Eleven moths ago, Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office issued an odd review after discovering that a UK company had developed a new gaming system capable of supporting thousands of slot machines from a single computer. The review suggested that each terminal connected to a central system should be counted as a single gaming device. Almost a year has passed by and Indian tribes remained in the same dispute of how to count electronically linked roulette terminals as well as other casino games terminals.
The tribes want to count all the terminals at each multiplayer game as an individual gaming device. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, wants to count each terminal as slot machine, electronic roulette or any other gaming device.
No formal position in regards to the legal debate has been taken by the state’s Gambling Control Commission yet. Meanwhile, Cyberview Technology, a London company, takes advantage of the situation as it prepares to install new machines at the Barona casino in east San Diego County and Agua Caliente's casino in Rancho Mirage. The company’s competitive advantage is the fact that its machines can be adapted to comply with both options to count multiplayer games.
Cyberview is one of the prominent companies that offer multiplayer games, mainly electronic roulette, blackjack, craps, poker and horse racing. These games rely on a central server that allows that contains a random number generator that determines who wins and who loses.
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