Patent ID: 7722466

Claim:
A method of integrating casino gaming with non-casino interactive gaming at a central server system, comprising: offering a plurality of wagering games on the central server system, the plurality of wagering games each including audiovisual content and game software for generating a random event, the audiovisual content including computer-generated image and animation data representing the random event, wherein at least one of the wagering games includes a basic version and an enhanced version having upgraded audiovisual content relative to the basic version; establishing a communications link between the central server system and a player-operated gaming machine in a land-based casino; conducting a first of the wagering games via the player-operated gaming machine, wherein the audiovisual content for the first of the wagering games is presented at the gaming machine; establishing, via a reconfigurable computer network, a communications link between the central server system and a player-operated computing device remote from any land-based casino; authorizing the computing device to access the first or a second of the wagering games offered on the central server system; conducting the second of the wagering games via the player-operated computing device by generating a random event for the second of the wagering games at the central server system; wherein the audiovisual content for the second of the wagering games is presented at the computing device; configuring the gaming machine, the computing device, or the central server system to conduct the basic version or the enhanced version based on whether the game software is executed locally at the gaming machine or at the computing device, or executed remotely at the central server system, or executed locally and remotely; and providing, at the gaming machine, an award for a winning outcome of the random event for the first of the wagering games.