Varesa, Xilonen, and Xianyun are to feature on Version 5.5 Event Banners, with Venti likely to have a rerun. Strong banners ...
Genshin Impact remains one of the most popular gacha games in the world, constantly adding new regions and characters, but now they’ve run afoul of the FTC for their main revenue model.
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its gacha loot box monetization and is now banned from ...
Thanks to recently datamined information, Genshin Impact players can now know the full slate of characters set to feature in ...
Genshin Impact maker Cognosphere – which conducts ... it’s misleading children over the true cost of obtaining rare gacha rewards. The action RPG, which first launched on PS4 in 2020 and ...
In the wake of Genshin Impact we’ve seen the gacha genre explode in the West. From Genshin’s sister titles Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, to other takes on the genre like Infinity ...
Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Genshin Impact publisher ...
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developer of Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero among others, targets HoYoverse’s unchecked permissions for children to play and exploitative microcurrency systems—but its gacha requirements ...
A definitive list of the best gacha games wouldn’t be complete without Genshin Impact. While Hoyoverse’s flagship title is by no means the first of its kind, it is the one that catapulted the ...
Singapore-based Cognosphere is banned from selling loot boxes to teens under 16 without parental consent. Singapore-based Cognosphere is banned from selling loot boxes to teens under 16 without ...