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Synergy Blue’s HAWG takes arcade games into casinos

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Synergy Blue wants to marry arcade games and casino slot machine gambling. It is doing so with the launch of HAWG (Hybrid Arcade Wager-based Gaming), a platform for arcade machines that enable skill-based and chance-based real-money wagering.

Palm Desert, California-based Synergy Blue is one of a number of companies that are trying to revitalize the tired slot machine for the millennial generation. The HAWG platform is built to be flexible and to comply with gambling regulations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.