We're halfway through December, and Fantasy Life i fans may have been wondering "hey, where is that DLC that Level-5 revealed would be coming out this month?". Well, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has ...

Zach McKay is a writer from the United States, and a game lover since he stole his dad’s N64 controller to play Ocarina of Time. He has been playing video games for the better part of 25 years and ...

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Whether you play gacha games or not, you’ve likely heard the term used before. Yet, while gacha games are commonplace in the video games industry, not everyone knows what they are, nor the history ...

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 ...

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 ...

At TGS 2025, Level-5 announced a release window for the Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time free DLC. It will be called The Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes, and it will show up on all platforms ...

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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, ...

In my lifetime, I have known my share of Charlie Sheens, sons of wealthy, influential men who could buy their children anything, and out of many problems. One was a classmate of mine from school, a ...

We are officially entering the next chapter of the post-Genshin Impact world we find ourselves in. After a huge boom in this space, gacha action RPGs are, at long last, ditching the gacha part so they ...

I’m sharing my favorite method to create awesome animated logo intros quickly and for free using Renderforest. In this video, I walk you through each step—from picking a template and customizing your ...