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Loot box researcher Leon Xiao has found that rating board warning labels about randomized loot boxes are being inconsistently applied. Xiao's latest study looked at the whether the North American ESRB ...

The ESRB rating board have announced they will soon be assigning a new "In-Game Purchases" label to physical games that contain loot boxes or microtransactions. Know your chances. Here are League of ...

The controversy over loot boxes in games like Star Wars: Battlefront II, Need for Speed: Payback and Destiny 2 hasn't settled and state legislators in the US and governments abroad are considering ...