The new changes by the Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body (PEGI) will start from June.

Generations have grown up opening baseball card packs and blind boxes and bags, and then trading and selling the items they receive,” Valve wrote. “On the physical side, popular products used in this ...

PEGI director Dirk Bosmans explains why the European body is rethinking how it rates games, taking into account "online interactive risks" such as battle passes ...

Valve hit with a class-action lawsuit in Washington state over its "unlawful gambling" loot boxes in games Dota 2, Team ...

The latest set of changes coming to the Pan-European Games Information rating system will impact how games that feature loot ...

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New federal lawsuit claims the loot box function by Valve acts like gambling while global regulators debate legality of randomized rewards.

The games industry moves quickly and while stories may come and go there are some that we just can't let go of ...

It must be 2017 because loot boxes are back in the news again. Two weeks after New York's attorney general sued Valve over ...

Valve defends cosmetic loot boxes as lawsuits and regulators argue randomized rewards tied to real money resemble gambling ...

"It may have been easier and cheaper for Valve to make a deal," the company says, but that "would have been bad for users and other game developers" ...

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, ...