Hotta Studio's upcoming GTA-meets-anime gacha game, Neverness to Everness, revealed during a recent livestream that the much maligned but ubiquitous 50/50 system won't be included in its limited-time ...

When Genshin Impact exploded in 2020, it didn’t just popularize gacha -- it redefined the niche business model. A Chinese developer most people have barely heard of convinced investors that gacha ...

Tower of Fantasy is an interesting one: a mashup of gacha and MMO, all of the random monetisation bullshit, plus expecting you to *shudder* work together with strangers. Despite being a sicko for both ...

We saw a wave of wild gachas take over mobile gaming in 2025, with everything from Umamusume to Persona 5: The Phantom X and Madoka Magica Magia Exedra, and the people have made themselves clear: we ...

No, I’m not making it up. Tower of Fantasy is genuinely a real name for a video game. It’s not the most popular gacha game on the planet, but it has clearly done well enough to reach “Version 5.1”. It ...

HoYoverse has announced today that the urban fantasy ARPG Zenless Zone Zero’s Version 2.2 “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” will launch on September 4th. These names are great, Genshin Impact ...

Love them or hate them, gacha games are huge right now, and there’s no sign that’s going to change on a large scale any time soon. By their nature, they exclude players without a lot of disposable ...

Gacha games are a classic genre that runs the gamut of actual gameplay content—from turn-based combat to rhythm games, there are very few stones left unturned in this garden of chance-based ...

Gacha games can be quite entertaining options for players who don’t have the time, money, or energy to dive into more time-intensive AAA titles. That’s not to say that many of the best gacha games do ...

Just a few days after release, Umamusume: Pretty Derby is going viral— inspiring livestreams, memes and TikTok edits—the bizarre anime girl racing game is proving immensely popular online. What Is ...

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, ...

While I love the look and feel of gacha games like Zenless Zone Zero and Honkai Star Rail, I simply can't get over the 'gacha.' As someone who (thankfully) remains relatively stalwart in her attempts ...