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effective. show. It’s ideal for new designs where space is at a
GLI is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, premium. Because it’s based on the Falcon engine
and they're doing it in style, with an innovation that we’re ready to go with this product right now. We’re
will save all their customers time and money – and targeting North and South America, Australia and
help them make money, too. As Christie Eickelman South Africa with it. There’s a 78mm channel width
explains: "We’re promoting our new program, ‘Point. so it’s best suited to those countries; it has barcode
Click. Transfer.’ here, which allows manufacturers to reading and a USB service port, too."
transfer previously certified games into jurisdictions TransAct exhibited in tandem with JCM, and
all over the world. It truly is a global marketplace for between the companies they have an interesting and
a global company. You can have your game certified very exciting array of products. Regular readers will
for one jurisdiction, go online, point at another know how highly Casino International regards JCM's
jurisdiction you want to be in, click, and you’re ready Trident Tablesafe System, their table game currency
to do business there. validation product. It's superb, in short, and it should
"It gives our customers a tremendous advantage in result in a lot of sales for JCM. We'll be talking to the
reaching the markets they want to reach." company again in a few months to find out how the
product has progressed in the last 12 months.
TransAct are growing their product line – and their
reputation – steadily, and the result has been steady
growth for the company, says Tracey Chernay, Senior
Vice President, Sales and Marketing. "We’re having a
very good year in difficult market conditions. I think
that’s primarily because we expanded our product
reach in a couple of key ways. In gaming we just
introduced a new product called ServerPort, which
allows you to upgrade existing games in your casino
to connect to a server-based network. For the
operator, the advantage is that they can upgrade
their existing games with Epic 950 printers, so they
don’t have to completely alter their casino floor to
take advantage of server-based printing. They can do
things like coupon printing, or connecting for
firmware downloads, in a slower customer time, for
example. It’s a big advantage for an operator. The
other key benefit is the connection to the network so
that promotional coupons can be printed, which can
be done at a pre-set time. We’ve launched that here
at G2E and the reception has been very good."
Quixant launched a new gaming board at the show,
with the QX30 impressing with its technical stats. It
has its official launch at ICE, but Quixant's Gary
This simple idea was another show highlight for us, Mullins gave us a preview: "The QX30 has the same
no question. gaming I/O and footprint as the QX10 but has a lot
Alfastreet had a new poker product on show, and more horsepower on the PC side. It has a new
the seats around it were full what seemed like the AMD/ATI chipset, which is very efficient as it means
entire show. According to Alfastreet's Matjaz Petek: we don’t need a separate CPU and separate graphics
"Early feedback [on the poker product] here is very, engine – it’s all in one chip. There’s no other gaming
very positive. It’s the main attraction on our stand board out there that will run modern games, like Call
this year. It’s good for us as it’s getting people on to of Duty etc – but ours will. That means games
the stand, and we’re listening to our customers – and developers have a lot more to play with when they’re
new customers – to make the right machine for both coming up with product. It will also drive multiple
the operator and the customer." screens, all from one board – there’s no need for a
Alfastreet is growing into the Americas, with a separate graphics controller." Sounds great –
healthy customer base in South America and a hopefully a slot manufacturer will pick it up and
growing one in North America thanks to their produce something stunning very soon…
relationship with Atronic Americas. Abbiati were occupying space on the Paltronics
GPT launched Nova Black at G2E, their new stand, for whom they had made some tables for the
universal currency acceptor. It uses, says Robert show; the stand was largely black in colour, as were
Dunn, "our RGB optics and our proven engine in our the tables. As Abbiati's Terry Clarke elaborated: "We
Falcon validator and put it into the gaming format were asked to do some tables for Paltronics, so our
package." What does this mean? Well, it means it will tables here fit in with their black stand, but they’re
fit into just about any slot machine, Robert explained: great quality and look really good on the stand. We’ve
"This new validator will fit basically anything at the got new carbon fibre chip trays here too, which of
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