This week Shrink & Rage can't escape loot boxes, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of bad news heading our way.
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Games We Played (6:51)
Loot Boxes Aren’t Gambling Claims Games Rating Boards (1:15:15)
DICE Responds to Star Wars Battlefront 2 Loot Box Fiasco (1:32:17)
Humble Bundle to be Acquired by IGN (1:45:10)
How Game’s Use Matchmaking to Sell Content (1:51:25)
Gamestop Ad Rubs Pre Orders in our faces (2:00:18)
Doom Coming to the Nintendo Switch (2:06:12)
Electronic Arts Closes Dead Space Developer Visceral Games (2:15:33)
Community Corner (2:22:02)
Steam Discovery Queue (2:55:20)
Rage:
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
Shrink:
Lootboxes Aren't Gambling?
Tweaktown Covers PEGI Response
DICE Responds to Battlefront 2 Loot Boxes
Humble Bundle Acquired by IGN
Matchmaking Manipulation to Sell in-game Items Patented by Activision & How Riot May Already be Doing It
Poor Taste in Gamestop Ad
Doom Switch Port
EA Shuts Down Visceral
Rage:
Shrink:
Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation