Loot boxes are already regulated in China, and thanks to the recent loot-box-o-rama in gaming, the same thing might be happening soon in Belgium. According to PCGamer, which is getting its info from a translated Belgian new...
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It's the “Season of the Loot Box,” and everyone's got their two cents to put in – which would buy you about 1% of a typical box in most games. By now you've probably seen the various thinkpieces that are popping up al...
As much as we might make fun of “dead” or “dying” games, at least a game that launched and then declined rapidly … well, launched. Other titles aren't always so lucky.
If there's one notion I wish I could forcibly implant into the minds of every person on the planet, it's this: "Not everything can be seen in terms of black and white." I'd mostly like to inject that into political discourse, ...
If you've played enough Hearthstone, you know the thrill of seeing that golden border around a card from a freshly opened pack.
As you probably know by now, the Chinese law requiring game developers to disclose their odds for loot in their lock boxes went into effect this past week.
Our commonly accepted acronyms on this website include F2P, B2P, P2W ...
Another Overwatch hero is headed to Heroes of the Storm.
Look, I don't mean to sound like an Overwatch fanboy, but ...
If you're a Heroes of the Storm -- and World of Warcraft and Overwatch -- fan, Blizzard's got a lot planned for you in the coming months, some as soon as in two weeks. A new heroes' brawl, Blackheart's Revenge, will be the ...
The cross-promotion between Blizzard games continues with Machines of War, a (mostly) StarCraft-themed update to Heroes of the Storm, which adds new battlegrounds, new heroes, and new skins to Blizzard's free-to-play MOBA. ...
Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo's latest document detailing NCSoft's financial status is more wide-reaching that its usual reports.
Last week, we put up a poll asking MMOBomb readers which game(s) they would most like to see go free-to-play.
As bad as things have looked the past few months for free-to-play games, there's still quite a bit out there to play -- and more to look forward to. Still, there could always be more, and the pain of losing something that w...
Free-to-play gaming, at least on the PC, has taken a beating in the last year.
Last week I was watching the latest patch notes stream for Hi-Rez's upcoming shooter/MOBA Paladins.
Like many folks, I was surprised when Blizzard announced that Overwatch would not be free-to-play.
Apart from maybe the occasional mention on the F2P cast, it seems we won't be talking much more about Overwatch on this site -- for a while, at least. At BlizzCon, Blizzard confirmed the business model for Overwatch would m...
If you're very determined, and also very lucky, you might finally get a chance to try Blizzard's Overwatch -- which will totally be free-to-play, we're sure -- for yourself very soon in some of the game's first public beta tes...
Not a lot to type here, but if you've been anxiously awaiting more information about Blizzard's upcoming match based shooter Overwatch, clear your schedule this Thursday, October 15th, at about 1 PM Eastern US time.
While we are still operating under the assumption that Blizzard's upcoming team based shooter, Overwatch, will be free-to-play, the game could be in for a big change even before players have had a real chance to dive into the ...