loot boxes
Valorant will avoid the loot box quagmire
Riot Games recently held an event at its Los Angeles studio to begin releasing the first concrete information about its upcoming 5v5 team-based shooter, Valorant. During the event, developers were ask...
Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft to Reveal Loot Box Drop Rates
Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft appear to be shuffling away from blind box loot boxes with a commitment to ensure games on their platforms disclose the drop rates from loot boxes in future titles. The v...
Fortnite – Loot Unboxing Changes
The Fortnite team has published a new blog post on the Epic Games site to let players know of the upcoming changes to Save the World’s V-Buck Llamas. Starting in update v7.30, any Llama availabl...
Overwatch – Paid Loot Boxes Disabled For Players in Belgium
Back in April, Belgium’s Gambling Commission had investigated and ruled loot boxes illegal in Overwatch, FIFA 18 and CS: GO. Now Blizzard Community Manager named Vaneras has taken to the Overwa...
The Update to Rule Them All comes to Shadow of War
Middle-Earth Shadows of War is coming out with it’s biggest update yet. While there are numerous things being done in this patch the biggest has to be the removal of the Market and improvements ...
ESRB Will Label Titles With In-Game Purchases
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has announced via Twitter that it will begin assigning a brand-new label, namely, In-Game Purchases. It will appear on boxes (and wherever those games ca...
Loot Boxes: Games Media is Part of the Problem
“Loot boxes done right?” This is the subtitle of an IGN article detailing the loot box system in Ghost Recon: Wildlands. As I read this article, I became angrier and angrier. How can mainstream games ...
Ghost Recon: Wildlands Battle Crates Coming in Next Update
If you’ve been somewhat relieved that Ubisoft hadn’t yet gotten around to putting loot crates in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, we’ve got bad news. Two types of “Battle Crates” ...
Frank O’Connor Debunks Halo Loot Boxes Rumors
The controversy around loot boxes and microtransactions refuses to die down still. The next game in the Halo series was not an exception to the scrutiny: the rumors resurfaced that the game planned on...