South African company lands barcrest deal

The South African software developer Kiron Interactive, fresh from its appearance at ICEi, has announced that it has landed a contract with the UK Barcrest group, part of IGT-UK.

Kiron has provided Barcrest with its virtual horseracing game 'Dashing Derby' for the LBO market in a move that will enable Barcrest to add additional variety to its UK games portfolio. The new addition will be available on Barcrest's Lara terminals.

Dashing Derby is an on-demand, fixed-odds horse racing game, in which players place bets on virtual horse races.

Conleth Byrne, Director of Sales (Licensed Betting Office market) commented: "We are delighted to add Kiron's virtual horse racing game to our suite of games. Dashing Derby's ease of play and attractive graphics are sure to make it a popular game on our Lara terminal."

Steven Spartinos, Kiron's co-founder and director commented "We are very happy to have worked with Barcrest Group in implementing Dashing Derby on their platform and in turn introducing the product into the UK LBO market. The game offers high end race graphics and high paced betting action which we are confident will be well received by LBO customers."