The whole microtransaction and Loot Box fiasco has created a lot of concern from a lot of entities. We’ve seen government organizations from Australia, Belgium, England and France showing their concern about these issues. Some developers noticed this and took matters into their own hands, as such, we see the foundation of the National Committee for Games Policy
'They're playing games. It's just that their attention and needs are changing,' says Astrid Entertainment CEO Sharon Tal Yguado.
It’s not that Gen Z isn’t interested in AAA or story driven games, a lot of them simply don’t have the financial freedom to explore. When you’re budgeting, you stick to games that give the most value for the least cost, which is why ecosystems like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft dominate. What looks like a preference is often just economic constraint.
DF: "Just over a year ago, we shared exciting news directly from PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny that Sony intended "to have something very similar to FSR 4's upscaler available on PS5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PSSR." Just over a year later, the promise has been delivered and the quality upgrade can be transformative. This is the technology we hoped for, duly delivered, and when the opportunity arose to share some questions with Cerny about the revised PSSR, we didn't need to be asked twice."
Capcom discusses the mechanics and visual design of its upcoming sci-fi adventure launching on PS5 April 17.
This is step right direction for video game industry. Seriously, video game publishers shouldn’t gone too far with MT and loot boxes in AAA games. These things shouldn’t belong in AAA games in first place. Hopefully in the future, video game developers and publishers will have more self control.
Good boy
Yay, EA, Activsion, Ubisoft, 2k and all the other companies created an organization to tell them what they are doing is perfectly ok.
Self regulation equals no regulation.
In other news, nothing will be accomplished with that. You cannot just create your own organization made up of fellow members that created the problem and say it's fixing it.
An independent third-party has to be the one to create/form a committee like this for any real change to occur.
Good. I'd rather that than the government swooping in and mucking everything up. We had the government try to get involved with games in the 90's, it wasn't a good thing. You give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.