The FTC penalized the Genshin Impact developer for misleading marketing around loot boxes and breaching child privacy laws.

Destiny 2 has a new mini event that has you earn bento box tokens to buy currency, artifice armor or god roll weapons. Here's ...

HoYoverse, publisher of the popular gacha game Genshin Impact, has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and change its marketing ...

The FTC's complaint alleges that Singapore-based Cognosphere deceived children and other users about the real costs of ...

The company will pay, and make changes to its disclosures ...

Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade ...

Update: Cognosphere confirms it has reached a settlement with the FTC, plans new restrictions on Genshin Impact loot box ...

Video game loot boxes are "in violation of gambling legislation", according to the Belgium Gaming Commission. Loot boxes give ...

It's quite a bit like loot box systems from other games, except these are free. The main catch is that a good number of these Shift codes expire, and sometimes pretty quick. That's why it's handy ...

Genshin Impact publisher Hoyoverse has settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to pay a $20 million fine and implement a ban on selling loot boxes to teenagers under 16. That's according ...

This article explains what loot boxes are and why they have become controversial. It explores how loot boxes are designed to make us want to buy them, covering design concepts including ...

It all sounds pretty standard (though still compelling) fare for a D&D campaign, but instead of relying on skills and dice, ...