Nick Xenophon calls for first-person shooter video games to be defined as gambling
by Elle Hunt from Technology | The Guardian on (#1P126)
Virtual weapons won in some games can be bought for real money and used like casino chips on online gambling websites
In what could prove a world first, an Australian politician is seeking to have games such as the hugely popular Counter-Strike series defined in law as gambling.
Nick Xenophon, the independent senator for South Australia, on Sunday announced a bid to have multiplayer first-person shooter games defined as gambling in an update to the current Interactive Gambling Act of 2001.
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