INSPIRED LAUNCHES VIRTUAL BASEBALL: HOME RUN SHOOT OUT LEGENDS™ FEATURING MLBPAA-LICENSED PLAYERS WITH KAIZEN GAMING

FEBRUARY 19, 2024 – Inspired Entertainment, Inc. (“Inspired” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: INSE) a leading B2B provider of gaming content, systems, and solutions, is excited to announce the launch of its ground-breaking Virtual Baseball product Home Run Shoot Out Legends™, featuring Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) licenced players, with leading online sports betting and gaming brand Betano.

Betano is owned by Kaizen Gaming, one of the biggest GameTech companies in the world.

Kaizen Gaming operates under the Betano brand in multiple markets in Europe, South & North America and Africa and under the Stoiximan brand in Greece and Cyprus.

Betano is one of the first brands to launch Home Run Shoot Out Legends™, which features legendary baseball players of the past including Babe Ruth, Cecil Fielder and Mickey Mantle. The product is available across Ontario on Betano’s online and mobile platforms. The launch of Home Run Shoot Out Legends™ is an integral part of Inspired’s strategy to bring its branded portfolio of U.S. centered sports, such as American football and basketball, to the North American player base.

Betano has further extended its partnership with Inspired by launching its award-winning Virtuals in Nigeria and Bulgaria. Major products include V-Play Soccer 3™, V-Play Matchday, V-Play Basketball™, V-Play Horses™, V-Play Greyhounds™, and V-Play Marbles™.

Meanwhile, Stoiximan has introduced a customized edition of V-Play Multi-Stream Matchday™ in Greece. This edition features seven games taking place simultaneously and boasts exclusive sponsorship from the Greek Super League, named as Stoiximan Super League, including all actual  league teams, their uniforms and logos. It also features an appealing standings table with the teams’ progress and league position.

“The Kaizen Gaming team sees the incremental revenue value that our Virtuals products can drive. It is a true partnership, enabling us to enhance our products and distribute them to a wide range of regulated markets, including North America,” said Ian Freeman, Chief Commercial Officer of Virtual Sports at Inspired. “As the Betano and Stoiximan brands continue their dynamic growth, we will continue to deliver the highest quality and most diverse range of content, including branded American football and basketball to players across its international portfolio”.

“Collaborating with Inspired has been a resounding success,” said Vangelis Kalloudis, Gaming Senior Product Manager at Kaizen Gaming. “We have launched a unique collection of products across a range of territories and are planning to provide more thrilling and entertaining experiences to the global community of players in the near future.”

To find out more about Inspired’s Virtuals, visit: https://inseinc.com/virtuals/

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About Inspired Entertainment, Inc.

Inspired offers an expanding portfolio of content, technology, hardware and services for regulated gaming, betting, lottery, social and leisure operators across land-based and mobile channels around the world. Inspired’s gaming, Virtual Sports, interactive and leisure products appeal to a wide variety of players, creating new opportunities for operators to grow their revenue. Inspired operates in approximately 35 jurisdictions worldwide, supplying gaming systems with associated terminals and content for approximately 50,000 gaming machines located in betting shops, pubs, gaming halls and other route operations; virtual sports products through more than 32,000 retail venues and various online websites; digital games for 170+ websites; and a variety of amusement entertainment solutions with a total installed base of more than 16,000 terminals.

Additional information can be found at www.inseinc.com.

About Kaizen Gaming | Betano

About Kaizen Gaming | Betano | Stoiximan |

Kaizen Gaming is one of the biggest GameTech companies in the world. With a focus on Technology and People, it aims to continuously evolve the betting experience it offers to millions of customers around the world and entertain sports fans in a fun and responsible way.

Kaizen Gaming owns the premium online sports betting and gaming brand Betano, with an established presence across markets in Europe and Latin America. It has also recently entered Africa and North America through launches in Nigeria and Ontario. The company employs more than 2,300 people across the globe.

Kaizen Gaming has been recognized as a leading player in the global sports betting and gaming market, having received several industry awards, including a world first of five trophies in a single year at the 2023 EGR Operator Awards (“Sports Betting Operator of the Year”, “Marketing Campaign of the Year”, “Mobile Sports Product of the Year”, “In-House Product of the Year” and “In-Play Sports Operator of the Year”).

For more information visit Kaizen Gaming

Forward-Looking Statements

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Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside of Inspired’s control and all of which could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Inspired’s views as of any subsequent date and Inspired does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. You are advised to review carefully the “Risk Factors” section of Inspired’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and in subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which are available, free of charge, on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov and on Inspired’s website at www.inseinc.com.

 

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