The N.C. Court of Appeals has slapped down some of the latest efforts by the video game sweepstakes industry — in which customers play video sweepstakes games to win money or other items of value — to ...

When North Carolina lawmakers passed a 2010 law banning video sweepstakes machines, California-based SweepsCoach pulled out of the Tar Heel State. "We may have been the only company that did that," ...

Opponents of sweepstakes machines have said that loophole has allowed the machines to proliferate in places including Chicago that have banned video gambling, as well as in locations like gas stations ...

Businesses that offer video sweepstakes have been able to keep giving cash payouts even as the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld a law outlawing similar video-poker machines.