WMS Gaming has extended its long-term licence agreement with Hasbro for exclusive worldwide rights to produce slot machines and other gaming machines featuring the Monopoly brand.
In addition to extending the licence through to 2016, WMS has also secured the rights to develop gaming machines based on the popular Battleship and Cluedo board game brands.
“As the exclusive worldwide licensee of the Monopoly brand for gaming machines, our talented development teams and engineers have taken one of Hasbro’s flagship brands, and by combining its name recognition and familiar icons with creative game content and innovative technologies, developed one of the industry’s most successful series of participation gaming machines for use in licensed casinos,” said Orrin J Eddin, president of WMS Industries.
“Since introducing our first Monopoly branded participation games in fiscal 1999, we have developed more than 60 approved Monopoly branded games, including 12 over the last two fiscal years. This extension of the Monopoly licence agreement acknowledges our consistent development of great games based on this worldwide icon and secures access for our creative teams to one of the world’s most enduring entertainment properties for many years to come that will benefit our casino customers, casino patrons, Hasbro and WMS.”
