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Powered by LootLocker: How a Trusted Backend Partnership Is Helping Fast Travel Games Heist Their Way to the Top of VR

Discover how Fast Travel Games, the Stockholm studio behind some of VR's most acclaimed titles, leaned on their existing trust in LootLocker to power PAYDAY: Aces High with rich progression, deep character systems, a full in-game economy, and the foundations for a connected catalog of VR games.

June 11, 2026

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Reward Players Everywhere with External Reward Campaigns

Create claimable in-game rewards players can redeem anywhere through links and QR codes. Power campaigns across newsletters, live events, creators, Discord communities, and physical swag using LootLocker External Reward Campaigns.

June 9, 2026

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Turn Your Discord Community Into a Commerce Channel with Squire Commerce

Turn your Discord server into an additional revenue channel with Squire Commerce. Sell game items, bundles, and unlocks directly in Discord using LootLocker and Stripe.

May 20, 2026

Incident

Scheduled Maintenance — Tuesday, May 19, 2026

We will be performing security maintenance on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 to address ongoing CVEs and ensure our platform remains fully secured.

May 12, 2026

Incident

Postmortem: Data Loss During Database Migration

On 28 April, our migration to a new database setup caused around 3 hours of degraded service and a small window of missing writes, which we recovered piecemeal over the following two days. We're sorry. The full postmortem covers what happened, what we got wrong, and what we're changing as a result.

May 8, 2026

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LootLocker Now Supports Stripe Payments

LootLocker now supports Stripe payments, letting you sell assets, currencies, and progressions through Stripe while LootLocker handles entitlements, tracking, and player support.

May 7, 2026

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Squire: Claimable Rewards in Discord

Squire now supports creating Trigger-based reward campaigns that let players claim in-game rewards directly from Discord.

April 21, 2026

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LootLocker Publisher Prefabs: White Label Login

Production-ready Unity prefabs that make it faster to implement core LootLocker features. Drop in, style to match your game, and ship player-facing systems faster.

March 18, 2026

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Escaping the Google Play Games Walled Garden

Google Play Games no longer locks players to Android. LootLocker connects it with Sign in with Google to enable true cross-platform identity and progression.

March 3, 2026

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