LAS VEGAS, Sept. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games
Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company")
took the highest honors in the 2016 Gaming & Technology Awards,
winning gold in the "Best Slot Product" category for its SPACE
INVADERS skill-based slot game and in the "Best Table Game
Product or Innovation" category for its PRIZM Game
Table.
Scientific Games is the only company to win two awards in the
16th Annual Gaming & Technology Awards, which are
sponsored by Global Gaming Business magazine and judged by
an accomplished panel of industry experts. These awards are among
the casino industry's most prestigious honors for technology,
products and services that enhance the gaming experience.
Scientific Games' Group Chief Executive, Gaming, Derik Mooberry said, "These top honors for best
slot game and best table game product or innovation are a tribute
to our talented innovation teams across the globe. Both SPACE
INVADERS and the PRIZM Game Table reflect our unwavering
commitment to develop industry-altering 'firsts' for our customers,
helping to drive casino revenue and create exciting and engaging
new experiences for players."
In the "Best Slot Product" category, the judges selected
Scientific Games' SPACE INVADERS skill-based slot game for
the top honor. SPACE INVADERS is a new style of slot game
that combines classic arcade fun with slot entertainment and
skill-based play.
In the "Best Table Game Product or Innovation" category, the
PRIZM Game Table took the top honor. An industry-first in
slot cabinet design, the pioneering social gaming table features a
65-inch 4K display that serves as both the player interface and as
a table with seating for four.
Created with the Millennial in mind, PRIZM Game
Table can be placed on the casino floor or in a lounge setting
for community-style play and unparalleled social interaction, and
supports both slot and electronic table content.
Scientific Games is introducing PRIZM Game Table
with Lightning Launch™ Roulette, an exciting new twist to a
player favorite. Players launch their ball into the wheel to
determine their base game winnings. Optional bonus chip wagers add
a community, anticipatory element, offering players the chance to
win exciting prizes and jackpots based on both the result of their
ball's spin as well as those of the other three players.
SPACE INVADERS and the PRIZM Game Table will be on
display September 27-29 in the
Company's G2E booth, No. 1126 at the Sands Expo in
Las Vegas.
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games
Corporation (NASDAQ:SGMS) is a leading developer of
technology-based products and services and associated content for
worldwide gaming, lottery and interactive markets. The Company's
portfolio includes gaming machines, game content and systems; table
games products and shufflers; instant and draw-based lottery games;
server-based lottery and gaming systems; sports betting technology;
loyalty and rewards programs; and interactive content and services.
For more information, please visit ScientificGames.com.
SPACE INVADERS © TAITO CORP. 1978
TAITO CORPORATION is the exclusive owner of the global
intellectual property rights, including copyrights and trademarks,
for SPACE INVADERS and its characters.
© 2016 Scientific Games. All Rights Reserved.
COMPANY CONTACTS:
Investor
Relations:
Scientific Games: Bill Pfund +1 702-532-7663
Vice President, Investor Relations
bill.pfund@scientificgames.com
Media Relations:
Scientific Games: Mollie Cole +1 773-961-1194
Director, Corporate Communications
mollie.cole@scientificgames.com
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release, Scientific Games makes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe
future expectations, plans, results or strategies and can often be
identified by the use of terminology such as "may," "will,"
"estimate," "intend," "plan," "continue," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "target," "should," "could," "potential,"
"opportunity," "goal," or similar terminology. These statements are
based upon management's current expectations, assumptions and
estimates and are not guarantees of timing, future results or
performance. Actual results may differ materially from those
contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and
uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things:
competition; U.S. and international economic and industry
conditions, including declines in or slow growth of gross gaming
revenues or lottery retail sales, reductions in or constraints on
capital spending by gaming or lottery operators and bankruptcies
of, or credit risk relating to, customers; limited growth from new
gaming jurisdictions, declines in the replacement cycle of existing
gaming machines and slow addition of casinos in existing
jurisdictions; ownership changes and consolidation in the gaming
industry, including by casino operators; opposition to legalized
gaming or the expansion thereof; inability to adapt to, and offer
products that keep pace with, evolving technology; inability to
develop successful gaming concepts and content; laws and government
regulations, including those relating to gaming licenses and
environmental laws; inability to identify and capitalize on trends
and changes in the gaming, lottery and interactive industries;
dependence upon key providers in our social gaming business;
inability to retain or renew, or unfavorable revisions of, existing
contracts, and the inability to enter into new contracts; level of
our indebtedness, higher interest rates, availability or adequacy
of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy indebtedness, other
obligations or future cash needs; inability to reduce or refinance
our indebtedness; restrictions and covenants in our debt
agreements, including those that could result in acceleration of
the maturity of our indebtedness; protection of our intellectual
property, inability to license third party intellectual property,
and the intellectual property rights of others; security and
integrity of our software and systems and reliance on or failures
in our information technology systems; natural events that disrupt
our operations or those of our customers, suppliers or regulators;
inability to benefit from, and risks associated with, strategic
equity investments and relationships, including (i) the inability
of our joint venture to realize the anticipated benefits under its
private management agreement with the Illinois lottery or from the disentanglement
services performed in connection with the termination thereof, (ii)
the inability of our joint venture to meet the net income targets
or other requirements under its agreement to provide marketing and
sales services to the New Jersey Lottery or otherwise to realize
the anticipated benefits under such agreement and (iii) failure to
realize the anticipated benefits related to the award to our
consortium of an instant lottery game concession in Greece; failure to achieve the intended
benefits of the Bally acquisition or the WMS acquisition, other
recent acquisitions, or future acquisitions, including due to the
inability to successfully integrate such acquisitions or realize
synergies in the anticipated amounts or within the contemplated
time frames or cost expectations, or at all; disruption of our
current plans and operations in connection with our recent
acquisitions (including in connection with the integration of Bally
and WMS), including departure of key personnel or inability to
recruit additional qualified personnel or maintain relationships
with customers, suppliers or other third parties; incurrence of
employee termination or restructuring costs, and impairment or
asset write-down charges; changes in estimates or judgments related
to our impairment analysis of goodwill or other intangible assets;
implementation of complex revenue recognition standards;
fluctuations in our results due to seasonality and other factors;
dependence on suppliers and manufacturers; risks relating to
foreign operations, including fluctuations in foreign currency
exchange rates (including those fluctuations related to the
affirmative vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU), restrictions
on the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the
import of products and financial instability, including the
potential impact to our business resulting from the affirmative
vote in the U.K. to withdraw from the EU and the potential impact
to our instant lottery game concession or VLT lease arrangements
resulting from the recent economic and political conditions in
Greece; dependence on our key
employees; litigation and other liabilities relating to our
business, including litigation and liabilities relating to our
contracts and licenses, our products and systems, our employees
(including labor disputes), intellectual property and our strategic
relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and stock price
volatility.
Additional information regarding risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from
time to time in our filings with the SEC, including the Company's
current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its
latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
February 29, 2016 (including under
the headings "Forward Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors").
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made
and, except for Scientific Games' ongoing obligations under the
U.S. federal securities laws, Scientific Games undertakes no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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