VIDEO GAMES

Aristocrat Leisure lands games giant Big Fish for $1.3 billion

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Original article by John Stensholt
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 19 : 1-Dec-17

Aristocrat Leisure’s push to reduce its reliance on poker machine sales continued on 30 November with its announcement that it had acquired US social gaming firm Big Fish Gaming for $US900 million ($A1.3 billion). The purchase will increase the percentage of its revenue that comes from digital sources to around 38 per cent, and follows its August purchase of Israeli-based game developer Plarium. Aristocrat also handed down its 2017 fiscal year results on 30 November, reporting a net profit of $A495 million, up 41 per cent, earned on revenue of about $A2.4 billion.

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ARISTOCRAT LEISURE LIMITED – ASX ALL, BIG FISH GAMING INCORPORATED, PLARIUM LLC, CHURCHILL DOWNS, MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE INCORPORATED, VIDEO GAMING TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED

Neuroplasticity at work: video games to boost children’s brains

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Original article by Hannah Francis
The Age – Page: 10 : 2-Sep-14

Alzheimer Australia will stage its "Technology and Dementia" forum in Melbourne on 2 September 2014. One of the key speakers is neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, head of the University of California, San Francisco’s Neuroscape Labs. He will argue that both young people and the elderly can benefit from playing certain types of video games that foster neuroplasticity, or the permanent strengthening of specific neural pathways. Neuroscape Labs is developing such software for children

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, ALZHEIMER’S AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED