Explore key 2025 trends in game top-ups, from shifting player spend habits to digital wallets and rising security risks, based on LDShop data.

The Streamer Awards always throws up a few talking points and controversies and 2025 was no different, especially in the VTuber category, with one VTuber saying the streamer that won is "insulting" to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

From the expressive silhouettes to the accessories that add texture and structure, these trends will be driving aesthetics for the season ahead. And just like that the seasonal change is upon us. It ...