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PAC-MAN FEVER

Ainsworth launches first in a series of slot machines created in partnership with video-game giant BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT By Frank Legato   There’s a lot of talk these days about how casinos need to cater to players of the millennial generation. Slot-makers are offering up gaming machines that mimic the video games young players grew […]

THE OLD AND THE NEW

Skill based slots with familiar themes By John Grochowski   As casinos and game manufacturers ease toward an age of skill-based slots, I’ll admit to a small amount of trepidation. That’s age-related, of course. In my college years, the games at the back of the bar were electro-mechanical pinball machines, not video games. Home gaming […]

SLOT DESTINY

Money management at slots By Frank Scoblete   Many casino players believe that there are ways to manage one’s money to prevent the casino from having an edge on them. This is a totally wrong assumption. If the casino has an edge at a game, which it does at just about all games, no money […]

GAMERS IN THE HOUSE

GameCo’s Video Game Gambling Machines bring a new group of players to the casino floor By Frank Legato   For the past several years, the casino industry has been dabbling in new looks and new types of games for the slot floor. The reason? Long-term survival. It’s no secret that younger players—anchored by the so-called […]

NEW SLOTS 2017

Our annual review of the new slot games coming soon to a casino near you By Frank Legato The slot-machine universe is changing. As technology continues to improve the game styles slot players have come to know and love, the world’s manufacturers of slot machines are seeking to broaden their audience. For slot enthusiasts, that […]

SLOTS ARE PERFECT EMPLOYEES

Living in an age of machines By Frank Scoblete     It is no exaggeration to say that if slot machines did not exist there is a markedly good chance that casino gambling would not have spread like wildfire across the United States and Canada. Slots generally cost far less than a dealer, even those […]

SLOT WAR

Video vs. Reel Slots   When I started playing in casinos in those days of yore called the 1980s, virtually all slot machines were three-reel steppers with mechanical reels and handles on the sides. Video? That was for video poker blackjack and keno. Slots were the one-armed bandits. Today, of course, video slots have taken […]

STACKING PANDAS

Aruze gives the video slot machine a new look with “Tower Stack Feature Panda” By Frank Legato   Spotting the Tower Stack on a casino floor is easy. The games in Aruze’s Tower Stack series of video slots don’t look like a lot of other games on the slot floor. An eye-grabbing 42-inch vertical video […]

PLAYER FAVORITES

A selection of top casinos from the 2016 Best Of Slots awards   Since many Casino Player readers gravitate towards slots and video poker rather than table games, we thought it appropriate to launch the new year by covering a few of the player favorite properties for slots, specifically winners from the recent “Best Of […]

SIMPLY SPEAKING

Simple slots questions and simple slots answers By Frank Scoblete   Simple Slots Question: I know that there’s something called the RNG that controls the computerized slot machines but I have no idea what this means and how the results come from this computer thingy. Can you help me on this? I know it doesn’t […]

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