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UK – 1X2gaming and Leap Gaming team up on virtual sports
By Phil - 2 November 2015
1X2gaming and Leap Gaming have announced a strategic partnership with the release of a completely new turnkey graphical Virtual Sports product, which is being broadcasted throughout the 1X2gaming platform, and will shortly be expanded further onto their platform partners.
This exciting partnership will harness the power of Leap’s unified 3D games’ generation platform which is capable of creating best of breed, ultra-realistic 3D games in an agile mode, and utilise 1X2gamings established API, which will allow for the ultimate Virtual Sports experience to be delivered to the masses.
The initial release includes Horse Racing, Greyhounds, Speedway and Velodrome, with Tennis and Trotting due for release this year and Football staggered in early 2016. The graphical Virtual product includes ultra-realistic graphics and audio features, along with a user interface which is both smooth and intuitive. It also comprises of a fully responsive and customisable design, which is tailored for all platforms, making it available on both mobile & desktop in one module as well easily deployable in retail PoS.
Kevin Reid, Chief Marketing Officer of 1X2gaming, said: “I am proud to be a part of such an innovative and ground breaking project alongside our trusted friends at Leap Gaming. This deal has allowed for our respective companies to focus on what we both do best in order to create a product that is set to revolutionise the virtual sports medium. The addition of a graphical Virtual sports product is a huge step for 1X2gaming, and opens up a new & exciting frontier for us as a company. We feel that this product is perfectly complementary to data driven Virtual Sports games, which have been hugely successful since launch in 2002.”
Yariv Lissauer, CEO at Leap-Gaming, said: “We are truly excited about this new partnership with 1X2gaming which allowed for the release of our mutual virtual sport turnkey solution. The solution is the most wholesome VS application available in the market today and will continue to constantly evolve, while introducing genuine innovation to this domain. This partnership releases massive synergies as it allows both companies to play to their respective strengths: Leap – it’s superb graphic and client side development capabilities; and 1X2gaming – its robust server side, data driven VS management and extensive distribution network.”
