Austria’s Novomatic AG and its majority-owned unit Ainsworth Game Technology Ltd are bringing their “latest and greatest” slot products to players in the Philippines.
The two companies made an appearance at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia @ the Philippines 2025 held in Manila last month.
Novomatic’s “Xtension Link Evolution”, on the company’s 330C Diamond X 1.55J cabinet, recently received Gaming Laboratories International LLC (GLI) certification for the Philippines market.
The cabinet (pictured above) has a 55-inch J-curve monitor with a full touch-deck button panel. The Xtension Link Evolution comprises two games: “Mighty Squad” and “Fu Flow”.
“Each are multi-denomination selectable and feature the popular three-pot mechanic which is industry-wide at the moment,” said sales manager Michael Barsin, who spoke to GGRAsia on behalf of Novomatic and Australia-listed Ainsworth Game.
He added, referring to the gameplay style of the product: “You have the perceived persistence with various bonuses in the game. The game itself is a ‘243 ways’, and it’s got a nice mix between base game pay wins and also feature wins.”
In ‘243 ways’ slots, any combination of three or more matching symbols can be a win, provided they appear anywhere on adjacent reels, starting from the first and going left to right.
“We’ll be installing the first games” of Xtension Link Evolution in January 2026, at “one of the biggest operators out here [the Philippines],” Mr Barsin stated.
The Novomatic brand also displayed at the Manila show its Black Edition II XL 3.32 cabinet (pictured above).
Mr Barsin told GGRAsia: “Previously I spoke about our Diamond X family of cabinets, which is the 330 series. Now we’ve got the Black Edition II which is the 837 series.”
According to the representative, the series comprises ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘E’, versions. The ‘B’ is the 32-inch [screen] model, and the ‘A’ model is 27-inch.
Mr Barsin stated: “This is the mid-range cabinet for the Philippines market. We predominantly will run this with our popular multi games.
“Novo Line [Interactive Edition] X4 is currently the latest multi game in the Philippines. We have X5 coming which will be a little bit later in 2026 for the accreditation for the Philippines. It’s a multi game of 66 games.”
He added: “It’s got Novomatic classics like ‘Book of Ra’, ‘Lord of the Ocean’, ‘Lucky Lady’s Charm’, ‘Sizzling Hot, ‘Dolphins Pearl’, and ‘Chicago’.”
Mr Barsin said the Chicago title “is a very popular game in the Korean [player] market,” with “Koreans being [a major] tourist [segment] coming to the Philippines at the moment”.
The representative observed that with the multiple game platform, “you can put a mystery jackpot on top.”
That is feasible he says, “whether the mystery jackpot is property-wide amongst that bank of machines,” or whether the operator has “one bank [of machines] in one property and one in another” with the products linked via the operator’s casino management system.
Ainsworth’s A-STAR Raptor
The G2E Asia @ the Philippines show also displayed Ainsworth Game’s AGT A849 A-Star Raptor cabinet (pictured above) which is the 49-inch curved-screen version.
“This is the primary cabinet that we’re bringing to the Philippines as the latest and greatest from Ainsworth,” Mr Barsin said.
“Australia-originating dual-screen content will work on it, as well as the U.S. content being portrait [format] mostly,” he added. “Customers [operators] buying this are completely future-proof when it comes to Ainsworth content.”
In terms of games shown on that Ainsworth cabinet at the G2E Philippines event, “we’ve got ‘San Fa’ which is a very popular game [series] throughout the world,” stated Mr Barsin. “It’s done fantastically for us in North America, Latin America, Australia, also in the Philippines.”
The title is also has a three-pot mechanic game format and comes in a dragon theme, a panda theme, a tiger theme and a rabbit one.
The fact that in the Philippines the brand “likes to bring games from both Australia and the U.S.,” is “why we’ve chosen the 849 Raptor as our primary cabinet for the Philippines market,” noted Mr Barsin.
