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Beneath the label: unsatisfactory compliance with ESRB, PEGI and IARC industry self-regulation requiring loot box presence warning labels by video game companies

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Loot boxes in video games are a form of in-game transactions with randomized elements. Concerns have been raised about loot boxes' similarities with gambling and their potential harms (e.g. overspending).
Leon Y. Xiao
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Loot box gambling addiction risk versus responsible computing: a systematic review

Journal on Interactive Systems, 2023
There are many ways to monetize video games: from the simple direct purchase to the system of “games as a service”. There are, however, forms of monetization that show strong indications of being detrimental to consumers, such as the so-called “loot ...
Luiz Felipe Carvalho Duarte, Edison Ishikawa   +1 more
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Regulation of Loot Box Mechanics [PDF]

, 2021
There has been debate among legal scholars as to whether loot boxes can be considered a form of gambling and whether they should or how they should be regulated. Loot boxes are virtual items users can purchase within video games for real money.
Saleemi, Mamoon
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Loot Box Purchase Decisions in Digital Business Models: The Role of Certainty and Loss Experience [PDF]

, 2020
Game providers are increasingly employing and selling loot boxes, which can be considered virtual goods that consist of further virtual goods on a randomized basis.
Adam, Martin, Benlian, Alexander, Roethke, Konstantin   +2 more
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Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
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Measuring the Dynamic Nanometric Contact Radius of a Single Microdroplet on an Electrified Microinterface

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Electrochemical measurements as single aqueous microdroplets collide with electrode interfaces reveal nanoscale wetting dynamics. By tuning electrostatic repulsion, we control contact formation and probe surface interactions well beyond the optical diffraction limit.
Kathryn J. Vannoy, Jeffrey Dick, Marc Koper   +2 more
wiley   +2 more sources

The Role of Chemistry Across Disciplines From Humanities to Life Sciences in Understanding Complexity and Emergence

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
This study explores the origins of life by linking prebiotic chemistry, the emergence of information‐carrying molecules such as RNA and proteins, and philosophical questions about consciousness. The study emphasizes the role of molecular evolution in the Central Dogma and provides insights into the chemical origins of biology and the basis of life's ...
Harald Schwalbe, Josef Wachtveitl, Alexander Heckel, Florian Buhr, Sabrina Toews, Thomas M. Schimmer   +5 more
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The discourse deictics ^ and <-- in a World of Warcraft community [PDF]

, 2012
In the written English variety used in a community of World of Warcraft players, two iconic lexical items created from symbols have undergone semantic change. The words analyzed are ^ and
Collister, LB
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Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review [PDF]

, 2020
The inclusion of gaming disorder (GD) as an official diagnosis in the ICD-11 was a significant milestone for the field. However, the optimal measurement approaches for GD are currently unclear.
Achab, S, Achab, S, Billieux, J, Billieux, J, Brand, M, Brand, M, Carragher, N, Carragher, N, Chamberlain, SR, Chamberlain, SR, Delfabbro, PH, Delfabbro, PH, Demetrovics, Z, Demetrovics, Z, Fineberg, NA, Fineberg, NA, Higuchi, S, Higuchi, S, King, DL, King, DL, Kyrios, M, Kyrios, M, Lee, HK, Lee, HK, Lemenager, T, Lemenager, T, Lindenberg, K, Lindenberg, K, Mueller, K, Mueller, K, Pallesen, S, Pallesen, S, Potenza, MN, Potenza, MN, Rumpf, HJ, Rumpf, HJ, Saunders, J, Saunders, J, Spada, M, Spada, M, Starcevic, V, Starcevic, V, Stein, D, Stein, D, Wu, AMS, Wu, AMS   +45 more
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Loot boxes as a form of gambling, and their potential for contributing to gaming related harm

Critical Gambling Studies, 2021
A CGS blog entry titled "Loot boxes as a form of gambling, and their potential for contributing to gaming related harm".
Mike Dixon, Chanel Larche
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