Fremantle Media Chose Psiclone Games Ltd to develop their new Category B3 game ‘The X Factor B3’. Psiclone’s ability to develop in a fast and responsive way secured the deal.
The X Factor B3 goes live in Ladbrokes this month on its entire estate of Barcrest ‘Lara’ cabinets and will be followed next month by a release into Mecca Bingo on the Barcrest T7 cabinets.
Psiclone put on a strong showing at the ENADA 2010 trade show in Rome this week. With 3 separate products on show Psiclone was the largest collection of independent content on the Inspired network and was available to view on 3 different stands throughout the 3 day show.
You can see Snakes, Ladders & Cash Adders as well as Fairground Fortunes in the screenshot.
Psiclone Games Ltd are pleased to have been chosen by Inspired Gaming Group as one of only 2 external suppliers to support Inspired’s entry into the new Italian Comma6b market.
Psiclones unique game engine gives them the ability to make a single game interact with many different platforms and this coupled with their rapid and flexible development cycle and many years of experience working with Inspired made them the ideal candidate.
Several of Psiclones range of successful UK category B3 games such as ‘Snakes, Ladders & Cash Adders’ which is still going strong a year after release and ‘Escape the Rat Race’ which (just like its predecessor Snakes) jumped straight to a top quartile position when launched on William Hill’s LBO estate will be converted to the new market.
Sean Bastick, director of Psiclone said “We are happy to be moving into the Italian market and exploring the new opportunities that it presents. We have a proven track record of creating quality content on Inspired’s terminals and we are confident this will be a successful venture.”
After exhaustive testing and plenty of governmental inspection Inspired Gaming Group’s Italian Comma6b platform goes live and with it Psiclone’s Snakes & Ladders Game.
This is the first and only game to have a live progressive jackpot in Italy under the new Comma6b regulations. This puts Psiclone at the forefront of the new gaming experiencein Italy. Addendum since going live the game has paid a great many jackpots, some over €250,000.
Psiclone Games Ltd have successfully released their Snakes, Ladders & Cash Adders Category B3 game on to Gala Bingo’s ‘Wizard’ terminals running on the Gala Gaming Platform. The game, already successful in the LBO space, has blown away its competition on the platform and generated significant new income uplifting the overall take from the Wizard terminals.
Following its runaway success Gala and Psiclone have collaborated to produce a special tournament version of the game just for Gala Wizard players.
Despite the global recession, demand for Psiclone Games products and services is getting stronger all the time. Following on from successful London IGE & ATEI shows, in contrast to many other companies Psiclone has been recruiting and has recently further increased the size of both its art and programming departments. This will enable Psiclone to increase its output, expand its customer base and further enhance its already recognised high standards.
One of the new art departments first tasks is to revamp the company website www.psiclonegames.co.uk to reflect the new exiting products Psiclone have in store for 2009.
Director Sean Bastick commented: “Our strategy of keeping a small team of quality staff worked well for us in 2008. With a greater workload forecast for 2009 we feel the time is right to slowly expand whilst sticking to our small team policy“.
July saw Psiclone Games renews development contract with Inspired Gaming Group for a second year. In September Psiclone’s new “Snakes, Ladders & Cash Adders” Category B3 game goes live on INGG’s OpenSBG platform immediately reaching a top quartile position.
Finally in October a selection of Psiclone’s games content was shown on the Gemini Games Stand at the Preview Show. The games, including both Category B3 and High Tech Category C versions of the increasingly strong “Snakes, Ladders & Cash Adders” branded games were shown in Gemini’s new low cost rebuild cabinet as both stand alone and multi game options.
Inspired Gaming Group (Inspired) has signed a contract with leading software developer Psiclone Games for the supply of exclusive gaming content for its large network of FOBTs and AWP terminals. The deal will also see Psiclone providing software support for a number of game assets their staff previously created at the now defunct Eclipse Gaming.
“We are pleased to have a company of Psiclone’s quality and expertise, working with us on an exclusive basis. The deal further enhances our already enviable catalogue of gaming content.” said Norman Crowley, co-CEO of Inspired.
“We are all very enthusiastic at Psiclone about the deal. It shows a real commitment from Inspired and underlines the fact that it sees us as a strong and credible partner.” Sean Bastick, Director of Psiclone, commented.
Mike Fox, Director of Psiclone added “We are very pleased to expand our work with Inspired. What better recommendation could Psiclone Games get, as a new business, than to sign a long-term contract with one of the leaders of the industry.“
Mike Fox and Sean Bastick formed Psiclone Games when their previous employer, Eclipse Gaming, collapsed. They took on key staff from Eclipse and set out to create a small but high quality UK gaming development house using their already considerable experience in the industry.
The company started well with an almost immediate signing of a 1 year development contract with the Inspired Gaming Group and has been moving upwards ever since.
