James grew up in the arcades of the 80s and has played games on everything from the Milton Bradley Microvision to the PlayStation 5. He worked in gaming retail during the PS1/PS2 eras, and even had a ...

While the term “gacha game” might be a bit niche, the model itself has become increasingly popular in recent years. These games tend to be free-to-play, but with lottery-style random in-game items ...

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 ...

I am an author and features writer at Android Police. I primarily writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest smartphone apps and features for Android Police since joining the team in early ...

I once dismissed gacha games as shameless cash grabs that thrive on fluent addiction. Now, I’m hooked on Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero. Somehow, they’re not just competing with traditional ...

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 ...

The entirety of NTE: Neverness to Everness takes place inside a dense city and as you might expect, you can even drive cars and motorcycles to aid in your traversal pursuits. As is custom with gacha ...

I’ve been awaiting Arknights: Endfield for months now. The premise of a gacha game that incorporated resource management and tower defense into its action RPG elements was enough to pique my curiosity ...

Some of the most popular video games of the current decade are part of a genre known as gacha, but what really does this word mean? Why are gacha games so popular, and how are they making so much ...