In the five years since Australia’s Ainsworth Game Technology opened its North American headquarters in Las Vegas, the supplier has honed its ability to churn out high-earning slots, and has perfected the art of designing one style of game in particular: the high-denomination, traditional-style video slot.<\/p>
Ainsworth released an array of high-denomination products, ranging from simple volatile three-reel game in nine-line or five-line formats to five-reel offerings that take advantage of today's most popular game mechanics.<\/p>
The company’s high-denom games definitely are big earners. A quick glance at Eilers-Fantini's Game Performance Report for any month will show anywhere between five and 10 Ainsworth high-denom games that are among the top 25 revenue earners. ReelMetrics survey and industry gauges show similar results.<\/p>
Lower-volatility, low-denomination games, including a few carefully selected brands, have rounded out the company’s product library with offerings that, again, utilize the game features that have proven to be popular with players.<\/p>
Ainsworth has been working hard to create hardware that best reflects the game content it produces over the last few years. Covid-19's pandemic, which struck last year, interrupted major hardware rollsouts. A-STAR Curve (a slim cabinet that features a 43-inch floating monitor and dynamic LED lighting) gave Ainsworth game creators a powerful toolkit.<\/p>
Ainsworth's A-STAR Curve is in its prime and Ainsworth has launched the A-STAR Curve XL. A massive, new premium cabinet with a large, 4K curved LCD monitor (55 inches), a topper of 27 inches and all the dynamic LED lighting and touch-screen buttons decks that made the A-STAR Curve so special.<\/p>
This cabinet was introduced for the first time at the Indian Gaming Tradeshow (July) and is intended to be used by the premium player.<\/p>
“We couldn’t be more excited about the A-STAR Curve XL,” says Mike Trask, Ainsworth’s director of product marketing and strategy. “We’re really trying to reach a true gaming ops premium space with this cabinet. We think the game content has a few of the things that have made Ainsworth very successful over the past five to 10 years.”<\/p>
The launch series for the A-STAR Curve XL mines the company’s high-denom appeal with a game series called Take It or Leave It, with inaugural games Super Hot 7s Classic and Solid Gold 8s Classic. These three reel, 5- or 9-line, multi-line, seven-symbol games have traditional bar symbols and 7 symbols. They also include multiplying wild symbols such as 2X, 3X, 5X, and 5X. One giant bonus wheel is located at the top of the enormous monitor.<\/p>
The wheel bonus provides the game’s hook—the player gets up to four wheel spins. The bonus reward award is a wheel that lights up when it spins. You can either take your first result or you may try three times more to get a better outcome. (The game even advises the player when the bonus offer is “hot.”)<\/p>
You can play the games in multi-denomination packages with an option menu that includes $1, $5, and $10. According to Trask, the top-performing configuration on Ainsworth’s three-reel high-denomination offerings has been a $1 denomination with nine lines, with a max bet of five credits per line—a $45 maximum bet.<\/p>
“We’re seeing average bets on those come in well above $9; people are really chasing the wheel feature,” he says.<\/p>
In fact, according to Cody Herrick, Ainsworth’s senior director of game design, the latest statistics show that average bets on games offered in this configuration are around $22—between two and three times the minimum cover cost.<\/p>
“It’s built for gamblers,” Trask says of Take It or Leave It, which was developed by high-denom master Terry Daly. “There are no free games. There’s no fluff to it. This is a chase for a progressive or a massive win on that wheel.”<\/p>
The two launch games on the A-STAR Curve XL will be “front and center” at Ainsworth’s G2E booth, Trask says, adding that there are a number of follow-up games for the format that are in the pipeline that will be introduced at the show, including linked, branded versions of some of Ainsworth’s classic high-denom titles.<\/p>
A-STAR Curve XL will be available in California, Oklahoma, and Nevada by the end of Q4 this year.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/livecasino-puppy.aphex.me\/fr-ca\/Slot-Providers\/ainsworth\/","name":"Ainsworth","slug":"ainsworth","taxonomy":"vendor","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livecasino-puppy.aphex.me\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livecasino-puppy.aphex.me\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livecasino-puppy.aphex.me\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/vendor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/livecasino-puppy.aphex.me\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?vendor=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}