Unsurprisingly, the best games of 2025 came from the fringes of the industry. Here's what The A.V. Club's games critics loved ...

The Anniversary Edition on Switch 2 doesn't add anything over the original Anniversary Edition, but you do get the Dawnguard, ...

This year's best puzzle games continue to bend the rules further and blend into other genres, making for some truly ...

If the anime you prefer is of the stylized, global, and awe-inspiring type, Astral Chain is right up your alley. And if ...

While I love the look and feel of gacha games like Zenless Zone Zero and Honkai Star Rail, I simply can't get over the 'gacha.' As someone who (thankfully) remains relatively stalwart in her attempts ...

Tower of Fantasy is one of several gacha MMOs to enter the space a few years ago. It offers players a Genshin-like experience, but a more focused experience on MMO-like instanced and world boss events ...

Umamusume: Pretty Derby, the gacha horse-girl racing rogue-like, got nominated for The Game Awards in the best mobile category. As a celebration for this, it’s handing out 1500 carats, or the ...

Do you ever wonder what happened to Tower of Fantasy? The free-to-play shared-world anime game that I fully expected to make it onto our list of the best MMOs? The one that got some good buzz on ...

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 ...

Love them or hate them, gacha games are huge right now, and there’s no sign that’s going to change on a large scale any time soon. By their nature, they exclude players without a lot of disposable ...

Fresh off Steam banning horror game Horses from its platform, another game has announced that it is canceling its planned release on the storefront due to Valve’s “policy requirements.” BrownDust2, a ...