GameCo bringing skill-based video games to Atlantic City casino floors

Atlantic City casinos could welcome their first skill-based gaming machines as soon as next week, provided state regulators sign off on the plan.

On Tuesday, New York-based startup GameCo announced that it would debut its new video game gambling machines (VGM) on the casino floors of Caesars Entertainment’s three AC properties this fall.

GameCo plans to install 21 gaming positions in “high-traffic, prominent locations” at each of the three Caesars’ properties. There will be three triple-unit carousels at Caesars Atlantic City, two at Harrah’s Resort and two more at Bally’s. A GameCo spokesperson said the games will go live “most likely in two weeks.”

The first game will be a first-person action game titled Danger Arena. Players will be presented with a random game scenario and the payout will be determined by how many robots one manages to vanquish along the way, although GameCo claims the VGM will maintain “the same casino economics as slot machines.”