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 ...

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, ...

Ohio is awash with gambling options from video games to prop bets. Some of the terms, like meme coins, may be unfamiliar.

Valve shares its first statement in what will likely be a long legal battle over its use of loot boxes, which the lawsuit views as gambling.

House Bill 1148 is a wide-ranging bill aimed at enhancing data privacy for children who use online gaming platforms like ...

Blizzard is not quite inviting regulators to look, but it’s certainly a curious decision. Once upon a time, loot boxes where the big evil that was corrupting and festering in the video game industry.

Loot boxes are a well-known mechanic in the video game space wherein players can gain access to a host of in-game perks which often can't be accessed by any other means. Traditional loot boxes ...

A Seattle firm raised $1.5 million and launched a new platform for digital collectibles, bringing the “loot box” mechanic from video games into the NFT space. Loot Labs‘ new project Boxed.gg offers ...

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against Valve this month over loot boxes. One includes New York’s Attorney General Letitia ...

On X, RivalsInfo has discovered code that suggests loot boxes might be added to Marvel Rivals. Per the account, NetEase’s codename for loot boxes is “Mysteries,” and Season 4 reintroduces the ...

The European video game rating system announced it will upgrade the ratings for games that contain loot boxes.

It’s the beginning of the end for loot boxes in Overwatch. Blizzard will stop selling them on August 30, but you’ll still be able to earn loot boxes through gameplay for another few weeks after that ...