10 Oct, 2024 Game Changer: Austria’s Evolving Stance on Loot Boxes By Armin Redl Nicole Daniel In November 2023, we shared an insightful blog post discussing a significant legal development on loot boxes. Back then, the Regional...
22 Nov, 2023 Unboxing the mystery of loot boxes - are they to be considered as gambling? By Armin Redl Nicole Daniel Loot boxes, the controversial in-game monetisation systems, have undoubtedly been the subject of much discussion in the gaming industry...
10 Mar, 2023 Round-up: Navigating the present and future of the gambling sector: Web 3.0 By Ally Clark On 6 February 2023, DLA Piper’s gambling and regulatory lawyers from across Europe united ahead of the #ICE Conference taking place in...
07 Jun, 2022 Spanish Government plans to publish new regulation on loot boxes By Elisa Lorenzo The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs has recently launched a public consultation on the draft law regulating random reward...
05 Jan, 2022 New FAQs - Occasional raffles in Spain By Elisa Lorenzo Under Spanish provisions, the offering of raffles is only permitted on occasional basis. This means that it is not possible to obtain an...
04 Nov, 2021 An unreal issue: managing IP in the metaverse By Anthony Lloyd Jessie Buchan Edmond Lau What is the metaverse and why is it important? The metaverse: the next generation successor to the mobile internet. Made up of shared,...
17 Mar, 2021 What a very good question... By Duncan Calow 7 years ago I wrote an article for Computing magazine entitled "Bitcoin - what is it for?". Back then I wasn't sure what the problem was...
25 Sep, 2020 Loot Boxes in Video Games – A Call for Evidence By Tom Fitzpatrick In pursuit of its goal to make the UK the "safest place to be online in the world", the UK Government has recently opened a call for...
14 Sep, 2020 Guild Esports' IPO Announcement By Tom Fitzpatrick Guild Esports ("Guild"), which launched in June 2020 and is perhaps best-known for one of its founding shareholders, David Beckham, has...
04 Sep, 2020 Changing the game: women in esports By Tom Fitzpatrick VALORANT, Riot Games' first-person shooter which was released in June 2020, has captured the imaginations of countless men and women...
05 Aug, 2020 Esports - no longer the wild wild west? By Yue Lin Lee Esports has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. This steady growth looks set to continue, given the coronavirus pandemic which...
06 Jul, 2020 Taking a chance to regulate By Duncan Calow Publication of the House of Lords Gambling Select Committee report has again thrown a spotlight on loot boxes, player packs and other...
17 Jun, 2020 Giving the players their fix By Duncan Calow When many would have had their eyes on the sneak peaks released by Sony of their eagerly awaited PlayStation 5, another games titan was...
28 Apr, 2020 UK industry body announces no more radio and TV ads for gambling operators in lockdown - but will it be enough? By Samantha Bradley The UK's largest betting and gaming operators have agreed to the voluntary removal of all TV and radio game advertising for six weeks in...
20 Apr, 2020 Everything has been cancelled! Wait, no, not everything... By Yue Lin Lee Singapore is currently on Day 14 of the Circuit Breaker which was declared by the government on 7 April 2020 (and yours truly is...
17 Apr, 2020 The Netherlands: information on Central Exclusion Register published (land based) By Richard Van Schaik As we indicated in an earlier post, the KSA intended to organize information sessions/workshops on CRUKS (the Central Exclusion Register...