Electronic Arts and Sony have been ordered to pay €10,800 ($11,800) to gamers who bought FIFA Ultimate Team packs in Austria. The order comes from Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Wien, which is a ...

Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled that loot boxes in the FIFA video game series do not constitute gambling under national law, holding that the mechanics require a degree of player skill and therefore ...

The Supreme Court of Austria has ruled that the loot boxes in the FIFA games do not constitute gambling as they do require some skill. GamesMarkt reports that the justices in Vienna have decided that ...

Electronic Arts (EA), one of the largest video game publishers in the world, has recently been fined for microtransactions. This is not the first time that EA is being fined for "microtransactions" in ...

Belgium decided to make loot boxes illegal, but EA spent months ignoring the law. Now, it's backing down and will remove the feature from FIFA Ultimate Team. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

EA has won a court case in Austria after the Higher Regional Court of Vienna ruled that FIFA 23 loot boxes are not considered gambling. As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, the court ruled that the ...

The change applies to … GamesIndustry.biz details six regulatory pressure points that could reshape 2026 game design, from AI ...

EA's has fallen afoul of another country's gambling laws in court. As reported over the past weekend by German publication GamesWirtschaft (and translated by GamesIndustry.biz), an Austrian court has ...

The Austrian Supreme Court has determined that loot boxes in FIFA games do not qualify as gambling due to the skill required to play. This ruling could reshape how developers approach the design of in ...