lockboxes

Remember last month when UK lawmakers started making fresh noise about classifying lockboxes/lootboxes as gambling to protect children following multiple

Legal moves are being made against the practice of lootbox monetization against one of the largest targets possible. A class action complaint filed...

Video game studios that feature lockboxes in their titles are sitting very uncomfortably this week as England decides whether or not to make their...

The newest patch for TERA is not really about content. Obviously, you can take a look at the full patch notes and...

That sure didn't take long. Earlier this week, we found out that the ESRB would be adding a specific content warning to games...

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...