lockboxes

The open beta for Phantasy Star Online 2 has kicked off today on the Xbox One, with Windows 10 still listed as "coming...

As much as the developers who make lockboxes would probably like for the random packs of items to start slipping back under the radar,...

There has to be a measure of masochistic joy in stocking up account items that you can't use (yet) for a game that is...

The process of getting crates in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is not necessarily all that rewarding. You pay your hard-earned BP to get a crate, and...

Ever since SSG increased its use and contents with the Mordor expansion, LOTRO's lockboxes have been a sore point among players who have...

A report from UK children's commissioner Anne Longfield is calling for stricter laws on lootboxes and to amend current gambling laws to include lootboxes,...

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...