Ok, so I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I think I just found my favorite game of 2026 so far. No, it's not the freshly released Marathon, despite my affinity for competitive shooters. It's not ...

When you say the words “creature collector,” you already have my attention. I’ve been both curious and wary in equal measures since Aniimo was first announced. I’m far from the only person hungering ...

2026 is looking great for fans of gacha games, as hyped titles such as Arknights: Endfield and The Seven Deadly Sins: Origins are set to release. From open-world action RPGs to urban open-world RPGs, ...

A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, the best gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and implant it into live-service videogames where players wish on banners to pull their ...

Chinese developer Hypergryph and publisher Gryphline are behind Arknights, a tower-defense tactical mobile RPG that has seen moderate success around the world. Its puzzle-based gameplay, base-building ...

I’ve tried my fair share of gacha games, and even gotten hooked on a few — I’m still salty to this day that I’ve never pulled a Kitasan Black card in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. While it is technically ...

Whether you play gacha games or not, you’ve likely heard the term used before. Yet, while gacha games are commonplace in the video games industry, not everyone knows what they are, nor the history ...

Gacha Games are certainly good at taking successful game design formulas and spinning their own gachapon onto it. Take HoYoverse, a clone of what is Breath of the Wild, but managing to make one from ...

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, ...

In today’s post-Genshin gaming sphere, the gacha game genre has become incredibly saturated with new titles, many of which are of exceptionally high quality, even when compared to other AAA games ...

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