• In video games, skin gambling (also known as skin betting) is the use of virtual goods, often cosmetic in-game items such as "skins", as virtual currency...
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  • under gambling laws. Some of the websites created to help with trading of Global Offensive skins started offering mechanisms for gambling with skins, appearing...
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    PMG reported on skin gambling in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and argued that Valve generally avoided taking action on gambling websites using their...
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    October 2016, the Washington State Gambling Commission required Valve to stop the use of virtual skins for gambling on Steam, stating they would face legal...
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    Loot box (category Gambling terminology)
    being used as a source in gray-market skin gambling, loot boxes began to become regulated under national gambling laws in various countries at the same...
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  • business, finance, and gambling, and is also used in politics. The origin of the phrase is uncertain but may have originated from golf skins games played at...
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  • countries where video games are seen as akin to gambling. This has led to gray market issues such as skin gambling, and so publishers typically have shied away...
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  • a "skin economy" that will provide further revenue for them without concerns over gambling. However, by November 2017, gray market skin gambling sites...
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  • countries where video games are seen as akin to gambling, and has led to gray market issues such as skin gambling, and thus publishers typically have shied...
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    effects of gambling streams. The announcement came shortly after a popular streamer admitted he spent $200,000 in donations on CS:GO skin gambling. As of...
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    Olay (redirect from @OlaySkin)
    of Olaz, Oil of Ulan, or Oil of Ulay, is an American skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. For the 2009 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, Olay...
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  • behavior in gamblers. The variable ratio payoff from slot machines and other forms of gambling has often been cited as a factor underlying gambling addiction...
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    compulsive behaviors including shopping, hoarding, eating, gambling, trichotillomania and picking skin, itching, checking, counting, washing, sex, and more...
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    The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William...
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  • skins to gamble on the results of Counter-Strike esport events, and later just using skins to play games of chance, sometimes skirting many gambling restrictions...
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  • Offensive skins work?". Polygon.com. July 11, 2016. Archived from the original on July 11, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016. "23 Skin Gambling Sites Targeted...
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    other gambling devices dole out rewards, as it follows a variable rate schedule. While the general perception that loot boxes are a form of gambling, the...
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    Effective Prevention of Minors' Addiction to Online Games Video game piracy Skin gambling Lawsuits Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association Entertainment...
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  • aesthetic changes such as the darkening in color of the Native American woman's skin tone. PlayAround also made a gender-reversed version of Custer's Revenge...
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    having a skin applied is referred to as being skinnable, and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning. Applying a skin changes...
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  • system. Match fixing, when motivated by gambling, requires contacts (and normally money transfers) between gamblers, players, team officials, and/or referees...
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  • to that of online gambling. Writing for The New York Times Magazine, Jay Caspian Kang noted that despite its similarities to gambling, DFS appealed to...
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  • Global Offensive gambling controversy, Valve stated it is cracking down on third-party websites using Steam inventory trading for Skin gambling in July 2016...
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  • directed criticism at the ability for third-party websites to allow skin gambling and betting on match results, similar to controversies that also existed...
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  • videos not be disclosed. A similar situation arose as a result of the skin gambling issues raised in mid-2016, with the FTC further refining its guidelines...
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  • PartyGaming plc was a network of gambling sites operated by Ruth Parasol in the Caribbean. Founded in 1997, the network eventually operated under an umbrella...
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  • loot boxes constituted unlicensed gambling. Many Asian and European countries view loot boxes as a form of gambling and have since decided to make them...
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  • marketplaces so as to prevent issues in the same vein as the Counter-Strike skin gambling controversy. The funds from microtransactions would be used to support...
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  • simply as the Gambling Task, or the "OGT". Later, it has been referred to as the Iowa gambling task and, less frequently, as Bechara's Gambling Task. The...
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    Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal Get Sued". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022. "YouTube gamers caught in gambling row"...
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