The recent Wild Coast Winter Games in South Africa was an excellent opportunity for DRGT to present more systems innovations.
Exhibiting together with African partner Simplicit-e Gaming, DRGT displayed the successful Duma wide-area progressive. This was a joint development between Sun International, Simplicit-e Gaming, Gold Club and DRGT and has proven to be popular, cited as “one of the best performing products we have ever had on our casino floors” by Des Whitcher, director of gaming and slots at Sun International. At the WCWG Sun International announced they will be expanding this WAP from a current 160 slots to in excess of 200.
This was topped by the Sun International announcement that the latest DRGT WAP (once again a joint development between Simplicit-e Gaming, Gold Club and DRGT) called Sun Striker will be launched by the end of Q3 of this year on an initial 170 slots across all of Sun International’s South African casinos.
The entire range of DRGT systems is gaining quickly in popularity as well. This serverless technology is particularly beneficial to operators in Africa as all information is contained in the drSMIB within the slot machine, so a central server is not necessary. This saves on investment and running costs and makes the systems management simple to control for operators.
DRGT also announced the adoption of its ticketing and gaming management solution by Boss Gaming for bingo sites in Port Elizabeth and East London, connecting an initial total of 328 bingo devices. Said Dave Winter for Boss Gaming: “With its plug-and-play scalability and the proven reliability of the platform with tickets or cards in such diverse environments, we are looking forward to unleashing the power of the DRGT ticket-in, ticket-out promotions capability to deliver a truly outstanding guest experience.”
