The reasoning behind the investigation, according to the Commission's director Peter Naessens, was to determine if acquiring improvements from loot boxes constitute a game of chance, and if so "[should not be] possible without a permit from the Gaming Commission."

As one of the few game publishers are listed on the NASDAQ, EA is one of those companies that actually has to worry about the concerns of its stockholders. By contrast, companies like Valve and Gearbox Software are privately owned and have no such worries.

Operation White Noise adds an operator that can hack enemy phones, an operator that can conceal himself from cameras and drones, and an operator equipped with a grenade launch that can also has the perk to get up from a downed state. 

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is getting a worldwide release and is sticking with their famous turned-based strategy gameplay. 

The company's remarks don't address the multiplayer spoken of by Kicisnki but clearly they are determined to stay on the good side of their fans.

It's a positive turn of events, but concerns remain, especially when EA and DICE are confidently declaring that microtransactions will return "at a later date." 

Just a few weeks in Blizzard's Public Test Realm, Moira, the new support healer, is now available for all Overwatch players. The update also includes a few changes. 

This podcast episode talks about what we think about Call of Duty: WWII, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, and the controversy that surrounds Star Wars: Battlefront 2 days before its official release. 

Released in 2013 Marvel Heroes was a free-to-play game that functioned as a kind of "Marvel Diablo," and sold playable characters like Spider-Man and the Avengers. Trouble was apparent when weekly community notes regarding game updates stopped coming.

The 2017 Game Awards has 102 games nominated across 29 categories and will announce the winners in December. 

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the big one for this week, with the initial reception from the critics echoing the same issue players might face on release. 

That's just about as many titles that were released in the ten year span between Steam's launch in 2005 and 2015. It's also more than the 4,207 games that were released in 2016.