lockboxes

Arguably one of the bigger online multiplayer shooters coming down the pike is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, just by mere dint of...

Yesterday, we covered the UK government’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee panel report on addictive technologies: Readers will recall that the...

As gamers will recall, the UK government's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee panel has been investigating addictive technologies for the better...

So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a...

By now, we're all familiar with the 2017 comment by EA about how lootboxes provide "a sense of pride and accomplishment." The remark...

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...

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...

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...

Lost Ark is setting its sights on new horizons - are we next? We still don't know, but this past week, Smilegate revealed...

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

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

The gamblebox issue isn't dying down any time soon, it appears. As Kotaku first reported, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has announced he plans...

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...

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

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

Readers following the long-running lootbox/lockbox debate will recall that back in February of this year, New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, who sits on...