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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- More than a decade ago, Japan pioneered ways to profit from mobile games with a technique called gacha, which nudged players to spend lavishly on acquiring special characters or mighty ...

Stock in Japan’s two leading social game companies have taken a serious tumble following word of a government crackdown. Japanese social game companies Gree and DeNA agreed in April to impose limits ...

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 ...

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, ...

In Japan, gacha machines are those ubiquitous capsule vending machines that dispense random prizes. The concept hasn’t only evolved into video games, but also into the Japanese slang oya-gacha. What ...

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 ...

Japan's social game makers are tweaking many of their top-grossing titles following a government ban on "complete gacha" sales tactics. The country's Consumer Affairs Agency said last week that the ...