Last year, the Netherlands declared that loot boxes in video games were a form of gambling. Any product containing them would be prohibited from sale without a proper license. Seemingly ready for a court battle, EA went about continuing to ...

Epic Games has announced that they are doing away with mystery loot boxes in Fortnite's Save the World mode, replacing them with transparent goodie packs, allowing players to see what's inside their Llamas before considering their purchase....

Blizzard's collectible card game Hearthstone is one of the brightest spots on the company's ledger sheet, having recently surpassed 100 million registered players. The game is in a pretty good place, with Valve's Artifact stumbling out...

It would seem the Amish aren't fond of the fact we acknowledged them on the realm of the internet in video form. That's a multitude of things they dislike! So, while we continue to do so, here's the rundown on what's happening in video gam...

After last year's debacle with Battlefront II and loot boxes, multiple governments from different countries have taken to investigating whether or not microtransactions constitute gambling in games. Just last week, the United Kingdom had de...

The never-ending battle to determine whether or not loot boxes constitute gambling has made a turn for the better. According to a report from the BBC, the UK's "Gambling Commission" has determined that in-game loot boxes are a gateway drug ...

Today sees Blizzard's multiplayer shooter Overwatch bring back its annual Halloween festivities. Halloween Terror 2018 gives players a chance to bag some spooky new skins, as well as pick up some of the previous years' goodies that are yet ...

It's the first day of October and already everyone's losing their minds over their spoopy plans for Halloween (even though it's still 30 days away). Blizzard Entertainment are also getting into the spirit (LIKE A GHOST) of things by announc...

Paid loot boxes are currently the crème de la crème of gaming monetization (along with gacha gambling), but thanks to recent legislative pushes, some publishers might be pivoting. A "we don't have loot boxes, look at us" ...

Pregame Discharge will never reach the point of including or implying symbolism because that is the language of cowards. Instead, we'll stick to the news that today features the following: Nintendo had a Nintendo Direct Definitely not che...

Fifteen gambling regulatory bodies in Europe, along with Washington State, are coming together to discuss the "risks created by the blurring of lines between gaming and gambling".Various countries including Spain, the UK, Malta, France, Aus...

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that real-money loot boxes have been removed from the Belgian territories in both online shooter Overwatch and MOBA Heroes of the Storm, effective immediately.The decision is made in compliance with the ...

Blizzard's Hearthstone is one of the company's more unusual creations. A digital representation of a physical card game, based on a venerable MMORPG, itself based on a real-time-strategy game (based on the Warhammer universe, but ...

Belgian customers will no longer be able to purchase in-game card packs for NBA 2K's "My Team" mode with real money. In compliance with Belgian gambling laws, the "feature" was removed from all iterations of the series to keep the games on ...

Blizzard's Hearthstone released its most recent expansion yesterday, and the mad-science themed The Boomsday Project adds 135 cards to the venerable digital CCG. The set adds several new mechanics and offers some new deck archetyp...

The official Overwatch Twitter account has put out the heads up that the Summer Games event will be returning to Blizzard's arena-shooter next week.Although no specific details were noted, we can, in all likelihood, expect all of the previo...

In a move that is starting to become a trend in the triple-A games industry, Turn 10 has announced that Forza Motorsport 7 will be slowly removing prize crates from the experience. If you'll remember from my review, this was the single bigg...

The whole loot box situation has been unfolding at a rapid pace these past six months, after Electronic Arts screwed up and let their dastardly plan hit mainstream news outlets. I'm sure everyone, Activision/Blizzard in particular, is feeli...

For those of you who may not have had the chance to sink your teeth into Blizzard's mega-popular arena-shooter, Overwatch, then next week will provide you with the opportunity to see what all the noise is about.Next "weekend", from July 26-...

As the celebrations for the second anniversary of the super-successful arena-shooter come to a close, Blizzard have announced that Overwatch will see a rare Double XP event this weekend.From June 8 until June 11, all XP earned in all modes ...

Remember Star Wars Battlefront II? Well it wasn't that long ago so you probably do. It earned the ire of Star Wars fans, players, and the press at large due to its heavily gating loot box system, and sort of blew the lid open on the en...

Hearthstone is one of the oldest digital collectible card games (CCGs) around at this point, and certainly one of the most popular. Blizzard's talent for sanding the corners off of dense, crunchy strategy games makes Hearthstone a...

Along with good old-fashioned microtransactions, PUBG has allowed players to trade items between each other. This was a way for friends to hand over some of the more ludicrously expensive items to their buddies without asking them to shell ...

Last year's release of Star Wars Battlefront II seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Not even a week after the game was on store shelves, a bunch of politicians were looking into whether or not the loot boxes contained within...

It's weird to watch the dichotomy between the DeNA mobile Nintendo realm and the traditional portable and console Nintendo universe we've known for decades play out before our eyes. Although the Big N has slid comfortably into the skin...