GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The creators of free-to-play gacha RPG Duet Night Abyss have publicly apologized for a "cybersecurity incident" that saw players' PCs infected with ...

Ok, so I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I think I just found my favorite game of 2026 so far. No, it's not the freshly released Marathon, despite my affinity for competitive shooters. It's not ...

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: ...

When you say the words “creature collector,” you already have my attention. I’ve been both curious and wary in equal measures since Aniimo was first announced. I’m far from the only person hungering ...

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 ...

I’ve tried my fair share of gacha games, and even gotten hooked on a few — I’m still salty to this day that I’ve never pulled a Kitasan Black card in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. While it is technically ...

With some gacha games, it can feel like a requirement to fork over cash to enjoy them properly – usually for some sort of in-game cosmetic or the chance of nabbing a rare skin. It’s not always the ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift announced Saturday that she re-recorded eight tracks from “The Life of a Showgirl” in acoustic versions with her co-producers Max Martin and Shellback, which will appear on four ...

I love this song so much. Her use of lyrics that reference internet slang and external pressures to reveal her vulnerabilities is just excellent. She has to be everything to all of these people, but ...

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, ...