High 5 Games (H5G) is the land-based casino industry’s largest independent game developer. The NYC-based company of more than 200 employees also provides land-inspired slots to the online and mobile sectors in all regulated markets.
Founded in 1995 by software engineer and CEO, Anthony Singer, many of the most famous games from IGT, WMS, Bally, and Konami are actually H5G creations.
More recently, Singer launched VAULT, the company’s remote game server (RGS) at London’s ICE Totally Gaming gaming show in February 2014. This avenue gave H5G the ability to enter the online New Jersey casino market with game deployment at Caesars, Tropicana, Virgin, and Golden Nugget Casinos.
Software and Games
The company offers a variety of software solutions for land-based, social, and online real money casinos. Many of the brick and mortar casino games are optimized for online and mobile play. The social games under their Asian-focused Shake the Sky brand have made major inroads into the Eastern mobile gaming market while the High 5 Casino on Facebook has received over 1 million “likes”. Visitors to Shake the Sky can play new H5G games before they are released to real casinos.
Conclusion
High 5 Games has been quietly shaping the industry for over two decades with state-of-the-art games that were until recently always released under another manufacturer’s brand. While that’s not unusual, as can be seen by reading our review of Lightning Box, among others, it is interesting to see them taking such a prominent position in the online casino landscape.