Americans spent $2.88 billion on gaming software in the second quarter according to the NPD Group, down 3 percent year-over-year. The research firm announced the numbers today as part of its quarterly Games Market Dynamics: US report.
More than 61 percent of the industry's gaming content revenue--$1.77 billion--came digitally, whether it was from subscriptions, full-game downloads, add-on content, or mobile/social games. New physical games added another $769 million to the total, with used sales and rental revenues kicking in another $343 million...
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The announcement by the Golden Nugget Casino management Wednesday that its plans include entering the online gambling sector in Nevada and New Jersey has triggered speculation that the decision could encourage a more progressive approach to the pastime by Mississippi legislators...
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Goldfire Studio has announced the open beta launch of its CasinoRPG, which has spent the last year in development and closed beta testing. The game looks to capitalize on the popularity of the many casino games on Facebook and mobile, including most recently Zynga’s Hit It Rich: Casino Slots on Facebook.
CasinoRPG mixes classic casino games like poker, blackjack and slots with tycoon and city-building gameplay, as players are given the chance to use their winnings to build casinos, apartments and more. Players can focus on the interior designs of their buildings and how things look on the city streets, or they can play actual casino games using virtual currency.
Casino RPG is story-based, with all cities being designed and managed by all of the game’s players at once in a persistent online world...
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MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MGT) announced today that its majority owned subsidiary MGT Interactive, LLC has acquired certain assets from Gioia Systems LLC, the inventor and owner of a proprietary method of card shuffling for the online poker market. Trademarked under the name Real Deal Poker, the technology uses patented shuffling machines, along with permutation re-sequencing, allowing for the creation of up to 16,000 decks per minute in real time. Each newly created deck is then "dealt" for a hand of online poker, complete with burn cards and the option for a player to "cut" the deck. In addition to providing a higher level of realism, each deck provides an authentic randomized deal and full audit trail; both missing from currently used random number generating algorithms...
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