Varesa, Xilonen, and Xianyun are to feature on Version 5.5 Event Banners, with Venti likely to have a rerun. Strong banners ...

A new Genshin Impact leak reveals the in-game animations for one of the upcoming five-star characters, the new Electro user ...

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 ...

These are all the new and upcoming Genshin Impact characters that are due to turn up in the gacha game sometime in the future. We’ll add new candidates as we discover them. Don’t forget to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...