Updated 28 March 2025: L.Y.X. is supported by a Presidential Assistant Professors Scheme Start-Up Research Grant awarded by the City University of Hong Kong [香港城市大學] (March 2025). L.Y.X. has provided paid consultancy for Public Group International Ltd (t/a PUBLIC) (Companies House number: 10608507), commissioned by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to conduct independent research on understanding player experiences of loot box protections, since October 2024. L.Y.X. has provided paid consultancy for the Council of Europe International Cooperation Group on Drugs and Addiction (the Pompidou Group) on a project concerning the risks of online gambling and gaming to young people co-funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and implemented by the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the European Commission, since December 2024. L.Y.X. was supported by a PhD Fellowship funded by the IT University of Copenhagen [IT-Universitetet i København], which was publicly funded by the Kingdom of Denmark [Kongeriget Danmark] (December 2021–November 2024). L.Y.X. was employed by LiveMe, then a subsidiary of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM), as an in-house counsel intern from July to August 2019 in Beijing, China. L.Y.X. was not involved with the monetisation of video games by Cheetah Mobile or its subsidiaries. L.Y.X. undertook a brief period of voluntary work experience at Wiggin LLP (Solicitors Regulation Authority number: 420659) in London, England, in August 2022. L.Y.X. has contributed to research projects enabled by data access provided by the video game industry, specifically Unity Technologies (NYSE:U) (October 2022 – August 2023). L.Y.X. has been invited to provide advice to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its successor (the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; DCMS) on the technical working group for loot boxes and the Video Games Research Framework. L.Y.X. was the (co-)recipient of three Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling (AFSG) postgraduate research support grants (March 2022, January 2023, and July 2024) and a minor exploratory research grant (May 2024) derived from ‘regulatory settlements applied for socially responsible purposes’ received by the UK Gambling Commission and administered by Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (GREO) and its successor (Greo Evidence Insights; Greo). L.Y.X. accepted funding to publish open-access academic papers from GREO and the AFSG that was received by the UK Gambling Commission as above (October, November, and December 2022, November 2023, and May 2024). L.Y.X. was the recipient of an Elite Research Travel Grant 2024 [EliteForsk-rejsestipendium 2024] awarded by the Agency for Higher Education and Science of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science [Uddannelses-og Forskningsstyrelsen under Uddannelses-og Forskningsministeriet] (February 2024). L.Y.X. has accepted conference travel and attendance grants from the Socio-Legal Studies Association (February 2022 and February 2023); the Current Advances in Gambling Research Conference Organising Committee with support from GREO (February 2022); the International Relations Office of The Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA; Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej), and the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska) with co-financing from the European Social Fund of the European Commission of the European Union under the Knowledge Education Development Operational Programme (May 2022); the Society for the Study of Addiction (November 2022, March 2023, and November 2024); the organisers of the 13th Nordic SNSUS (Stiftelsen Nordiska Sällskapet för Upplysning om Spelberoende; the Nordic Society Foundation for Information about Problem Gambling) Conference, which received gambling industry sponsorship (January 2023); the MiSK Foundation (Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Foundation) (November 2023); and the UK Gambling Commission (March 2024). L.Y.X. has received honoraria from the Center for Ludomani for contributing parent guides about mobile games for Tjekspillet.dk, which was funded by the Danish Ministry of Health’s gambling addiction pool (Sundhedsministeriets Ludomanipulje) (March and December 2023), the Fundació Pública Tecnocampus Mataró-Maresme (TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation) for a guest lecture (November 2023), the Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Toronto Youth Gambling Awareness Program for a presentation, which was funded by the Government of Ontario, Canada (March 2024), Lunds universitet (Lund University) for the right to translate parent guides about mobile games into Swedish for Kollaspelet.se, which was funded by Mediamyndigheten (the Swedish Agency for the Media) and Barnahus Stockholm (December 2024); Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art for a guest lecture (December 2024); and DiGRA Korea and the Game-n-Science Institute [게임과학연구원] under the Game Culture Foundation [게임문화재단] under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea [문화체육관광부] for participating in an academic research survey (January 2025). L.Y.X. received royalties by virtue of the copyright subsisting in some of his publications from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) (Companies House number: 01310636) (March 2023, 2024, & 2025). A full gifts and hospitality register-equivalent for L.Y.X. is available at: https://www.leonxiao.com/about/gifts-and-hospitality-register. The up-to-date version of L.Y.X.’s conflict-of-interest statement is available at: https://www.leonxiao.com/about/conflict-of-interest.