Home Games now features video chat embedded within the product itself, and will be available for both cash games and tournaments. PokerStars this will allow players to interact with one another, and gauge their reactions right as the action is happening.
On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York seized and shut down Pokerstars and several of its competitors' sites, alleging that the sites were violating federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.