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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Legislators in Hawaii were among the first to express concern over the use of loot boxes in video games when Star Wars Battlefront II was ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The PS4 Pro has been around for a while now, so we’re starting to see discounts, refurbs, and open-box deals pop up regularly. It obviously ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Digital gaming giant Valve has announced that some 18 months after adding the ability to buy games on Steam with Bitcoin, it will no longer ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Yesterday, we talked about the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility mode and how developers inside the company had spent years putting the feature together. Today, we’re ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For many years, PlayStation 3 emulation was a contradiction in terms. Sony’s unique CPU architecture, known as the Cell Broadband Engine, is fundamentally different than ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of games locking desirable content behind the digital operant conditioning chambers known as “loot boxes.” ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re only about a month away from the Xbox One X‘s launch, so now’s a good time to start stocking up on games that will ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the last year, consumer-grade VR has seen a lot of ups and downs. The launch of the PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive were ...

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. With so much money being generated by titles like Candy Crush Saga and Mobile Strike, it’s no surprise that the game industry is taking the ...