All posts tagged "Gaming"

Federal prosecutors were determining if prediction market bets have violated insider trading laws, according to a CNN report Monday.

The heads of the securities and commodities fraud unit in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York reportedly met with Polymarket representatives to learn more about how existing laws could be interpreted as part of an investigation into possible misconduct.

Polymarket is one of the leading prediction betting platforms in the growing industry and follows the Department of Justice's inquiry over potential lucrative trades that happened around the capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3. ...

The National Football League — by far the richest sports league in the world — paid for several U.S. House of Representatives aides to attend last month’s NFL Draft.

The catch?

The aides allowed top NFL officials lobby them on issues of significant financial and political importance to the league....

Exasperated parents and spouses have a new red flag to wave at kids or partners who spend endless hours playing video games. Too much time glued to screens and battering controllers is linked to tinnitus and hearing loss, according to doctors and scientists in Australia, China, Switzerland and the US. "Gamers often play at high-intensity sound levels and for several hours at a time," the research team said, warning of possible "irreversible hearing loss and/or tinnitus—persistent ringing/buzzing in the ears." The research, covering data and studies taking in over 50,000 of the world’s estimate......

About as hyped as it is controversial, "Hogwarts Legacy" is a game that easily could have been the biggest and most popular release of 2023. Instead, it has landed right at the centre of a fierce debate about the rights of trans people. "Hogwarts Legacy", the first major video game from the "Harry Potter" empire in years, is getting its long-awaited public release on Friday. The ability to explore Hogwarts castle and the grounds surrounding it in an open-world narrative that pre-dates the original stories had been longed for by many fans of the original series. But the launch has been soured b......

Sony's landmark 2013 game "The Last of Us" didn't make it easy on players. But the difficulty curve was more emotional than technical, for the game delivered the zombie genre at its most heady, grief-stricken and intimate. How it started: Grim. Joel, a down-on-his-luck single dad, can't catch a break. Then comes a viral outburst that has all of Texas going mad trying to avoid flesh eaters, which sends him and his daughter on the run. Full credits haven't even rolled before the child doesn't make it — shot dead on government orders. While there's no shortage of violence in the video game space,......

Since The New York Times bought Wordle in late January, some players have become convinced the viral word game has become more difficult than ever before. While that claim remains unproven, a new study shows that cheating while playing Wordle has become more prevalent since the Times’ takeover. WordFinderX, a word games reference tool, conducted a study using Google Trends data to show just how many people are searching for the answer to the day’s Wordle. According to the study, which looked at data through February 20, Google searches for “today’s Wordle” increased by 196% since The New York ......