Ruling on opening a shop for elctronic games
Question

                What is the ruling on owning a shop of electronic games for children? The child sits in front of the computer and plays in return for fees (2 SR) per hour. We know that the prophet prohibited playing with dice and playing chess, is it the same ruling for elctronic games? Why did the prophet prohibited these specific games?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Firstly: 

    The ruling on opening a shop to rent electronic games is 
    based on the ruling on the games themselves. In the answer to question no.
    2898 we explained the ruling, 
    and stated that if these games are free of haraam things, then they are 
    permissible according to sharee’ah. So there is nothing wrong with renting 
    them to children, if they do not contain any of these haraam things, such as 
    images of naked women, games involving witchcraft and music, and so on. The 
    owner of the shop must choose games that are free of haraam things. 

    Secondly: 

    We have discussed the prohibition on chess and dice in the 
    answers to questions no. 22305 
    and 14095. 

    As for the wisdom behind the prohibition on these two games, 
    Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

    The ruling on playing with these things is that it is 
    forbidden, because they are tools of idleness that keep one from remembering 
    Allaah and praying. This is well known to the scholars, because they 
    distract and keep one from doing good. They also lead to competition and may 
    lead to much evil between the players, and may distract them from what 
    Allaah has enjoined. End quote. 

    Fataawa Ibn Baaz (8/98). 

    Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

    If the one who plays dice is disobeying Allaah and His 
    Messenger, even though the evil that results from that is little, then how 
    can the one who plays chess not be disobeying Allaah and His Messenger, when 
    the evil that results from it is greater, and it keeps the players from that 
    which Allaah and His Messenger love, and takes hold of the player’s mind, 
    and distracts him mentally and physically, and wastes his time, and dabbling 
    a little in it leads one to become more involved in it, just as drinking a 
    little wine leads to drinking a lot, and people are more keen to play it for 
    prizes than they are to play it for no prizes.  If there were no bad 
    consequences involved in playing it other than it being a means to consume 
    haraam wealth by gambling, it would be forbidden in sharee’ah, so how about 
    when the evils that result from simply playing mean that it is haraam? 

    How can one think that sharee’ah would permit that which 
    distracts one so much from one’s religious and worldly interests, and 
    generates enmity and resentment between the players, and a little of it 
    leads to a lot, and affects the mind and reason as intoxicants do, if not 
    more so? Hence the player becomes more devoted to it than the wine drinker 
    to his wine, or more so, because he does not feel shy or afraid as the wine 
    drinker does, and both of them are akin to the one who is devoted to idols. 
    End quote. 

    Al-Furoosiyyah (p. 312).