked via the new GM Atlas™ jackpot system.
From its popular electronic table games (“ETG”) portfolio, Scientific Games will display ETG products designed to maximize casino floor performance and profitability.
Making its global debut, QUARTZ™ HYBRID will feature prominently on a raised platform. Running on Scientific Games’ exclusive operating system ArgOS, QUARTZ™ HYBRID will integrate with live dealers on baccarat, roulette and sic bo.
The QUARTZ HYBRID terminal features HD graphics on a new 1920 x 1920 screen giving players a more immersive experience. Updated content includes a new player interface that adds game statistics as well as dealer display. Players can choose to view multiple games at any one time, from single, quad to octal view. Increased connectivity allows QUARTZ HYBRID to connect to up to 50 individual gaming tables.
In addition, Scientific Games will showcase its innovative Stadium Casino War™ and Stadium Three Card Poker™. Combining two of the most successful table games with ETG stadiums, the stadium products give the player an opportunity to play their own game on a terminal with added interactive components from a stadium environment.
Scientific Games, the global leader in shufflers, chip sorters and other utility products, showcases leading and new innovations.
- ShuffleStar® is a cutting-edge, low-profile front-loading shuffler that shuffles four to eight decks continuously. It is a revolutionary high-speed flat dealing shoe with sophisticated card recognition using two cameras.
- Chipmaster-S™ is an exciting roulette product that will instantly improve game play, taking chip sorting and game security to a whole new level. Effectively and silently sorting up to 500 chips per minute, the Chipmaster-S delivers stacks of 20 chips right to the table surface – no mess, no hassle. There is no longer a noisy device behind the roulette table where the dealer has to dive for sorted chips. Chipmaster-S delivers exactly what is needed, where it’s needed.
- Safe-Shoe™, a groundbreaking intelligent shoe with advanced technology and a compact design, features card-stop security to prevent the dealer from overdrawing and under drawing. Safe-Shoe can be used with any manufacturer’s cards.
Full-Service, Industry-Leading Sports Betting Solutions
Scientific Games will showcase its industry-leading sports and casino technologies that bring partners to the next level. The Company will highlight its comprehensive portfolio of platforms and services that enables customers to win in both established and burgeoning markets.
Scientific Games’ OpenSports product suite will be featured on the show floor, giving an in-depth look at the Company’s player-centric sportsbook solution. Among the most reliable and scalable platforms on the market, OpenSports powers sportsbooks with end to end technology that includes trading, marketing and product management services, managed trading services, real-time data and pricing resources, and its Sportsbook Operations Services. A comprehensive suite of sportsbook technology and services, OpenSports empowers partners to choose the elements that will drive their success. The modular offering sets partners on a long-term growth trajectory by giving them the technology they need to engage players and an innovative roadmap of features that fuels continuous improvement of the operator’s sportsbook.
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About Scientific Games:
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) is a world leader in gaming entertainment offering the industry’s broadest and most integrated portfolio of game content, advanced systems, cutting-edge platforms and professional services. The company is #1 in technology-based gaming systems, digital real-money gaming and sports betting platforms, casino table games and utility products and lottery instant games, and a leading provider of games, systems and services for casino, lottery and social gaming. Committed to responsible gaming, Scientific Games delivers what customers and players value most: trusted security, engaging entertainment content, operating efficiencies and innovative technology. For more information, please visit www.scientificgames.com.
Source: Scientific Games Corporation
Asia
Indonesian Govt to Form Task Force to Tackle Online Gambling
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has chaired a limited meeting which discussed the efforts taken to eradicate online gambling in the country on Thursday 18 April, at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. Minister for Communication and Information Technology Budi Arie Setiadi, in his press statement after the limited meeting, said that the Government will form a task force to counter online gambling.
“It has been decided that within a week, we will formulate measures to form an integrated task force in order to eradicate online gambling,” Budi said.
Minister for Communication and Information Technology mentioned that forming a cross-ministries/institutions task force is aimed to handle online gambling more thoroughly, collaboratively and efficiently.
“Gambling is an illegal act based on regulations. So, we need to impose measures effectively to settle it,” Budi stated, adding that his ministry will focus on handling online gambling websites and contents, while the law enforcement officers will enforce the law.
“Our authority is only to take down the websites, while the Financial Services Authority (OJK) blocks their financial accounts, and then followed by law enforcement officers, police officers, and the public prosecution service officers,” he remarked.
Similarly, OJK’s Chairperson of Commissioner Board Mahendra Siregar also highlighted the importance of holistic measures in eradicating online gambling in Indonesia.
“Some online gambling activities are not conducted in Indonesia, some are cross-borders, some do not use bank accounts, some needs to be tracked and traced through bank accounts, including transfers and so on. So, the next layers must also be addressed, and that way it leaves no empty rooms,” Mahendra explained.
Mahendra said that according to the institution’s authority, from the end of 2023 to March 2024, OJK has blocked around 5000 bank accounts that indicate its relation to online gambling.
“So far, we have cooperated closely with Communications and Information Technology Ministry. So, if we receive a list of bank accounts suspected to be used or are being used in online gambling activities, we immediately block them, and it has reached up to 5000 bank accounts,” Mahendra mentioned.
Asia
Team ATK Oshun excels at 2024 Online Championships held on 13 April 2024
Mind Sports South Africa’s (MSSA) 2024 Online Championships held on 13 April 2024 showed sterling results.
The championship was yet another chance for many esports athletes to qualify for MSSA’s National Team Trials to be held on 25 May 2024 at which the team will be selected to officially represent South Africa at the African Qualifiers which lead up to IESF’s 16th World Esports Championships to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in October and November 2024..
All Registered Players who have finished in the top three places, or the top 20% – whichever is greater, are entitled to enter trials.
However, it must be remembered that all players must have a valid passport to participate in the National Team Trials.
It was indeed exciting to watch just how much all the female teams have improved.
Team ATK Oshun (ATK Club Sport) being a female team astounded all with their skill and sportsmanship. The team demolished all ATK Club Sport opposition to ultimately won the premier event overall and qualify for the National Team trials to be held on 25 May 2025.
IESF’s 15th World Championships will be played to the following titles:
- Counter-Strike 2
- Counter-Strike 2 – Female division
- DotA 2
- eFootball
- Mobile Legends, Bang Bang
- Mobile Legends, Bang Bang – Female division
- PUBGM
The high standard of play saw 37 Registered Players from six provinces being awarded Provincial Colours. Only Limpopo, Free State, and Northern Cape did not have Registered Players who did not earn provincial colours.
Title | Name of player/team | Club | Provincial Colours awarded |
Clash Royale – Premier | Johan Coetzee | Middies | Mpumalanga |
Clash Royale – High School | Aryan Maharaj | PR0NHS | |
Counter Strike: 2 | ATK Oshun | ||
Kaylee Ludick | ATK Club Sport | Gauteng | |
Jessica Eleez Greeff | ATK Club Sport | Gauteng | |
Christin Brazier | ATK Club Sport | Gauteng | |
Megan van der Westhuizen | ATK Club Sport | Gauteng | |
Kayhla Rose Calder | ATK Club Sport | Gauteng | |
DotA – Premier | ZAG DOTA 1 | ||
Suhail Khan | ZAG Academy | Gauteng | |
Travis John Waters | ZAG Academy | Western Cape | |
Mark Kilian Lehle | ZAG Academy | Gauteng | |
Mohammad Dhooma | ZAG Academy | Eastern Cape | |
Nicholas Dammert | ZAG Academy | Gauteng | |
eFootball – Premier | Aslam Parker | PES Society | Gauteng |
FIFA 24 – High School | Daiyaan Hendricks | PES Society | Western Cape |
Mobile Legends – Premier
|
Mavericks | ||
Matthew Tatalias | Mavericks | Gauteng | |
Damian Bransby | Mavericks | Western Cape | |
Preshan Pillay | Mavericks | Gauteng | |
Mohammad Azhar Ansari | Mavericks | KwaZulu Natal | |
Taygan Gabriel | Mavericks | KwaZulu Natal | |
Luke Green | Mavericks | Western Cape | |
Mobile Legends – Premier – Female
|
AHG | ||
Je’nielle Cavanagh | PES Society | Western Cape | |
Inez Pringle | PES Society | Western Cape | |
Salma Parker | PES Society | Western Cape | |
Ra’isha Prout | PES Society | Western Cape | |
Fatimah Prout | PES Society | Western Cape | |
Mia Anthony | PES Society | Western Cape | |
PUBGM
|
Team uEnvy | ||
Richard Henry | ZAG Academy | Eastern Cape | |
La-eeq Arendse | ZAG Academy | Western Cape | |
Kyle Dudley | ZAG Academy | Western Cape | |
Clayton Leak | ZAG Academy | Western Cape | |
Rocket League – Premier – 1 v 1 – Premier | Nathan Strange | Hoërskool Klerksdorp | |
Rocket League – Premier – 1 v 1 – High School | Luther Peens | Hoërskool Klerksdorp | |
Street Fightter V – Premier | Marnus van der Merwe | Hoërskool Klerksdorp | North West |
Tekken 8 | Stasch Cloeta | Team PlayBell | Western Cape |
Valorant – Premier
|
TuksValorant | ||
Tapiwanashe Keith Matema | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Kyle Halvorsen | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Jaden Connor Swarts | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Ronald James Tyler Wheeldon | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Alejandro Luca Sartini-Kruger | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Armand Pierre van der Colf | TuksEsports | Gauteng | |
Sportsmanship Award | Je’nielle Cavanagh | PES Society |
Asia
PAGCor Welcomes Lawyer Wilma Eisma as New President and Chief Operating Officer
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCor) today welcomed its new President and Chief Operating Officer, lawyer Wilma Eisma, who took her oath of office before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin in Malacanang this morning.
“We are happy to welcome Atty. Wilma Eisma as PAGCor’s new President and Chief Operating Officer,” PAGCor Chairman Alejandro Tengco said. “We know she will be a great asset and her vast experience in both the government and private sectors will surely be put to good use here.”
Tengco said he witnessed Eisma’s oath-taking in Malacanang this morning. She then immediately joined her first PAGCor board meeting in the afternoon as the agency’s first ever woman President and Chief Operating Officer.
A lawyer by profession, Eisma earned her law degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Development Bank of the Philippines before joining the state gaming firm.
Prior to that, she also served as the first woman Administrator and Chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
Her private sector stints include leadership roles in PMFTC Incorporated, the Philippine affiliate of Philip Morris International.
She also held key positions at the Department of Trade and Industry where she worked at the Office of the Secretary and in the Office of the Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, among others.
Eisma succeeded Atty Juanito Sanosa Jr who resigned as PAGCor President and Chief Operating Officer last January.
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