2026: Abstract Proceedings of The Gam(bl)ing Conference 2026

Papers

• The Gam(bl)ification Matrix: How Social and Mechanical Infrastructure Normalises Gambling in Video Games

  Beth Wells

  • PDF

• Lootboxes as gateway drug: Findings from a two-wave longitudinal survey

  Anne Mette Thorhauge

  • PDF

• Is It Gambling? Young Players' Perceptions of Loot Boxes, Skin Gambling, and Risk in Mainland China

  Yekun Sun, Gerda Reith, Heather Wardle

  • PDF

• Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood

  Amy Linklater

  • PDF

• Risk Factors For Loot Box Engagement in U.S. College Students

  Cassandra Grinstead, David C. R. Kerr, Connor Punsalan, Jaedyn Antle

  • PDF

• Gamblification, Professional Complicity and Regulatory Failures in Mediated Live Sport on the island of Ireland.

  Aphra Kerr, Paul Kitchin, Tugce Bidav, Eamonn Sullivan, Erin McEvoy

  • PDF

• Loot Box Purchasing in Adolescents: Three-Wave Trajectories, Transitions, and Prospective Associations with Online Gambling Behavior

  Abel Nogueira López, Joaquín González-Cabrera, Aránzazu Basterra-González, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Antonio Rial-Boubeta, Juan Manuel Machimbarrena

  • PDF

• From Gambling to Gam(bl)ing: Population-Level Evidence of Changing Play Cultures in Finland

  Jani Kinnunen

  • PDF

• Cashing Out: Liquidity-Based Gamblification and Market Governance in Video Games

  Zixuan Zhu

  • PDF

• How Do Players Experience Win/Loss Patterns? An In-The-Wild Study of a Casual Mobile Game

  Timothy Merritt, Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath

  • PDF

• Prevalence of Random Reward Mechanisms in the Danish-facing Google Play Store

  Asger Holmehøj Bach, Yuchen Huang, Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen

  • PDF

• Gambling-like mechanics in Roblox player generated content

  Callum Deery

  • PDF

• Gacha Games In English-language Journalism: How Do News Stories Represent The Emergent Form Of Quasi-gambling?

  Yuchen Huang

  • PDF

• Views on Gacha Games and Mechanics from a Canadian context: A qualitative study

  Ryan Nguyen, Hyoun S. (Andrew) Kim, Lisa Henkel, David C. Hodgins, Philip Newall, Zsolt Demetrovics, Sherry H. Stewart, Daniel L. King, Hermano Tavares, Jung-Seok Choi, Andre Luiz Monezi Andrade, Andrea Czakó

  • PDF

• Loot box-related risk as a partial mediator between problematic gaming, gambling severity in Spanish adolescents

  Abel Nogueira López, Joaquín González-Cabrera, Juan Manuel Machimbarrena, Joël Billieux, Ignacio Guadix-García, Antonio Rial-Boubeta

  • PDF

• Digital resilience, health, and harms, with the digital convergence

  Sarah Hodge

  • PDF

• Player plans, RNGesus laughs: Dark Patterns and Commodification of Play in Gacha games

  Amitoj Kaur Chandi

  • PDF

• Gameplay as Labor in Genshin Impact: The Hybrid Payment Strategy of Gacha Games

  Ning Zhou, Yutong Chen

  • PDF

• The Pastoralization of Gambling: Historical Ideologies and the Casino in Stardew Valley

  Xintong Zhao

  • PDF

• US vs Genshin Impact: Settling video game loot box consumer protection concerns? An international comparison of gacha monetisation design

  Yuchen Huang, Chelsea Xiaoyao Ren

  • PDF

• Gambling-like mechanics in video games: A challenging regulatory framework

  Pierre-Xavier Chomiac de Sas, Sophie Roman

  • PDF

• It's 2045, I Spent $700 Rolling for Klee, and Genshin Impact Shuts Down: Copyright Law, Media Preservation, and Gacha Games

  Joseph Godfrey

  • PDF

• Protecting Minors from Blind Boxes: Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation as a Supplementary Regulatory Mechanism in China

  Jingru Peng

  • PDF

• Digital Blind Boxes: Can Sensory Interaction Improve the Player Experience and Reduce the Potential Harms of Loot Boxes?

  Dominik Szczepaniak, Lana Stepišnik, Rune K. L. Nielsen

  • PDF

• Let's Play Crypto: Normalising Financial Speculation in Neobanking Apps

  Yuening Li

  • PDF

• Edging the Max Win: Loot Box Practices of Popular Live Streamers

  Geoffrey Lee

  • PDF

• The intersection between gaming, gambling, and social media platforms in the case of five Danish gambling streamers on Twitch, Kick, and YouTube

  Emil Lundedal Hammar

  • PDF

• Gambling by proxy: Loot box live streams and the digital gambling ecosystem

  Marium Ibrahim Ahmed, Eva Grosemans

  • PDF

• How Mainland China Governs Video Game Monetisation: An Imbalanced Framework

  Tianyi Zhangshao, Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter

  • PDF

• Who Owns Gaming?: Analyzing Gambling's Semantic Displacement of Digital Games in Philippine Cultural Policy

  Jean Carl Nathaniel E. Supan

  • PDF

• Beyond Disclosure: Youth Protection and the Regulation of Randomised Rewards in South Korea, Japan, and Brazil

  Mario Eduardo Martinez Guarnieri

  • PDF

• Dark Patterns Across the Gambling User Journey: Evidence from an Australian Pilot Audit

  Wenyu Zhou, Jack McGarrigle, Robert Heirene, Simon Dymond, Sally Gainsbury

  • PDF

• How Loot-Box Dark Patterns Cause Service Failure and Erode Player Trust in Games

  Changsok Yoo, Lihua Quan, Yue Dong

  • PDF