The Digital Fairness Act proposal presented by the European Commission on 11 November 2026 is the most far-reaching reform of EU consumer law in twenty years, and gambling operators are squarely within its scope. Nothing in the text published so far carves out gambling. Every B2C practice is covered, from the bonus pop-up to the account closure flow.
The Spanish Government has announced the opening of a public consultation on a Preliminary Draft amending Spanish Gambling Law 13/2011 (Ley 13/2011, de 27 de mayo, de Regulación del Juego) which is meant to introduce a major reform.
Video games and microtransactions are under increasing scrutiny in the European Union, as new guidelines released by the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network aim to tackle the often opaque use of virtual currencies in gaming environments which proliferated with loot boxes.
The 2022 edition of the Games Industry Law Summit gathered all the major legal experts from the video gaming industry and here are my main takeaways.
