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“There is great expectation with Mexico and,
at this point in time, also Brazil.”
Guillermo Enrique Gabella Director | Boldt SA
AWPs | Spain
Game development |
Chile
Basque
Chilean start-
Country
up focuses
on games for
opens
‘social good’
up
WILL CHILE EMERGE AS A
NEW VIDEO GAMES
gaming
DEVELOPMENT POWER-
HOUSE Atakama Labs has cel-
ebrated a $4m cash injection by
declaring that its first raft of
market
games will be “meaningful
games” that “help you feel better
as a human being.” The first game
will debut in January 2010.
Atakama Labs was founded
by Argentines Esteban Sosnik
and Tiburcio de la Carcova, two
Argentines who settled in Santi-
ago, Chile. The company has 10
employees but expects to have
The governing council of the Basque Country has approved new gaming machines rules.
50 by the end of next year.
The co-founders have already
created one successful video
game company in Chile. Along
he Basque discos, while the remaining for a four-month testing period istry of Interior, which said the industry over recent years. In with Wences Casares (CEO of
T
Country has 300 have been earmarked for for all new Type B machines, country’s long-awaited online November, it was announced California-based Bling Nation),
become the latest existing gaming halls and while anti-trust laws stipulate gaming legislation is near com- that in order to cater for they created Wanako Games in
of Spain’s casinos. that no company may hold pletion. According to sources Spanish consumers’ appetite 2002. Wanako remains active
Autonomous The legislation includes all more than 1,000 operating close to the situation, the legis- for gaming, a new radio station today in Santiago. The
Communities to update its four Type B varieties - the stan- permits. lation will be presented to would be launched. Place Your company’s future games will
ageing gaming legislation. The dard, single player Type B “The new regulation mod- Spain’s Autonomous Commu- Bets began broadcasting every likely include “peer reviewing”
new decree provides several machines, the multi-seat BM ernises laws implemented in nities no later than January Sunday on Gestiona Radio and and “collaborative learning,” said
new features, the most perti- varieties, the special prize BS 1991 and subsequent amend- 2010. A sub-committee of the offers a dedicated programme de la Carcova.
nent being that the number of terminals and BG electronic ments,” said analysts at Journal Congress of Deputies is also covering AWPs, casino games, Atakama’s founders have
authorised Type B slot bingo products. Vasco. “But it had already been nearing completion of its sports betting and lotteries. gone a long way to putting Chile
machines has been raised from The governing council also outdated by new technologies. investigation into Spanish “Every Sunday at 22:00, lis- on the map in the video gaming
1,500 to 2,500, while bingo saw fit to include a new clause The new, modern regulations sports, with sport ownership teners will have current news sector. Just having to explain
halls and casinos in the north- relating to responsible gam- will facilitate the updating and rights and betting’s contribu- related to the gaming sector, where Chile is was their initial
ern region may now be autho- bling, with Article II stating adaptation to technological tion to sport again taking reports and interviews, challenge. According to de la
rised as betting shops. that operators must “ensure advances. Bars, lounges, centre stage. debates, a section devoted to Carcova, one executive from a
Of the 1,000 new cash prize the protection of the rights of casinos and bingo will benefit, Spain remains one of numerology and a section in large publisher asked them:
terminals set to enter the the players and encourage the in addition to the players, from Europe’s ‘Big Four’ gaming which a recognised expert “That’s in Asia, right?”
Basque Country, 700 have practice of responsible these new institutional rules.” markets, and the country’s will respond to questions Recent articles in the local
been allocated for installation gaming”. In addition, the The news follows a recent increasing liberalisation has from listeners,” promotional press have noted that Chile has
in hotels, nightclubs and Basque gaming legislation calls announcement by Spain’s Min- been welcomed across the literature read. an attractive climate for start-ups.
Sosnik and de la Carcova hope
their effort with Wanako will now
Piracy | US
pay off once again. One advan-
tage of starting Atakama in Chile
is that gamers already hold them
US customs seizes counterfeit games
in high regard due to their pioneer
status. Sosnik said: “We have
access to the best talent in the
region, and the competition for
talent here is nothing like it would
Intellectual
enforcement a priority trade be if our development was based
issue, devoting considerable in California.” They also estimate
property rights resources and personnel to their costs will be 35 per cent
violation remains a
property rights enforcement. lower than they would be if they
key priority for the
The agency’s strategic were based in the US.
approach is multi-layered and Atakama seem perfectly
US border agency,
includes seizing fake goods at placed to force their way into the
which recently
US borders, pushing the coin-op sector not only locally but
border outward through globally as the coin-op video
managed to seize audits of infringing importers, game sector looks for new and
more than 150 fake
co-operation with interna- inventive ways of providing
tional trading partners and gaming that cannot be replicated
arcade machines.
collaborating with industry at home.
and other government agen-
cies to enhance these efforts.
U
S Customs and Border gested retail price of Pilot, Ms Pac-Man, Super Pac- US Customs and Border
Protection officials $672,000. Man, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Protection is the unified
have announced the The machines contained Kong and Donkey Kong Three. border agency within the
seizure of a shipment contain- several copyrighted video CBP seized the items when Department of Homeland
ing 168 counterfeit coin-oper- games which are registered the importer was unable to Security charged with the
ated video game machines. with the US Copyright Office provide authorisation from management, control and pro-
The shipment had a total and recorded with CBP. The the owners. tection of the nation’s borders
domestic value of $138,000 games found on the machines CBP has designated intel- at and between the official Santiago: home of Atakama
and a manufacturer’s sug- were Frogger, Scramble, Time lectual property rights ports of entry. Games
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