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LAS VEGAS — In the newly unveiled Avatar slot machine, you can pick which Na’vi character you want to be, set the background and music, and, if you play long and “well” enough, unlock extra content. There’s also now a Skee-Ball machine that allows you, eventually, to play a video version of the arcade game for scores that are posted on a leaderboard. Hit the bonus round of the newest iteration of a Titanic machine and you may get to swipe a touch screen to spin the (doomed!) ship’s helm in an act that, it would seem, influences your prizes.
You’d be forgiven if, someday soon, you wander into a casino and mistake it for an arcade. The vast show floor of this week’s annual Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, where slot makers hawked their latest wares to casinos seeking new attractions, certainly looked and sounded a lot like one too... (more)
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LONDON — Gaming's next big thing, King.com, is hurtling toward an IPO as relentlessly as millions of players swap colored candies in its wildly popular title Candy Crush Saga.
There's no subtle way to put it, judging from the buzz of activity at the company's headquarters here a few weeks ago — where developers are putting the final touches on new titles amid a hiring binge.
"We're not just one hit," a press-shy King CEO Riccardo Zacconi told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview in early September here. "By the end of the year, we will launch a handful of new titles. We have lots of work to do."
His point was underscored emphatically late last week, when the company he co-founded in 2003 quietly filed an S-1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO, according to a source who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak on behalf of King.
King declined comment... (more)
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New Millennium Games' NOW! 10-2-2013
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