An annual survey from the UK's Gambling Commission has found that over 1 in 10 British children aged between 11 to 16 have participated in some form of game-related gambling.

The Commission posted its findings earlier today, and revealed that 11 percent of those surveyed have personally participated in "skin gambling" — which sees people bet and wager in-game items like weapon skins. 

11 percent also claimed to have played gambling-style social games, with the majority accessing them through smartphones …

Alongside shipments of the first beta Steam Machines to users, Valve has released a FAQ with info on how SteamOS functions for users and developers. While it's pointless to recopy the entire FAQ in a news post when you can go and read it now, here are a few interesting and relevant facts for the game development community:

SteamOS is open source

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Apex Legends’ latest update is out now, bringing with it a number of fixes and improvements for the game. Although it’s not the most exciting update, it should nonetheless improve the game experience overall.

One improvement that Respawn has pushed to the game is to make is more resilient to denial-of-service attacks. The developer has worked on DoS attacks in the past; they can make the experience of playing a game extremely frustrating, as attackers attempt to force players offline by flooding game servers with traffic Come from malaysi…

CrossfireX is available now on Xbox Series X and Xbox One, and the developers at Stove are aware of various bugs players have encountered so far. An update is planned for early March which will address some of these issues, as well as bring new maps. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Among the problems players are currently experiencing is an aim-down-sights bug when using the CAR-4 that causes ADS to go in and out while shooting. Sliding is also not functioning correctly, with slides being stopp…

Bungie is suing a toxic Destiny 2 player, accusing him of regularly breaking the terms of the game’s license agreement and threatening the well-being of a Bungie staff member. The case sues for financial damages and urges for protective measures to be taken for the safety of Bungie employees.

According to Kotaku, Bungie filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Western District Court of Washington against Luca Leone (the filing was also spotted by TheGamePost). The suit accuses him of consistently violating Destiny 2’s Limited Software License Agreement. Bungie claims Leone has been banned doze…

The console versions of Diablo IV are down to just $50 (was $70) during Amazon and Best Buy’s early Black Friday sales. The limited-time price drop applies to physical editions on PS5, PS4, and the cross-gen Xbox bundle that includes both Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One versions. Note that the PS4 discount is only available at Amazon.

• Diablo IV (PS5) — $50 ($70)
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• Diablo IV Cross-Gen Bundle (Xbox) — $50 ($70)
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The concept is deceptively simple on its head: What if “checking out” when you sit down to clock in for your day job was a literal thing? What if you could, functionally, turn off your consciousness when it came time to go to work and then bring it back the moment you stepped out of the building? And don’t try to say you’ve never fantasized about something like it before–just imagine how great your life would be if you never had to deal with an angry customer or a condescending boss ever again. Imagine how much lighter you’d feel if the hours you spent at work felt like g…

Starbreeze Studios was in a perilous position several years ago, as it branched into publishing, acquired multiple studios, and planned to develop its own virtual reality headset resulted in company behind Payday spreading itself too thin. With Overkill’s The Walking Dead proving to be a financially and critically disastrous game, accusations of insider trading that resulted in a police raid, Starbreeze was facing insolvency by the end of 2018.

Since then, the company has dramatically reversed its fortunes thanks to a period of reconstruction that gave it the chance to pay off debts a…