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Partnership Enables PacificNet Games to Rapidly Expand Gaming Product Lines via Partnership Agreement with Casino Management System Leader.

MACAU, China, Sept. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — PacificNet, Inc. , a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), mobile internet, e-commerce and gaming technology in China, announced today that its PacificNet Games ( # ) subsidiary has signed a strategic alliance partnership agreement with leading casino management system provider Advansys ( # ).

Through this partnership, PacificNet Games will deploy Advansys products in multiple Asian markets, customize existing products to meet local gaming requirements and co-develop new casino management systems for Asian casinos. PactGames currently carries a wide range of gaming product lines, including EGT Series and CyberCash Series Slot machines, Virgin Series MultiPlayer Casino gaming machines, eTable Series Multiplayer casino gaming machines, and the Evona series casino roulette. This partnership with Advansys adds to this product line a world-class casino management system, giving PactGames a complete and strengthened product line. Other suppliers of casino management systems include IGT, Aristocrat, BallyTech, and Progressive Gaming.

The Advansys casino management system includes slot accounting, cage management, player tracking, slot marketing, and slot machine maintenance. This summer, Advansys launched SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing, which is used for the management of Ticket-In, Ticket-Sut (TITO) slot operations in place of traditional coins. SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing is an upgrade to SlotScanner(TM) Accounting & Cage and operates on all slot machines that support reading and printing of cash-out tickets. Ticketing is very popular with players that value the privacy of their play, simplicity of use and instant transfer of credits from one machine to another. SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing is a solution for operators who want to increase the efficiency and profitability of their slot floor by reducing or eliminating hopper fills and decreasing labor costs. Advansys has seen strong demand for all of its casino management products due to Asian operators facing growing competition, which is bringing an increased need for casino efficiency and a stronger push to gain player loyalty.

Tony Tong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PacificNet, said “We highly respect Advansys’ strength and knowledge in casino management systems. We are excited about the features, quality and income generation potential of Advansys’s gaming products. We think Advansys’s gaming products are complementary to PacificNet Games’ multi-player electronic gaming machine product lines and we believe that Advansys’ gaming products will further enhance PacificNet’s position to become a leading gaming technology provider in Asia. With our mature gaming product line, strong presence and installation base, this partnership with Advansys will greatly enhance PacificNet’s efforts to expand penetration of our products in Asia and the rest of the world.”

As of the end of 2025, Macau (a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China) has become the largest and fastest-growing gaming market in the world, and has surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in total revenues. According to statistics provided by Macau government, in 2025, Macau’s gaming revenues reached US$7 billion (MOP 56.2 billion patacas), surpassing the Las Vegas Strip gaming revenues of US$6.6 billion. Macau borders Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province of China, one of the country’s wealthiest and most developed regions and is an hour away from Hong Kong via ferry. In 2025, the number of tourists visiting Macau reached an all-time record of 22 million, an increase of 17 percent compared with 2025, of which 55%, or 12 million visitors, were from mainland China. By 2025, the number of tourists is expected to nearly double to almost 30 million visitors per year. Approximately one billion people live within a three-hour flight of Macau. With the disposable income of the average Chinese on the rise, Macau’s gaming and entertainment market is expected to grow for years to come. Macau is the only area in China where gambling is legal.

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Online gambling portal took the initiative on Washington project

Whilst many complain about US political ignorance when it comes to the multi-faceted online gambling phenomenon, few have taken proactive steps to address the apparently yawning gap in US political education on the pastime. Not so the information portal Casino Gambling Web which has just completed a commendable initiative to better inform Congressmen.

Staff from the portal traveled to Washington DC and successfully delivered 435 information packets to every US representative in Congress on Friday last week.

The packets contained the substantial petition to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that the site has been sponsoring, together with 10 reasons why Internet gambling should be legalised, and a CD that contained all the testimony from the Financial Services Committee hearing on the regulation of Internet gambling.

Each packet was hand addressed to individual Congressmen and women and the project was titled ‘The IGREA Initiative’. The title refers to Congressman Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act which seeks to legalise and regulate online gambling in the United States (see previous Online-Casinos/InfoPowa reports).

“We did our part,” commented a Casino Gambling Web staffer who helped deliver the 435 packets, “Now it’s up to the 15-25 million Americans we went there to fight for to start calling their Congress people and express their support for ‘The IGREA Initiative’.”

Congressman Frank and other US politicians who believe in regulation rather than prohibition have repeatedly stressed how important it is for politicians to hear the voices of voters they represent. They have urged American online players to email or phone their political representatives to ask that they reject UIGEA and support the Frank Bill.

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A member of an Internet casino group has been arrested for taking a cut from profits earned by a Kyoto Internet cafe operator from customers who gambled on the casino site, police said.

Yoshiaki Takahashi, 43, a resident of Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, is accused of accepting money gained from crimes.

He denied the allegations during questioning. “I didn’t know the money was part of proceeds from illegal gambling,” he was quoted as telling investigators.

Takahashi received a total of 16 million yen from the 42-year-old former operator of an Internet cafe in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, on five occasions in January last year, Kyoto Prefectural Police investigators said. The money was part of proceeds that the Internet cafe operator gained from customers who gambled on the casino site at his cafe.

The leader of the group operating the online casino site, who is a U.S. national, has been placed on a wanted list.

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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Ethos Private Equity said Tuesday that South Africa’s Gold Reef Resorts Ltd. (GDF.JO) has agreed to a 11.4 billion rand ($1.6 billion) buyout by its consortium, which also includes Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The offer of ZAR34 per share is at a 48.5% premium to the pre-cautionary price of R22.90 as at March 8, 2025 and is one of the largest ever leveraged buyouts in South Africa.
The consortium also includes Gold Reef management and the company’s existing black economic empowerment shareholders, which have a 25.1% stake in the South African gaming and entertainment company.
Ethos said that the buyout is backed by fully committed financing provided by a cluster of banks, including Goldman Sachs and Nedbank Corporate, a division of Nedbank Ltd. (NED.JO).
The transaction is one of very few leveraged buyouts to be completed since the volatility in the credit markets slashed the availability of debt.
Several companies have postponed or pulled sales as the cost of leverage will make it difficult for potential buyers to meet sellers’ earlier price expectations. Some 80.5% of existing shareholders of the company have irrevocably undertaken to accept the offer in respect of their entire shareholdings, subject to no competing offer being received that is at least 10% higher than ZAR34.00 a share.
Gold Reef operates the Gold Reef City Casino and Theme park in Johannesburg and is developing the Silverstar Casino on the West Rand, both in Gauteng Province.
It also operates the Golden Horse Casino in Pietermaritzburg, the Garden Route Casino, the Mykonos Casino at Langebaan, the Goldfields Casino, and has a shareholding in the Queenstown Casino, which is currently under development.
The offer is still subject to certain conditions, which include approval from the relevant Provincial Gambling Boards and the Competition Commission.

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