Senator Maggie Hassan is spearheading the call for government oversight of video game loot boxes. She has written to the ESRB urging for new warning labels and petitioned the FTC to look into gaming and how loot boxes can spur addiction in children.



The gambling addiction community was heartened by Hassan’s step. “Loot boxes in video games are a dangerous and predatory form of gambling being marketed directly to kids,” Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling, told The Intercept. “Their sole purpose is to extract more money out of young people’s pockets.

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