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Bacta opens nominations for first ever awards to celebrate industry champions
Bacta has opened nominations for its first ever awards, celebrating the very best of the sector and unveiling a new set of industry champions from across the UK. The awards celebrate those who have made a great impact in the industry during the past 12 months, with categories including High Street Hero, Seaside Saviour, Supply Chain Champion, Green Giants and Rising Star.
The judges of the awards include bacta CEO John White and bacta President, Greg Wood, amongst others. The criteria the entrants will be judged on includes, creativity, upholding bacta’s values, commitment to customer wellbeing and being a team player (full details below). The winners will be unveiled at bacta’s parliamentary reception on Wednesday 24 November. Potential entrants can apply for the awards on bacta’s website and entries will be closed next Monday at close of play.
Award Categories Descriptions
High Street Hero: This award celebrates the outstanding staff members working in AGCs, High Street Bingo or inland FECs that have gone beyond the call of duty either at work or through their community engagement (which we would weigh more highly).
Seaside Saviour: This award celebrates the outstanding staff members working in FECs at the seaside that have gone beyond the call of duty either at work or through their community engagement (which we would weigh more highly).
Supply Chain Champion: This award celebrates the outstanding staff working in the supply chain and who play a vital role in helping to deliver fun and entertainment to communities across the country.
Jimmy Thomas Rising Star Award: This award aims to find the best and brightest young members (under 30) in the industry shining a light on the future leaders of the industry.
Green Giants: This award aims to find the individual or business that has shown an outstanding commitment to reducing their carbon footprint and promoting sustainability in the workplace.
Entries will be judged in line with the following criteria:
- Creativity: How the nominee has adopted a creative approach to their job (for example, looking at creative new solutions to everyday challenges) in the workplace?
- Upholding bacta’s values: How has this nominee upheld bacta’s core values (ethical, sustainable, modern, professional, partnering and open and transparent) in the workplace?
- Commitment to customer wellbeing: How has this nominee gone above and beyond to ensure that customer wellbeing is at the heart of their work (for example helping a customer who may be showing signs of problem gambling)?
- Team player: How has this nominee supported their colleagues in the place of work (for example offering to cover extra shifts, being a friendly and helpful face in the workplace)?
- Community spirit: How has this nominee worked to support their wider community through getting involved in activities such as mentoring, volunteering and fundraising for local causes?
John White, CEO of Bacta, said: “We are pleased to announce that entries for our inaugural 2022 awards are now open. Our industry has faced extremely tough times of late and we want to celebrate some of the hitherto unrecognised champions across the UK. For bacta, it’s more important than ever to be a team player, show community spirit and have a commitment to customer wellbeing.”
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Greentube reinvents the wheel with Silver Lux: Big Win Spinner
Greentube, the NOVOMATIC Interactive division, has introduced its latest retro title with a twist, Silver Lux: Big Win Spinner.
A classic three-reel stepper, this timeless slot is packed with thrilling modern features and a progressive jackpot for extra chances to win big amongst its nine paylines and Big Win Spinner wheel.
Players participate using credits rather than currency, with the base game played for 10 credits. Users must select the value of a single credit before the round begins to tailor the gaming experience.
Landing a combination of sevens or bar symbols awards credits with double sevens symbols substituting for single sevens symbols for bigger credit wins and multiplying the win by 2x.
When three Big Win Spinner Wild multiplier symbols land, 2000 credits are awarded, also multiplying all wins in the round by 2x.
Three Scatter Wheel symbols landing on the reels unlock the Big Win Spinner wheel feature where players can spin for the Grand or Major Silver Lux Linked progressive jackpots.
The outer wheel spins first awarding the player either a max win in credits or an upgrade to spin again on the inner wheel for the progressive jackpots if the spinner lands on the arrow. The inner Big Wheel Spinner wheel guarantees a progressive jackpot win which is paid out in currency rather than credits depending on the amount wagered by all players.
This latest entry to Greentube’s portfolio is the first of many Silver Lux titles to be released by the provider as part of a brand-new game series and it follows in the footsteps of other recent releases including Lightning Lion.
Bernd Baumert, Director of Games Production and Operations at Greentube, said: “Silver Lux: Big Win Spinner is the start of a new family for our expanding portfolio of engaging and immersive games, that we are very thrilled about.
“With the additional excitement of the progressive jackpots, we are sure players will enjoy the blend of classic slot fun alongside the modern features that this new title has to offer.”
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Relax Gaming brings back popular sloth in treetop adventure Epic Dreams
Relax Gaming has teamed up with CasinoDaddy once more to create its latest collaborative release as everyone’s favourite sloth, Chip, embarks on his latest escapade in Epic Dreams.
Following on from a hugely successful collaboration last year, the pair have upped the ante, elevating features from the 2023 hit Sloth Tumble.
Players can climb the lofty ladder up 50 levels to net themselves a maximum win of 5,000x by collecting matching coins and symbols.
Packed with memorable features including a Bonus Pick, Build Bonus and Dig Bonus, these encapsulate the thrilling experience on offer during Chip’s woodland adventure.
If all stone block symbols are destroyed at the end of the round the Bonus Pick is automatically triggered. On some spins the bottom row will contain Super Bonus stone blocks, breaking these blocks activates the Super Bonus Pick where players can pick between the super versions of the bonuses.
The Dig Bonus starts with five free spins, and every third stone block row destroyed reveals a level row, awarding +1 free spin. At the start of each spin, any stone block rows from the previous spin are kept. New stone block rows are added, so there are four for every free spin.
The Build Bonus starts with three rounds, where each round has a drop of three symbols and players win by filling a row with any symbol. Each individual symbol in the row pays as a 3 OAK win. When a win occurs, the round counter resets to three. Symbols drop onto random columns to the bottom-most position.
Next to the grid is a multiplier ladder, the ladder starts at x1 and increases by +1 each time a row is filled. The payout of paying symbols on a row is multiplied by the current multiplier.
Shelley Hannah, CPO at Relax Gaming, said: “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with CasinoDaddy and release Epic Dreams which sees Chip take on his most fun-filled adventure to-date, dispelling myths and proving that sloths are anything but chilled!
“We were delighted with the performance of Sloth Tumble and it seemed fitting to build on that success and elevate the features and mechanics that were integral in that game’s success and provide a fully immersive experience to players.”
Established as one of the industry’s leading B2B suppliers, Relax Gaming was awarded GGA’s Product Launch of the Year in February 2023 for Dream Drop Jackpots. Money Train 3 names the 2023 CasinoBeats Game Developer Awards amongst its 6 Slot of the Year titles, while the brand also won the award for Skill Games Supplier at the 2023 EGR B2B Awards along with the Innovation in Mobile award at the 2023 SBC Awards.
Relax Gaming provides more than 4,000 online casino games, from its high-performing proprietary slots to a significant, varied library of content from hand-picked third-party studios via its partnership programmes.
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Gaming Innovation Group reports Q1 2024
Highlights
- Reported revenues (GiG Media) at all-time high of €28.0m (18.4), an increase of 52% (21% organic), with an EBITDA of €13.5 (8.0)
- The group, including Platform & Sportsbook achieved all-time high revenues amounting to €36.2m (28.4), an increase of 28% YoY
- FTDs for GiG Media were 125,100 (110.800), up 13% YoY
- AskGamblers continued positive momentum, with record traffic, players generated, revenue and EBITDA
- Platform & Sportsbook signed eight new agreements and HoTs in Q1-24, and ten brands went live so far in 2024
- Existing customers on the platform add up to a total of 67 brands, with an additional integration pipeline of 18 brands as of today
- The business is operationaly ready for the strategic split of Media and Platform & Sportsbook. The split is expected by Q3 2024, pending approvals
Investor presentation and webcast
Chairman of the Board, Petter Nylander will host a presentation of the Q1 2024 results via livestream at 10:00 CET with Jonas Warrer, CEO Media and group CEO, and Richard Carter, CEO Platform & Sportsbook, attending. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A-session, and investors, analysts and journalists are welcome to participate. The presentation will be given in English.
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