{"id":11341,"date":"2020-05-13T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:34:25","slug":"how-video-games-have-influenced-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2020\/05\/13\/how-video-games-have-influenced-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"How video games have influenced gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Video games and online gaming are part of a multi-million dollar industry with a massive youth population market base. However, more recently, video games has become a new form of online betting in the gambling industry to attract casual video game players into the betting market. Sites take the phrase \u201cI bet I can beat you\u201d and turn it into a real competition where players can compete against each other for real money prizes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is video game betting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Playing video games is a highly competitive platform that attracts a range of ages to partake. This is one of the reasons eSports has already made headway within the betting industry. Now, betting on video games outside electronic sport are becoming increasingly popular across betting platforms like Findbettingsites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting it simply, it is the same as sports betting but on video games and this now goes beyond the eSports industry; from being able to bet on first-person shooter games like Call of Duty to strategy games, battle games like League of Legends and, of course, still sports centered video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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