Abstract: A gaming signage system may include one or more movable displays. One or more movable displays may present first visual effects while the one or more movable displays are in a first configuration in which at least one game feature presentation device is not viewable. In response to a trigger event indication (which may correspond to a base game event), the movable display(s) may move to a second configuration and reveal the game feature presentation device. The game feature presentation device may be used to present a bonus feature and/or to present a different aspect of the base game. Alternatively, at least a portion of a movable display may be hidden when in a first configuration. At least the portion of the movable display(s) may present a bonus feature and/or a different aspect of the base game when in the second configuration.

Abstract: Gaming systems that provide an award digit covering and uncovering feature for a gaming environment, wherein when an award triggering event occurs, the part of the award provided to the player is based on which digits of the award are covered and which digits of the uncovered at the time of the occurrence of the award triggering event.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing a multiplayer game to players of a plurality of electronic gaming machines are described. When executed by a at least one processor, stored instructions cause the at least one processor to (i) cause to be displayed, on a multiplayer game display, a group metamorphic game element configured to interact with each of the plurality of electronic gaming machines, (ii) activate, during a first game play on a first electronic gaming machine, a multiplayer feature, (iii) cause the group metamorphic game element to transition one of the communal game elements from the multiplayer game display to an individual metamorphic game element associated with the first electronic gaming machine, and (iv) based on the transitioned communal game element, apply the activated multiplayer feature to a first game play on the first electronic gaming machine.

Abstract: An online gaming service is provided, having two or more servers, the two or more servers being located in two or more locations that are remote from each other, including: a transaction layer implemented across the two or more servers, for handling synchronization between different sessions of a video game that are respectively executed by the two or more servers; wherein the different sessions of the video game are respectively configured to provide interactivity with a virtual space through respective client devices; wherein the transaction layer is configured to identify sessions providing interactivity with proximate regions of the virtual space, and effect transactional memory synchronization for the identified sessions, such that events in the virtual space generated by the identified sessions are synchronized across each of the identified sessions.

Abstract: A gaming system for entertaining play having a win symbol for display during game activity initiated by an input device with a winning notice field having a plurality of value devices representative of the win value and overlying the win symbol in the matrix, said winning notice field comprising an opaque field, whereby the win symbol is at least partially legible and said winning notice field expanding to cover at least an extent of the win symbol before fading from the display for uncovering the win symbol that moves to an winning accumulator. A method of displaying win symbols during play of an entertaining game is disclosed.

Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that, upon an occurrence of a designated triggering event, provide a free activation with pattern matching feature for rapid play by a player.

Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for providing a random symbol set determination for configuration for subsequent random symbol determinations.

Abstract: A gaming device having a plurality of reel strips, each reel strip corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of columns of symbol positions. When the instructions are executed, the gaming device determines if a selection condition is met, randomly selects the number of game instances, randomly selects a subset of the columns of symbol positions to be populated by a defined symbol, randomly selects symbols to populate the columns of symbols not populated by the defined symbol, control the display to display the plurality of columns of symbol positions populated by the defined symbol and the symbols selected, and evaluates symbols displayed for winning combinations.

Abstract: An electronic gaming device having a display and a game controller, and playing an iterative game. During the iterative game, the game controller controls the display to display a set of columns of symbol positions, and selects symbols for display at the symbol positions. When a configurable symbol is selected for display in one of the columns, the game controller adjusts at least a portion of a background of the one of the columns. When the one column is completely filled with modified backgrounds, the electronic gaming device presents an award based on a prize associated with the one column, in addition to any prizes presented as a result of payline combinations.

Abstract: A gaming device, a method of operating a gaming device, and a gaming system, in which a game includes multiple reels of symbols, and in which symbols of one of the reels are dynamically selected depending on the outcome of symbol selection on other reels. In embodiments, symbols of a third reel may be selected in response to a triggering combination on first and second reels. In an example, the third reel strip is changed from a default reel strip of symbols to a guaranteed win reel strip if symbols from the first and second reel strips include one of multiple possible triggering combinations of symbols. In an example, the third to fifth reel strips may have configurable symbols (e.g. cash on reels symbols) and each triggering combination of symbols corresponds the configurable symbols for later reels being configured differently.

Abstract: An approach is provided for streaming of media streams (e.g., from a game console). In one implementation, a media stream that includes a secondary view of the game world may be generated at the game console. The secondary view may be of a lower-quality version of a primary view of the game world. The generation of the media stream may include: prefetching, to a cache of the game console, portions of the primary view and/or instructions for encoding the portions; and encoding, based on the prefetching, the portions to produce the secondary view. In another implementation, game play information may be executed to reproduce previous game play of a previous game session during a reproduction of the previous game session. Augmentation content may be added to the reproduced game session during the reproduction of the previous game session, creating an augmented game session having one or more views for streaming.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to hexagonal fragmentation of terrain. A hive manifest specifying one or more conditions and rules for game level generation using hexagonal terrain tiles is received at a computing device. A set of hexagonal terrain tiles satisfying the one or more conditions and rules specified by the hive manifest are identified. Hexagonal terrain tile definition data corresponding to the identified set of hexagonal terrain tiles is retrieved. A game level using the retrieved hexagonal terrain tile definition data is generated by instantiating a subset of hexagonal terrain tiles of the set of hexagonal terrain tiles as a sub-level of the game level.

Abstract: A method of obtaining data from a video game includes: inputting a video image of the video game comprising at least one avatar, detecting a pose of the avatar in the video image, assigning one or more avatar-status boxes to one or more portions of the avatar, determining, based on the pose of the avatar, a position of at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar using a correlation between avatar poses and avatar-status boxes, producing avatar-status data for the avatar indicative of the position of the at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar in the video image, generating one or more indicator images for the avatar in accordance with the avatar-status data, and augmenting the video image of the video game comprising at least the avatar with one or more of the indicator images in response to the pose of the avatar, in which the step of determining the position of the at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar includes providing, to a correlation unit trained to d

Abstract: Embodiments of the present concept provide an electronic gaming device that facilitates wagering by multiple players on a single gaming device. Also provided is a method of sharing game play on such a gaming device, where the method includes receiving a wager from a first player at a first gaming station, receiving a wager from a second player at a second gaming station, initiating a gaming event that is displayed at the first and second gaming stations, and awarding prizes associated with gaming outcomes displayed at the first and second gaming stations.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media relating to a user interface, that may for example, receive and/or process physical activity data and allow interaction with the received information in novel implementations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.

Abstract: A method for gaming including receiving game states of game plays of players playing a gaming application. The method includes tracking game play progression for each of the game plays based on game states, wherein game play progression is defined by a corresponding set of relationship characteristics. A first game play of a first player is associated with a first set of relationship characteristics. The method includes identifying for the first player players having corresponding game plays that include one or more relationship characteristics from the first set of relationship characteristics. The method includes surfacing the identified players for display to the first player. Each surfaced players have a corresponding game play progression that is related to the first game play progression. Each surfaced players is associated with a corresponding communication warning indicator that provides relative game play progression between game plays the corresponding surfaced player and the first player.

Abstract: Intelligent gaming tables and methods of providing game play through the gaming tables are described herein. The gaming table includes a table having a table surface, a plurality of player stations, and a common display configured to display gaming content to a plurality of players. The gaming table further includes an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of user input devices. The gaming table includes a gaming controller. The gaming controller is configured to communicate with the plurality of user input devices through the interface, receive location information relating to touches or contacts detected on the table surface, analyze the information relating to the touches or contacts, identify a user performing each of the touches or contacts with the table surface, and implement player input instructions contained within the information relating to the touches or contacts.

Abstract: A gaming machine provides a spinning reel game having a base game, from which a hold and spin feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display and the player is provided one or more spins during the feature game in which to collect additional configurable symbols. Any additional configurable symbols are retained on the display during subsequent spins until the feature game is completed. Each reel on the game display includes a respective multiplier meter that is adjusted when a multiplier symbol is displayed on the reel in a base game outcome. The multiplier symbols include dynamic multiplier symbols that increment the multiplier meters by a defined amount and static multiplier symbols that lock a meter at a defined multiplier value.

Abstract: Hybrid gaming machines, platforms, systems, and/or methods have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements, and include a linked contest; wherein contest software may monitor gaming activity from a plurality of players playing on a plurality of hybrid gaming machines that have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements; and wherein that contest software may reward a prize to one or more players of that plurality of players who have won the contest, based on a predetermined aspect of the player's game play on those hybrid gaming machines that have both skill-based gaming element and game-of-chance gaming elements. The skill-based gaming elements may include use of three-dimensional (3D) virtual interactive worlds or portions thereof. The game-of-chance gaming elements may include use of random number generator(s) and/or pay table(s). The game-of-chance gaming elements may comply with gaming regulatory agencies.