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 ...

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Linden Lab, the developer of long-standing sim Second Life, announced that it will be removing gacha mechanics from the title later this month. The adjustment is due to a "changing regulatory climate, ...