Australian firm Aristocrat Leisure Limited – who provide electronic gaming machines all the way up to complete gaming solutions, including ancillary equipment, electronic tables, services and systems – were the previous firm to officially apply to the Gaming Control Board for a licence back in late December as they look to expand their overseas concerns in countries such as the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa, Japan, Macau and Argentina.

Their Las Vegas-based subsidiary, Aristocrat Technologies, will be the name on the application, though, as the business lines up behind several other gaming companies, including 888 Holdings plc, Bally Technologies, Inc, International Game Technology, Cantor Gaming, Shuffle Master, Inc, and South Point Poker, in seeking to gain access to Nevada’s soon-to-be-in-place market. Paperwork is already being reviewed by the Gaming Control Board, although no one is quite sure when the first application might be submitted for approval to the Nevada Gaming Commission.