Games
Lootboxes, pay-to-win, virtual currencies and other blights unto gaming face heavy regulation as the EU tables new Digital Fairness Act
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- New
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 6:46am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3691 stories, and number 59 of 285 in Games.Why it’s moving
- ScoopEurogamer had it 21 hr before anyone else.
1Loot boxes, dark patterns, virtual currencies, subscription services, pay-to-win systems, and many other trappings of diabolical digital serfdom all face extensive regulation under the European Commission's proposed Digital Fairness Act, which has been formally presented to EU member states today. T
In Rock Paper Shotgun’s words.2
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2
First with it: Eurogamer, 20 hr 51 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 22.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 22.7 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:46am AEDT | Eurogamer | 1 |
| 10:38pm AEDT | The Next Web | 2 |
| 12:30am AEDT | Rock Paper Shotgun | 3 |
Bigger than 92% of Games stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 22.7 hr; a typical Games story that gets there takes 8.5 hr.
Eurogamer
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