New European and global rules could limit minors' access to loot boxes, pressuring in-game sales, retention, and bookings.

Overwatch's new Excavation Initiative Event grants players loot boxes and rewards for simply playing the game to kick off the ...

Blizzard Entertainment is bringing loot boxes back to Overwatch 2, more than two years after stripping them out of the game. Loot boxes will return in season 15 of Overwatch 2, which launches Feb. 18, ...

Blizzard is not quite inviting regulators to look, but it’s certainly a curious decision. Once upon a time, loot boxes where the big evil that was corrupting and festering in the video game industry.

Loot boxes have long been criticised as an addictive form of gambling. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

"Counter-Strike" raked in nearly $1 billion last year from loot boxes — cases that players can purchase containing random items of varying value — a controversial feature some regulators liken to ...

Now it’s time for the least surprising news story of the day. EA has announced that it will continue to use loot boxes in the upcoming FIFA 23, even though several European countries consider the loot ...

Raiders of Sophie. You want to grab as many vital items as you can get, bring them back to your walker, and extract. When you ...

Loot boxes are still here with us in 2023, and some countries are finally catching up with regulation. The approach taken in the past few years has generally been to determine whether different types ...

Gamers who buy 'loot boxes' are up to two times more likely to gamble, shows new research. Gamers who buy 'loot boxes' are up to two times more likely to gamble, shows new research published today in ...