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fromKotaku
8 hours ago

GameStop Is Taking Pokemon Card Gambling To The Masses

GameStop will launch its digital Power Packs program for trading cards to the general public on April 15, 2026.
fromKotaku
1 day ago

Studio Behind Umamusume: Pretty Derby Reportedly Facing Insolvency

Studio Kai has accumulated a total net loss of 565 million yen, approximately $3.5 million, over seven years, indicating a state of insolvency.
Independent films
fromVG247
4 days ago

Honkai: Star Rail players are eating good, with Version 4.2 and third anniversary celebrations kicking off later this month

Silver Wolf LV.999 evolves into Godmode Player upon reaching level 999, allowing her to shift the entire battle into a virtual world under her control.
Games
#pokemon-champions
Video games
fromGameSpot
6 days ago

Pokemon Champions Players Say Content From Trailers Isn't In Game

Pokemon Champions is criticized for its limited roster and item selection, disappointing many fans despite potential future updates.
Games
fromKotaku
6 days ago

Pokemon Champions Has A Built-In Way To Cheat Out Of Losing Rank

Timing out opponents in Pokémon Champions can prevent rank loss, leading to potential exploitation of the game's ruleset.
Games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Pokemon Champions Has One Major Hurdle To Overcome

Pokémon Champions simplifies competitive battling, focusing on quick action over RPG elements, which may alienate players seeking emotional connections with the franchise.
Board games
fromVG247
1 week ago

Heartopia celebrates 30 million downloads with new outfits, permanent price cuts

Heartopia celebrates 30 million downloads with The Whimsical Tea Party event, featuring new outfits, building materials, and reduced prices for pet outfits.
Games
fromGameSpot
6 days ago

Tomodachi Life Fans Are Already Running Wild With Its Character Creator

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream features a robust character-creation tool, but Nintendo's anti-image-sharing policy limits online sharing of creations.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Ghost Of Yotei Devs Used Coins From The Game's Collector's Edition To Test Zeni Hajiki Multiplayer

Ghost of Yotei's multiplayer mode includes a competitive coin-flicking game, Zeni Hajiki, inspired by fan feedback and prototyped using real coins.
#pokemon
fromKotaku
1 week ago
Games

How A One-Off Pokemon Anime Gag Led To One Of The Best Games Of The Year - Kotaku

Games
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Pokemon Champions: Launch Time, Subscription, And More

Pokémon Champions is a new competitive battle simulator launching on April 8, designed to simplify competitive play for newcomers.
Games
fromKotaku
1 week ago

How A One-Off Pokemon Anime Gag Led To One Of The Best Games Of The Year - Kotaku

The butterfly effect of a small event in the Pokémon series led to significant developments, including Ditto's role in a major game.
#crimson-desert
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 weeks ago

Crimson Desert Is Doing Something Very Uncommon For RPGs

Crimson Desert has seen a significant increase in player count shortly after its launch, indicating strong ongoing interest in the game.
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Gacha Game Distributes Malware, Apologizes With 10 Free Pulls

Umbral Stealer is an infostealer virus that can record keystrokes and take screenshots. In basic terms, it attempts to harvest sensitive information from the machines it infects, as it's primarily geared towards stealing users' passwords and cryptocurrency. The virus was distributed via a patch to Duet Night Abyss' launcher, which went live on Steam at 7:39 am UTC on March 18.
Information security
#gaming
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
3 weeks ago
Growth hacking

The efficiency economy: Why modern consumers are redefining value in the global gaming market - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Game top-ups have evolved into a strategic tool for busy professionals seeking efficiency in gaming.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago
Games

Scritchy Scratchy Review: Lotto Scratching Without The Shame

Scritchy Scratchy is a Steam game that simulates scratching lotto tickets without the real-life consequences.
Games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Scritchy Scratchy Review: Lotto Scratching Without The Shame

Scritchy Scratchy is a Steam game that simulates scratching lotto tickets without the real-life consequences.
Games
fromGameSpot
1 week ago

The Best Gacha Games To Spend Time With In 2026

The best gacha games include a variety of genres and styles, catering to different player preferences.
#roguelike
Video games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.
Poker
fromBusiness Matters
4 weeks ago

How Crash-Style Gaming Platforms Are Driving Digital Revenue

Crash-style games generate substantial revenue through rapid game cycles, minimal operating costs, and high player engagement driven by simple mechanics and fast-paced gameplay.
Games
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

A Palworld horror-themed dating sim spinoff is on the way

Palworld: More Than Just Pals is a dating sim with horror elements where players can romance and eat creatures from the original game.
Video games
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago

Capcom's next big game explores the horrors of AI

Pragmata is a sci-fi third-person action game where players control two characters—a suited man and an android child—to explore a lunar research station and combat robots through hacking mechanics.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

I Can't Stop Playing This Terrible Game, So Maybe It's Good?

Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.
Games
Video games
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Live-service games are a mess

Live-service games represent a new entertainment model focused on continuous content delivery, with Fortnite as the dominant success story, while most competitors have failed despite industry-wide pursuit of similar profitability.
Games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Fortnite's New Peak Skin Costs Twice As Much As The Indie Game

Fortnite's new Peak-themed skin costs over twice the price of the actual game on Steam.
Games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Two Major Game Age Rating Agencies Split Over Dark Patterns

PEGI updates its game assessment guidelines to include online behavior and monetization practices, while ESRB expresses concerns about potential confusion for players.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Game Adds Playable Tofu After Complaints About Female Protag

A vending machine tycoon game developer added a sentient tofu character as a playable option after receiving complaints about the female protagonist, offering an alternative without requiring extensive new character development.
fromAndroid Police
2 months ago

I played 50 terrible games to find the only way to make mobile ads work

During my week-long binge, I played games that paused their own tutorials to run ads. I saw endless fake X icons and banners that hid the close button under the iPhone's Dynamic Island. Now, I'm not against ads, but I hate it when they feel like a penalty. I'm a gamer, and from what I've seen, PC and console games integrate ads much better. If mobile devs followed suit, mobile games might finally climb out of the mess they're in.
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Mobile gaming isn't just for kids or boys any more, according to a new study

Among these insights is the confirmation that the perception of who mobile gamers are (young, male, unmotivated, etc.) is completely wrong. The research shows a 50/50 split in gender and the ubiquity of mobile games among all age groups, not just young people. The survey shows that even those with significantly higher education and those in the upper echelons of household incomes are engaging with mobile games.
Video games
fromMedium
1 month ago

The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world

Cosy games have become a major cultural movement, with titles like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley selling tens of millions of copies by offering players safe, peaceful worlds without failure states or time pressure.
History
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Your Phone Is a Slot Machine

Gambling is deeply embedded in American life, historically popular yet frequently condemned for moral reasons and links to crime and politics.
#roblox
Digital life
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

How Reading Slot Reviews Has Become Part of the Modern Gaming Experience

Players now research online slots using reviews to match game mechanics, volatility, and entertainment features to personal preferences.
fromhttps://www.arogyayogaschool.com/blog
2 months ago

Why Short Play Sessions Beat Long Grinds In Modern Game Design

Games did not suddenly become "worse." Games adapted. Attention got tired, schedules got tighter, and competition for free time turned brutal. A ten-minute gap now has to fight against messages, videos, and endless feeds. In that environment, long-form sessions still exist, but short sessions often win because they respect reality instead of demanding a perfect evening. That shift is visible everywhere, from mobile puzzlers to competitive titles and even casino-style experiences where a quick crore win feeling is part of the appeal.
Games
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

Google Play Games now lets you try the full version before you buy

Google Play Games introduces Game Trials for free testing of paid games, Community Posts for player discussion, Sidekick AI overlay for in-game tips, and expands paid game catalog with cross-platform play.
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week - 2/2/26

A weekly roundup of crowdfunding board game campaigns, community invites to BGQ Discord and Facebook, plus games ranging from solo adventures to deluxe editions.
Games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Ghost Of Yotei Legends Will Add Online Coin-Flicking Action On March 10

Ghost of Yotei Legends multiplayer mode launches Tuesday with the popular Zeni Hajiki coin-flicking mini-game now playable against friends in a new mini-open-world lobby.
Games
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Which of these two arcades is the "world largest"-and does it matter?

Two U.S. arcades claim the title of world's largest: Funspot in New Hampshire and Galloping Ghost in Illinois, each offering unique collections and experiences despite the semantic distinction.
Games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Pokemon Pokopia Is Fun When It's Not Being A Colossal Bummer

Pokémon Pokopia incorporates dark, melancholic lore throughout its design, requiring players to build graves for Pokémon like Cubone whose tragic backstories are central to their character.
Games
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Pokemon Pokopia review collectible creatures create their own perfect world

Pokopia, a new Pokemon spin-off, explores environmental restoration by having players rebuild a ruined town as Ditto, learning from Pokemon and gradually restoring habitats to attract new species.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Street Fighter 2 Dev Now Spends $500K On His Own Gacha Game

Making games requires testing them. For microtransaction-fueled gacha games, that means putting your own money on the line to sample the merchandise. That's apparently what led Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto to spend over $500,000 of his own money on his own game's loot boxes. Monster Strike is one of Japan's most lucrative gacha games and it's one Okamoto helped create after leaving Capcom in the early aughts.
Video games
fromVG247
1 month ago

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin may be your next anime gacha obsession, with a hint of Ghibli, and this latest trailer may be what sells you on it

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin is an open-world action RPG based on the world of The Seven Deadly Sins anime and manga. The game takes place in the world of Britannia, which looks similar to the way it does in the anime. That said, the story of the game is not based on the anime or manga, Instead, it's an original story set in the universe of the show.
Video games
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Arknights: Endfield Shuts Off PayPal After Random Charges Bug

A PayPal glitch on Arknights: Endfield charged players thousands of dollars; developer disabled PayPal purchases and will handle erroneous transactions.
Video games
fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Crimson Desert Will Not Have Microtransactions, Pearl Abyss Confirms

Crimson Desert is a premium single-player game sold via one-time purchase, with no cosmetic cash shop or microtransactions at launch.
Games
fromVG247
2 months ago

35 million of you have already pre-registered for Arknights: Endfield

Arknights: Endfield has surpassed 35 million pre-registrations ahead of its January 22 launch, signaling strong interest for the free-to-play action RPG across PC, console, and mobile.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Gaming's new coming-of-age genre embraces millennial cringe'

A key difference between the millennial generation and that of gen Z is that millennials did not grow up curating an online image on social media, and therefore had a much lesser terror of being perceived. We'd put up entire albums of terrible, blurry photos from a single night out, write nonstop on LiveJournal, produce appalling juvenilia and then post it on fanfic or art forums.
Video games
Games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Persona Artist Kazuma Kaneko Reveals New AI Art Card Game

Kazuma Kaneko's new Switch card game, Kazuma Kaneko's Tsukuyomi, launches April 23 with AI-generated art and includes 3,600 curated AI-produced cards.
Video games
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

What Balloon Master 3D Is and Why Players Love It

Balloon Master 3D delivers accessible color-matching gameplay with increasing speed, clear visuals, and short-session-friendly progression that balances relaxation and challenge.
Video games
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Here's a new look at Beast of Reincarnation, from the team behind Pokemon

Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation launches summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox, and PC as a one-person, one-dog action RPG set in post-apocalyptic Japan.
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Idle Game From Arc Raiders Publisher Offering Full Refunds

Nexon, the publisher behind MapleStory and Embark Studios' Arc Raiders , has apologised for what they describe as a "serious breach of trust" and announced that it's offering MapleStory: Idle RPG players full refunds for all in-game purchases made since the game's release. MapleStory: Idle RPG , a free-to-play mobile spin-off of Nexon's chibi-style MMORPG MapleStory , raked in a reported $100 million in in-game purchases within the first 45 days of its release on November 6, 2026.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Gambler's Table Review: Can't Stop Flipping, Won't Stop Flipping

The goal of Gambler's Table is to click a coin to flip it over. And then flip it again. And then again. And again. And again. When this coin lands with the money symbol facing up, you get a dollar. When it lands heads up, showing a skull, you get a skull point that can be used to buy hats.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Deadlock Is Secretly Growing Into An S-Tier MOBA Shooter

A thriving fan art community is always a sign of an entrenched playerbase. , Valve's secretive MOBA hero shooter, is currently teeming with creations all over social media that span the big three categories: horny, cute, and funny. In a way, these are perfect descriptors for the overall vibe of the latest six heroes to join the roster, which, alongside a plethora of additions and visual tweaks introduced in last week's big update, have led to a newfound momentum worth paying attention to.
Video games
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Fatal Fury Fans Spot Strange Detail In New Trailer, Igniting Generative AI Controversy

Fans accuse Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves trailer of using generative AI due to inconsistent character designs and apparent missing or altered assets.
Video games
fromAol
2 months ago

What Roblox Needs to Prove in 2026

Roblox must prove advertising can scale without hurting engagement and convert platform strength into sustainable economics and operating leverage.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Game Freak Addresses Concern About How Its Non-Pokemon RPG Runs

Game Freak prioritizes delivering a specific gameplay experience, focusing on optimization and bug fixing to ensure performance rather than maximum graphical fidelity.
Video games
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's a loving mockery, because it's also who I am': the making of gaming's most pathetic character

Baby Steps uses deliberate frustration and an inept, awkward protagonist to transform player irritation into empathy, identification, and unexpected affection.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Mewgenics Guide: 10 Tips To Know Before Playing

Mewgenics forces constant adaptation as cats retire after victories, requiring breeding, resource management, and acceptance of ephemeral team synergies.
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