Frank Legato, Author at GGB News

Author: Frank Legato

Frank Legato is editor of Global Gaming Business magazine. He has been writing on gaming topics since 1984, when he launched and served as editor of Casino Gaming magazine. Legato, a nationally recognized expert on slot machines, has served as editor and reporter for a variety of gaming publications, including Public Gaming, IGWB, Casino Journal, Casino Player, Strictly Slots and Atlantic City Insider. He has an B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in communications from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of the humor book How To Win Millions Playing Slot Machines... Or Lose Trying, and a coffee table book on Atlantic City, Atlantic City: In Living Color.

GLPI to Buy Cordish Live! Casino Real Estate

Gaming and Leisure Properties will acquire the real estate under Cordish Companies’ three Live! Casinos, including the one in South Philadelphia (l.). The deal is part of a $1.81...

Published December 13, 2021

HHR King

Ainsworth has led the way for the industry to delve into a new market for slot suppliers in historical horse racing. Kentucky and Virginia lead the way and other...

Published November 29, 2021

AGS, Exacta: Frontrunners in Historical Horse Racing

The race is to the swift in the growing historical horse racing market, and AGS and Exacta Systems are out in front of an increasingly crowded field. As its...

Published October 25, 2021

IGT’s Knudson: ‘Seeking Economic Fairness, Justice’ for Tribes

Knute Knudson’s (l.) induction this month into the AGA Gaming Hall of Fame caps a career dedicated to the success of the tribal gaming industry. Knudson is vice president...

Published October 18, 2021

Back to Business, Face to Face

The industry’s suppliers return in person to G2E to display a wealth of innovation developed despite the pandemic and industry shutdown. And the customers responded. See exclusive video highlights...

Published October 11, 2021

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Nick Khin, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Domenico Pastia, Senior Vice President of Global Product, International Game Technology

This week, the GGB Podcast features a discussion with Nick Khin, the senior vice president and chief operating officer, and Domenico Pastia, senior vice president of global product, for...

Published October 11, 2021

Cordish’s Live Philadelphia Introduces ‘The Final Piece’

The Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia, a Cordish Companies property, has fulfilled its status as a full-service resort with the unveiling last week of the 15,000-square-foot Event Center (l.)....

Published October 4, 2021

New Day, Big Investment at Bally’s Atlantic City

The Memorial Day weekend ribbon-cutting for a new outdoor bar at Bally’s Atlantic City is a big step in the revival of the iconic Boardwalk property, now owned by...

Published May 31, 2021

GGB Podcast: Nick Hogan, Co-Founder and CEO, Reelmetrics

This week, a special edition of the GGB Podcast features Nick Hogan, the co-founder and CEO of Reelmetrics, a company designed to determine what slot games are preferred by...

Published May 17, 2021

GGB PODCAST SPECIAL EDITION: Joseph Billhimer, Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania, The Cordish Companies

In this special edition of the GGB Podcast, Editor Frank Legato interviews Joe Billhimer, the executive vice president and leader of the Pennsylvania properties for the Cordish Companies, about...

Published February 15, 2021

New Live! Casino Opens in Philly

Cordish Companies is unveiling its Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia in a series of reservation-only Preview Days ahead of the grand opening February 11. Live! is the city’s second...

Published January 25, 2021

GameCo to Launch Esports Book

GameCo LLC has partnered with USBookmaking to launch the first-ever esports sportsbook, available first at the Sky Ute Casino Resort (l.) and to all players in Colorado, says GameCo...

Published December 21, 2020

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Jorge Perez, President and COO, MGM National Harbor

This week the GGB Podcast sits down with Jorge Perez, the president and chief operating officer of MGM National Harbor, who explains about his recent appointment and the difficult...

Published November 30, 2020

Unprecedented Challenges

G2E panel offers varied supplier, operator perspectives on how the gaming industry has survived the pandemic crisis. Panelists included (l. to r.) Ellen Whittemore, executive vice president of Wynn...

Published November 9, 2020

Road Show Rules

Today we catch up with Konami’s traveling road show when the WINovation trailer pulls into Atlantic City and reveals a dynamic exhibit of the supplier’s newest games in absence...

Published October 19, 2020

PA Lawmakers Hear Testimony on Skill Games, VGTs

A committee of the Pennsylvania state House heard testimony at a public hearing on the legalization of so-called “skill games” (l.) and an expansion of the video gaming terminal...

Published October 19, 2020

In Pursuit of VGTs

Novomatic Americas joins other route suppliers of video gaming terminals in a push to legalize distributed gaming in new states, as state and local governments seek to make up...

Published October 12, 2020

Eilers & Krejcik Invests in AI

Eilers & Krejcik Gaming has made a strategic investment in software provider Gaming Analytics, and in the emerging technology of artificial intelligence.

Published august 24, 2020

Cordish Companies: Betting Big on PA

Cordish Companies’ Stadium Casino subsidiary is forging ahead with projects in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with both on target despite Covid-19 shutdowns. Joseph Billhimer (l.), senior vice president of Pennsylvania...

Published July 27, 2020

Free Rounds for Jersey

The online sites of New Jersey’s Golden Nugget, Resorts and other operators are offering Free Rounds, a mainstay of traditional casino slot clubs, brought online as part of an...

Published July 27, 2020