Craig Stobo has stepped aside while the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment runs an independent probe. Financial Markets Authority (FMA) chair Craig Stobo is under investigation by the ...

Financial services regulator has warned the Christchurch firm to get its bookkeeping in order, and improve its risk disclosures to clients 'earlier in the process'. Christchurch property investment ...

Tower of Fantasy is an interesting one: a mashup of gacha and MMO, all of the random monetisation bullshit, plus expecting you to *shudder* work together with strangers. Despite being a sicko for both ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

Marc Santos is a Guides Staff Writer from the Philippines. He's a seasoned writer with over four years of industry experience, and he is an enjoyer of all things difficult in gaming. If Marc's not ...

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has fallen. The critically acclaimed 2009 remake of Fullmetal Alchemist has once again lost one of its coveted crowns to a brand-new anime currently dominating the U.S ...

Whether you play gacha games or not, you’ve likely heard the term used before. Yet, while gacha games are commonplace in the video games industry, not everyone knows what they are, nor the history ...

Gacha games can be quite entertaining options for players who don’t have the time, money, or energy to dive into more time-intensive AAA titles. That’s not to say that many of the best gacha games do ...

The just released Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian sort of is and isn't a sequel to 2023's mobile gacha game Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night ...

As a relative newcomer to the franchise, and an expat of its mobile sibling, I welcomed the announcement of Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, the second game in the Atelier ...

Atelier, Gust’s long-running item synthesis RPG series, reached new heights with the debut of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout in 2019. Gust used that momentum to sincerely attempt to ...

Remember the feeling when you put in a token at a machine in your local arcade, watching as a mechanical claw grabs a random prize out of a pool of them that’s yours for the taking? If you said yes, ...