The slot machine hasn't changed in 100 years - it needs to!
- Apr 29
- 1 min read
The average slot machine hasn't meaningfully changed in roughly 100 years. The average online casino experience hasn't changed much since it moved to the internet. But the average person who might gamble? They've changed enormously, and there's now a 30-year gap between what the industry offers and what a generation of potential players actually wants.
That gap is what Anthony Gaud, co-CEO of GaudHammer Gaming Group, has spent years trying to close. His background is unusually wide: toy design at Hasbro, pioneering CG animation at Mainframe Studios in the late 90s (Reboot, Transformers, Beast Wars), building cable on-demand networks with Comcast, and eventually serving as Creative Director at Disney Interactive on Kingdom Hearts, Marvel, and Star Wars. Now he's in the business of combining regulated gambling with video game mechanics — and the opportunity he sees is hard to argue with.
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