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UK Games Industry To Finally Restrict Loot Box Access
We all hate lootboxes and all wish the predatory micro-transactions would go away and leave gaming for good. Today those wishes have gotten closer to being answered with the UK Games Industry revealing it’s plans to restrict access to loot boxes for children. New Loot Box Restrictions in The UK…
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Nintendo Sued After Boy Spends $170 on Mario Kart Lootboxes Citing The Game as”Immoral”
Again the problem of loot boxes is in the news after a boy spent $170 on Mario Kart Tour loot boxes using his fathers’ credit card and is now filing a lawsuit against Nintendo. Nintendo Sued Over Mario Kart Lootboxes As reported by Axios, an unidentified minor has filed a…
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No Lootboxes or Switch Version for Fallout 76 Confirms Bethesda
Sorry Nintendo Switch Users Although Bethesda has managed to port Doom, Wolfenstein II and Skyrim to the Nintendo Switch, Fallout 76 will not be on the handheld device. Bethesda executive Pete Hines has confirmed (via GameSpot) that it is simply “not doable”. Fallout 76 is of course an ambitious online…
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No Microtransactions or Lootboxes on Next Obsidian Game
Obsidian Entertainment, makers of Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity are making a new RPG game. It will be under Take-Two Interactive’s new label Private Division, and development will be led by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. The two are long-time collaborators and have been working together since the…
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Gearbox CEO Denounces “Predatory Monetization” Schemes in Games
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is not shy about expressing his feelings, especially on Twitter. This time however, he treads a fine line between criticizing the current lootbox debate and defending DLCs. Pitchford tweeted out 12 separate threads, taking advantage of Twitter’s recent 280 character expansion, to talk about “predatory monetization…
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