As loot boxes continue to come under scrutiny from various legal bodies, a member of the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) in…
The discussion on loot boxes continues this week as multiple nations weigh in on the issue. Not only have both Belgium and The Netherlands launched…
Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to determine…
As originally reported by VTM (via Gamasutra), the general director of the the Belgian Gaming Commission, Peter Naessens, told the local news outlet the commission…
As Capcom is banking on Monster Hunter: World to be the first major success in the west for the franchise, they’re taking notes on what…
Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, has submitted two questions with regards to loot boxes and whether they can be deemed as gambling Ove the…
Due at least somewhat in part to the firestorm of pay-to-win accusations being thrown at Battlefront 2, EA and DICE have come out with a…
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the industry-created ratings group, has declared that it doesn’t see loot boxes as gambling – an important distinction for…
Loot boxes have infested gaming, their glorified and barely hidden gambling is becoming a scourge on modern gaming. In the same way that predatory microtransactions…
When Monolith and Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War arrives in October it’s going to be loaded with microtransactions. In the form of loot chests…
OK, so that headline is a bit of an exaggeration, loot boxes are still in Valve games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2, but…
Pet Simulator X is one of many weird, and strangely very fun, Roblox games. Roblox’s number one pet collection game, Pet Simulator X, has just released…
Money laundering is a major problem. The concept of how criminals and their enterprises “wash” their illicit profits so that they can safely spend them…
Earlier this week, the ESA and several major gaming companies came together to promise a series of changes to the microtransaction ecosystem in modern video…
As the public and legislative pressure surrounding microtransactions and loot boxes grows, so too does the impetus to do something about the problem that they…
Path of Exile has a new Mystery Box. Grinding Gear Games have added 38 new micro-transactions to POE with the Sin and Innocence Mystery Box….
At this point, everyone has an opinion on loot boxes and whether they are good or bad for gamers and the industry as a whole….
According to numbers released by NPD, the impact of Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot boxes has significantly hit sales numbers. NPD says it has been…
Democrat representative Chris Lee raised his concerns over the Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot boxes on 22 November and things are progressing. In a new video update…
This month has seen a lot of news about Star Wars Battlefront II; from a paid EA Access trial, to loot box changes, now we…
Actually listening to player outrage for once, EA have decided to make some very important changes to the loot box and Star Card systems in…
Earlier this month, an effort to get video game lootboxes classified as gambling resulted in an online petition and questions being posed to the British…
Another day, another Attack on Titan game on Roblox. Players zip around the map fighting titans and finding hidden loot. And just like in the…
Roblox Carcraft lets you put that engineering mind to work. Earn loot and car parts by completing in races and challenges. You can then take…