GameAccount Network has signed a multi-year software licensing agreement with Lottomatica, a global lottery and numeric games operator.
Lottomatica is also one of the main gaming and commercial service providers and operates the most extensive online network infrastructure within Italy. The objective is to launch GameAccount Network’s suite of skill-based games in the newly regulated Italian market in the autumn.
The deal will enable Lottomatica’s online customers to engage in playing real money tournaments for GameAccount’s portfolio of online skill games, including poker, dice, gin rummy, backgammon, dominoes and briscola.
"GameAccount was chosen after an exhaustive process investigating the commercial potential and cultural appetite in Italy for GameAccount’s Skill Games portfolio, the experience of potential suppliers and the technical and regulatory capabilities of their respective platforms," said Francesco Mastantuoni, manager at Lottomatica.
GameAccount’s software is compatible with the stringent technical requirements of regulated and licensed Italian operators and grants Lottomatica the opportunity to be among the first major operators to bring GameAccount’s skill-based games to Italy for real money competition.
Dermot Smurfit, GameAccount’s COO, said: "Later this summer we launch real money tournaments, heralding a new suite of skill games for the fast-growing Italian market."
