online gaming

For many years, GameStop has had a business model that couldn't fail: Sell the hottest new gaming gear, take used games and equipment in trade, keep knowledgeable staff, and don't overpay on rent. But that model is starting collapse, and soon, it may be "Game Over" for GameStop.

The federal government has more or less successfully kept online gambling out of the U.S. by making it illegal for banks to process credit card payments for online gaming across state lines. Now, however, state budget shortfalls have caused some states to consider allowing online gambling, limited...

In an e-mail to Xbox Live subscribers and an announcement on Xbox "SpokesPlayer" Major Nelson's blog, Microsoft announced that starting Nov. 1 the price for a year of Xbox Live service is going up to $60. Microsoft defended the $10 increase on the service, required for online gaming or to watch...

With casinos sprouting like kudzu across the U.S., many states are looking to gaming taxes to help fill the hole poked in their budgets by the recession. Now, the federal government has raised the stakes by taking the first step toward legalizing online gambling. According to Bloomberg...

What don't you like about Monopoly? Too limited? Predictable? No one to play with? Then Google's newest brainstorm, Monopoly City Streets, to be unveiled Wednesday, Sept. 9, might pique your interest. The online game table is the entire world, the players everyone in the world who wants in, and...

Billionaire Mort Zuckerman has been the publisher and owner of the New York Daily News since the early 1990's and heads up U.S. News and World Report, so when he suggests how the U.S. newspaper industry might be rescued, people listen. They were listening at recent gathering when he suggested that...

At the same time many states are looking to casinos as a way to increase tax revenue, millions of Americans have taken to the internet for their gambling fix. Despite efforts by Congress to stifle this controversial industry by passing a law in 2006 forbidding U.S. banks to transfer funds back and...

Online poker in the U.S., despite regulations against it, has grown in lockstep with cable programs devoted to poker. A new investigation by the Washington Post and the CBS show 60 Minutes revealed how two online sites were hacked, resulting in the scamming of millions of dollars in poker...