Activision video gaming boss Robert Kotick spoke this week of the role in–game gambling could play in the future, describing it as the ‘HolyGrail’ of the games business. Kotick reckons the cross-over between gamingand ‘gambling’ could potentially be huge, and far more extensive than atpresent. Discussing the potential of wagering with regards to online games,he […]
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Several European states have taken action against online gaming companies ina bid to protect their own gambling operations, but the tactic looks likelyto accelerate the demise of their own monopolies, says a report in Hemscottthis week. The report quotes a European Commission spokesman who said thebody is prepared to target more EU member states deemed […]
During the month of September, cable and television networks paradedprograms on the subject of online and offshore gaming. These programs airedjust in time to stir up more debate as lawmakers on Capitol Hill were poisedto vote on whether or not to attach an online gambling ban to the currentdefense bill. One network program on the […]
Despite the recent spate of online gambling related arrests in America,incoming Sportingbet Plc CEO, Andrew McIver, has announced that the popularonline sports betting website will continue to market to U.S. based onlinegamblers. Clearly McIver has balls of titanium and does not intend onvacationing in the United States anytime soon! He has replaced Peter Dickswho was […]
Bwin Interactive, the firm behind BetandWin, filed a formal complaint inMarch to the European Commission, company spokeswoman Karin Klein toldOUT-LAW. The complaint claims that France’s gambling monopoly breachesArticle 49 of the EC Treaty which enshrines the freedom to provide crossborder services. “It asks the Commission to force France to comply with EClaw on the freedom […]
The hot-button topics in Britain these days regarding the Americans aren’tonly about Iraq. It’s also about business. The CEOs of two British Internetgambling sites (both publicly listed) were arrested this summer when theywere changing planes on U.S. soil. More have been targeted and legislatorsare looking at other options to prevent Americans from betting online. Theact […]
Earlier this year, a study released shows that 600,000 young adults betweenthe ages of 14 to 22 have reported gambling on the Internet on a weeklybasis. The study, conducted by the Annenberg Foundation, also found the agegroup had the highest rate of gambling addictions. “I like gambling becauseof the high risk/high reward idea, but I […]
France was likely to face a legal challenge from the European Commissionover its restrictions on gambling operators, Brussels said on Tuesday,warning it could target Paris as early as next month in a broader sweepagainst national governments. The threat was made following last week’sarrest in France of two senior executives of Bwin, an Austrian online sportsbetting […]
The Web sites are getting some big numbers and young visitors, and therehave been reports of some servers just unplugging and taking people’s moneywithout ever being heard from again. In a one-week period, more than half amillion gamblers ages 14 to 22 go online to wage real-money bets. For many,it can quickly become an expensive […]
RICHMOND, Va. State legislators are considering a new form of pari-mutuelbetting aimed at horse racing fans to help pay for transportation projects.Newport News Delegate Phil Hamilton filed the bill for the GeneralAssembly’s special session that starts next week. The legislation would pavethe way for “instant racing,” a game in which bettors can wager on racesthat […]
CHAU MA had returned from a morning walk with the dog when a man whoappeared to be a courier banged on the front door of her home in Concordwith a package for her husband, Dominic Li. When she summoned him to thedoor he was “violently and brutally” attacked and doused in hydrochloricacid as part of […]
Indiana House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, has a curioustake on the current video-gambling controversy. It’s all the fault ofRepublican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ administration, which has “pushed the issue”to the point where the legislature may have to decide soon whether to makethe machines legal or not. By cracking down on the American Legion […]
North Dakota Republican will not be lining up to support Frist onlinegambling ban attempt. Not all Republicans are lining up to support U.S.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s call to ban Internet gambling. NorthDakota State Rep. Jim Kasper says: “My fellow Republicans just don’t get it”when it comes to Internet gambling, reports Internet News.com. In July, […]
Many people who play video poker might want more than amusement for theirquarters, but they don’t expect to become rich, any more than many peoplewho play the lottery. One form of gambling has the player matching witsagainst a machine. The other lets players daydream about what it would belike to be rich. The former is […]