In our latest blog article, Pieterjan Declerck from UGent analyses the new EU resolution on #consumer protection in digital #games from the perspective of FWO-financed project GAM(e)(a)BLE and reflects about potential further steps gameable.info/post/new-eu-re…

My recent blogpost summarises the key takeaways from the new EU Resolution on consumer protection in video games. Areas of focus: (i) in-game purchases (ii) manipulative practices (dark patterns) and (iii) age rating Link: gameable.info/post/new-eu-re…

Exciting news for #LootBoxes #VideoGames #Monetisation researchers! 🎰 🎮 I am co-editing a special issue of JournalGamblingIssues with Dr nigel turner: “Thinking Outside the Loot Box” 🎁 🤯 Submissions can be from any discipline. More info: osf.io/qa3ht Please RT!

Premier League clubs have today collectively agreed to withdraw gambling sponsorship from the front of clubs’ matchday shirts, becoming the first sports league in the UK to take such a measure voluntarily in order to reduce gambling advertising ➡️ preml.ge/ft7v01

On the 24th of May, we had the honor of setting up a webinar for the World Health Organisation World Health Organization (WHO) and our own stakeholders: "The blurring lines between video #gaming and gambling: An #ecosystem perspective".

Great news! 📚✨ Happy to have contributed to this book - together with Peggy Valcke - with a chapter on minimum harmonisation of advertising rules.

One more GAM(e)(a)BLE publication! Maarten Denoo @biekezaman Eva Grosemans @stevenmalliet wrote about "Making Complexity Measurable in Practice: A Formal #Analysis of Gamble-Play media" in #gamesandculture! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15… 🔽

Today, Gam(e)(a)ble organizes its sixth (already!) consortium meeting. During this event, ongoing research about digital #gaming and #gambling is presented, issues are discussed and - hopefully - collectively solved

.The Guardian Rob Davies: “experts warn the UK is not doing enough to tackle gambling-style features in games…” I am one of those experts. 🤓 Cf. the Australian Gov 🇦🇺 announced simulated/social casino games will be rated 18+ (minister.infrastructure.gov.au/rowland/media-…). theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

Do you develop digital products used by or likely to impact on children? Or do you teach ethical design? Download #DigitalFutures #PlayfulByDesign toolkit today! Or request a pack of cards from digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/playful-by-des… 5Rights Foundation LSE Media & Communications #DigitalFutures4Children #ChildRights

Yes. Can refer to my own short blogpost on the situation in BE/NL from last year, and refer to Leon's own research on lootbox regulation state of the art. Blog: gameable.info/post/diablo-im… Lootbox regulation (preprint): osf.io/q2yv6/

🎉new publication for GAM(e)(a)BLE about circumventers of the #Belgian "ban" on #lootboxes! Our researchers Maarten Denoo Bruno Dupont Eva Grosemans @biekezaman Rozane De Cock analyzed circumventing as #counterplay practice (@t0MM7)

📲 Addictive design of online services ➡️ The draft report by Kim van Sparrentak was just approved in IMCO Committee Press with 38 in favour ⬆️ 1 abstention ↔️ More in the press release ↘️ europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

Ik ben op zoek naar een nieuwe voltijdse assistent! De opdracht bestaat uit onderzoek en onderwijsondersteuning in het domein "Recht & Technologie". Meer info? jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Assis… (deadline 12.12.23)

Our critique of the Dutch court’s judgment. 🇳🇱 #LootBoxes should be scrutinised on their own, and focusing on the so-called “majority” of players ignores the experience of the minority of vulnerable players. Pieterjan Declerck GAM(e)(a)BLE Gaming Law Review bit.ly/47n14ny

Ik ben op zoek naar een nieuwe voltijdse assistent! De opdracht bestaat uit onderzoek en onderwijsondersteuning in het domein "Recht & Technologie". Meer info? jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Assis… (deadline 05.03.24)

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Hiring a Research Assistant for a project on gambling & game advertising on social media. You'll be working with me and Leon Xiao on our Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling (AFSG) funded project! (link to ad below) 💻 Based at University of Lincoln, UK / remote. 🧍Lived experience applicants encouraged.