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We're all familiar with the "surprise mechanics" incident, the absurdist argument in defense of lootboxes from EA's VP of legal and government affairs Kerry...

Last week, just as the FTC's video games monetization abuse investigation got underway, the ESA announced that many of the major and minor games...

While plenty of online games with lockboxes already have transparent lockboxes and far more are due to get them over the next year thanks...

Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...

Conversations, studies, and outright rancor over video game lockbox practices have caught the notice of several world governments as readers of MOP already know,...

Most if not all of us pretty much felt the same way Dr. Daniel King, senior research assistant from the School of Psychology at...

I used to watch Spongebob religiously. I loved the days when I could put on Nickelodeon and have Spongebob on for hours. One of...

Did you think EA had maybe learned its lesson from the whole Star Wars Battlefront lockbox meltdown back in 2017, when the uproar over...

The research and science continues in the case of lockbox/lootbox purchasing habits and gambling addiction. The latest piece of scientific literature on the subject...

It stands to reason that in a game called Star Trek Online, the most desirable starships of them all will be any that have...

There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...

You may recall that last year, the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC) released a report in which it concluded that "the purchase of loot boxes...

Last week, Rockstar gave Red Dead Online players the opportunity to settle down with some friendly games of poker, but it would appear that...

A 3-D character artist who previously worked at Cryptic Studios on Champions Online and Neverwinter has come out swinging against lockbox mechanics, saying that...

You can buy lockboxes right now in Heroes of the Storm, but with the current patch in testing on the game's test server, you will...

Welcome back to another MMO Business Roundup, where we check in on all your favorite flaming dumpster fires in the gaming business world. The 2019...

The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running throughout...

Remember back in 2018 when Belgium cracked down on gambleboxes in video games, zeroing in on Overwatch, FIFA 18, and CSGO and ordering them...

Do you keep forgetting that Fortnite has a PvE Save the World mode? Don't worry if that's the case -- the entire globe pretty...

MMOBomb has an interview up with Gamigo's top brass today that has some interesting nuggets for MMO players wondering about the current state of...