{"id":46011,"date":"2017-03-05T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=46011"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:46:28","slug":"las-vegas-casinos-close-getting-video-game-gambling-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-casinos-close-getting-video-game-gambling-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Casinos Close to Getting Video Game Gambling Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the future of gambling in machines called <em>Danger Arena<\/em> and <em>Pharaoh\u2019s Secret Temple<\/em>? Las Vegas casinos are betting on it and they could soon be appearing at your favorite resort in Sin City.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46016\" data-style=\"width: 742px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46016 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/videogamemachine.jpg\" alt=\"Video Game Gambling Machine\" width=\"742\" height=\"556\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-46016\"class=\"text-description\">Las Vegas could soon have video game gambling machines that are skill-based and feature titles such as &#8220;Nothing But Net&#8221; and &#8220;Danger Arena.&#8221; (Image: Noah K. Murray)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GameCo. Inc., the largest maker of the skill-based contraptions, has now received certification from Gaming Laboratories International, according to the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal.\u00a0<\/em>The next step for entering Vegas casinos would be to get approval from Nevada Gaming Control Board regulators, with the possibility the machines could be appearing as soon as July.<\/p>\n<p>The company is based in New York City, but the machines are assembled in Las Vegas. Blaine Graboyes, CEO of GameCo, said the goal is to have a presence in several markets and has applied for a permit for Connecticut as well.<\/p>\n<h2>Atlantic City Test Site<\/h2>\n<p>The Tropicana and three Caesars properties in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/skill-gaming-atlantic-city\">Atlantic City<\/a> have had them up and running since October, and the remaining three New Jersey Boardwalk resorts plan on installing them as well.<\/p>\n<p>Getting people born in the early 1980s to late 1990s into a casino has been a conundrum for resort officials. Most of the activities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/16\/505811899\/casinos-demographic-problem-how-to-replace-older-slot-players\">millennials<\/a> enjoy center around clubs, shopping, and pool parties, and trying to get them to dry off and bet is a challenge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said\u00a0in its annual report that the percentage of visitors there who gambled had declined to 71 percent in 2014, down from 87 percent in 2006. Of the three demographics, millenials made up the smallest percentage of players, compared to Baby Boomers (not surprisingly, the biggest wagerers), followed by Gen Xers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re targeting being there in the first half of 2017,\u201d Graboyes said in a recent interview with <em>Gaming Today<\/em>. \u201cChairman Burnett [A.G. Burnett, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board] and his team in Nevada have been incredibly supportive of what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Strategy Can Pay Off for Gamers<\/h2>\n<p>The games have two different approaches. <em>Danger Arena<\/em> is similar to <em>Call of Duty<\/em>, and is a first-person action game where players have a certain time period to eliminate robots to either break even or get odds on their money for more &#8220;killed.&#8221; There is a map that&#8217;s followed and it has approximately 10,000 maps for any session.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pharaoh\u2019s Secret Temple<\/em> is aimed at a less hardcore gamer and more to the novice. It&#8217;s patterned after <em>Candy Crush<\/em> and is a matching-type scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Another game set to make its debut this month, <em>Nothing But Net,<\/em>\u00a0employs basketball shooting. There are also plans for two additional games\u00a0based on the the Clint Eastwood 1960s cult classic Western <em>Hang \u2019Em High <\/em>and the popular History Channel dramatic television series <em>Vikings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the future of gambling in machines called Danger Arena and Pharaoh\u2019s Secret Temple? Las Vegas casinos are betting on it and they could soon be appearing at your favorite resort in Sin City. GameCo. Inc., the largest maker of the skill-based contraptions, has now received certification from Gaming Laboratories International, according to the Las [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Las Vegas Casinos Close to Getting Video Game Gambling Machines<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Las Vegas casinos are close to getting video game gambling machines and are hoping to attract more millenials and gamers with the new thrust.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Las Vegas 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