‘Loot boxes’ in video games could be giving kids a gambling problem

The number of children with gambling problems has “quadrupled to more than 50,000 in just two years”, according to recent reports. The alarming figures come from the UK Gambling Commission’s latest annual statistics, which showed that the prevalence of problem gambling among children had risen to 1.7 percent, compared with 0.4 percent in 2016, and 0.9 percent in 2017. To put these figures into context, problem gambling among teenagers overall has actually been declin