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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fresh from major wins in the 2014 Goldman Sachs Slot Manager Survey, Aristocrat is bringing the year’s most anticipated games and award-winning system products to Southern Gaming Summit.

Aristocrat will be in booth #808 and will present what is perhaps the strongest product portfolio in the company’s 60 year history.

“We have extended the depth and breadth of our game product offering with top performing titles that appeal to multiple, key player segments. Our intent is to assure that an Aristocrat cabinet is a highest yielding, most flexible, and longest lasting investment option for our operator customers,” said Aristocrat Chief Product Officer Rich Schneider. “At Southern Gaming Summit, we are proud to present our J*SERIES, C*SERIES, E*SERIES, new titles in our Gaming Operations line and new Oasis 360 system products – a total package unlike any other in our history.”

Moving the game forward will be Aristocrat’s new Helix Slant and Helix Super Screen Slant cabinets, a bold new design that is metaphoric of Aristocrat’s powerful presence on any casino floor. Several of Aristocrat’s newest product offerings will be prominently displayed in the Helix cabinet. To ensure maximum versatility and value for the operator, the cabinet is backward compatible with Aristocrat’s library of existing VIRIDIAN WS GEN7 game titles.

Aristocrat’s runaway hit Buffalo was named the top performing game for the third year in a row in Goldman Sachs’ 2014 Slot Manager Survey. The Walking Dead Slot Game also topped the survey, named the most anticipated game of the year, and Buffalo Stampede and E*SERIES were in the top six of the most anticipated games.

These new games will be on display along with other highly anticipated titles including Batman Classic TV Series Slot Game. This high-profile game is powered by Wonder Wheels, the new game category that features three mechanical wheels designed to increase player engagement and retention.

A whirlwind of iconic rock, The Rolling Stones Slot Machine makes its grand debut at Southern Gaming Summit, and the legend continues in Tarzan of the Apes, the newest game in the wildly popular Tarzan game franchise.

Lighting up the tradeshow floor in the powerful new Helix cabinet is the new Quick Fire game category with the exciting titles Electric Boogaloo and Golden Peach.

Aristocrat’s E*SERIES expands with the new titles Selene and Secret of the Golden Flower. Both games deliver a high level of entertainment for the longer-time-on-device player segment.

The new J*SERIES delivers a high frequency of jackpots to further increase player excitement, and the C*SERIES is expanded with Aristocrat’s exclusive line of core games.

Aristocrat’s award-winning Oasis 360 is the most widely used CMS in North America. The Oasis 360 portfolio is growing and is complemented by its open platform, designed for easy third-party integration. Two new Oasis 360 products, nVision Cloud Solutions and Episodic Bonusing were recently named winners in the Casino Enterprise Management’s 2014 Slot Floor Technology Awards.

“We are more excited than ever about our business, and we are just getting started. Come visit us at SGS, and see how we have transformed the game,” Schneider said.

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LAS VEGAS -- Regional gaming operator Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. on Wednesday dismissed an investor proposal to spin-off the company’s 14 casinos into a real estate investment trust.

During a conference call to discuss the Las Vegas-based company’s first quarter earnings, Pinnacle officials said they are focused on consolidating the casinos the company acquired last year in its $2.8 billion buyout of rival Ameristar Casinos.

Pinnacle CEO Anthony Sanfilippo said the company wants to reduce its $4.35 billion in debt, much of which was taken on because of the Ameristar transaction.

However, Sanfilippo said the company might consider the idea in the future. Earlier this month, Orange Capital, a New York-based investment fund, suggested the REIT split, which is similar the split performed last year by Penn National Gaming, as a way to increase shareholder value.

REITs don’t pay federal income taxes, but return 90 percent of their taxable earnings to shareholders.

Sanfilippo said Pinnacle was keeping its options open in regards to continued expansion. He told analysts it was unlikely the company would pursue a potential casino development in Japan but was interested in one of the four available casino licenses in upstate New York.

Pinnacle submitted a refundable $1 million application fee to join the New York process, even though the company hasn’t designated a site preference.

“It has to be compelling to move forward and compete for a license,” Sanfilippo said.

Pinnacle said results in the quarter, which ended March 31, were helped by inclusion of the Ameristar properties, which doubled the size of the regional company.

Pinnacle reversed a first quarter loss from a year ago by reporting net income 0f $19 million and earnings per share of 31 cents. A year ago, the company lost $85.4 million or 31 cents per share. Net revenue grew 100 percent to $532.8 million.

Pinnacle conducted the earnings call from its Belterra property in Northern Indiana. On Thursday, the company opens the remodeled $209 million Belterra Race Track and Casino in nearby Cincinnati. Sanfilippo said the properties will address two different audiences.

Analysts have worried about diminished gaming revenue from regional gaming markets over the past few months. Pinnacle’s results, however, buoyed the company in the eyes of the investment community.

“We expect these results to help Pinnacle remove itself from others in regional gaming who have fewer margin opportunities,” said Macquarie Securities gaming analyst Chad Beynon. “Pinnacle’s strong portfolio of assets continues to outperform the market.”

LAS VEGAS -- MGM Resorts International released details Wednesday about the $80 million transformation of the The Hotel into the Delano Las Vegas, which includes remodeling all aspects of the 1,100-room nongaming hotel into a boutique-style luxury property.

The transformation began this month and the renovations are scheduled to be completed by September. The change is a collaboration between MGM Resorts and the Morgans Hotel Group, which owns the Delano brand.

Changes include new designs and furnishings to the property’s guest rooms and suites, including redesigned hallways and corridors.

The property’s public spaces the property’s restaurants will also be changed to include a new lobby area, 3940 Coffee + Tea, which is a new 24-hour coffee bar; and a new restaurant concept on the lobby level. The hotel’s bar and lounge area will also be remodeled under a new name, Franklin, and will feature nightly entertainment.

The current Mix on the property’s 64th floor, will be renamed Rivea and serve French and Italian cuisine from chef Alain Ducasse.

LAS VEGAS -- Stop the presses. Steve Wynn declared Las Vegas is on the road to recovery Thursday.

At the outset of a first-quarter conference call with analysts, the Wynn Resorts Ltd. chairman and CEO said he was “feeling good about Las Vegas, better than I had in the past.”

Wynn based his opinion on the company’s results from Wynn Las Vegas and Encore during the three-month period that ended March 31.

The resorts’ overall revenue total — $380.9 million — was a 1.5 percent decline from a year ago and accounted for just 25 percent of the company’s overall first quarter revenue of $1.51 billion.

It was the nontraditional reporting numbers that Wall Street uses to gauge profitability that caused Wynn to proclaim the Strip’s recovery.

The average daily room rate at the two resorts increased 6.2 percent to $275 per night. Revenue per available room, often referred to as RevPar, grew 12.6 percent to $214.

“That makes us the most profitable hotel in Las Vegas,” Wynn said. “Las Vegas is growing into the additional capacity that it added in the past. CityCenter and Encore opened at the worst possible time in the national economy.”

While other gaming industry CEOs have said the Strip was on the road to recovery, Wynn was reluctant to do so.

Until Thursday.

“I see Las Vegas getting a footing that it hasn’t in the past,” Wynn said.

Still, Wynn Resorts is a company that relies on Macau.

Fueled by its two Macau casinos, Wynn Resorts said its net income for the first quarter was $226.9 million, or $2.22 per share. A year ago, the company’s net income was $203 million or $2 per share. Wynn’s overall revenue increased 9.8 percent over the 2013 first quarter.

In Macau, the revenue produced by Wynn Macau and Encore at Wynn Macau increased 14.2 percent to $1.13 billion.

During the conference call, Wynn executives focused much of the discussion toward Macau.

The company is building the $4 billion Wynn Palace on Cotai that is expected to open in 2016. The 1,700-room hotel-casino includes a performance lake, meeting space, spa, retail offerings, and restaurants.

Wynn described the property as “an entertainment experience from outside” with features like flower sculpture of a 25-foot-tall Fabergé egg and restaurants that have theaters with full stages.

The property, “will be the photo-op of South China. And that’s just to get everybody in,” Wynn said.

A second phase will more than double the size of the hotel with all-suite product.

Meanwhile, the company is now re-configuring of the original casino inside Wynn Macau so it doesn’t lose business to the new resort. Wynn said the changes will be completed before the opening of Wynn Paradise.

Wynn Resorts, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and MGM Resorts International are all building new resorts on Cotai in order to increase their footing in the world’s largest casino market, which produced $45.2 billion in gaming revenue last year.

Wynn credited his Macau casino rivals, saying “our competitors have lifted the game. It caused us to lift our standards as well.”

However, a question about the company’s prospects with winning a casino license in Japan — which is considering legalizing gaming — Wynn was gracious toward the chances of other companies with one exception, Caesars Entertainment Corp.

“They have other problems. Money problems,” Wynn said.

Separately, Reuters reported that Universal Entertainment Corp. and its billionaire founder Kazuo Okada filed a criminal complaint against Wynn Resorts and Steve Wynn in Japan on allegations of defamation.

The complaint is the latest salvo in a long-running feud between the two former business partners.

Universal said in a statement it submitted the complaint with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on April 24, accusing the casino operator and Wynn of “defamation, harm to public trust and circulation of rumors” in relation to the publication of an investigation into Universal’s conduct in the Philippines.

The investigation was commissioned by Wynn and made public in early 2012.

In an emailed statement, Wynn said the criminal complaint was an attempt by Okada “to create a distraction from the investigations pending against him.”