With numbers like that, I think it’s fair to say that no matter how loudly people shout, microtransactions aren’t going anywhere. Yesterday, during an earnings call for the third quarter of 2019, Activision Blizzard announced that microtransactions in their games are are bringing in all kinds of cash for the publisher. Thing is, while that’s still an amount of money …

Last week, Kotaku broke a story that earned quite a few gasps from around the Internet, due to how almost comically absurd it was. The story detailed how a fan of the mobile game Transformers: Earth War had spent approximately $150,000 on in-game purchases, which to us at the bottom of the world equates to around R2 215 855,50. Can’t …

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is out today, though it’s been in a sort of early access for those who purchased the game’s most expensive editions. During that period, it was found that the game is stuffed with all manner of egregious microtransaction. To be fair to Ubisoft, the situation’s been blown out of proportion for the most part, as just about everything that can be bought – and it’s all cosmetic nonsense – can be earned in-game. There were, however also a few of Ubisoft’s favourite needless microtransactions: Time savers.

Given the direction Ubisoft seems to be taking Ghost Recon in, it only seems reasonable to expect Breakpoint to follow the “Games as a Service” model.

The latest trailer for NBA 2K20, a highlight of “MyTeam” that isn’t even trying to hide the fact that it’s a glorified casino thanks to its use of pachinko, card packs that allow you to power up your players and an actual slot machine

In the last couple of months, video game publishers have been hammered with controversy over the use of those poop boxes (I am totes mature). Faced with a mounting backlash and a riot from fans after the Battlefront 2 straw that broke the camel’s back in 2017, EA has begun to roll back on using that extra dash for cash within a select few games, with Need for Speed Heat joining the list.

Borderlands 3 is coming this year, and it would have been easy for the game to have embraced the “games-as-a-service” rubbish that’s turned modern video gaming into the hellscape it is right now.

Following its announcement and trailer at this year's Game Awards, Obsidian Entertainment has emerged to quell fan fears over the issues of in-game transactions in their upcoming spiritual successor to Fallout, The Outer Worlds.