Top-selling mobile games break rules on loot boxes

Ads for games are meant to say if they contain loot boxes - BBC News has found most do not.

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Aristocrat to Sell Palarium Mobile Gaming for Up to $820 Million

Aristocrat Leisure will sell its Palarium Global mobile-gaming unit to Sweden’s Modern Times Group as the Australian gaming company increasingly focuses on regulated gaming and slot machines.
Business - The Wall Street Journal - November 11
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul odds, prediction, props, date, and rules: Nov. 15 fight card picks by boxing expert

Boxing expert Brandon Wise just locked in his Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson picks for their Nov. 15 fight in Arlington, Texas and also revealed where to watch Tyson vs. Paul
Sports - CBS Sports - November 16
Top 10 Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games Of All Time

Best-sellers As it does every three months when it releases a quarterly sales report, Nintendo has provided new sales numbers for the best-selling Switch games of all time. They're all Nintendo ...
Tech - GameSpot - November 5
Breaking the cloud backup ‘black box’ with intelligent data mapping and retrieval

Eon makes enterprise cloud backup instantly searchable, allowing users to retrieve specific files, records from tables, spreadsheets, etc.
Tech - VentureBeat - Yesterday
Weekly quiz: Which box office spell did Wicked break?

How closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?
Top stories - BBC News - 21 hours ago
Man’s will written on back of food boxes is valid, UK high court rules

Malcolm Chenery left estate to Diabetes UK charity when he died in 2021, writing will on fish and mince pie boxes. A will written on the back of cardboard food packaging has been found to be valid ...
World - The Guardian - November 13
‘Barbenheimer’ Ruled the Box Office. Can ‘Glicked’ Recapture the Magic?

“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” both open Friday, and some fans hope to rekindle the excitement that greeted last year’s simultaneous openings of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
Top stories - The New York Times - November 19
Mobile gaming will see new innovation in monetization in 2025 | Mistplay

Mistplay's 2024 Mobile Gaming Growth Report shows that there's room for alternative monetization in a market oversaturated with ads.
Tech - VentureBeat - October 31