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Online Slots: Coming To Your Xbox?

In many ways, online slots are already a lot like video games. With the latest innovations in graphics, sound quality, and game play, some of our favorite pokies would be right at home on a seventh-generation video gaming console like the Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The slick look and fascinating feel of these slot titles are an achievement of software design, and meant to appeal to the same young players who are right at home with Halo, Medal of Honor, and other blockbuster game titles. Now, the announcement that a developer has created an online casino that could theoretically be linked to a home gaming console has the industry wondering about the extent of this new technology.

Barriere Interactive Gaming is the French company behind LeCroupier, a highly-anticipated online casino that is supposed to launch soon on the World Wide Web. Beta testers for LeCroupier are giving high marks to the totally three dimensional (3D) casino’s interactivity and level of playing excitement. A lesser-known attribute of LeCroupier is the fact that Barriere built it with the capabilities of being connected with home console technology.

Could online slots and other forms of Internet gambling be coming into your home through your Xbox? Even if the hardware issues are all worked out, the legal reality of making this happen would be very tricky. The U.S. in particular is not very accepting of gambling, and heavily legislates the industry. Online gambling, for example, is completely banned. It’s unlikely that either Sony or Microsoft want to take on the legal headaches of bringing online casinos into their consoles, no matter how attractive the concept is otherwise.

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