Scientific Games said that it will look for opportunities to cross-sell products to each companies' respective customers.
Scientific Games, based in New York, said the buyout is not subject to a financing condition and that it has committed financing.
"The acquisition of WMS is transformational for Scientific Games, enabling us to offer a complete portfolio of lottery and gaming products and services to both new and existing customers around the world, " Scientific Games Chairman and CEO A. Lorne Weil said in a statement.
Sure, you've probably seen countless scientific studies involving video games -- but have you have you ever wondered what your brain actually looked like while your playing video games?
ENGADGET: This is your brain. This is your brain on video games Alt
The U.S. is taking a scientific approach to the Summer Games in lots of areas, not only what competitors wear but how they move.
While the Greens hit out at both parties and said their political games flew in the face of accepted scientific advice and industry wishes.
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Do you believe current scientific studies have conclusively proven a causal link between video games and aggression in children?
Scientific banter arises during dog walks and on the sidelines of kids' softball and soccer games.
Venables: Your press statement on Dec. 19 appears to suggest there is already a link between video games and aggression, when academic studies have not demonstrated any causal connection with solid, scientific data.
It was an astonishing triumph of human visual-spatial reasoning, and one of the first major scientific advances to come from playing a video game (though plenty of software engineers I know would argue that video games activate much more creativity than we care to acknowledge).
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