Next Generation Players Require Next Generation Casino Games, so Merkur Gaming is saying

Casino Games have been the least flexible games regarding change from all the games in the world. If you look at the backbone of the casino industry, meaning slot machines and table games, they have basically suffered close to no change for the last 100 years. Sure the slot games went from mechanical to digital but the core and gameplay remains the same. The reason this industry’s games remain unchanged is simple, it works as it is!
For the current casino players, who haven’t been hit by advances in entertainment technology, the games you find now in your local casino or any online casino are just perfect. But is this whole ideology of not revolutionizing the way casino games are played about to be rocked?

The casino games revolution is here!

The answer is yes, according to Merkur Gaming. Due to the fact that the new generation of youngsters, and future casino players, are born and raised into the computer gaming cult, pushing some buttons and pulling a rod in order to wait for winnings won’t cut it anymore. Many say that if a challenge element won’t be brought into the casino games scene, in the near future the casinos will be as deserted as an obsolete town in the Wild West.
In Mexico City, the team at Mercur Gaming is testing a slot machine that has players sit inside a cozy, futuristic-looking orb much like sensory heavy arcade video games.
It’s part of a blend of thoughts to provide skill players social games that appeal to younger generations and at the same time keeping traditional casino games that older demographics are used to. That’s not enough for a younger generation that grew up on fast-paced video games. The industry is looking to attract them with games similar to ones they’re already used to playing.

Here comes the new generation of slot machines

At a recent casino game makers convention in Las Vegas, studio head of Gamblit Gaming, Edvard Toth, showed everyone a game similar to Angry Birds, in which, on a touchscreen table with a flick of your finger you can launch a puppy dog in a police uniform hurdling towards a zombie cat.
“This is a slot machine that doesn’t look like a slot machine,” he said.
The company’s goal is to get the players in the 21 to 45 years of age to get more into casino games and slot machines. A number of 4 games will be launched and rolled into U.S. casinos: Lucky Words (think Scrabble), Police Pooches (like Angry Birds), Dreadnaught (like Battleship) and Raze (think Risk). If they are successful online casinos are next.
All slot games were publicly displayed at the G2E Global Gaming Expo.
To meet regulatory rules, the new games must be as much a game of chance as a traditional slot machine — a requirement that makes it difficult to design a game that includes an element of skill.
To appeal to the gaming regulations, the new slot games, similarly to the traditional slots will need to be a game of chance. This requirement proves the design of a new game that includes elements of skill quite difficult but not impossible, says Edvard Toth.
If this revolution will pick up or not we have no clue at the moment, partly due to the casino players reluctance to embrace technological change regarding the games they play. But one thing’s for certain, it will be a fun revolution to watch while it happens.