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The ongoing loot box debate continued late last week when the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee announced that it would be recommending that video game loot boxes be regulated under gambling laws. As you might imagine, the Entertainment Software Association isn’t too happy about this. The committee, which …

There has been plenty of discussion around the ethics of loot boxes over the last couple of years, to the point where governments around the world have been launching their own investigations and some politicians have been calling for outright bans. In an effort to keep the games industry self-regulated, …

Violent video games could get even more expensive than their family friendly counterparts in the future, as Pennsylvania lawmakers attempt to add a “sin tax” to titles rated M by the ESRB. The proposal would see the extra money fund a new board dedicated to school safety in the digital …

E3 2019 is still just over six months away but the industry is already gearing itself up. We already know that Sony won't be taking part in 2019 but the ESA has confirmed all of the other big players that are appearing at the event next year, including Microsoft, Nintendo, …

President Trump announced that he was to meet with video game industry experts in the wake of Parkland, Florida’s dreadful school shooting. Set to take place on Thursday, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the first to confirm that it will attend the meeting. Other bodies have yet to be …

Every three years, the US Copyright Office opens itself up to hearing out petitions on changes it can make to the DMCA system. Back in 2015, this opened the door for MADE to argue for exemptions to be made to allow libraries, archives and museums to emulate, jailbreak or circumvent …

Earlier this week, we learned that Hawaii representative, Chris Lee, had made some progress on his crusade against loot boxes in video games. Lee first gained recognition for this last year after speaking out against Star Wars Battlefront II's loot box system. Now, the legislator has proposed four new bills …

As we reported last week, currently the World Health Organization is pushing to have ‘gaming disorder' classified as an addiction under the ‘disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors' banner. This would put gaming addiction in the same league as having a drug or alcohol addiction. Now, the Entertainment …

While today was supposed to be a triumphant one for the European Space Agency (ESA), with the Schiaparelli lander set to touch down on Mars' surface, it's turned out to be anything but. The ESA lost contact with the lander a minute after its parachute opened, around one kilometre up …

The first British astronaut to head into space under the banner of the European Space Agency, Tim Peake, is set to launch into Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) and join up with the International Space Station later today. He will be joined by American astronaut Tim Kopra, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko aboard …

Going to the toilet in space isn't easy. Without gravity human bowels work slightly differently, and there's the ever present problem of what comes out floating around the cabin or space station, as happened during the Apollo 10 mission. There's also the problem of disposal, as we don't want any …

Even though there are a few games released each year which will stick with their players for a long time to come, always reminding them of fond memories, many others simple disappear. As a part of gaming history however, some people want abandoned servers and empty game worlds restored and …

It's been seven long months since anyone has heard from the Philae lander, which was touched down on a comet, hundreds of millions of miles from earth, in a descent that was fraught with nail biting triumphs. After 60 hours though, its batteries ran dry, as it had managed to land in …

E3 is about two weeks away, meaning all of the major publishers and studios are gearing up for their round of announcements for the months ahead. However, the trade show has traditionally been an industry-centric event, with press and industry insiders in attendance. However, that could change a bit this …

As smart as humans like to think they are, we have only been kicking around this planet in our current form for 200,000 years or so. When compared with the age of the universe, or even our own little rock within it, that's not even a minute on the cosmic …

With just a few short hours of battery life left on the Philae lander craft that recently touched down on comet 67P, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it's begun drilling into the surface of the interplanetary body. The plan is to try and retrieve some material from …

The last few days have been an exciting time for those that follow the efforts of organisations like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), as the 10 year, four billion mile journey of the Rosetta probe came to an end as it reached Comet 67P and dropped off its …

Remember Rosetta? The little probe that left Earth back in 2004 and spent a near decade taking a jaunt through space so that it could finally enter orbit around the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet? Back in August this year it did just that and many watched it happen live. If that's something you …

It should come as no surprise to anyone, that while there might still be a lot of arguing back and forth about what the recent GamerGate debacle is about, who's fault it is and if anything of use will actually come of it, that the legitimately scary death threats being …

Rosetta, the European Space Agency's comet probe and lander craft, has awoken after almost three years of hibernation and ten years of space travel and is now set to spend the next two years on an approach with the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet in order to test its surface and structure to learn …