Blueprint Gaming, the software company based in Newark which forms part of the Gauselmann Group’s growing business interests in the UK, is to set up a production line for British gaming machines.
The company will use its own content, which is already going into online and server-based machines, in Gauselmann cabinets, building them on the German production line, but expressly for the UK market.
Blueprint Manufacturing will be headed by Glyn Mellor, said Blueprint advisor Richard Wilson. “The machines will go into British adult gaming centres, front-line pubs and bingo clubs. The decision to manufacture machines came as a direct result of requests from customers. We have had a considerable amount of success providing content for various applications, but we were asked to also supply completed machines.”
The announcement came at the G2E exhibition in Las Vegas, where parent company Gauselmann had a large stand under the banner of its Merkur Gaming company. “At this show,” said Wilson, “we have opened negotiations with a number of customers, which is going to lead to a substantial number of orders for the new machines.” The games will go into Gauselmann slant-top cabinets.
Pictured are Richard Wilson (left) with Werner Schroer, chairman of Merkur Gaming, and one of the slant-top cabinets which will be used to house UK-targeted software.
