Alex McHugh News Children's Commissioner Recommends Gambling Classification for Loot Boxes Oct 23rd, 2019 The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a new report that makes a recommendation regarding online games, in particular, that loot...
Steve Boxer News Platform-holders to enforce disclosure of loot box odds Aug 8th, 2019 US games industry body the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have agreed to force games to disclose...
Alex McHugh News UK Gambling Commission pronounces loot boxes 'not gambling' Jul 24th, 2019 Loot boxes have again received some extra scrutiny, this time from the UK Gambling Commission, the UK governmental body that regulates gambling. ...
Steve Boxer News EA executive describes loot boxes as “surprise mechanics” Jun 20th, 2019 Electronic Arts’ VP of legal and government affairs Kerry Hopkins has described loot boxes as a “surprise mechanic” which is “quite...
Steve Boxer News Psyonix cuts paid Rocket League loot boxes in Belgium, Netherlands Apr 18th, 2019 Developer Psyonix has removed the ability to purchase loot crates with real money from Rocket League in Belgium and the Netherlands. ...
Kayley Dow Articles IGDA calls on games industry to pre-empt government loot box action Dec 3rd, 2018 Jen MacLean, executive director of the IGDA, has called on the games industry to take action on loot boxes before governments step in with...
Steve Boxer News Belgian Gaming Commission recommends prosecutions over loot boxes May 11th, 2018 The Belgian Gaming Commission has declared that it is likely to prosecute Electronic Arts, Valve and Activision Blizzard over loot boxes in FIFA 18,...
Steve Boxer News State of Decay 2 developer confirms no loot boxes May 2nd, 2018 Developer Undead Labs has confirmed that it will not be putting loot boxes in its forthcoming zombie-survival game State of Decay 2.
Olly Paul News Blizzard adds 100 cosmetic items to standard loot boxes Jan 22nd, 2018 Blizzard has announced that it is adding over 100 new items to Overwatch’s core cosmetics collection.
Alex McHugh Articles Opinion: Games Will Always Need Money From Somewhere Dec 7th, 2017 Videogames are expensive to make. That's not something that's easy to understand, we look at small games by some indie developer and we think...
Suraya Adnan News Take-Two Boss Says Games Industry Moving to 100% Digital Nov 30th, 2017 As reported in Gamesindustry.biz, Take-Two Interactive’s President, Karl Slatoff has said that he thinks the games industry is set to move to 100%...
Suraya Adnan News UK Gambling Commission Concerned about Blurry Lines between Videogames and Gambling Nov 27th, 2017 Following the recent weeks of regulators attempting to take action against loot boxes within video games, the UK’s Gambling Commission have made...
