Gacha games and lootboxes are heavily criticized for promoting gambling to underage players and lacking transparency. Crypto ...

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Welcome to your final Xbox Game Pass update for June 2025! Today, we have just the one new title coming to the library - ...

Dr Wang, senior lecturer in psychology, said loot boxes were not officially classified as gambling in the UK. She said: "They are often used in video games aimed at young people, allowing players ...

Boxed.GG creator Loot Labs has raised $6 million in a seed funding round, bringing total investment to date to $7.5 million. The firm already has hundreds of thousands of registered users in Boxed.GG, ...

When Loot Labs announced its pre-seeding round in May 2023, it initially billed Boxed.gg as a platform for all-virtual “mystery boxes” that, when opened, would yield a variety of digital ...

By 2018 and 2019, when loot boxes were becoming anathema, Hearthstone was continuing to plug away with roughly quarterly expansions, each one offering around 135 cards to collect, and the only way ...

Age appropriate Rice began with discussing age ratings of physical games, much more prevalent when PEGI ratings began in 2003. He noted how age ratings had to be laid out clearly from the start with ...

GI.biz reports sales of FC 24’s physical version are 30% down on those of FIFA 23 in the UK. While digital sales may well make up some of this difference, it seems EA Sports’ switch from FIFA ...

Loot boxes and other types of microtransactions with random elements will now be marked on physical copies of games per a new decision by the ESA and the ESRB.