It’s not quite right to say I never understood the appeal of Genshin Impact, because I didn’t really know anything about it at all. I knew that if you threw enough money at its gacha system, you could ...

While Cookie Run Kingdom does have an interesting story, base-building, and fun combat, it’s arguably most well-known for its gacha system. The game is overflowing with cute and powerful Cookie ...

Honkai: Star Rail has come fourth overall in the 2025 rankings on the fan fiction website, Archive of Our Own (AO3). It was only beaten by gay fan fiction of Stranger Things (third), TV show 9-1-1 ...

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 ...

Octopath Traveler 0 arrives with the kind of confidence only a series that helped define the HD‑2D era could muster. As a prequel to the first two games, it carries the weight of fan expectations, ...

January 23, 2026: We're searching for new Blue Protocol codes for Season 2 and the release of Chaotic Realm: Rock Serpent Lair What are the latest Blue Protocol Star Resonance codes? To get a head ...

Every once in a while, a game blows up that doesn't exactly line up with what mainstream gamers expect to succeed. Umamusume: Pretty Derby, a new free-to-play gacha game about racing anime horse girls ...

Over the course of two weeks in April 1998, Star Trek was changed forever. During Star Trek’s 60 years, there have been definitive episodes and movies that had a massive impact on the franchise, but ...

2025 was a crazy year for mobile games, with new releases offering console-quality experiences for the first time. With the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset offering incredible performance in the year’s ...

Update: We added some of our favourite new(ish) mobile games to the list. Here at VG247 we love video games no matter what platform they're on, but we have to admit that mobile games are a special ...