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The Boston Globe - October 20, 2008

Casinos hope to hit jackpot online

They can't offer wagering in cyberspace, but with help from Waltham-based GameLogic they're heading to the Web in search of new customers

John Taylor thinks too many people play video games at websites run by companies like Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. Taylor, president and chief executive of GameLogic Inc. in Waltham, would rather see gamers hanging out at the websites of America's gambling casinos. Read the full story

Boston Business Journal - September 26, 2008

GameLogic scores $8M in venture capital round

GameLogic Inc., raised the stakes for its online-gambling model when it closed on $8 million in venture funding in the third quarter. Read the full story

Casino Enterprise Management - September, 2008

Your Casino A Click Away - GameLogic's PlayAway

Step into what you feel is a casino, and you'll find everything as it should be. The table games pit, slot banks and bingo parlor neatly segregated for easy player navigation. The snazzy logos and bright graphics drawing your eye toward that certain game. The shuffling scrape of playing cards across a felt table top. The up-tempo whir of slot reels and jangle of just-triggered bonus rounds. Read the full story

Casino Journal - September, 2008

AlwaysOn's AO Global 250 List

GameLogic named to top technology company list

GameLogic Inc., a provider of interactive casino player acquisition and retention solutions, has been named to AlwaysOn's AO Global 250 list, recognizing the next generation of game-changing global technology companies. Read the full story

Native American Casino - August, 2008

Creating the Right Relationship for both New and Existing Players

Relationships of any kind rely on some form of give and take — healthy relationships that is. If you have ever had someone in your life who does all the giving, you'd find it's quite annoying. If you have nothing to give that person in return, you find you are wasting both of your time, and the relationship often dissolves. On the other end, if you are the one constantly giving, you will reach a point where you can give no more if you have nothing to take from.This balance needs to occur not only in personal relationships, but in business relationships as well. Read the full story

Slot Manager Magazine - July/August 2008

Company Profile: GameLogic's Gameplan

When players are sitting at a casino's slot machines or table games, that presents an opportunity to reach out to build player loyalty. But eventually players do go home. And what do they do when they get there? Many are still playing casino and card games, but they're on the Internet, where millions of people spend hours playing those games. Read the full story

First Look - April 2008

GameLoigc Helps Casinos Drive more Visits from Existing, New Players

John E. Taylor, Jr., President, CEO and Director of GameLogic, introduces the company with a Q&A.

First Look: In the United States, the combination of the Internet and gaming is in its infancy — what does GameLogic hope to contribute to this new space? Read the full story

Mass High Tech - November 2, 2007

Trump Bets on Waltham's GameLogic

Donald Trump has said, "you're hired" to Waltham's GameLogic Inc. Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. in Atlantic City has hired GameLogic to provide all three of its New Jersey properties with online gaming modules aimed at developing new customers and providing existing "club" customers — frequent casino customers and VIPs — with off-site promotions and entertainment.
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Casino Enterprise Management - August, 2007

An Ingenious Internet Marketing Tool, by John Acres

As you undoubtedly know, gambling is a highly regulated activity. Operating a casino without government approval is potentially hazardous and, at least, inconvenient. Read the full story

Casino Journal - August, 2007

Dennis Conrad's Best (and Worst) Casino Promotions of the past year recognizes the Holiday Bonus Play™ on Best list.

While not a casino promotion (yet), this is one with tremendous casino potential. GameLogic is a software/Web site/promotion company that is legally creating "pseudo online gaming" opportunities, already being licensed in Nevada, New Jersey and Mississippi. Read the full story

Casino Journal - August, 2007

GameLogic names John E. Taylor, Jr. CEO and Mark Herrmann COO

John E. Taylor Jr. has been named chief executive officer. Taylor, who remains the company's president, replaces GameLogic founder and serial entrepreneur Steven N Kane, who will continue to work closely with management as a member of the company's board of directors.
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Online-Casinos - June 27, 2007

Another ShuffleMaster License Awarded

GameLogic to offer ShuffleMaster's proprietary table game content on its Internet-based player loyalty system.

Another ShuffleMaster non-exclusive content license has been awarded, this time to player loyalty and acquisition specialist GameLogic Inc. Read the full story

Venture Wire - June 23, 2007

GameLogic Investors Up The Ante For Casino Gambling

Venture capital firms have gambled once again on GameLogic Inc., a developer of online gaming software for casinos and lotteries that in recent months has faced a patent lawsuit and a change in leadership. Read the full story

Games & Technology Report - February 9, 2007

Dover Downs launches free online casino games

Dover Downs Hotel & Casino recently announced the launch of FunPlay, a suite of casino-style games — with no real money ever wagered — playable for free to anyone visiting the property's Web site, www.doverdowns.com.

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Global Gaming Business - December, 2006

GameLogic CEO Steven Kane Interviewed in Global Gaming Business Magazine

As the casino industry struggles with its presence on the internet and the legal status of online gaming, some companies are designing products and services that will allow casinos to address users of the internet in a legal and profitable manner. GameLogic is one of those companies.
Read or Listen to the full interview.

Boston.com - November 10, 2006

GameLogic signs agreement with Ingenio

GameLogic, a Waltham provider of new media strategies and solutions to the gaming industry, and Ingenio, a subsidiary of Loto-Quebec, said today they have established a licensing agreement that ends their litigation over Ingenio's patents. Read the full story

Midwest Gaming & Travel - August, 2006

PlayAway Lets Players Take The Casino Home

According to Dr. Don Catlin, author of The Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers, scratch-off tickets are one of the better bets offered by state lotteries. The scratch-off tickets may not have the life-changing jackpots offered by the lottery drawings, but they do usually return more of the money collected in the prize pool to the players and they give you a better chance of winning something. Read the full story

iGaming Business - May 24, 2006

Two New Directors for GameLogic

GameLogic has announced the appointment of two new directors. Vaughn Place becomes Director of Client Development with Rob Salassi taking the role of Director of Casino Marketing. Read the full story

Boston Business Journal - May 18, 2006

GameLogic lands $3M

Startup GameLogic Inc. has received $3 million of debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc., the company said on Thursday. Read the full story

Boston Business Journal - May 12-18, 2006

GameLogic likes the odds for its gambling product

Waltham outfit needs state-by-state approval for Playaway offering

GameLogic Inc. envisions people lounging in their living rooms playing "Grapes of Cash" on laptops by spinning bananas, grapes and watermelons with the click of a mouse. New regulatory approvals have given the company a gambling foothold in three states as it looks to spread its product nationwide. Read the full story

Business Press - May 1, 2006

Casinos putting PlayAway through its paces

Although a new, online game platform deployed at six Northern Nevada casinos may look, walk and quack like Internet gambling, casino executives, regulators and the game makers themselves insist that it is anything but. While casino-oversight boards have given the PlayAway platform, manufactured by Massachusetts-based GameLogic, the thumbs-up, the verdict of customers remains to be seen. Read the full story

Nevada Appeal - April 27, 2006

It's not online gambling, but it looks like it

Boston-based company creates the illusion of online gambling — and it's legal

Some prefer to do it in the quiet of their own home. Crouched over the computer. Eyes glued to the screen.

The shady — and illegal — online gambling world has now been brought into the light. Carson City residents who favor the privacy of wheeling and dealing in front of the PC no longer have to do business with an off-shore company. Read the full story

Online-Casinos - April 27, 2006

PlayAway Flourishes in Nevada

The Nevada Appeal News reported on closer convergance between (illegal in Nevada) online gambling and playing games for reward using the Internet this week in a story on the PlayAway concept. Read the full story

Mass High Tech - April 17, 2006

Exec balances technology and politics of gaming

The electronic gambling industry — be it racing, slots, casinos or state lotteries — is still trying to find its identity in the Internet era. Technology, politics and the law play equal roles in determining product offerings. John Taylor Jr., the newly appointed president of Waltham's GameLogic Inc. knows this as well as anyone. He spent 10 years at Rhode Island-based GTech Corp., a billion-dollar provider of online lottery systems for state and federal lottery programs around the world. Taylor also worked as a senior staffer during Edward DiPrete's administration in the late 1980s and early '90s. Read the full story

VentureWire - March 17, 2006

GameLogic Bets On John Taylor As New President

Venture-backed GameLogic Inc., which develops online gaming software for casinos and lotteries, has appointed John Taylor as president and board member.

The Gaming Industry Daily Report - March 16, 2006

GameLogic announced the appointment of John Taylor, Jr. as president and a member of its board of directors. Taylor joins GameLogic from Snowmark Corp. where he was a managing partner but before that was corporate VP for GTECH. GameLogic dubs themselves as the founders of virtual-play gaming platforms for lotteries and casinos.

VentureWire - February 10, 2006

Bain Capital Leads $18M Gamble On Online Game Co. GameLogic

Waltham, MA (VENTUREWIRE) — Venture capitalists are seeing attractive odds in GameLogic Inc., a company that has closed on an $18.6 million series V round for its online gaming software for casinos and lotteries.

The Deal.com - February 9, 2006

Waltham, Mass.-based GameLogic Inc. has raised $18.6 million in a Series B financing led by Bain Capital Ventures of Boston. Existing investors General Catalyst Partners of Cambridge, Mass. and Maveron, LLC of Seattle participated. The company has developed a regulatory-compliant gaming playform, PlayAway, designed to enable legal casinos and government-sponsored lotteries to stay connected to players anywhere there's a computer. The company expects to launch its PlayAway product in New Jersey during the second quarter of 2006 and it is being installed in several casinos in Nevada, according to the company.

Mass High Tech - February 6, 2006

GameLogic grabs $18.6M in round two

GameLogic Inc. has raised a total of $18.6 million in Series B financing led by Bain Capital Ventures, with existing investors General Catalyst Partners and Maveron LLC participating. Read the full story