The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) announced it will be adding even more transparency to their game rating label by including "In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)." The new addition ...

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The ESRB has announced a new ratings label for games with loot boxes and other randomized in-game purchases.

Loot box researcher Leon Xiao has found that rating board warning labels about randomized loot boxes are being inconsistently applied. Xiao's latest study looked at the whether the North American ESRB ...

From Quake Champions to Overwatch, loot boxes have become a regular occurrence across the gaming industry. The ESRB is the regulatory entity tasked with determining what games are fit for what ages ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has officially announced that it will now begin ...

Games that include loot boxes and other types of microtransactions with random chance elements will now come with a warning on physical copies of games. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) ...

The ESRB today introduced a new ratings designation to indicate when a game has randomized elements among its in-game purchases. The new designation, or "interactive element" as the rating board calls ...