“Sometimes, smaller can also be beautiful.” That ‘off-the-cuff’ pre-show comment by a member of the organizing team went a long way to defining the 2009 edition of the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) held in Las Vegas from 17th -19th November. Thanks to a dramatically increased number of show visitors from across South America and the presence of commercial teams from Novomatic subsidiary companies based in Argentina, Peru, Chile and Paraguay, G2E 2009 had, for Novomatic and its subsidiary Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH more of a Latin flavour than ever before