C.M. Edwards is a writer currently employed by Valnet as a GameRant lists writer. He has been working professionally as a writer and editor for the past seven years in multiple fields, including comic ...

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, ...

Gacha games are everywhere now. They’ve been filling Google Play and the App Store for years, and now you can play plenty of them on PC or even console. The gacha game “genre” is stronger than ever, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While the term “gacha game” might be a bit niche, the model itself has become increasingly popular ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

Gacha games have cemented themselves at The Game Awards, with Arknights: Endfield, Umamusume and Wuthering Waves the talk of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. Zenless Zone Zero uses gacha mechanics to unlock characters, potentially ...

Sony has snagged quite a few PS5 and PS4 console exclusive gacha games, and Microsoft’s lack of interest in one of the most popular and profit-making genres certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. Xbox boss ...

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 ...