Placing Bets on Quake

Stonedonkey sent us word of this Wired story which is an article about a Dutch-Israeli startup which has developed a system (the site is at Zoogi.com) that allows Internet players to place bets on their Quake and Half-Life matches, along with other games like backgammon. The article touches on several subjects, such as how the winner is determined, and cheating.

..Asking both sides to declare the winner of a game is asking for trouble in an online gaming world where cheating is rampant, many gamers note. And Zoogi practically invites players to cheat. "It is absolutely impossible to control cheating," writes Jonathan Kay, senior editor at Myvideogames.com. ... "If players are going to go through the effort of hacking a program just for the thrill of chalking up a few more frags, imagine how many people will cheat when there is money involved?"