News Gamble Game Launched

A new website is mixing current affairs with betting to create a fantasy news forecast game.

Hubdub.com features a series of questions about news events and users are encouraged to gamble virtual money on the outcomes.

Predictors compete against each other for the coveted top spot of the Hubdub leaderboard and can also submit their own posers for fellow users to bet on.

The site is the brainchild of former regional press man Nigel Eccles and is managed from an office in Edinburgh.

He told Press Gazette: “I had always been a news consumer and I always thought there must be a better way to cover news stories.

“Whether it’s an election or Pop Idol, I had always used betting odds as a guide to who’s going to win.”

He added: “We are trying to have big-running news stories and we’d love for people to use it as a hub.”

The site currently only covers US news stories but Eccles plans to expand its remit to UK current affairs by the end of this year.