One of the most fascinating topics to come up in our industry these days is how gaming could lead to gambling in kids. Real-money gambling is slowly but surely beginning to make its way into the precious gaming space. Despite the attempts to merge the two worlds, though, gaming and gambling have always been typically seen as two separate entities: except for all of those poker or slot machine video games that let players raise the stakes with imaginary currency. But in fact, now it seems that the lines have begun to blur so much in recent years that one…

Think you want to win the Mega Millions? Well, we’ve all heard the horror stories of lotto winners quickly going off the rails. So should you throw away your ticket? Let’s take a look at the medical literature. Attention all Powerball players waiting to win your first billion in Tuesday night’s epic Mega Millions drawing: Stop before it’s too late! Winning may kill you! Or it might make you unhappy. Or it might make you overspend on cars and helicopters and lead you to early, penniless death. That’s the well-turned schadenfreude narrative regarding the dismal life of lottery winners—that they…

Poker News – Maybe we’ll finally learn if the million-dollar top prize at the World Series of Poker has Mike McDermott’s name on it. According to Deadline Hollywood, The Weinstein Company co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein are once again working with Miramax. The new venture will begin quickly with sequels to Best Picture Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love and poker’s cult-classic Rounders. Harvey Weinstein told Deadline Hollywood the following: “I’ve discussed making a Rounders sequel with Matt Damon and I would say that’s going to be instantaneous.. .The guys [writers David Levien and Brian Koppelman] have a great idea, a way…

Online gaming platform iSoftBet has announced the addition of a Beverly Hills 90210 slot machine it its portfolio of branded games. Based on the 1990’s hit television series, the slot machine offers players 243 different ways to win and features a Transformer symbol that it said would boost players’ winning chances. The new slot machine also boasts a host of audio and graphics. “iSoftBet’s branded content has always been popular with players, and we are sure Beverly Hills 90210 will be no different,” iSoftBet’s sales manager, Luci Apostolou, said. “Players will be transported right back to 1990s California for a…

Poker News – As Bitcoin becomes more and more of an emerging currency market, it should be something that is on every poker player’s radar. In the PokerNews Guide To Bitcoin, Part 1: we discussed what Bitcoin is and how it can relate to poker. For Part 2, we will look at the advantages of Bitcoin on the online felt. To give PokerNews readers a better understanding of the pros and cons of Bitcoin poker sites, we reached out to Michael Hadjuk, owner and CEO of Infiniti Poker, which offered a soft launch of the site on Nov. 27, 2013….

Card Player – Controversy has emerged in South Korea over a bill designed to combat addiction to computer games like StarCraft, the Associated Press reported. The bill, which is backed by 14 ruling party members, includes provisions to limit advertising. A separate bill would take 1 percent of the gaming industry’s revenue to create a fund to curb addiction. These might seem insignificant, but it has the gaming industry there in a dizzy. Game makers reportedly have said that the bill is a death sentence for their industry. The AP pointed out that “a law passed in 2011 that bans…