GameCo, Inc., the New York-based supplier that introduced skill-based gaming in Atlantic City last fall with its Video Game Gambling Machines, or VGMs, is now looking to spread its footprint to the Macau gaming market.
GameCo has submitted its VGM to Macau regulators, and at the recent G2E Asia trade show, company CEO Blaine Graboyes said the aim is to have VGMs in place in Macau before the end of the year. “We are hoping to be here in 2017,” Graboyes said of Macau in an interview with GGRAsia. “We are currently working on an update of our game for the Macau 1.1 (electronic gaming machine technical) standards.”
At G2E Asia, GameCo displayed the two VGM games that were introduced in Atlantic City last year—“Danger Arena,” a first-person shooter game; and “Pharaoh’s Secret Temple,” a mobile-style puzzle game. The action game is on a cabinet similar to an arcade game, with a on-board controller.
“We are targeting Macau initially, with the aim of very quickly moving outward from there (to other Asian markets),” Graboyes told GGRAsia. “We are just starting the (Macau) licensing and registration process. We have established partnerships with distributors here in Macau and other areas in Asia.”
