Another defendant has been added to a suit alleging that Valve Software knowingly operates a gambling service thanks to how Counter Strike: Global Offensive "skins" can be traded and bartered. (credit: CSGOLotto)
Two nearly identical lawsuits have been recently filed against the Valve Corporation over an alleged "illegal scheme" that revolves around the online game Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and more defendants have been added to one of those cases.
First came a June 23 filing in federal court in Connecticut, while another July 1 filing in federal court in southern Florida was amended Thursday to also include CSGOLotto.com, a third-party site that facilitates betting of CS:GO items, and two defendants who operate that particular Florida-based website.
Those two defendants' names may sound familiar to anyone following the cases in question: popular YouTube video game streamers Trevor "TmarTn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell. Martin and Cassell were recently exposed for endorsing CSGOLotto as a get-rich-quick gambling site... without identifying themselves as the site's owners and operators.
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