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• Gaming Partners International Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2008

  Gaming Partners International Corporation (Nasdaq: GPIC), the leading worldwide provider of casino currency and table gaming equipment, today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2008.

• Electronic Game Card Inc. Reports First Quarter 2008 Revenue Growth of 28 Percent Over Fourth Quarter

  Electronic Game Card, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EGMI) ("EGC"), today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2008. The Company accomplished significant progress during its first quarter of 2008, adding to its shareholder equity, building its cash balance, validating and protecting its technology and, further expanding its addressable market. Since year end 2007, Electronic Game Card has been issued its first series of patents, received Gaming Laboratory International approval, increased its customer base and recurring revenue stream and announced entry into two new markets.

• MGM MIRAGE's Board of Directors Approves New Twenty Million Share Repurchase Program

  MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a new stock repurchase program authorizing the Company to purchase up to twenty million shares of Company common stock. The purchases can be made from time to time through open market purchases, privately negotiated third party transactions or other transactions including but not limited to tender offers as market conditions warrant.

• Charities Form Alliance to Preserve and Improve Charity Bingo

  The California Charity Alliance (CCA) today announced its formation to advocate for the use of traditional and technologically advanced forms of bingo as a responsible, legal and consistent funding source for nonprofit charities. Founding organizations for this new alliance include Disabled Sports USA Far West, Capitol Freelancers, Blue Devils of Concord, the Santa Clara vanguard and the Sacramento Chapters of United Cerebral Palsy and the Society for the Blind.

• 'America's Got Talent' Million-Dollar Winner Terry Fator Lands Gig on Las Vegas Strip at The Mirage

  Terry Fator, winner of NBC's "America's Got Talent," and The Mirage announced Fator signed a five-year deal, with an option for an additional five years, to perform at the iconic resort. The Mirage, which has been home to the city's most celebrated entertainment over the years, including world-famous illusionists Siegfried & Roy, The Beatles(TM) LOVE(TM) by Cirque du Soleil(R) and Danny Gans, will launch a new era with the introduction of Terry Fator. Fator will perform five shows a week in the 1,265-seat Terry Fator Theatre (currently the Danny Gans Theatre) beginning in February 2009. Tickets will go on sale later this year.

• Donny and Marie Announce World-Wide Search for Talented and Aspiring Dancers

  The search is on! When Donny and Marie Osmond recently announced they would be returning to Las Vegas for their first headlining engagement in 29 years, they decided to add an unprecedented opportunity. The acclaimed duo will host an open casting call, which kicks off today, in search of talented dancers to be part of their all-new production at Flamingo Las Vegas, opening Sept. 9. It is probable that one or more of the contestants will be selected to perform in the show as a result of this worldwide audition contest.

• Bally Technologies, Inc. Announces Record Earnings for Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 on Record Revenues of $233 Million

  Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino management systems and networked solutions for the global gaming industry, announced today record diluted earnings per share ("Diluted EPS") for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2008 of $0.52 and $1.31, respectively, and record revenue of $232.6 million and $652.3 million, respectively. Diluted EPS adjusted for share-based compensation ("Adjusted EPS") for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2008 was $0.56 and $1.42, respectively.

• Casino Data Online, Spectrum Gaming Group Form Alliance to Provide Web-Based Benchmarking Service

  Spectrum Gaming Group has formed a strategic alliance with Industry Data Online (IDOL), an Australia-based organization that has specialized in the delivery of online performance reporting and benchmarking services to the Australian gaming industry since 2001. The IDOL product, Casino Data Online, provides web-based benchmarking services that allow casino operators to confidentially measure their performance against the greater industry and identify their own strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.

• Pearl River Resort Names Lawrence Kovach New Chief Financial Officer

  The Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise (CRDE), a business enterprise of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, today announced the appointment of financial veteran Lawrence Kovach as the new chief financial officer (CFO) of its resort portfolio, Pearl River Resort. Kovach will account for the overall financial operations of all the properties in the CRDE portfolio, including the Silver Star Hotel & Casino, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino, Geyser Falls Water Park and Dancing Rabbit Golf Club.

• Iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach Reclaims Center Stage with Grand Opening and Renaissance of the Resort Experience

  When it debuts this fall, Fontainebleau Miami Beach will be poised to recapture its place among the world's most celebrated resort playgrounds. Morris Lapidus' emblematic curvilinear building, originally the subject of outrage by critics before being embraced by the world's architects, designers and travelers alike, today defines Miami Beach's often-exuberant architectural aesthetic. His once avant-garde building is now an enduring architectural masterpiece, and perhaps more importantly, his spirit now shapes a spectacular $1 billion rebirth. Lapidus once wrote "If you create a stage and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part." Few would argue that the new Fontainebleau will succeed in offering a pulse-quickening setting in which guests can make an unforgettable entrance. Virtually every aspect of the 22-acre showplace will celebrate the architect's flair for the theatrical.

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