As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I'm not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based platform.
Michele Spagnuolo was charged this week on the grounds that he'd used confidential business information to place a number of bets on Polymarket (via Wired). Up until his arrest, Spagnuolo had worked for Google since 2014, most recently as a security engineer at Google Zürich. His Google research page has since been taken down.
