China Cracks Down On Gambling in Arcades By Lo-Jacking Machines

September 24, 2014 News No Comments
China Cracks Down On Gambling in Arcades By Lo-Jacking Machines

So…Does anyone still want to have a money match?

Gambling in China is extremely huge in China arcade, and also very illegal. It is so big a problem, authorities in Shanghai are now fitting arcade machines with a chip that can detect whenever games are tampered with.

In a report by Kotaku, the devices some can not only determine if a machine has been rigged, it can call the public security.

Last month, there was a reports of Chinese cops destroying confiscated  games that were made into gambling machines.

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