Sentences with phrase «around gambling games»

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The billionaire tycoon also called for a ban on pre-watershed gambling ads around sporting events, like football games, believing it to be a major cause of young people getting hooked.

We live in a society of 100 per cent security and I thought they would never take a gamble to play this game when I saw the images around the stadium.

JORDAN (from 1993, appearing on NBC in a pair of dark shades that made him look like, well, a gambler): It was a means of relaxing with my family [though his family was not around when he gambled in Atlantic City] and my friends, and it got me ready to play the game....

Between 1980 and 1985, teams were averaging right around four goals per game, which would put gambling totals around eight.

This isn't like being a head NFL Coach where you need to win 65 % of your games to keep a job, week to week gambling is a war of attrition and if you can hover around 54 %, you can be very successful.

Gambling is a widespread activity: 73 % of people in the UK report some gambling involvement in the past year and around 50 % play games other than the National Gambling is a widespread activity: 73 % of people in the UK report some gambling involvement in the past year and around 50 % play games other than the National gambling involvement in the past year and around 50 % play games other than the National Lottery.

Of course, gambling and sports has been around for many years, and today there are dozens of online sports betting sites, so it should be of no surprise that publishers are finding ways to insert microtransactions into sports games.

The gambling authority has estimated that the nation's social games market is currently worth around $ 27 million and is expected to grow further in the coming years.

Some users crunched the numbers and calculated the odds on these from only a couple of months ago which is a part of what fuels the gambling industry — rarity equals value, which in place of an actual monetary value is what allows these sites, and more modern loot box infested games, to skirt around gambling laws the world over.

Brendan Drain (@nyphur): Last year I predicted that law enforcement and governments around the world would be forced to finally start tackling gambling in online games accessible by children and vulnerable adults, and I'm happy to see it finally happening.

And lockboxes continued to drive conversations around the law, the cost of games development, the press, and gambling, and not just because of EA: Guild Wars 2's mount lockboxes and Star Citizen's land claims sales reminded MMO players that monetization problems aren't just for mainstream gamers.

These were seen as a manipulative and exploitative practice and - perhaps to Star Wars» cultural status - the controversy soon erupted beyond the games sphere, with gambling bodies and politicians around the globe vowing to look into them.

It's always a gamble when indie developers model their titles around paying tribute to older, influential games.

The Dutch gambling commission took things a step further by conducting a study on 10 of the most popular games featuring loot boxes, and the study found that four of the 10 games featured monetary systems that violated the Betting and Gambling Act, which centers around the concept of betting and gambling real money on items that can be traded outside of tgambling commission took things a step further by conducting a study on 10 of the most popular games featuring loot boxes, and the study found that four of the 10 games featured monetary systems that violated the Betting and Gambling Act, which centers around the concept of betting and gambling real money on items that can be traded outside of tGambling Act, which centers around the concept of betting and gambling real money on items that can be traded outside of tgambling real money on items that can be traded outside of the game.

Today, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the self - regulatory association responsible for rating the content of video games, responded to the mounting controversy around the industry's shift toward microtransactions, specifically the gambling - style loot box systems favored by the world's most popular competitive multiplayer titles.