Scientific Games announced this week to buy the firm Nyx Gaming, specialist in casino games and online sports betting. With this acquisition, Scientific Games continues to seek growth over the long term and Sports Betting strengthens its position on certain key verticals. Strengthen on online casino games and sports betting Scientific Games (SG) was determined to buy back Nyx Gaming in light of the quality of the latter. SG offered a price of $632 million, corresponding to just under $2 a share.

This doubles the current value of Nyx mid-September (about $1 a share). With this purchase, Scientific Games is sure to get stronger in the field of online casinos. There are hundreds of slot machines under the Nyx brand.