LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Highlighting a vision that begins to reimagine areas of the casino to create a seamless experience between gaming offerings and non-gaming amenities, GameCo, Inc., creator of the world’s first skill-based Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM™), will debut a new multigame bartop cabinet, new “Gen 2” VGM games for its original arcade-style VGM, and new interactive entertainment experiences at the 17th annual Global Gaming Expo (G2E®), to be held at the Sands Expo and Convention Center (Booth #5034) in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 3-5. GameCo’s G2E exhibit will include “Steve Aoki’s Neon Dream,” an infinite runner game featuring Grammy Award-nominated DJ/Producer, Steve Aoki, and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day™,” a first-person action game based on the iconic science fiction film.
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GameCo’s vision for the “Casino of the Future, Now” includes a greater use and leverage of technology to help casino operators provide diversified experiences for their current and potential new players, including gamers across all age demographics such as millennials, Xers, and even baby boomers. The vision also includes new products that help expand the boundaries of gaming beyond the gaming floor and into new areas of the casino where guests gather and socialize.
“As we target attracting a new generation of players, our emerging vision for the casino of the future will be brought to life as the central sensory experience at our G2E booth,” said Blaine Graboyes, co-founder and CEO of GameCo. “With video game gambling continuing to gain traction, our new products on display at G2E will highlight the engagement, excitement, and social nature of our skill-based gaming entertainment offerings for both the casino slot floor as well as for other areas of the casino. We’re very excited to demonstrate at our first full G2E showing all of the innovation and new entertainment experiences our skill-based games and products can bring to the casino floor to help our customers generate incremental gaming revenue.”
New Bartop VGM Form Factor Debuts at G2E
As part of the Company’s expanding vision for the casino of the future, GameCo will debut its new Bartop VGM, the first gaming device that brings skill-based video games into the casino in a bar-ready form factor. The Bartop VGM bridges the gap between the casual games players have come to enjoy with a gambling experience in a relaxed and social atmosphere. The Bartop VGM, which builds on the decades of success of video poker and video blackjack traditionally featured in a similar form factor, offers multigame options in one product with featured games including matching games, sports, puzzle, and hidden object games. In addition to the Company’s Nothin’ but Net sports game, new Gen 2 games for the Bartop VGM debuting at G2E 2017 include:
- Poseidon’s Deep Sea Saga – an easy to play bubble shooter game where players quickly match and pop bubbles to capture treasures.
- Cosmic Candy Heist – a matching game where players must match puzzle tiles to gain rewards and win big.
- Twisted Worlds – a hidden object game which encourages playing with friends as players encounter surreal scenes and search for hidden items within thousands of locations.
New Game Based on Music Innovator and Icon, Steve Aoki, Debuts in Two Form Factors
Also debuting at G2E, for both the arcade-style and Bartop VGM and sure to be a highlight of G2E, is Steve Aoki’s Neon Dream, an infinite runner game inspired by the legendary Grammy Award-nominated DJ/Producer’s 2014 “Neon Future” album and its underlying soundscapes and the first ever skill-based game to combine celebrity, gaming and music to reach a new audience and bring incremental revenue to the floor. The first-person game blends the nearly effortless controls of an infinite runner with the sensorial and transcendental experience of Aoki’s music. Players fly over an endless track through a mesmerizing world of color and shape, collecting gold records and “Aoki” tiles, avoiding barriers, while listening to various music titles from Aoki’s Dim Mak label.
GameCo will host a special guest appearance from Grammy Award-nominated DJ/Producer, Steve Aoki, in its booth (Booth #5034) on Tuesday, October 3rd, beginning at 2:00 p.m. PT.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day™ Debuts for the Casino Floor
Developed under license from Studiocanal S.A.S, GameCo will debut Terminator 2: Judgment Day™” (T2), a new skill-based action game based on the iconic science fiction film. Featured in the Company’s arcade-style, standalone VGM, T2 is a first-person action game where players take on the role of a reprogrammed T-1000 with a mission to aid the human resistance by exterminating opposing T-800 Terminators. Featuring stunning graphics, three weapons upgrades, a platform style game controller and progressive jackpot system, T2 will appeal to core gamers and sci-fi fans everywhere.
New Tournament Experience and Progressive Offerings for Skill-Based Gaming
GameCo will also showcase an entirely new experience for the gaming floor with the debut of its prototype PvP Multiplayer System at G2E featuring the proprietary Multiplayer Challenge Mode™, which allows 2-8 players to compete against one another. Multiplayer Challenge Mode brings the arena phenomenon of esports directly to the casino floor in an easy to implement system for operators. In addition, GameCo’s Gen 2 games debuting at G2E will demonstrate Mini/Maxi/Mega Standalone Progressive jackpot award functionality.
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About GameCo, Inc.
GameCo, Inc. is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating the world's first video game gambling machines (VGM™). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video game play to the casino floor engaging a new generation of casino customers. The first video game skill-based gaming platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allow a player’s skill to determine the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines. GameCo is developing VGM games under license from major game developers and entertainment IP companies, including Paramount’s “Mission Impossible” and “Paranormal” brands, Steve Aoki from DJ Kid Millionaire LTD., “SOULCALIBUR™ II” with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, Inc., and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” from Studiocanal S.A.S.
GameCo’s VGM won the Silver Medal in the Best Slot Product category at the 16th Annual Global Gaming Business Gaming & Technology Awards. GameCo was founded by experienced video game, casino, technology, and live event executives from Scientific Games, IGT, and AGS along with award-winning producers for game publishers such as Blizzard Entertainment, WarGaming, Ubisoft, DreamWorks, and Take-Two Interactive.
GameCo is privately held and headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Las Vegas. For the latest GameCo news, please visit gameco.com or follow the company on Twitter at twitter.com/GameCoInc.
