LAS VEGAS, Jan. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific
Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the
"Company") will showcase the industry's broadest international
product portfolio designed to empower customers with the world's
best gaming and lottery experiences at ICE Totally Gaming
February 7-9 at ExCeL, London in stand N1 – 440.
Scientific Games Chief Executive Officer and President
Kevin Sheehan said, "ICE
provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to present our newest
innovations and transformative technologies for the international
market, and is an important opportunity to connect with customers
and demonstrate our groundbreaking solutions to drive player
engagement, accelerate their revenue growth, and enhance operating
efficiencies."
Transformative Slot Games and Cutting-Edge Cabinets Empower
Player Experience
Scientific Games will feature its newest slot platforms and a
host of game content to empower engagement and excitement across
the casino floor.
The TwinStar dual-screen cabinet is a stunning platform
for Bally and WMS games. Incorporating the
next-generation ArgOS operating system, TwinStar
features high-speed processing and video capabilities, along with
features such as a larger iDeck multi-touch button deck; two
61-centimeter (24-inch) HD displays; a 55-centimeter (22-inch) full
HD digital topper; premium sound; and game-synchronized edge
lighting.
The Company will highlight engaging content for TwinStar,
including its Lock It Link near-area progressive titles
Lock It Link Diamonds™ and Lock It Link Night Life™.
The entertaining Lock It Link respins feature adds
entertainment as certain symbols lock and increase the value of
each of the same symbol by the player's bet.
Another ICE reveal is the
Dualos platform, a dual 58.4-centimeter (23-inch)
HD screen cabinet with superior sound, OLED digital buttons,
integrated ambient lighting, and a 47-centimeter (18.5-inch)
digital topper. The cabinet comes with a rich game library of
titles from Scientific Games' leading brands Bally,
Shuffle Master and WMS.
ICE Premium Portfolio Empowers More Play with
Popular Brands
Scientific Games will display an engaging premium game library,
featuring game titles based on popular licensed brands.
- WORLD OF WONKA™, already a top performer in
the United States, is sure to be a
favorite with ICE attendees. Featured on the groundbreaking
Gamescape™ platform, WORLD OF WONKA takes players on
an unforgettable musical journey through the deliciously
delightful, whimsically wonderful world of WILLY WONKA™
featuring every kind of chocolate and sweet treat imaginable.
Featuring three vivid, HD displays that angle toward the player,
and a 101.6-centimeter (40-inch) curved top screen, players will
feel the sensation of being wrapped inside WONKA's wondrous
world.
- CIRQUE DU SOLEIL™ KOOZA™ takes center stage,
pairing the award-winning ALPHA 2 Pro WAVE 360 slot
configuration with the acrobatic adrenaline rush of KOOZA.
This CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
KOOZA-inspired gaming experience is rich in surprises, with
bonus events, beautiful graphics, HD show video, breathtaking
music, and a special in-game appearance by The Trickster, a popular
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL KOOZA
character.
- THE SIMPSONS™ game on the pioneering Gamescape
cabinet delivers breakthrough motion zone sensor technology that
enables players to become part of the game. Players travel through
Springfield with Homer, Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum and other favorites
and experience the chance at winning a progressive jackpot along
with a Donut Wheel and three other bonus events.
- THE GODFATHER® theme on the s32, offering free
spins with double the lines, a five-level near-area progressive
jackpot, and random character symbols that award character
upgrades, respins, multipliers or more credits.
- SPIDER-MAN™ theme on the ALPHA 2 Pro Wave®
cabinet, featuring a three-level progressive jackpot and a wheel
feature.
- SPACE INVADERS™, named "Best Slot Product" at G2E
2016, is a new style of slot game that combines classic arcade fun
with slot entertainment and skill-based play.
New Casino Systems Solutions Empower Player Engagement,
Operating Performance
Scientific Games, the leading global provider of casino system
solutions, demonstrates leading-edge technology to empower player
engagement and operating efficiencies:
- iVIEW®4 In-Game Display Manager — A major
advancement featuring state-of-the-art web widgets and connectivity
to web services. Whether it is floorwide bonusing, secondary
wagering, customer service or accessing websites and promotional
kiosks, the feature-rich iVIEW4 enables casinos to manage
their own content dynamically. Name-brand bonusing with
MONOPOLY, CLUE, YAHTZEE and more increases
entertainment.
- BOSS, an exciting feature that enables players to order
drinks from the slot machine through an iVIEW or iVIEW
DM touch-enabled player user interface.
Groundbreaking Table Utilities Solutions Empower the Casino
Pit
Scientific Games, the global leader in shufflers, chip sorters
and other utility products, introduces two new innovations at
ICE:
- ShuffleStar™ is a groundbreaking, low-profile
front-loading shuffler that shuffles four to eight decks
continuously and features a revolutionary high-speed flat-dealing
shoe and sophisticated card recognition using two cameras.
- Shufflink™, a pioneering innovation that for the first
time links shufflers, chip sorters and i-Shoes to the
casino-management system to provide real-time data and reporting on
table performance — without dealer input, interaction or any manual
data collection.
Cutting-Edge Electronic Table Systems Empower Community
Play
Taking center stage in electronic table systems innovation,
Scientific Games will showcase the PRIZM Game Table™, an
industry-first in slot cabinet design and winner of "Best Table
Game Product" at G2E 2016.
Other electronic table systems highlights include:
- Fusion Hybrid, a terminal-based product that connects
players with live Stadium Blackjack, Stadium Blackjack
Casino War, Baccarat, Roulette and Sic Bo games through cameras
at each live table that showcase real-time play.
- i-Table®, wildly popular across Europe, will feature i-Table Blackjack
with a new back-betting feature as well as the popular i-Table
Roulette.
Proprietary Table Games Empower Amazing Experiences
Leading the industry in the depth and breadth of its proprietary
table games library, Scientific Games will showcase exciting table
games at ICE, including:
- EZ Baccarat®, the world's leading baccarat brand,
eliminates the commission after every bank winning hand – without
modifying any of the existing drawing rules of the standard
game.
- DJ Wild™ lets players get wild. It's a five-card stud
poker game that features a Trips Bonus and a progressive side
bet.
Empowering LBO, Arcade and Bingo Sectors With Land-Based and
Online Content and Platforms
From the SG Gaming UK business, the Company's ICE display
will focus on new game content, platforms and sports-betting
solutions. Highlights include:
- Content titles for the licensed betting office, arcade and
bingo sectors – available for land-based and online operators –
including Emperor's Treasure, Jewel In The Crown,
Legend of the Pharaohs™, Black Knight® and Quick
Hit Blazing 7s.
- Launch of a new gaming platform for the UK Casino market with
the new Riveria cabinet, augmented by a library of game
content that offers a £10,000 jackpot based on player-favorite game
titles such as Rainbow Riches, Action Bank,
Spartacus of Rome and Hercules High and Mighty.
- A range of HD gaming cabinets and platforms for the arcade and
bingo markets, including the Company's latest sit-down T8
cabinet.
SG Interactive Empowers Mobile Player Engagement With
Portrait Games
SG Interactive continues to showcase groundbreaking innovations.
At ICE, casino operators will be able to experience the
larger-than-life thrill of portrait mode mobile gaming on two giant
touch screens.
SG Interactive will also highlight new multi-channel titles and
a diverse array of unique games from the Scientific Games
portfolio.
Lottery's Innovative Technology
Empowers New Sports-Betting And Self-Service
Solutions
Scientific Games brings exciting sports-betting action to
ICE with SG Sports™, an enhanced multi-channel
solution for online, self-service and retail fixed odds sports
betting.
ICE attendees will also be able to experience the award-winning
PlayCentral HD, an engaging, interactive retail self-service
experience for purchasing lottery instant, draw and keno games. The
first full-service lottery self-service kiosk to integrate credit,
debit and mobile payment, PlayCentral HD is Europay,
MasterCard and Visa (EMV) compliant and supports
Android Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.
For more information, visit Scientific Games at booth N1- 440 or
see our ICE Totally Gaming online media room.
Cirque du Soleil, Sun Logo, and KOOZA trademarks owned by Cirque
du Soleil and used under license. © 2007 Cirque du Soleil. All
rights reserved.
CLUE, MONOPOLY and YAHTZEE are trademarks of Hasbro. Used
with permission. ©2017 Hasbro. All rights reserved.
SPACE INVADERS © TAITO CORPORATION. 1978. 2016 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
TAITO CORPORATION is the exclusive owner of the global intellectual
property rights, including copyrights and trademarks, for SPACE
INVADERS and its characters.
SPIDER-MAN © 2017 MARVEL © 2017 CPII.
The Godfather™ and © 2017 Paramount Pictures. All Rights
Reserved.
"THE SIMPSONS" ™ & © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and all related characters
and elements © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s17)
All ® notices signify marks registered in the United States.
© 2017 Scientific Games Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ:SGMS) is a leading
developer of technology-based products and services and associated
content for worldwide gaming, lottery and interactive markets. The
Company's portfolio includes gaming machines, game content and
systems; table games products and shufflers; instant and draw-based
lottery games; server-based lottery and gaming systems; sports
betting technology; loyalty and rewards programs; and interactive
content and services. For more information, please visit
ScientificGames.com.
COMPANY CONTACTS:
Investor
Relations:
Scientific Games: Bill Pfund +1 702-532-7663
Vice President, Investor Relations
bill.pfund@scientificgames.com
Media Relations:
Scientific Games: Susan Cartwright +1 702-532-7981
Vice President, Corporate Communications
susan.cartwright@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," "plan," "continue," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "target," "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 gross gaming
revenues or lottery retail sales, reductions in or constraints on
capital spending by gaming or lottery operators and bankruptcies
of, or credit risk relating to, customers; limited growth from new
gaming jurisdictions, declines in the replacement cycle of existing
gaming machines and slow addition of casinos in existing
jurisdictions; ownership changes and consolidation in the gaming
industry, including by casino operators; opposition to legalized
gaming or the expansion thereof; inability to adapt to, and offer
products that keep pace with, evolving technology; inability to
develop successful gaming concepts and content; laws and government
regulations, including those relating to gaming licenses and
environmental laws; inability to identify and capitalize on trends
and changes in the gaming, lottery and interactive industries;
dependence upon key providers in our social gaming business;
inability to retain or renew, or unfavorable revisions of, existing
contracts, and the inability to enter into new contracts; level of
our indebtedness, higher interest rates, availability or adequacy
of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy indebtedness, other
obligations or future cash needs; inability to reduce or refinance
our indebtedness; restrictions and covenants in our debt
agreements, including those that could result in acceleration of
the maturity of our indebtedness; protection of our intellectual
property, inability 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 realize the anticipated benefits under its
private management agreement with the Illinois lottery or from the disentanglement
services performed in connection with the termination thereof, (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 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 Bally acquisition or the WMS acquisition, other
recent acquisitions, or future acquisitions, including due to the
inability to successfully integrate such acquisitions or realize
synergies in the anticipated amounts or within the contemplated
time frames or cost expectations, or at all; disruption of our
current plans and operations in connection with our recent
acquisitions (including in connection with the integration of Bally
and WMS), including departure of key personnel or inability to
recruit additional qualified personnel or maintain relationships
with customers, suppliers or other third parties; incurrence of
employee termination or restructuring costs, and impairment or
asset write-down charges; changes in estimates or judgments related
to our impairment analysis of goodwill or other intangible assets;
implementation of complex revenue recognition standards;
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 (including those fluctuations related to the
affirmative vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU), restrictions
on the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the
import of products and financial instability, including the
potential impact to our business resulting from the affirmative
vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU and the potential impact
to our instant lottery game concession or VLT lease arrangements
resulting from the recent economic and political conditions in
Greece; dependence on our key
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
(including labor disputes), 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 the Company's
current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its
latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
February 29, 2016 (including under
the headings "Forward Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors").
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.
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