The grey 'n baldy club at the Fed decided to shake their cane at Bitcoin and inadvertently made all the online gaming companies (EA, Valve, Ubisoft, Zynga) crap their pants in unison.
It only applies to gaming currencies if they can be readily converted back to dollars. For example, this doesn't affect the 'tokens' you buy to play skeeball at Chuck-E-Cheese's because you don't exchange those back to dollars.
