A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, the best gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and translate them into a live-service videogame format where players wish on banners to ...

Where Winds Meet offers a limited Gacha system focused on cosmetics after a certain point in gameplay. These banners can be pulled using both premium and non-premium currency. However, it is essential ...

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 ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

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 ...

Jennifer Lawrence in director Lynne Ramsay's "Die My Love." (Courtesy Kimberly French/MUBI) “We all go a little loopy the first year,” a kindly Sissy Spacek tells Jennifer Lawrence’s struggling young ...

Sometimes what you don’t know can actually help—as when, last week, I watched Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” unaware that it’s based on a novel. Throughout the movie, I had the frustrating feeling that ...

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 ...

The Mad Love Music Festival returns for its 11th year with a full day of live music, food and family fun to celebrate the life of musician Dave Jodka and support the Future Rockers scholarship program ...

Life Without Buildings, the beloved Glaswegian art-rock band, broke up in 2002 after the release of their sole, classic album, Any Other City. But not before recording a final song, “Love Trinity.” ...

The whole picture is right there from the start. In the first few seconds of "The Fate of Ophelia," track one on Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, a commanding drum fill sets ...

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 ...