Two people charged over videogame gambling in UK

Gambling has been a big subject in the videogame world recently after it was discovered that a few large YouTubers were leveraging their influence to promote betting sites to a young, impressionable audience. Since then, authorities in the UK have been digging around and now, the first prosecutions have been made in regards to videogame betting.

Dylan Rigby and Craig Douglas, two men from Essex, were charged with promoting a lottery, inviting children to gamble and advertising unlawful gambling, according to a report from the BBC. It is not known which game these two were using to promote gambling to a young audience, but this does follow on from the recent CS:GO betting scandal, which resulted in lawsuits against Valve and those operating skin betting sites.

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The Gambling Commission has been looking into videogame betting for a while now and following this first batch of charges, they are hoping to make parents more aware of things like skin betting.

This case, in particular, will be revisited in court on the 14th of October, at which time, we may find out what game these two were involved with.

KitGuru Says: While things have been quiet recently on the videogame betting front, this first batch of prosecutions shows that the story isn’t quite over yet and some serious investigations are in fact underway. How do you guys feel about this whole skin betting debacle?

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