Belgium pushes to ban loot boxes in Europe

Belgium’s Gaming Commission is still determining whether loot boxes in gaming are gambling, but the country’s minister of justice Koen Geens is already saying that he will try to ban the process of blind, randomized loot boxes completely, according to a report from the news website VTM (first reported by PC Gamer). This comes after Electronic Arts courted headlines that it was bringing gambling to children in its Star Wars: Battlefront II shooter that launched last week.

The Belgium Gaming Commission said last week that it is investigating loot boxes as gambling, but Geens is already prepared to determine it a dangerous confluence of forces, according to a Google translation of the VTM story.