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Pandora’S Loot Box, Sheldon Evans Jan 2022

Pandora’S Loot Box, Sheldon Evans

Faculty Publications

The emerging trend of loot boxes in video game platforms continues to expand the shifting boundaries between the real and virtual world and presents unique insights into the impact each world should have on the other. Borrowing their design from the gambling industry, loot boxes operate as a hybrid between slot machines and trading cards. A consumer pays real-world money to buy a virtual box without knowing its contents. Upon opening the box, the consumer receives a virtual good that may be of great value, but more commonly is of little or no value.

This Article contributes a novel theory …


Bingo, Morality And The Criminal Law, Frederick J. Ludwig, Dominic Hughes, O.P. Mar 2016

Bingo, Morality And The Criminal Law, Frederick J. Ludwig, Dominic Hughes, O.P.

The Catholic Lawyer

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