BRUSSELS, July 19 (Reuters) - The European Commission should better protect children with stricter consumer rules for digital coins and videogame loot boxes, the Dutch government said, according to a ...

20 consumer groups in 18 European countries have backed a report from the Norwegian Consumer Council on the ongoing impact of loot boxes on the video games industry that has been titled "INSERT COIN: ...

The New York State attorney general is suing Valve over its use of loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2. The reaction to this lawsuit has led to Twitter users ratioing Attorney General Letitia ...

A letter Thursday from several advocacy groups called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate FIFA video game maker Electronic Arts over its loot box feature in games, a controversial practice ...

Singapore recently formed a new regulatory body called the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) to address the increasing convergence of gambling and gaming, especially in video games where loot boxes ...

In September, member of the Finnish Parliament Sebastian Tynkkynen proposed a bill to regulate loot boxes as a form of gambling in Finland. To understand what the bill could mean for the Finnish games ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A high-ranking executive at Electronic Arts has responded to criticisms of FIFA's loot box system, saying 90% of people who play FIFA Ultimate Team do ...

Electronic Arts (EA), one of the largest video game publishers in the world, has recently been fined for microtransactions. This is not the first time that EA is being fined for "microtransactions" in ...

Back in June, we learned that Overwatch 2 would be ditching its controversial loot boxes. The industry celebrated, and why not? Various countries around the world have decreed that loot boxes equate ...