Nine of Europe's biggest games may owe their players every unused coin.
The Key Principles the nine are being measured against carry a footnote saying they bind nobody and that ignoring them cannot automatically be considered unlawful.
Games correspondent
Ruben Castellane
I cover geopolitics and the tech supply chains caught in the middle, from chip export controls to the next trade spat. I follow sanctions lists the way other people follow football transfers.
Grand Theft Auto VI ships on 19 November. The numbers that decide it were set long before anyone saw a frame.
Two delays, a $298 million annual loss and a thirteen-year-old predecessor that added forty million copies while the sequel slipped. The provocation is real, and so is the sofa.
Nintendo does not have to guess how old its players are. The rule everyone is arguing about was written for platforms that do.
The Digital Services Act tells providers they need not collect extra data to work out whether a user is a child. On a family console the answer was typed in by a parent, on purpose, on the first evening, and nothing in the text says what that obliges.