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ICE – Vermantia launching Virtual Baseball

By Phil - 3 February 2017

Vermantia is set to introduce the first Virtual Baseball game in the industry at this year’s ICE.
Virtual Baseball is part of Vermantia’ s premium Virtual Sports Suite the largest selection of its kind worldwide, covering all mainstream sports and racing.

The company will also be launching Vermantia eSPORTS, an all-inclusive 24/7 betting solution. This is based on eSports events, from single games to tournaments and will break ground in immersive gaming content. Since eSports will premiere at this year’s show, Vermantia will offer ICE attendees the exciting opportunity to watch a live CS:GO challenge between professional teams and also try their own shooting skills at CS:GO maps, specifically designed for the event.

One of the company’s highlights this year is Vermantia CONNECT, a multi-vendor, multi-content platform, which includes more than 20 unique virtual games, premium international live sports and racing events, 85+ Instant Win Games, as well as cutting-edge eSports and engaging Daily Fantasy Sports. The platform utilizes a single Universal Scheduler, offering a seamless integration between operators and content or service providers.

Moreover, visitors will be able to join Vermantia’s Player’s Journey, where they will feel a real betting shop experience. Setting its sights on a whole new world in retail, Vermantia will be introducing Vermantia VISION, the next generation Content Management System, providing lottery and betting shops operators with high quality content management and display, in a seamless extension of its globally leading broadcasting solutions. Vermantia FLAVOR, an innovative touch screen self-service terminal, will also be presented, to offer both infotainment and a self-contained betting environment for all game verticals. Completing the retail puzzle and acting as a “mobile bridge” between retail and online, Vermantia TOUCH, a native smart phone application, will transform anonymous players’ mobile devices’ to a personal self-service terminal.

Filippos Antonopoulos, Vermantia’s CEO, said:“ICE Totally Gaming is the true New Year’s Day for our industry. For the fourth consecutive year, we are looking forward to recap an exceptional year of growth, and to renew our vision, commitment and focus on providing innovative and omni-channel content solutions for the gaming industry. The entire team at Vermantia is looking forward to hosting old friends and meeting new ones, while showcasing our continuing push for product innovation and custom solutions for our operating partners.”

ermantia is teaming up with LEAP Gaming to expand its virtual games portfolio by adding new virtual sports, including Virtual Tennis and Virtual Speedway, all available for retail, online and mobile.
The new games by Leap will be integrated onto Vermantia Connect, the company’s proprietary gaming platform, enabling operators to select virtual games from the largest single-source collection globally.

Dan Fischer, LEAP Gaming’s Chief Commercial Officer, stated: “We are excited to partner up with Vermantia that enables us to reach a larger and diversified customer base. Our virtual games, being already successful among premium online operators, are now accessible also to the retail networks of large operators being powered by Vermantia’s solutions.”

Yiannis Gangas, Vermantia’s Chief Product Officer, commented: “We are delighted to kick off our collaboration with Leap Gaming in line with our strategy for making available to our customers the widest choice of premium virtual games in the marketplace. Through this agreement, Leap games will become instantly available to all our existing and new customers through a seamless integration to our Connect platform.”