I was invited to speak at the Licensing Executive Society’s Spring Meeting in Seattle last month on the subject of games and gambling convergence in Europe. Here’s the presentaton I gave:
Category: Gambling
The converging worlds of games and gambling
Last month I wrote an article for World Online Gambling Report about the converging worlds of games and gambling – and what all this could mean from a legal and business perspective. Here’s a taster: “There are growing arguments that [certain games could already be regulated under gambling law]… At that stage, the games industry may… Continue reading The converging worlds of games and gambling
Games law update, June 2012
Hi everyone – here we are for another games law update…
The use and legal status of virtual goods and currencies
I gave a presentation last year to Social Gaming 2012 about virtual goods practice and law – somehow I didn’t put it up on Gamer/Law. Here we go:
Some thoughts about gacha
There’s been a lot of talk about something called ‘gacha’ or ‘complete gacha’ this month, after the Japanese government announced that they intended to regulate it – which directly affected the share price of Japanese social/mobile gaming giants like GREE and DeNA. So, what is it and why did the Japanese government decide to regulate… Continue reading Some thoughts about gacha