iGaming Press Releases
Colossus Bets and CORE Gaming launch world’s first partial cash-out slot with Sky Vegas
London, 24th September 2015
COLOSSUS BETS today announced the launch of ‘Fracpot’, a landmark disruptive slot for the gaming industry, alongside partners CORE Gaming and Sky Vegas. With its £1,000,000 jackpot prize the Colossus Fracpot game is the first slot to incorporate a cash-out feature.
Traditional slots are designed to be an ‘all or nothing’ experience for the player to land the jackpot prize. In contrast, the Colossus game will enable players to cash-out their position between reels being resolved, including the option to cash-out in parts and thus continuing to play for a part of the jackpot prize.
Bernard Marantelli, founder and CEO of Colossus Bets said: “Partial cash-out has become a sports betting juggernaut, with industry leaders such as Bet365 and Paddy Power this year following the lead set by Colossus Bets when launching our sports pools with the feature in 2013. We believe that the application of partial cash-out to other gaming verticals will have a similarly transformational impact. The Colossus slot is the first in what will be a series of gaming products enabling players to bank profits as they progress through a game.”
Justin Chamberlain, CEO of CORE Gaming commented: “Slots have lacked real innovation for some time and become a battle of the brands. This Colossus ‘Fracpot’ slot represents real innovation and as a result the interest from operators has been huge. We are delighted that in Sky Vegas we have a top tier operator who is first to go live with the game and we are looking to develop a suite of partial cash-out games with Colossus Bets.”
Daniele Phillips, Head of Casino Marketing at Sky Betting & Gaming said: “We are really looking forward to launching a slot that could appeal to our large base of sportsbook customers actively using cash-out at Sky Bet. It gives us great cross-sell potential.”
Media Assets: Game Demo + Fracpot Product Images Attached and Page 3 (scroll down please)
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Username: developer password: n3wd3v1
For further information and to arrange interviews, please contact:
Mark McGuinness
Phone: + 44 (0)7970 150907
E-mail: [email protected]
About Colossus Bets
Colossus Bets is a multi award-winning pool betting operator, offering the world’s biggest sports jackpot bets including the £10,000,000 Colossus. The company’s B2C offering launched in 2013 and since then Colossus Bets has signed twenty B2B agreements for the distribution of its pools, with live partners including Betfair, Betdaq and BoyleSports.
Colossus Bets has pioneered partial cash-out and has been granted a series of patents in relation to the functionality across all forms of betting and gaming.
For further information, please contact:
Bernard Marantelli (CEO and Founder)
Phone: +44 (0)20 3393 3662
Email: [email protected]
About CORE Gaming
CORE Gaming is a world leader in the development of HTML 5 gambling games on all of the most popular mobile devices, operating systems and browsers currently available.
The company has been involved in the development and integration of a huge range of highly popular games for most of the major international operators and is currently developing a portfolio of propriety slot games whilst undertaking development projects in partnership with a number of leading suppliers to the online and mobile gaming market.
For more information, please see www.core-gaming.info
For further information, please contact:
Justin Chamberlain (CEO)
Phone: +44 (0) 1564 749 062
Email: [email protected]
About Sky Betting & Gaming
Headquartered in Leeds and led by Chief Executive, Richard Flint, Sky Betting & Gaming was formed in 2001 and has since grown to become one of the UK’s leading online bookmakers, with a team of more than 600 employees and a strong track record of innovation.
As one of the first bookmakers to recognise the potential of online and then mobile platforms for betting and gaming, Sky Betting & Gaming today operates five major online products, Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Poker, and Sky Bingo. Its success means it has risen to be the fifth biggest player in the UK market, up from ninth five years ago. Over the same five-year period, the business has delivered an annualised growth in operating profit of over 40 per cent and a fourfold increase in revenues.
In 2015 Sky Betting and Gaming became an independent company following the sale of its majority share by its parent company Sky to CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity houses in a deal which valued Sky Betting and Gaming at £800million.
Sky has entered into a long-term brand license agreement and other commercial arrangements with Sky Betting and Gaming in connection with the sale.
EEG iGaming Directory
Betixon has launched a Russian-themed slot
Betixon the fast growing HTML5 casino games provider and distributor have released an exclusive game to the well-known operator 1xbet.
The game is themed around Russian New Year and will help 1xbet to celebrate the holidays with a unique and exclusive theme for their customers.
The 20-line slot features Russian New Year related HD graphics items over a snowy Russian city landscape.
Catchy Russian folk music is in the background bringing a festive feeling to the player’s screen. Russian New Year brings wild symbols to replace all non-scatter symbols and awards the player with free spins when three or more scatters appear anywhere on the reels.
The game was developed to create a home environment which players can relate to and to enhance their relationship with the brand. The game is simply easy, familiar and fun to play.
Betixon’s portfolio holds over 20 HTML5 slots and video bingo at HD graphics. Focusing on player’s usability, the games are extremely quick to load and presents similar interface in both mobile and desktop avoiding player’s confusion when moving between devices.
Mobile portrait mode is also available to bring an ease of use to the player’s mobile device. Betixon offers their client exclusive content as part of their partnership which helps to connect the players to the brand using unique content.
Exclusive content is one of the main values of Betixon games which fits the content to the brand’s theme or a special event the brand’s wishes to promote with special tools.
The impact of presenting unique and exclusive content to the players is big. Nowadays the same games are playable almost anywhere, and exclusive unique content will help getting the right attention and appreciation from the players, resulting in increased loyalty and profits.
Betixon is working on a number of new and unique features for their games mechanics, specifically about players personalisation and engagement as well as unique unseen social features to be released in Q1 2018.
Amsterdam
Clarion Gaming address industry concern over event congestion with creation of iGB Live!
The iGaming Super Show, EiG and Amsterdam Affiliate Conference come together at consolidated three brand event launching 2018
Clarion Gaming has announced the launch of iGB Live! a new consolidated event which will feature leading brands, iGaming Super Show, EiG, and the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference, each of which will retain it’s own dedicated presence and brand personality. The creation of iGB Live! is part of the commitment made by Clarion to streamline the events calendar and provide stakeholders with a unique opportunity to engage across the entire iGaming space at a single event.
Event Director, Shona ODonnell, who was responsible for bringing the iGaming Super Show to market eight years ago and has overseen its development, believes the rebranding is timely and sees the creation of iGB Live! as a key initiative which will benefit all sectors and stakeholders. She explained: “Our pledge is to deliver a global events, knowledge and training strategy to what is a global industry. This involves exploring how we can deploy the power and influence of our brands to best effect on behalf of our customers.
“From speaking with the market we know how much importance it places on reducing the volume of business events currently on the calendar but at the same time raising standards and improving ROI. The iGaming Super Show, EiG and the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference will retain their individual personalities, identity and vision that have made them three of the best known and respected brands in gaming. This strategic move will enhance the value and appeal of attending what will be the biggest dedicated iGaming exhibition and conference for the industry and one which is guaranteed to meet stakeholder needs from a networking, education and business perspective.
“The feedback to iGB Live! from all sectors of the business – affiliates, operators, suppliers and regulators – has been extremely positive: our job now is to get on with the important business of delivering best value to our customers courtesy of a clearly considered and joined up strategy. I am extremely passionate about the future of the brand and excited about overseeing its development. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has supported our events over the years and look forward to discussing the developments with them all at EiG where I will be available to discuss and take feedback.”
Tom Light, Vice President of Business Development at SBTech said: “EiG and the iGaming Super Show have been high quality events for many years and bringing them together under one roof will enable delegates and sponsors to meet even more key players in the affiliate and B2B space. SBTech is delighted to support and sponsor the event and make it even more of a must-attend for everyone in the igaming sector.”
Penny Campbell, Head of Events at Microgaming, said: “Microgaming is fully supportive of the plans to incorporate EiG into next year’s iGaming Super Show. We have been loyal supporters of both events for many years and we welcome this decision. The iGaming Super Show has grown in importance year-on-year and become a key meeting place for the industry. Its July time slot works well – long enough after ICE, and just before the summer break. It is a bold step and should be well received by the industry.”
The first iGB Live! Incorporating the iGaming Super Show, EIG and the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference, will take place 17 – 20 July 2018 at The Amsterdam, RAI.
event
Michael Caselli and Becky Liggero to Host iGaming Idol
The organisers of iGaming Idol have confirmed that the world-renowned veteran of the iGaming industry and Editor in Chief of iGaming Business, Mr. Michael Caselli, will again host iGaming Idol Awards together with Becky Liggero, the iGaming Industry reporter of CalvinAyre.com and Brand Ambassador of Bodog.com.
iGaming Idol, the first award event of its kind which recognises iGaming employees for their outstanding achievement, will be held at the Grandmasters Suite at the Hilton in Malta on the 26th of September 2017.
Michael Caselli stated: “I am delighted to host yet another edition of an awards event that recognises the actual people that make the industry tick. As a stakeholder of the industry this kind of initiative lies very close within my beliefs and therefore when I was asked to host for the second year it was a real no-brainer”
The categories of the 2017 edition have been revamped to include more specific roles within gaming operations whilst for the first year the event will honour the “Employer of the Year”. An anonymous survey will be distributed throughout several organisations where employees will rate their own satisfaction within the workplace. This task has been commissioned to Business Leaders Malta and has been an outright success.
Speaking about the organisation of the event, Pierre Lindh, Project Manager and Director of iGaming Idol said: “Our goal is to make the event a driving force of the industry and to inspire employees to become Idols within the companies they work. We believe that by rewarded talent this will improve the workforce.”
iGaming Idol isn’t only about recognising talent with in the industry but also focuses on two other pillars, which are charity and entertainment. The organisers have pledged €10,000 to the Malta Community Chest Fund which will be generated through ticket sales and fundraising, whilst they have also promised that the evening will be a night to remember with various surprises.
The event will be in the form of a gala dinner, will feature a live band and other forms of entertainment whilst the hosts Michael Caselli and Becky Liggero are bound to keep the audience captivated at all times. Becky Liggero said: “We are really looking forward to presenting a great show which will feature the stars of the industry. iGaming Idol is an innovative concept and I am proud to be associated with it.”
As part of the organisers commitment to enforce the importance of improving talent in the Industry, iGaming Idol have announced a new partnership where all newly crowned Idols of 2017 will be offered a free training courtesy of iGaming Academy.
To purchase tickets and more information about the event go to www.igamingidol.com/ or send an email to [email protected].
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