Video Game Logic Episode 86: Lootbox Hat Trick
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Show Notes
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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Show Highlights & Timestamps-
Games We Played (6:51)
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Loot Boxes Aren’t Gambling Claims Games Rating Boards (1:15:15)
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DICE Responds to Star Wars Battlefront 2 Loot Box Fiasco (1:32:17)
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Humble Bundle to be Acquired by IGN (1:45:10)
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How Game’s Use Matchmaking to Sell Content (1:51:25)
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Gamestop Ad Rubs Pre Orders in our faces (2:00:18)
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Doom Coming to the Nintendo Switch (2:06:12)
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Electronic Arts Closes Dead Space Developer Visceral Games (2:15:33)
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Community Corner (2:22:02)
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Steam Discovery Queue (2:55:20)
Rage:
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
Shrink:
News-
Lootboxes Aren't Gambling?
Tweaktown Covers PEGI Response
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DICE Responds to Battlefront 2 Loot Boxes
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Humble Bundle Acquired by IGN
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Matchmaking Manipulation to Sell in-game Items Patented by Activision & How Riot May Already be Doing It
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Poor Taste in Gamestop Ad
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Doom Switch Port
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EA Shuts Down Visceral
Rage:
Shrink:
Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation