As we reported yesterday, Virgin is launching a new online tournament gaming service, Virgin Gaming, which lets joystick enthusiasts play popular titles like “Halo 3″ and “Madden NFL 10″ for cash and prizes on multiplayer services such as PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Now, it’s been announced that more than $1 million in prize money [...]
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Virgin Gaming to offer $1 million in online gaming prizes
June 16th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: playstation · Playstation Network · video game tournaments · video games · virgin gaming · XBOX Live
Virgin Gets into the Video Game Tournament Business
June 15th, 2010 1 Comment
Virgin Group is getting into the Internet video game tournament business, which is legal in all but 11 states because the video games are considered games of skill, not chance. The new Virgin Gaming Web site, to be announced on Tuesday at the E3 video game industry show here, gives console video game players the [...]
Tags: playstation · video game tournaments · video games · virgin gaming · XBOX 360
BringIt.com A New Competitive Gaming Site
November 21st, 2008 No Comments
BringIt is another online destination where console gamers from around the globe can play video games for real money. Gamers compete in head-to-head challenges and multiplayer bracket style tournaments, and win real cash. As usual, the games that are being played for cash prizes on BringIt are considered “Games of Skill” and not games of [...]
Tags: BringIt · PS2 · PS3 · Wii · XBOX 360
GameDuell: US Legal Games of Skill
November 3rd, 2008 No Comments
GameDuell.comis one of the world’s largest skill gaming communities, which offers some of the most popular casual games like Pool, Darts, Solitaire, FreeCell, and many more. GameDuell is one-of-a-kind because users can play against real opponents and can win real prizes, even cash. Since all games GameDuell offers are skill based games, it is not [...]
Tags: Games of Skill
Gambling in Virtual Worlds Still Illegal in the US
August 22nd, 2008 No Comments
We recently stumbled upon an older Christian Science article Some SL businesses already may be operating outside current law. Casino gambling and sports betting are pervasive in SL. The fact that bets are made in lindens, not dollars, won’t shield gamblers from possible prosecution under federal laws banning Internet gambling, says Jaclyn Lesch, a spokeswoman [...]
Tags: internet gambling · second life · virtual worlds
