A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, the best gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and implant it into live-service videogames where players wish on banners to pull their ...

Roguelike After beating Slay the Spire 2 with an 8 year old deck, I'm starting to feel like this is more of a remake than a sequel Action After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, ...

Though it may seem like we just had a big life sim release in Heartopia, 2026 actually has more than one highly-anticipated release in that particular subgenre of cozy game. The next big one on the ...

In this video, I revisit the Gacha Life app to explore new creepy glitches, including characters like Nurse Luck, Hannah, and Hachishakusama. The experience becomes increasingly frightening as I ...

Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner in "A Private Life." (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics) She speaks in French but swears in English. It’s a cute way of clueing us in that Dr. Lilian Steiner, the American ...

Timothée Chalamet is the driving force in “Marty Supreme.” But watch out for Mr. Wonderful. Kevin O’Leary, the “Shark Tank” star with a superlative nickname, has his first acting role in the new film, ...

FX’s The Lowdown, the second show from Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo, wraps up its first season this week. There are a lot of great reasons to get on board with this “Tulsa noir”: ...

Former Rockstar boss Dan Houser has explained why the Grand Theft Auto series won’t leave the United States in terms of its setting. Speaking on the Lex Fridman podcast, Rockstar co-founder and former ...

Artificial intelligence chatbot platform Character.AI announced on Oct. 29 that it will move to ban children under 18 from engaging in open-ended chats with its character-based chatbots. The move ...

Months ago, Takara Tomy announced a line of Sanrio characters gacha figures that reimagined each one as a tooth, and now it is confirmed they’ll all appear in Japan in November 2025. It will be 300円 ...

NetEase’s upcoming open-world RPG Ananta has confirmed its free-to-play monetization model will focus entirely on cosmetics and customization, with no character gacha system whatsoever. In a recent ...

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, ...