Matthew is a journalist in the news department at GameRant. He holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University and has been an avid gamer since 1985. Matthew formerly served as a ...

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 ...

After the wildly popular Gacha Gacha Exhibition in Marunouchi last July, Tokyo’s gacha enthusiasts were left with a gaping hole in their souls. But now the painful wait is finally over for all you ...

The gacha space in 2026 is bigger (and louder) than ever. If Genshin Impact is still the benchmark for “open-world gacha done right,” it’s also sparked a wave of games that chase different flavors: ...

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Fuji TV's series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex via Automaton). During his years at Capcom he was producer on ...

This section of IGN's Genshin Impact guide covers the four-star Anemo character Shkanoin Heizou, a young prodigy of the Tenryou commission and the first Genshin Impact character to combine a melee ...

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