Monday, February 18, 2013
Las Vegas in your living room
The latest efforts of the gaming industry is to bring the gambling experience right into your living room. New games, some based on traditional casino games and some based on arcade games are currently in development.
Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager.So stock up on your favorite beverages, call up the escort service and have a gambling experience that even Vegas can't give you, a mercy bj as you lose, no waiting.
At the moment these games are aimed overseas, where attitudes toward gambling are more relaxed and online betting is generally legal, and extremely lucrative. But game companies, from small teams to Facebook and Zynga, have their eye on the ultimate prize: the rich American market, where most types of real-money online wagers have been cleared by the Justice Department.
Two states, Nevada and Delaware, are already laying the groundwork for virtual gambling. Within months they will most likely be joined by New Jersey.
Bills have also been introduced in Mississippi, Iowa, California and other states, driven by the realization that online gambling could bring in streams of tax revenue. In Iowa alone, online gambling proponents estimated that 150,000 residents were playing poker illegally.
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