Archive for 2017

Link Between Antidepressants and Gambling Addiction

Depression is a serious mental illness that can have a devastating impact on a sufferer’s physical well-being and overall quality of life. Therefore, it’s no wonder that so many people turn to antidepressants to help them manage the symptoms of chronic depression. In recent years, however, critics of these...

A Look Inside Japan’s Pachinko Games Industry

In the United States, the slot machine reigns supreme as the gambling machine of choice, but in Japan, gamblers prefer to spend their coins on a different type of recreational arcade game called Pachinko. Derived from the Japanese word “pachi-pachi” meaning “the click of small objects”, the game has...

CJEU Rules against Hungary iGaming Licensing Framework

Hungary legalized online gambling back in 1998, and over the past two decades has made several changes to its regulations governing online poker, casino games and sports books. The latest set of amendments to the law has proven controversial, though, as foreign operators have accused the country of showing...

NJ Gambling in Healthier Place Post-iGaming Regulation

Since its beginning, New Jersey’s online gambling market has helped to buoy the state’s casino industry, as well as its overall economic standing, whilst also creating a safe place for people to gamble online. This is exactly the positive message that the i-Development and Economic Association (iDEA) has been...

VR Therapy Helping to Cure Gambling Addiction

Virtual reality is coming back in style as a new boom in VR equipment and games takes off. This time around, advances in technology are letting developers create virtual reality situations across a number of different areas of the industry, instead of solely in the gaming world. Therapy is...

Blackjack Popularity Continues to Wane in Las Vegas

Classic casino table games have played a huge part in the evolution of the gambling industry, but over the past few decades the rising popularity of slot machines and online gambling games has significantly impacted peoples views towards table games, and especially the card game blackjack. Three Decades of...

Transaction Laundering a Growing Trend in Internet Gambling

Reuters has recently carried out an independent investigation of different transaction laundering websites, and has since released a comprehensive report about its findings. According to the report, transaction laundering has been growing exponentially in the world of online gambling in recent times, and is the process by which websites...