The Ladybug Music Festival has been rescued by a new owner, after the event officially shut down in the fall. Launched in 2012, the free festival was known for featuring 100% female-fronted musical ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The hugely successful Miraculous franchise is moving ahead with another theatrical project, with Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie 2 now receiving a promising production update. While the follow-up to ...

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 ...

The Ladybug Music Festival in Wilmington, Delaware, is ending after 13 years following the retirement of its co-founder. The free event was known as the largest celebration of women in music in the ...

If you’re at all remotely into the anime aesthetic or enjoy poking around the gacha genre, well, it looks like October will be a busy month for you. As I’ve so handily pointed out about next February, ...

I believe I am nearing the end of playable story content in Destiny Rising, a game that will obviously keep adding more of that over time. But there’s a lot here already. A lot of characters, a lot of ...

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RPGs Nintendo has more than Palworld to deal with – IP expert says Genshin Impact dev's new Pokemon-style game "clearly infringes" on a hard-to-avoid patent Pocketpair is accused of infringing ...