lockboxes

Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...

Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...

I'm sure you're as tired of hearing about lockboxes as we are of writing about them, but here we are and it's still happening....

Guild Wars 2's lockboxes got a bit of revision in today's patch. "You won’t find boosters among your loot anymore, but you will find a...

Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general. Hyperspace...

A hotspot has just opened up in the admittedly already battle-ravaged world of Defiance. This week, the team initiated the Neo Votanis Freebooters event,...

Last weekend, the blogosphere exploded over an article that essentially told the MMORPG community to shut up, sit down, and stop complaining about things...

A reader named Paul recently wrote to us wondering why RNG lockboxes aren't considered gambling. Oh sure, we call them gambleboxes, but the government...

If you've waded in the waters of Star Trek Online's community for any length of time, you'll no doubt have noticed that there's a...

WildStar's world bosses are big, ornery, and the general sort of thing that lots of players need to band together to defeat. Nothing wrong...

Every once in a while in an MMO, the desire to play with numbers grips me, like the time I hand-crafted a thousand drinks in Star...

Trove has gone down for maintenance and isn't expected to be back up until 1:00 p.m. EDT. That's the bad news. The good news...

Quick, someone call the animal humane society because Star Trek Online is cramming innocent puppies into airtight boxes! This puppy abuse is part of STO's...