Gaming Tech Culture Dad discovers his 11-year-old daughter spent almost $6,000 on Roblox She thought it was Monopoly money By Rob Thubron, July 6, 2020, 7:15 AM 23 comments
Gaming Ill-fated battle royale title 'The Culling' relaunches tomorrow with a bizarre monetization model An arcade-like approach to monetization By Cohen Coberly, May 13, 2020, 1:33 PM
Gaming Tech Culture Fortnite Rickrolled millions of fans to introduce its newest emote Aw. Look at the cute polar... Wait. Got me again! By Cal Jeffrey, February 17, 2020, 1:16 PM
Gaming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is charging $20 to see your kill-death ratio in match That's hardly a cosmetic element By Isaiah Mayersen, December 15, 2019, 9:37 AM 17 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Man in China ordered to pay $13,000 to get his $1.4 million game avatar back All this after his friend tried extorting $55,000 out of him -- a real video-game soap opera By Cal Jeffrey, November 25, 2019, 4:55 PM 19 comments
Gaming RuneScape player spends $62,000 on microtransactions People aren't happy with long-running MMORPG's tactics By Rob Thubron, September 19, 2019, 7:09 AM 21 comments
Gaming EA believes 'surprise mechanics' and loot boxes are 'quite ethical and quite fun' EA compares loot boxes to Kinder eggs By Cohen Coberly, June 20, 2019, 3:02 PM 59 comments
Gaming US loot box legislation gains traction with bipartisan support The Republican bill now has two Democrats backing it By Eric Hamilton, May 24, 2019, 2:34 PM
Gaming Mobile Nintendo pulls two free-to-play mobile titles from download in Belgium to comply with loot box laws Removing loot boxes wasn't enough for Nintendo By Cohen Coberly, May 21, 2019, 6:19 PM
Gaming Industry Proposed Senate legislation could ban pay-to-win microtransactions and loot boxes aimed at kids It's called the 'Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act' By Cohen Coberly, May 8, 2019, 3:11 PM 13 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Online PC gamers in China will overtake the entire United States population by 2023 Who says the gaming PC days are numbered? By Humza Aamir, May 6, 2019, 9:37 AM
Gaming Tech Culture FTC sets date for promised loot box workshop Seeking public input and suggestions By Eric Hamilton, April 7, 2019, 12:58 PM
Gaming Industry Surprise: EA is implementing real money microtransactions into Battlefield V They didn't exist at launch By Cohen Coberly, April 3, 2019, 2:06 PM 15 comments
Gaming Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm is ditching paid loot boxes once and for all The changes will roll out soon By Cohen Coberly, March 20, 2019, 7:41 AM
Gaming GTA Online's 'Elusive' cheat distributor has been hit with a $150,000 fine Plus $70,000 in legal fees By Cohen Coberly, February 7, 2019, 12:52 PM 8 comments
Gaming Disney CEO reaffirms their partnership with Electronic Arts CEO Bob Iger said the relationship between the two companies is "good" By Dean Pennington, February 6, 2019, 5:36 PM
Gaming Titanfall producer says 'we are not making Titanfall 3' Instead EA wants to focus on F2P battle royale Apex Legends By Cal Jeffrey, February 5, 2019, 7:38 AM 8 comments
Gaming Fortnite is removing paid-for random loot boxes from its Save the World mode Better late than never By Rob Thubron, January 29, 2019, 10:04 AM
Gaming You can now buy a single dot in COD: Black Ops 4 for $1 What a deal! By Rob Thubron, December 31, 2018, 5:25 AM 35 comments
Gaming Fallout 76 might be getting loot boxes An update changelog references a 'lunch box' item By Cohen Coberly, December 17, 2018, 1:59 PM 21 comments
Gaming Rockstar working on making Red Dead Online economy less grindy 'I just sold a diamond ring and I still don't have enough cash to buy a can of beans' By Cal Jeffrey, December 4, 2018, 4:10 PM
Gaming IGDA exec warns the gaming industry to regulate itself regarding loot boxes, or else If the industry doesn't, world governments will By Cohen Coberly, November 30, 2018, 3:12 PM 19 comments
Gaming Battlefield V's PC system requirements (including RTX), progress, and economy revealed A beefy PC is required for Nvidia's ray tracing tech By Rob Thubron, November 1, 2018, 7:03 AM 21 comments
Gaming Industry Activision and EA are making billions upon billions from games-as-a-service Don't expect loot boxes and pricey DLCs to become cheaper any time soon By Isaiah Mayersen, October 21, 2018, 11:50 AM 20 comments
Gaming EA faces criminal investigation in Belgium because it won't remove loot boxes from FIFA This is what happens when you don't play by the rules, EA By Rob Thubron, September 11, 2018, 9:41 AM 10 comments