Interview Why LatAm Gaming is booming: Trends and technology insights from Quixant SBC News Q&A with Patricia Souto Rial, VP Business Development - Spain/LatAm and Andres Garcia - VP of Technology and Customer Integration, for EMEA & ROW As evolving regulation reshapes Latin America’s gaming landscape, game manufacturers and operators are re-evaluating infrastructure, performance and localisation strategies across both land-based and online channels. Andrés García, VP of Technology and Customer Integration, and Patricia Souto Rial, VP Business Development Spain/LatAm at Quixant, shared their perspectives on the region’s evolution. Delving into the importance of the user experience, trends in the region, the impact of artificial intelligence and the future of the industry, they outline how suppliers can support customers navigating complexity, while delivering scalable, future-proof solutions tailored to diverse market needs across the region. SBC News: What is Quixant’s approach in LatAm and what are the main challenges when working with local partners? Patricia Souto Rial: The LatAm market is extremely important and relevant for Quixant. We have a dedicated portfolio of hardware and software solutions tailored to the Latin American market, and also a team of operations, hardware, software and sales specialists dedicated to the LatAm market. It is very important to understand not only what the portfolio needs to deliver, but also how to best operate and do business in the region. SBC News: What trends are shaping demand for gaming cabinets, kiosks and betting terminals across LatAm? Andrés García: We are seeing a strong demand for more powerful and robust hardware platforms. For example, with more appealing graphics, more attractive LEDs and increasingly immersive 4K displays – all things that draw the player to a machine in a highly competitive landscape. Another key thing we have observed is [...]

Interview How Quixant is accelerating the journey from game concept to casino floor SBC Americas Q&A with Eddie Ho, Director – Gaming Hardware at Quixant and James Simpson - Sr Architect, Gaming Platform Speed sits at the heart of Quixant’s mission: helping game developers deliver compelling gaming experiences and bring them to casino floors faster. To support that ambition, Quixant developed Launchpad — a software platform built on the proven foundations of the Quixant Software Suite. The platform is designed to accelerate land-based game development and enable online game developers to transition their content to the land-based market, in both cases simplifying regulatory certification and significantly shorten the route to deployment. Alongside this, the company has introduced its latest hardware platforms — IQON 3 and IQON Air 3 — high-performance gaming PCs built to support faster development cycles and the next generation of casino cabinet designs. In conversation with SBC Americas, Senior Architect of Gaming Platforms James Simpson and Director of Gaming Hardware Eddie Ho explain how these solutions are helping developers bring new gaming experiences to market faster — and what lies ahead. SBC Americas: To begin, let’s take a look back at last year. What would you highlight as the key milestones that defined the year for yourselves and set a platform from which to build through 2026? James Simpson: One of our key priorities was finding new ways to help our customers reach the market faster. Quixant has traditionally been known as a hardware company, but we began looking at how software could complement our platforms and remove some of the barriers developers face when entering the land-based gaming market. That is where Launchpad came from. Typically, when a game developer looks to launch a new game, [...]