– New Industry ‘Think Tank’ to Tackle Issues Including Loot Boxes

The National Committee for Games Policy is a new organization founded by industry insiders with a two-pronged mission. The first is to provide opportunities to participate as part of a think tank with specific regard to laws and to help inform government policy with “guidance and input from industry leaders”. Part of that goal is the collection and analysis of both public and insider information about games in order to determine a “unified political position”.

World of Warcraft – Blood DK solos Mythic Kil’jaeden for Over a Minute & Scores the Win

When a guild named Cobalt (Mal’Ganis realm) decided to take on Mythic raid boss, Kil’jaeden for the Cutting Edge achievement, they wouldn’t have expected that a Blood Death Knight tank would have to solo arguably the worst boss in World of Warcraft: Legion for over a minute to score the win for the team. The rest of the raid was dead, but encouraging Endless as he took on Kil’jaeden and got the kill just as he was about to die.

Destiny 2 – Bungie Acknowledges Squelched XP at Level Cap, Vows to Deactivate the System

The Destiny 2 player community has been complaining via Reddit about what it perceives as intentional squelching of XP at max level when players earn Bright Engrams, essentially the loot box for D2. These can contain emotes, ships and sparrows. Breaking its silence, Bungie has acknowledged that this “throttling” of XP at max level was indeed in place and that it would be deactivating the system immediately.