Mobile gaming remains just as popular as ever in Japan, but "gacha" developers are reportedly looking to move away from gambling-centric games as China and South Korea expand into the market. The ...

A new Takara Tomy gacha figure collection in Japan reimagines some Sanrio characters as teeth, complete with gums as stands.

Japan's new regulations banning "complete gacha" in mobile games could pave the way for stronger growth of alternative games segments and offer opportunities for overseas players, especially from ...

Gacha was first imported by Penny Shokai, which is now Penny Co., Ltd., from the United States in 1965. As the first company to install Gacha machines in Japan, Penny, currently a subsidiary of TOMY ...

In 1999 — some 20 years before the birth of Apple’s App Store when mobile phone owners in the West could only play Snake — people in Japan already had the ability to play games directly onto their ...

Rememento: White Shadow is being shutdown while the team behind it redesigns it from the ground up, accoridng to the CEO.

Our reporter Yuuichiro Wasai was wandering around Harajuku the other day looking for something to eat but nothing seemed to call out to him. He scanned menus outside restaurants, searched online for ...

Japanese social game publishers have joined together to lay down their own set of guidelines concerning the controversial "complete gacha" sales method in the face of government regulation, pledging ...

Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (which is similar to the United States’ Federal Trade Commission) has declared the once-ubiquitous mobile-social game mechanic of “complete gacha” to be illegal, ...

Six Japanese social game publishers, including powerhouses Gree and DeNA, will put an end to the "complete gacha" microtransactions that drew the attention of the government's Consumer Affairs Agency.

Following an investigation, the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency has issued a ban on "kompu gacha" style online social games. Andriasang reports the CAA has ruled the kompu gacha system qualifies as ...