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This week in Genshin Impact, miHoYo released a new banner that allowed players to try and gamble for Klee, a new 5 star Pyro hero. I spent $100, I didn’t get her. To truly “guarantee” a Klee, rather ...

Gacha games are a pretty contentious form of gaming, considering its entire model uses the same tricks and allures as real-life gambling. While there are plenty of gacha games these days with ...

Months ago, Takara Tomy announced a line of Sanrio characters gacha figures that reimagined each one as a tooth, and now it is confirmed they’ll all appear in Japan in November 2025. It will be 300円 ...

Sometimes I regret pitching an article and then ending up doing just some contextual research to find something I didn’t want. The developer of Twinkle Star Knights, Studio Kumasan, has announced that ...

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The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a man named Daigo who spent the equivalent of $70,000 on items and playable heroes in the mobile RPG Fate/Grand Order. That’s a stunning figure, more than ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In every gacha game, there’s that moment of triumph when you finally see the golden glow or ...

In Arknights: Endfield, the gacha and pity systems are core elements of the experience, as with any other gacha game. The character and weapon gachas (called "headhunting" in-game) are how you obtain ...

The fight against the gorilla inexplicably piloting a boat was the moment Sea of Remnants got me. I've never played a gacha game so bizarre and committed to creating a world so much different than ...