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

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 ...

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.

In Europe, consumers spend around $12 billion a year on in-game content – a broader category than loot boxes, according to ...

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

The European regulators are now set to target the video game industry, limiting children’s access to some video games under new age and loot rules. At the core this crackdown lies the ...

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 ...

Loot boxes and other in-game microtransactions involving randomisation have been controversial for at least the past five years. This changed in 2022. In the past year, we saw both pre-existing ...