Nintendo isn’t immune from the backlash against loot boxes, and now a recently filed lawsuit claims the video game company used “dark patterns” to trick younger players into spending money on Mario ...

The video game goliath shut down its randomized "gacha pipe" micro-transaction system in October 2022, but the company is still facing flack. Reading time 3 minutes An under-18 gamer, with support ...

Nintendo has announced it will drop the loot box elements of Mario Kart Tour in an upcoming update. The mobile spin-off of the best-selling racing series currently allows players to spend virtual ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. These days, video game loot boxes aren't quite as ubiquitous as they once were, but that hasn't stopped one young player from suing Nintendo over ...

Mario Kart Tour is a rather popular mobile game for Nintendo, so much so that it has generated around $293 million for the company. This is according to Sensor Tower (thanks GI.biz), which reports the ...

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. As reported by Axios, ...

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Loot boxes have been controversial since they were introduced. That controversy was turbo-charged back in 2017, when EA and DICE decided to make the entire economy of Star Wars Battlegrounds II ...

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At a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) public panel on microtransactions in video games, the Entertainment Software Association announced that all three console platform-holders have agreed to a ...

"Mario Kart Tour" might be Nintendo's most profitable game franchise. A Nintendo Life report tells us that the game has recently hit unbelievable numbers. Since its release in 2019, "Mario Kart Tour" ...

Although I hate loot boxes and pay-to-win mechanics, outlawing rewards based on games of chance... is that a net broad enough to be stretched over every game that contains a random number generator?