Unsurprisingly, the best games of 2025 came from the fringes of the industry. Here's what The A.V. Club's games critics loved ...

A limited-time gacha mini-game has been added to Marvel Rivals to celebrate the game's first anniversary The mini-game required players to spend Units in exchange for a Psylocke hero bundle filled ...

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 ...

Are those hearts that are painting the air? They sure are if The Mighty Nein‘s Jester has anything to say about it. Longtime Critters will know that the love affair between Laura Bailey’s Jester and ...

Marc Santos is a Guides Staff Writer from the Philippines. He's a seasoned writer with over four years of industry experience, and he is an enjoyer of all things difficult in gaming. If Marc's not ...

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 ...

Released on September 15, 2025, Colin Krawchuk's The Jester 2 is a sequel to 2023's The Jester. The film introduces Max (played by Kaitlyn Trentham), a fifteen-year-old aspiring magician who finds ...

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 ...

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, ...

Third Person Shooters Embark makes free-to-play Arc Raiders sound like a nightmare, says its $40 price let it cut a lot of un-fun crap: "Crafting no longer has timers on it that you have to wait out" ...