With some gacha games, it can feel like a requirement to fork over cash to enjoy them properly – usually for some sort of in-game cosmetic or the chance of nabbing a rare skin. It’s not always the ...

Remember the feeling when you put in a token at a machine in your local arcade, watching as a mechanical claw grabs a random prize out of a pool of them that’s yours for the taking? If you said yes, ...

Developer Hotta Studio, the team behind the upcoming gacha game Neverness To Everness, has been drip-feeding us character trailers, lore trailers, and all sorts of other bits of info over the past ...

For years, I have loved the ideas behind gacha games far more than the games themselves. The genre is filled with incredible anime art direction, huge fantasy worlds, flashy combat systems, and ...

There's a new gacha game on the scene, and it's so obviously copying some of the biggest anime around, all you can do is laugh. Is creativity dead? Well, no, there's so much good stuff coming out ...

A look into RPG levelling mechanics, and how they make sense (and sometimes don't), in gacha games like NTE and Genshin ...

Making games requires testing them. For microtransaction-fueled gacha games, that means putting your own money on the line to sample the merchandise. That’s apparently what led Street Fighter 2 ...