Coin-op / Pay-to-play News

As the trade association, BACTA, gathers for its annual convention today, one of the prime topics of discussion was likely to be the scare circulating the industry this week that HM Customs has seized some SWP machines which pay out high-value prizes, apparently declaring that they should be taxed at £250 per year and threatening to demand back-tax for several years.
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Plans for a £2m attraction on South-Shields seafront, in the UK, which would include an FEC, children's amusement park, 4D cinema, climbing wall and go-karting, have been re-submitted to the local council by M&J Sherans Amusements, which claims there is a desperate need for "wet weather facilities" at Ocean Beach Pleasure Park.
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JCM's Lou Rudolph is moving from the group's US base to join the European company headquartered just outside Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Following recent inroads into the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, it is thought Sega could be making a second attempt at entering the Indian amusement market following talks with DLF, a real estate company, on the development of indoor gaming complexes.
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Games Warehouse has released the third 2008 GamePack Smart software for Paragon SWP terminals. The new V4.0 package introduces nine new games, including three from the Games Warehouse development team, two from the Merit Megatouch stable and four from third party designers.
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Austrian-based company Wettpunkt celebrated its newly refurbished casino in Zagreb on November 21 with a gala event that featured entertainment from Croatian performers Colonia and Kemal Monteno, among others.
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