Five acclaimed Las Vegas artists create
first-of-its-kind art installation to coincide with game launch
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration that showcases the talents of
Las Vegas’ creative community, award-winning mobile game developer
PLAYSTUDIOS has recruited five of the city’s most-celebrated
artists to help commemorate the launch of its latest app,
myVEGAS Bingo. Beginning April 1, 2021, the five local
creatives selected for the “Lucky Numbers” campaign
expressed their personal visions on giant bingo balls installed in
some of The Strip’s most iconic locations.
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“myVEGAS Bingo is one of our most distinctive and dynamic games,
expanding the world that we created with myVEGAS Slots,” says
PLAYSTUDIOS Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Andrew
Pascal. “To celebrate its launch, we collaborated with the city’s
most inspiring talents – five artists that represent the relentless
spirit of Las Vegas. Their diverse styles and backgrounds are a
reflection of our gaming portfolio and global community of
players.”
Steve Zanella, Chief Commercial Officer of MGM Resorts
International, says, “Our creative community is one of Las Vegas’
most valued treasures. Offering a showcase for these memorable
works of art is a wonderful way to launch myVEGAS Bingo and
celebrate our decade-long partnership with PLAYSTUDIOS.”
The artists, and their corresponding bingo balls, are:
B11 – Ryan Brunty is a Las Vegas-based interdisciplinary
artist and founder of Depressed Monsters, LLC, a lifestyle brand
and mental health advocacy group whose products are sold at Hot
Topic, Zappos, Amazon, Box Lunch, and depressedmonsters.com.
Brunty's work focuses on his character Yerman, a self-portrait that
saved his life in 2012 after the death of his grandfather. Brunty's
mental health journey has been adapted into public speaking
engagements and tools in psychotherapist's practices across the
country. Mr. Brunty’s bingo ball is located at Mandalay Bay near
the valet entrance adjacent to the M Life Rewards desk.
I19 – Jerry Misko's art reflects the soul and spirit of
Las Vegas, his hometown, with intoxicating imagery and iconography
inspired by memories of late nights and neon lights. His work is
frequently in demand among private collectors worldwide and is
featured in corporate collections from Saks Fifth Avenue to Cirque
du Soleil. His clients, including the Las Vegas Convention and
Visitors Authority and MTV, have tapped into Misko's talent to
enrich and uplift their environments. A conversation, a canvas, and
a commission are the first steps toward a visual feast as only Sin
City's preeminent muralist can provide. Mr. Misko’s bingo ball is
located at The Mirage Volcano lagoon.
N42 – Nancy Good was born in Texas and has lived and
worked in Las Vegas since 2011. Her creative pursuits over the past
three decades have been heavily influenced by her travels to
Australia, Africa, and Vietnam; a childhood residency in Japan;
adult life experiences as an artist, photographer, musician,
fly-fishing guide, backpacker, and writer; her time as a teacher in
Montana, Nevada, California, Tennessee, and Illinois; and her
eclectic DNA revealing ancestral connections to cultures the world
over. A common thread through Good's work is how she employs
materials and tools of modern times while playfully drawing upon
the aesthetic conventions of ancient cultures, including symbology
and primitive mark-making. Ms. Good’s bingo ball is located on the
New York-New York Brooklyn Bridge.
G59 – Miguel Rodriguez was born in Wichita, Kansas and
grew up in the city of Leavenworth, alongside the Missouri River,
surrounded by green vistas, big skies, old homes, and farms. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art
Institute, then moved to Las Vegas in 2001 to pursue his Master of
Fine Arts degree from UNLV. He’s lived here ever since. Over the
past 19 years, Rodriguez has shown his artworks throughout the Las
Vegas Valley. Aside from his ceramic work, he’s created multiple
large scale publicly and privately funded sculptures and murals.
Currently, he teaches Ceramics and Sculpture at UNLV. His art is
always colorful and dynamic, drawing inspiration from science,
popular culture, and current events. Mr. Rodriguez’s bingo ball is
located on the Excalibur lobby adjacent to the front desk.
O70 – Mary Felker is currently working full-time as an
artist in Las Vegas and focusing on depicting the beauty of the
desert, the city, and the greater southwestern region. Felker’s art
has been showcased throughout Las Vegas, at First Friday and Market
in the Alley, and online on her Etsy Shop @MaryOnAdventures.
Felker’s artwork has also been featured on the cover of Desert
Companion and in Las Vegas Weekly. Ms. Felker’s bingo ball is
located on the MGM Grand main lobby adjacent to check in desks.
The myVEGAS Bingo app lets players combine the rush of
jackpot-style bingo with an innovative social experience in which
they can create and join their own bingo clubs, compete in
tournaments, and trade collectible tokens that are won throughout
the game. myVEGAS Bingo joins a lineup of PLAYSTUDIOS games that
includes myVEGAS Slots, POP! Slots, my KONAMI Slots, and myVEGAS
Blackjack; all of which are supported by the groundbreaking
playAWARDS loyalty platform that allows players to accumulate
loyalty points that can be redeemed for real-world rewards from a
growing lineup of travel, leisure, lifestyle, and entertainment
brands, including MGM Resorts International, Wolfgang Puck,
Maverick Helicopters, Royal Caribbean International, and
others.
PLAYSTUDIOS games are available to download free on iOS,
Android, and Facebook. For more information on Lucky Numbers,
please visit playstudios.com/luckynumbers.
PLAYSTUDIOS recently entered into a merger agreement with Acies
Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ACAC.U, ACAC and ACAC WS) (“Acies”)
which, upon closing, will result in the Company becoming a Nasdaq
listed company under the ticker symbol “MYPS.”
Link to images & b-roll: https://tinyurl.com/8mm4bat8
About PLAYSTUDIOS
PLAYSTUDIOS is the developer and operator of award-winning
free-to-play casual games for mobile and social platforms. The
company’s collection of original and published titles is powered by
its groundbreaking playAWARDS loyalty marketing platform, which
enables players to earn real-world rewards from a portfolio of
global entertainment, retail, technology, travel, leisure, and
gaming brands across 17 countries and four continents. Founded by a
team of veteran gaming, hospitality, and technology entrepreneurs,
PLAYSTUDIOS brings together beautifully designed mobile gaming
content with an innovative loyalty platform in order to provide its
players with an unequaled entertainment experience and its partners
with actionable business insights. To learn more about PLAYSTUDIOS,
visit playstudios.com.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global
entertainment company with national and international locations
featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art
meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical
entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant,
nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive,
iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands.
The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 29 unique hotel and
destination gaming offerings in the United States and Macau,
including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the
industry such as Bellagio, MGM Grand, ARIA and Park MGM. The
Company's 50/50 venture, BetMGM, LLC, offers U.S. sports betting
and online gaming through market-leading brands, including BetMGM
and partypoker. The Company is currently pursuing targeted
expansion in Asia through the integrated resort opportunity in
Japan. Through its "Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and
Protecting the Planet" initiative, MGM Resorts commits to creating
a more sustainable future, while striving to make a bigger
difference in the lives of its employees, guests, and in the
communities where it operates. The global employees of MGM Resorts
are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE®
Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information,
please visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please also connect with us
@MGMResortsIntl on Twitter as well as Facebook and Instagram.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company's and Acies’
actual results may differ from their expectations, estimates and
projections and consequently, you should not rely on these
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limitation, the Company's and Acies’ expectations with respect to
future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the
proposed business combination, the satisfaction of the closing
conditions to the proposed transaction, the timing of the
completion of the proposed transaction, future financial condition
and performance of PLAYSTUDIOS and expected financial impacts of
the transaction (including future revenue, adjusted EBITDA, pro
forma equity value and cash balance), the PIPE transaction, the
level of redemptions of Acies’ public stockholders and the products
and markets and expected future performance and market
opportunities of PLAYSTUDIOS. These forward-looking statements
involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the
actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most
of these factors are outside the Company's and Acies’ control and
are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences
include, but are not limited to: (1) the risk that the transaction
may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may
adversely affect the price of Acies’ securities; (2) the risk that
the transaction may not be completed by Acies’ business combination
deadline and the potential failure to obtain an extension of the
business combination deadline if sought by Acies; (3) the failure
to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the transaction,
including the approval of the merger agreement by the stockholders
of Acies, the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount
following any redemptions by Acies’ public stockholders and the
receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals; (4) the
lack of a third-party valuation in determining whether or not to
pursue the proposed transaction; (5) the inability to complete the
PIPE transaction; (6) the effect of the announcement or pendency of
the transaction on the Company’s business relationships, operating
results, and business generally; (7) the ability to maintain the
listing of Acies’ securities on a national securities exchange; (8)
changes in the competitive and regulated industries in which the
Company operates, variations in operating performance across
competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting the
Company’s business and changes in the combined capital structure;
(9) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other
expectations after the completion of the proposed transaction, and
identify and realize additional opportunities; (10) costs related
to the transaction and the failure to realize anticipated benefits
of the transaction or to realize estimated pro forma results and
underlying assumptions, including with respect to estimated
shareholder; or (11) other risks and uncertainties indicated from
time to time in the registration statement containing the proxy
statement/prospectus discussed below relating to the proposed
business combination, including those under "Risk Factors" therein,
and in Acies’ or the Company's other filings with the SEC. The
foregoing list of factors is not exclusive, and readers should also
refer to those risks that will be included under the header “Risk
Factors” in the registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed by
Acies with the SEC and those included under the header “Risk
Factors” in the final prospectus of Acies related to its initial
public offering. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance
upon any forward-looking statements in this press release, which
speak only as of the date made. Acies and the Company do not
undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release
publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements
in this press release to reflect any change in its expectations or
any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such
statement is based.
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proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or
in respect of the proposed transaction. This press release shall
also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an
offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of
securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a
prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended.
Additional Information
In connection with the proposed business combination, Acies
intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which will include
a proxy statement/prospectus, that will be both the proxy statement
to be distributed to holders of Acies’ common stock in connection
with its solicitation of proxies for the vote by Acies’
stockholders with respect to the proposed business combination and
other matters as may be described in the registration statement, as
well as the prospectus relating to the offer and sale of the
securities to be issued in the business combination. After the
registration statement is declared effective, Acies will mail a
definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents
to its stockholders. This document does not contain all the
information that should be considered concerning the proposed
business combination and is not intended to form the basis of any
investment decision or any other decision in respect of the
business combination. Acies’ stockholders, the Company’s
stockholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when
available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus included in
the registration statement and the amendments thereto and the
definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in
connection with the proposed business combination, as these
materials will contain important information about the Company,
Acies and the business combination. When available, the definitive
proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the
proposed business combination will be mailed to stockholders of
Acies as of a record date to be established for voting on the
proposed business combination. Acies’ stockholders and the
Company’s stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the
proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC,
without charge, once available, at the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: Acies Acquisition Corp.,
1219 Morningside Drive, Suite 110, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.
Participants in the Solicitation
Acies and PLAYSTUDIOS and their respective directors and
officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies
of Acies’ stockholders in connection with the proposed business
combination. A list of the names of such directors and executive
officers and information regarding their interests in the business
combination will be contained in the proxy statement/prospectus
when available. You may obtain free copies of these documents as
described in the preceding paragraph.
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