WMS Interactive is the newest arm of the company, formed in 2012 and provides platforms for online, social and mobile gaming. Vegas casino slot technologies developed by the company include Transmissive reels in which video animations interact with mechanical reels, CPU-NXT2 / CPU-NXT3 operating platforms for slot machines and Bluebird2 / Blade / Gamefield XD gaming cabinets that have high definition displays and superior Bose sound. The gaming division focuses mainly on land based casino hardware and back end. By 1996 Reel Em In was their first big hit with a video slot that had a secondary bonus featuring multiple coin and line betting. WMS Gaming was created in 1991 to build video lottery terminals and released its first slot machine with spinning reels in 1994.
Headquartered in Chicago Illinois, the company was bought by Scientific Games Corporation in 2013. Popular WMS slots include some of the biggest hits of all time: The Wizard of OZ, Monopoly and Goldfish just to name a few. WMS is the subsidiary of WMS Industries that develops and manufactures slot games for land based, online, mobile and social casinos.
