UK bookies Paddy Power doesn’t have much faith in the state of console gaming. After the PS3′s spectacular shitstorm of a failure this week, they’re putting odds of 11/8 on it happening again. The Xbox 360 meanwhile has 7/4 odds.
And now, an ingenious solution to a problem that you didn’t know existed: the Dice-o-Matic can make over a million dice rolls a day, supplying genuinely random results for an email-based card and strategy gaming service.
You’ve got to be pretty bold to use your iPhone to count cards in a Vegas casino, especially now that they’re on the lookout for such behavior.
My kid is almost the age where I need to consider potty training incentives. Walmart suggests the $US15 Jack Potty toilet/slot machine (get it?) with sensors that “detect a deposit and trigger lights and sounds.”
Do you love poker? Is your favourite channel The Poker Channel The Travel Channel? Are you wearing sunglasses right now so your co-workers can’t tell if you’re looking at the screen or the sticky note right beside the computer screen? Will you avoid showering for a week just to test your skin’s resistance to bacteria for marathon poker sessions?
Ahh, Victoria. First you slap a court injunction on the airing of a TV show, even though it was downloaded thousands of times anyway. And now you go and legalise gambling via Pay TV.
Sure, every Aussie loves a bet. But now Victorians can love there bets from the comfort of their lounge. It’s linked with Foxtel’s Sky Racing channel, and provides detailed track and betting information on all thoroughbred, harness and greyhound meetings in Australia.
The service – due to launch in April – is only available to Tabcorp wagering account holders, who have to go through a screening process to get an account. Apparently this, plus the fact that you can pop a password on your Foxtel box, means that the channel is “secure” from underage gambling wannabes and adult gambling addicts.
Understandably, anti-gambling groups are pretty pissed off right now. I mean really, is there any need for this? Surely it’s easy enough to place a bet online without making it available through the TV as well. I mean, that extra Foxtel bandwidth could go (a small way) towards rebroadcasting Channel 7 to satellite customers. And nobody would get hurt by that. Unless they watched It Takes two, I guess.
[The Australian via TV Tonight]
Interestingly enough, Hop-On, a company once known for making disposable cellphones, has introduced a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone dubbed the HOP2001 that is AT&T and Verizon ready. The phone features dual-mode GSM or CDMA, a 320×240 touchscreen, a 3-Megapixel camera with 10x zoom, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, 256 MB Flash ROM and 128 MB SRAM, microSD expansion, and Telenav compatible GPS.
Those Jersey residents really love their crane game. First there was the iPhone Crane Game where you had to throw down $5 per try, and now there’s the Wii crane game, where you can get the chance to pick yourself up one Nintendo console for $2. We’re not sure how many Wiis have been won in this gigantic Wii crane game, but now we know why we can’t ever find one in stores. [Crave via Kotaku]
Atari’s Pong is stealing our quarters once again, recently approved for use in a slot machine made by Bally: “Bally Pong.” A cabinet decorated with chrome fixtures and retro fonts will be a pretty standard 5-line slot, though featuring two knobs for the 1-in-70 occurrence of a 45-second Pong minigame. And while earnings at this point are “skill based,” will expert Pongers see a real payout advantage?
The iPhone may be Apple’s new cash cow, but Apple isn’t the only one looking to make a quick buck off the hysteria. BetUs is currently willing to help you lose your hard-earned money by offering odds on a variety of crazy launch-day-and-beyond iPhone possibilities. From someone getting trampled (20:1, place ‘em now!) to the phone itself malfunctioning, cracking or even spontaneously bursting into flames (150:1), if gambling is your vice and gadgets are your passion, Christmas is here early. The minimum bet is $5, maximum is $10,000. Perhaps a strategic bet could pay for my new iPhone… – Karson Thompson
[Via Crunch Gear]
