United States.- International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT), the global leader in driving technology innovations in the gaming industry today announced that the Golden Acorn Casino & Travel Center will be hosting the DoubleDown Casino application on their casino website to provide a free play gaming experience to their casino players.

Through IGT's DoubleDown Casino application, casinos such as Golden Acorn are able to provide their players with a truly convergent gaming experience, with access to a full-casino style offering of games in one convenient place—the casino property's website. Adding the DoubleDown app to the Golden Acorn site allows the casino to offer their players the opportunity to participate in engaging game play, including multi-player poker, through the leading virtual casino, directly on their branded sites.

"Offering the same game titles on the web that we offer inside our casino gives us the unique opportunity to deliver fun and engaging casino style experiences to our players," said David Baggerly, director of marketing at Golden Acorn Casino & Travel Center. "This is an incredible chance to drive interactive slot culture to our players, while allowing them to stay connected to our brand."

Guests of Golden Acorn will have the opportunity to participate in thrilling social game play, directly on the casino's website. Included in the line-up of game play are Texas Hold'Em poker, and some of IGT's top performing slot titles, including Da Vinci Diamonds® and Cleopatra®.

"Golden Acorn recognizes the opportunity to provide gaming entertainment to their players across various channels," said Eric Tom, IGT executive vice president of global sales. "This solution is allowing them to grasp an opportunity to evolve as the landscape of gaming also changes, permitting them to drive engaging game play directly to their casino guests and fans of the Golden Acorn brand."

This revenue sharing partnership with DoubleDown Casino offers casino partners, such as Golden Acorn with an avenue to provide players with extended social entertainment on multiple platforms from the largest social casino site in the world—directly on their websites while at the same time, utilizing the advantageous opportunity to deliver targeted marketing messages to Golden Acorn's players.

New games will be added automatically to the virtual casino, and first-time users of the application will receive $1 million in virtual chips to start their play.

DINGNews.com 08/03/2012