LAS VEGAS and LONDON, Jan. 26,
2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Casino operators at the ICE Totally
Gaming 2015 conference and trade show ("ICE 2015") will experience
first-hand the strategic benefits of the combination of Scientific
Games' (NASDAQ: SGMS) Bally, WMS, Shuffle Master, SG Gaming,
Williams and Barcrest brands. At ICE 2015 on
February 3-5 at ExCel London
Exhibition and Convention Center, stand #N1-440, Scientific Games
(the "Company") will showcase more than 125 gaming products that
address casino operators' diverse needs across all of their
land-based and interactive channels, thereby demonstrating the
value of the Company's recent merger with Bally Technologies. For
more details on Scientific Games' products on display at ICE 2015,
please visit now.wms.com/stronger-together-ice2015.
Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here:
http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7405051-scientific-games-ice-2015/
Gavin Isaacs, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Scientific Games, said, "ICE 2015 is our first
global opportunity, as a combined company, to demonstrate our
ability to leverage high-earning product brands and leading
technology solutions that benefit our customers and help them grow
their businesses. There is no other company today that can offer
the tremendous breadth of customer-favored gaming devices, systems,
lottery products, online solutions and related services.
"We are Stronger Together through the combination of our
time-tested brands and comprehensive and differentiated product
portfolios that are created and supported by an extremely talented
global team. As a result, Scientific Games is uniquely positioned
to offer new value to casino operators as we seek to become their
partner of choice and a one-stop shop for their gaming product and
services solutions."
Highlights of new for-sale, gaming operations, systems and
interactive products on display in Scientific Games' ICE 2015
exhibit include:
WMS Product Highlights
More than 50 WMS-branded products will be showcased at
ICE 2015, including:
- The Blade s23, a hybrid slant cabinet that combines the
key player-favorite features of the Blade cabinet and dual
23-inch HD displays along with the latest Blade cabinet
content. The Blade s23 cabinet offers a captivating bank
appearance with dynamic game-driven ambient lighting effects across
a broad array of content – including the Double Buffalo
Spirit, Snow Leopard and Romulus and Remus themes
– designed to further drive player engagement.
- Games for the Blade video cabinet, currently one of the
industry's strongest performing platforms, enabled by its
next-generation CPU-NXT3 operating platform. Blade
video cabinet themes being showcased at ICE 2015 include Dancing
in Rio, Gorilla Chief II and 9 Suns. Also on
display at ICE 2015 on the Blade video platform is the
Cool Jewels theme, which represents the first theme
simultaneously launched by WMS and SG Interactive for land-based,
social and real money wagering.
- The Game Chest HD Multi-Game series, featuring eight
top-performing themes that players can choose from on a new, more
interactive main menu that displays reel layouts for each theme
along with theme-specific features. Powered by the CPU-NXT3
platform and available on the Blade cabinet, all themes in
the Game Chest HD Multi-Game series support multiple
languages and currencies and provide an elegant, easy-to-follow
user interface.
- With THE FLINTSTONES™ theme, the town of Bedrock is
brought to life thanks to a 42-inch horizontal screen over a
vertical 32-inch screen with a mechanical wheel on the Gamefield
xD cabinet. Reels stretch up to 10 symbols high as WILD reels
and multipliers are potentially added to the reels in THE
FLINTSTONES mystery feature.
- The AUSTIN POWERS™
theme brings "the international man of mystery" to life on the
Gamefield xD cabinet. Featuring characters from the
AUSTIN POWERS movies,
players can match symbols for up to a 100x multiplier in the
Picture Pay Feature, and wheels may award free spins, wheel
spins, credits or even a progressive.
- The Life of Luxury Progressive theme brings back a
classic WMS game in multi-game format with five games that
feature a combination of classic, current and new WMS
content. In the Life of Luxury Bonus, each reel is assigned
to a GEM symbol which allows players to pick for a chance at the
progressive when the symbol appears on the reels.
Bally Product Highlights
Over 50 Bally-branded products will be showcased at ICE
2015 including:
- The FRIENDS™ video slot reunites players with the
beloved characters from Warner Bros. Television's worldwide hit
comedy that TV Guide Magazine named one of the 50 greatest shows of
all time. Players can experience the laughs and loves in a whole
new way with many clips of the show's hilarious moments and a wheel
bonus awarding credits and Free Games. The FRIENDS game is
presented on the Pro Theatre, a new cabinet configuration
built on the award-winning Pro Wave that is topped by a
massive 1080p 55-inch display.
- MultiDeluxe on the Pro Series V27/27 is a
four-level standalone progressive with an interactive second-screen
feature, showcasing five incredible games in one cabinet:
Mixteca, Golden Relics, Luxury Dreams, Karnak and Yellow
Emperor. MultiDeluxe has been specifically designed for
operators who are looking to help maximize their gaming floor
returns.
- 88 Fortunes and 5 Treasures themes on the Duo
Fu Duo Cai link, offering players the chance for much luck and
wealth, draw players to proven performers. These titles feature All
Up, Reel Ways, Free Games that can be re-triggered and the
Fu Bat Jackpot Feature, which awards players one of four
fantastic progressive levels. 88 Fortunes and 5
Treasures themes are offered on the Pro Series V22/22,
V22/22 with Hammerhead and V27/27 slant cabinets depending
on casino operator preference.
- The Blob™ theme, on the striking Pro Series
V22/22 with Hammerhead cabinet, will capture players'
attention just like the cult classic movie. This new game has All
Up, Reel Ways, a five-level progressive, a U-Choose
Free Games Feature, and much more engulfing fun.
- With Betty Boop's™ Firehouse™, America's cartoon
sweetheart is back in a playful new game showcased on the Pro
Series V22/32 cabinet featuring a 1080p resolution 32-inch
vertical monitor. Betty Boop's Firehouse will fire up
players with a classic ladder bonus, Free Games, Mystery Stacked
Reels and Betty's 5 Alarm Scatter. Betty and her playful
pup Pudgy are ready to heat up the casino floor!
- Wonder Woman™ Wild and Wonder Woman™ Gold
themes, exclusively on the award-winning Pro Wave
cabinet, deliver powered-up entertainment and volatility. Both
titles feature action scenes and music from the classic 1970's TV
show starring Lynda Carter, along
with three progressive jackpots available at any bet level, Free
Games and popular play mechanics.
Bally Systems will also have a strong presence at ICE
2015 with the following offerings on display:
- The award-winning Elite Bonusing Suite, when combined
with iVIEW Display Manager, enables player-centric bonusing
events that add dramatic new levels of excitement and anticipation
to the slot-play experience. Casinos can use the Elite Bonusing
Suite applications like U-Spin Bonusing, DM
Tournaments and Virtual Racing to add excitement across their
iVIEW network.
- The latest in tournament innovations, Tournaments
Express, is a stand-alone tournament system designed to offer
exciting slot tournaments on more than 100 different cabinet types
from various manufacturers, easily and quickly converting
revenue-producing games to tournament games and back.
- MCC System, a leading slot management system throughout
Europe, is fully integrated with
the award-winning Elite Bonusing Suite, iVIEW and iVIEW
Display Manager and CoolSign systems to support every
facet of gaming operation by linking all gaming devices in one
comprehensive slot system. In addition, MCC is now
integrated with Live Floor View, a powerful analytical
system with graphical and detailed information on current activity
happening on the slot floor. The next advance for the MCC
System will also be on display: the soon to be released Beverage
Ordering Service, which will allow slot players to order drinks
from the gaming device for direct delivery to them.
Shuffle Master Product Highlights
The Shuffle Master brand will once again make a strong
impression at ICE 2015 with a number of cutting-edge products,
including:
- Safe-Bacc system, a revolutionary new product that
combines a shuffler and card reading shoe into one device to
increase game speed and improve security on baccarat tables. Also
on display will be i-Deal Plus, the next generation
i-Deal shuffler with improved card reading and
reliability.
- The Tablemaster Fusion platform transports the
fast-paced excitement of live table gaming to a fully electronic
platform. This e-table innovation features a high-definition,
72-inch LCD display with attractive virtual dealers as well as
22-inch widescreen player terminals with touchscreen betting,
enhanced graphics and multiple side bets. At ICE 2015, the
Tablemaster Fusion platform will feature blackjack.
- Free Bet Blackjack heads a lineup of proprietary table
games on display that also includes DJ Wild Poker and
Ultimate Texas Hold'em. Free Bet Blackjack, which
lets players split and double down without risking additional
money, is now being played throughout the
United States and England.
SG Gaming Product Highlights
The Company's established SG Gaming brand will
demonstrate its full suite of ticket-in ticket-out ("TITO")-enabled
terminals, including the cutting edge T8 and Clarity
terminals and the player popular Triple 7 and
Infinity terminals. Innovative games featured at ICE 2015
include the new category C community game THE WIZARD OF OZ™ Ruby
Slippers™, created in conjunction with WMS. New titles for the
B3 offering include Moon
Shadow, MONOPOLY Big Event and Spartacus
Gladiator of Rome, a
WMS title. The Company will also showcase a complete
server-based solution for the Arcade and Bingo sector. This
server-based gaming solution is offered on the Triple 7,
T8 and Infinity terminals and provides operational
efficiencies through ticket redemption stations and TITO
functionality. SG Gaming offers U.K. customers a full service
solution, including terminal installation, exclusive content and a
robust system as well as full after-service support and account
management. Further, SG Connect, a dedicated field services
division, will demonstrate its self-service betting terminals, now
available in both the Nevada and Vision cabinets. SG
Connect is an end-to-end solutions provider, offering
consultancy, design, build and installation and support services in
areas such as networks, systems, media, EPoS and audio visual
devices for the gaming industry.
SG Interactive Product Highlights
In addition to robust solutions and gaming content for the
world's land-based casino operators, at ICE 2015 the Company
provides robust iGaming and social casino solutions for land-based
and online casino operators. SG's interactive products featured at
the show will include:
- The Company's Remote Game Server, featuring some of the
Company's highest performing themes from 2014 for desktop and
mobile wagering, as well as upcoming slot and table game titles
drawn from across the Company's Williams, Barcrest, Bally
and Shuffle Master studios. The game server portfolio
includes dual-release content for the simultaneous online release
across both desktop and mobile channels.
- Game themes on display at ICE 2015 include:
- Upcoming online wagering executions of land-based performers
including Zeus 1000, Ooh Aah Dracula, Aftershock,
Let it Ride and Quick Hit Platinum, among many
others.
- Rainbow Riches Progressive, the Company's first online
progressive game, which will make one of the biggest names in
online slots even bigger.
- The Company's inaugural online and social MONOPOLY theme games,
Super MONOPOLY Money and MONOPOLY Big Event.
Together, these two new games highlight the arrival to the Company
of the online wagering and social casino rights to the
MONOPOLY brand in 2015. These two titles represent the first
of many authentic MONOPOLY themed online and social games
the Company plans to launch and are built on the Company's
collective 15+ years of experience with this player-favorite brand
across more than 65 land-based slot game executions.
- The Company's iGaming platform suite of products that empower
land-based casinos to keep their players in the game, offers
on-property players a mobile wagering option supported by a robust
library of slots and table games – either property-wide or in
specific areas such as sports books or gambler-tailored lounges –
and off-property desktop and mobile players robust free-play and
social-style casino games under the casino operator's brand. By
providing players with incremental options for ways to engage with
the casino and enjoy their favorite casino-style games, the iGaming
platform will help casinos better engage both current and new
players.
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) is a leading
developer of technology-based products and services and associated
content for worldwide gaming and lottery markets. The Company's
portfolio includes instant and draw-based lottery games;
server-based lottery and gaming systems; electronic gaming
machines, game content and systems; table games products and
utilities; sports betting technology; loyalty and rewards programs;
and social, mobile and interactive content and services. For more
information, please visit www.scientificgames.com.
FRIENDS: TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s15).
WONDER WOMAN: TM & © DC Comics.
THE FLINTSTONES TM/MC & © Hanna-Barbera.
AUSTIN POWERS TM & © New Line
Productions, Inc.
THE WIZARD OF OZ™ & © Turner Entertainment Co.
(s15)
"The Blob" © 1958 Worldwide Entertainment Corp.
Betty Boop - © 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc. /Fleischer
Studios, Inc. TM Hearst Holdings, Inc. / Fleischer Studios, Inc.
www.BettyBoop.com.
The MONOPOLY name and logos are trademarks of Hasbro. The
distinctive design of the gameboard, the four corner squares, the
MR. MONOPOLY name and character, as well as each of the distinctive
elements of the board and playing pieces, are trademarks of Hasbro,
Inc. for its property trading game and game equipment. ©1935, 2015
Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI 02862. All
Rights Reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, trademarks are owned by, or under
license to or from, Scientific Games Corporation, or one or more of
its directly or indirectly wholly owned companies, in the United States or elsewhere. © 2015
Scientific Games Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Company Contacts
Media Relations:
Andrea Mostardi +1-773-961-1670
Senior Principal Marketing Manager
andrea.mostardi@scientificgames.com
Mollie Cole +1-773-961-1194
Director, Corporate Communications
mollie.cole@scientificgames.com
Investor Relations:
Bill
Pfund
+1-847-785-3167
Vice President, Investor Relations
bill.pfund@scientificgames.com
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release, Scientific Games makes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe
future expectations, plans, results or strategies and can often be
identified by the use of terminology such as "may," "will,"
"estimate," "intend," "continue," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "should," "could," "potential," "opportunity,"
"goal," or similar terminology. These statements are based upon
management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates and
are not guarantees of timing, future results or performance. Actual
results may differ materially from those contemplated in these
statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other
factors, including, among other things: competition; U.S. and
international economic and industry conditions, including declines
in or slow growth of lottery retail sales or gross gaming revenues,
reductions in or constraints on capital spending by gaming or
lottery operators and credit risk relating to customers; slow
growth of new gaming jurisdictions, slow addition of casinos in
existing jurisdictions and declines in the replacement cycle of
gaming machines; ownership changes and consolidation in the casino
industry; opposition to legalized gaming or the expansion thereof;
ability to adapt to, and offer products that keep pace with,
evolving technology; ability to develop successful gaming concepts
and content; laws and government regulation, including those
relating to gaming licenses and environmental laws; inability to
identify and capitalize on trends and changes in the gaming and
lottery industries, including the expansion of interactive gaming;
dependence upon key providers in our social gaming business;
retention and renewal of existing contracts or entry into new or
revised contracts; level of our indebtedness, higher interest
rates, availability and adequacy of cash flows and liquidity to
satisfy obligations or future needs, and restrictions and covenants
in our debt agreements; protection of our intellectual property,
ability to license third party intellectual property, and the
intellectual property rights of others; security and integrity of
our software and systems and reliance on or failures in our
information technology systems; natural events that disrupt our
operations or those of our customers, suppliers or regulators;
inability to benefit from, and risks associated with, strategic
equity investments and relationships, including (i) the inability
of our joint venture to meet the net income targets or otherwise to
realize the anticipated benefits under its private management
agreement with the Illinois
lottery, (ii) the inability of our joint venture to meet the net
income targets or other requirements under its agreement to provide
marketing and sales services to the New
Jersey lottery or otherwise to realize the anticipated
benefits under such agreement (including as a result of a protest)
and (iii) failure to realize the anticipated benefits related to
the award to our consortium of an instant lottery game concession
in Greece; failure to achieve the
intended benefits of the acquisition of WMS, including due to the
inability to realize synergies in the anticipated amounts or within
the contemplated time-frames or cost expectations, or at all;
inability to complete future acquisitions; inability to
successfully integrate future acquisitions; litigation relating to
the Bally acquisition; disruption of our current plans and
operations in connection with the Bally acquisition, (including in
connection with the integration of Bally), including departure of
key personnel or inability to recruit additional qualified
personnel or maintain relationships with customers, suppliers or
other third parties; costs, charges and expenses relating to the
Bally acquisition; inability to successfully integrate Bally
(including SHFL and Dragonplay Ltd.); failure to realize the
intended benefits of the Bally acquisition, including the inability
to realize the anticipated synergies in the anticipated amounts or
within the contemplated time-frames or cost expectations, or at
all;; incurrence of restructuring costs, revenue recognition
standards and impairment charges; fluctuations in our results due
to seasonality and other factors; dependence on suppliers and
manufacturers; risks relating to foreign operations, including
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and restrictions on
the import of our products; dependence on our employees; litigation
and other liabilities relating to our business, including
litigation and liabilities relating to our contracts and licenses,
our products and systems, our employees, intellectual property and
our strategic relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and
stock price volatility. Additional information regarding risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contemplated in forward-looking
statements is included from time to time in our filings with the
SEC, including under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements speak only
as of the date they are made and, except for Scientific Games'
ongoing obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws,
Scientific Games undertakes no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.