On the first of december 2021, it was possible to read in a press release under the ”newsroom” of Scientific Games that they have finally completed the acquisition of competing game studio ELK Studios. The latter is a Stockholm-based game developer with a long history of developing games with cutting-edge mathematical game models and stunning graphics that really appeal to players.

About the finally completed acquisition, the President and CEO of Scientific Games Barry Cottle has said the following: "The acquisition of ELK Studios once again demonstrates our dedication to targeting different markets, improving our investments to provide cross-platform gaming experiences for players, game operators and other partners.”

He continued: "ELK Studios has a team filled with talent and other experts who strengthen our own game studios we operate and their capabilities with. The strong combination of their and our game studios means that top-performing games can be developed and distributed with mutually profitable results – especially when we also apply our ecosystem OpenGaming.”

On the other side of the floor, Filip säfbeck at ELK Studios commented by saying that: ”The deal is something that has been going on for years before it was finally completed. Both companies have great teams that develop high-quality games for great online gaming experiences. We see it as the perfect moment to join the Scientific Games gang and see where this might take us in the future.”

He allowed: ”We already have very good experiences with the OpenGaming ecosystem so we are very confident that this will help us to be able to establish in new gaming markets while strengthening our current positions in the prevailing gaming markets we are already established in.”

A little more about just ELK Studios and Scientific Games as a company

ELK Studios is the game studio that, among other things, is behind popular games such as Wild Toro II, Kathmandu and Cygnus . They are also behind the innovative game tool X-iterTM that allows players to jump into different predefined game modes inside their favorite games. All this makes their games very suitable for Scientific Games who want to be able to offer a more diverse and more widespread game selection than usual.

As for Scientific Games, they recently sold off their lottery business to Brookfield Business Partners and their OpenBet sports betting business to IMG owner Endeavor in september this year-all in order to focus solely on online gaming (i.e., online casino gaming).

Some online casinos in New Zealand where Scientific Games are available include ComeOn!

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