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 ...

NetEase’s open-world RPG Ananta ditches gacha for a free-to-play model focused on cosmetics, vehicles, and housing, launching ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ever since the release and global popularity of Genshin Impact, mobile games — and more specifically, gacha games — have come into the spotlight like never before. A broad audience of players realized ...

In place of these mainstay mechanics, and "to explain why we don't need a gacha system," Deca Bear points to "paid content ...

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 ...