Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming FEBRUARY 2016 30 Tech Talk KONAMI GAMING Konami’s SYNKROS casino management system offers True-Time Tournaments. It’s one of SYNKROS’ top marketing tools, with award- winning functionality, according to company literature. True-Time Tournaments gives operators a single location to configure, manage and monitor both Player-on-Demand and SYNKstart synchronized tournaments. Casino properties are able to choose from a broad library of available tournament themes. In addition, Player-on- Demand tournaments allow patrons to choose which tournament theme they wish to play, in true multi-game format to help keep promotions fresh and engaging. True-Time Tournaments allows players to earn tournament entries from any machine and play tournaments on machines that are picture-in-picture enabled. Any touch- screen enabled machine can be instantly transformed into a tournament-capable machine, and then returned back into revenue-generating game play. Casino operators do not have to reserve dedicated tournament-only machines, nor do they have to purchase specific machines from a vendor in order to launch tournament capabilities across their casino floor. Everything is managed, controlled and deployed through a single location within SYNKROS. “One of Konami’s high priorities is to deliver as much loyalty information to the player as possible directly onto their smartphone,” Ratner said. “Konami’s SYNKiosk mobile application pulls real-time information from their SYNKROS casino management system and will allow players to access and view information that is typically available to them while they are at the slot machine, such as bonus offers and incentives. For instance; allowing loyalty patrons to view and redeem their tournament entries on a mobile device. Players will be able to play their tournament game via smartphone if the property allows. Once a player earns their tournament entry at the casino property, they can view it on their phone from anywhere and play their entry remotely, or at any video slot machine with windowing functionality.” “In terms of our outlook moving forward, Konami is uniquely focused on delivering player experiences directly on to mobile devices,” Ratner added. “For example, the potential for players to use their personal smartphone as a medium to view information that The SYNKROS demonstration area at Konami Gaming ’s G2E booth