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  Square Enix has removed three of its mobile games in Belgium after the loot box ban in the country. Mobius Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts Union X and Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia are the removed games. The company said the withdrawal is because of “the present uncertain legal status of ‘loot boxes’ under Belgian…

  Peter Naessens, the director of the Belgian Gaming Commission, is going to lead a new project aimed to standardise online gambling legislation across Europe. The project is under the ageis of the European Committee for Standardisation. A number of industry bodies and regulators join hands in the project to create rules for compliance and…

  The newly passed gambling legislation in Switzerland, the Swiss Gaming Act, will come into force in the country on 1 January 2019. The law will regulate the licensed online gambling space and ban foreign operators altogether. The new law legalises licensed iGaming companies. The gaming act’s enforcement was confirmed by Switzerland’s Federal Council, which…

  Casinos Austria, one of the oldest casino companies in Austria, has completed the certification formalities that would make it compliant with the ECA Responsible Gambling Framework. An independent audit conducted by Austrian Standards approved the procedures. The company has become up-to-date in complying standards in Responsible Gambling for the licensed land-based casinos industry that…

  The government of Cayman Islands has amended the gambling regulations. In the newly proposed the Gambling Amendment Bill 2018, which will be discussed in the next Meeting of the Legislative Assembly, the government plans to increase the penalties for engaging in acts of illegal gambling. The purpose of the bill, according to the government…