{"id":27657,"date":"2025-04-17T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27657\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:43:12","slug":"video-games-targeting-kids-with-gambling-like-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27657\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games targeting kids with gambling-like features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Kids playing popular video games are being targeted by gambling-like features placing them at risk of being fleeced of cash, according to new research. That&#8217;s despite recent changes to the classification scheme that were supposed to protect children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Consumer advocates want the Federal Government to step in, tighten the system and create a digital ombudsman who would rule on complaints against the gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kids playing popular video games are being targeted by gambling-like features placing them at risk of being fleeced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[6732,1583,105,218,3796,16020,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-gambling","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-podcast","13":"tag-roblox","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114353602763242938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}