UK Needs Stricter Regulation of Online Gambling and Loot Boxes in Video Games, House of Lords Insists

UK Needs Stricter Regulation of Online Gambling and Loot Boxes in Video Games, House of Lords Insists

The Gambling Committee at the House of Lords has called for the UK Government to regulate loot boxes as a form of gambling under the existing gambling legislation and has warned that the change should not be postponed any more. According to the Lords, loot boxes offered in many video games should be classified as “games of chance”. In their report, they insist that if a certain product resembled gambling, it should be regulated as such. If such a classification is made, then loot boxes would be considered a form…

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Cashino Gaming Has Its Bingo Premises Licence Application Rejected by Blackpool’s Council Licensing Panel

Cashino Gaming Has Its Bingo Premises Licence Application Rejected by Blackpool’s Council Licensing Panel

Blackpool’s council licensing panel rejected an application filed by a gambling company that has been willing to get a bingo premises licence for some slot machines on Abingdon Street. Unfortunately for Cashino Gaming, it would not be able to place its Merkur Slots at the abovementioned site as local authorities feared that the bingo premises and the offered gambling option would have a negative impact on vulnerable individuals. The rejection follows another blow that Cashino Gaming has suffered in Blackpool after the planning committee of the city council also refused…

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