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October 2013 Slot News
NEew Slot Games Preview at Global Gaming Expo
very year for over a decade, casino and slot professionals gather for the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, where the industry shows o gaming innovations and new slots. is year,
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G2E, as it’s known, was held September 24 to 26 , over a month earlier than previous
years. G2E is an incredible experience, with new slots and games to see and play at every turn. We don’t always give Southern California Gaming Guide readers a preview of slots shown at
G2E, as we usually won’t see these new games until Spring of the following year. But this year, the advance publicity for some of the new games proved to be too enticing not to share.
game content that players have grown to expect from IGT. Housed on IGT’s Center Stage® platform and boasting jaw-dropping visuals and impressive surround-sound
audio, James Cameron’s AVATARTM Video Slots will turn heads on casino oors. In this captivating gaming experience, players are put right in the middle of the struggles between
humans and the Na’vi.
IGT will also shine a blue
spotlight on James Cameron’s AVATARTM Treasures of Pandora. Debuting on IGT’s groundbreaking Crystal CoreTM Cabinet, Treasures of Pandora is a true visual spectacular. Featuring amazing, 3d visuals on a 42-inch vertical screen, Treasures of Pandora shines. A follow-up release to AVATAR Video Slots, this wide-area progressive video slot features two vertically stacked base games. Upon max bet wager, the “merging feature” may be activated, combining the two base games
and creating an industry- rst 7,776 ways to win. Treasures of Pandora truly allows players to explore the phenomenal beauty of Pandora. Fans of the lm will recognize the imaginative ora and fauna from the movie while playing for big wins
and lively bonuses.
We’ll report more on these fantastic new games when
they arrive in Southern California casinos.
Our deadline for all content for this October issue was actually before G2E took place, but based on the fantastic news and descriptions of these games, we wanted readers to know about some of these amazing games that will be coming to Southern California casinos soon. Here are a few extraordinary slots we think will be really big game favorites that slot players will love.
Aristocrat is celebrating 60 years of creating the world’s greatest gaming experience, with a lineup of more than 200 new games, and the fun begins with a BAP! and a POW! and a ZAP! in the new BatmanTM Classic TV Series Slot Game powered by Wonder WheelsTM, an exciting $250,000 multi-site progressive with a brand new mechanical wheel package. Each player gets their own wheel plus a bonusing wheel for the game-bank. e action comes to life in the MVPTM cabinet with a large top-box screen for bonuses and is punctuated with Aristocrat’s sensory-busting surround sound iChairTM. Completely new to the industry is
the independent wheel function of Wonder WheelsTM, which allows
the players on the bank to continue uninterrupted when another player hits a trigger and engages wheel-mode. Aristocrat showcased a completely new line of games with Wonder
WheelsTM.
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And twice named the Best Game in the slot industry’s Goldman Sachs Slot Managers Survey and named Best Slot and Luckiest Slot by you, the readers of Southern California Gaming Guide, BuffaloTM continues to be a runaway hit.
Aristocrat’s franchise is expanding with the new Buffalo StampedeTM. is all-new game is in the VERVEhdTM cabinet and features progressive jackpots, higher multipliers and new high- paying features, while maintaining the essence of the original groundbreaking hit game.
e new Wonder 4TM Stars builds on the success of Aristocrat’s popular Wonder 4TM
series, and incorporates a collect-style feature in the bonus, where players collect symbols to win big in the free games. Players can enjoy playing four of their favorite games at the same time, and their free games are also played in a four-window format, regardless of which game triggered the bonus.
And International Game Technology evokes the journey to Pandora with the launch of its latest MegaJackpots® game
series, Twentieth Century Fox’s AVATARTM. IGT debuted two AVATAR games at G2E,JamesCameron’sAVATARTMVideo Slots and James Cameron’s AVATARTM Treasures of Pandora.
Inspired by the highest- grossing lm of all time, James Cameron’s AVATARTM, IGT’s newest game series
allows players to relive the magic of one of the most acclaimed movies of our time
and experience the immersive, thrilling
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