OpRainFall was started as a hub for a consumer campaign asking for the English localization of Wii games Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower.
The campaign was successful, but the site did not close down, and was instead repurposed as a videogame news and review site, focused mostly on Japanese and niche games, with a section for anime.
Site's coverage is apolitical, with even editorials only focusing on games — thus, the site was already in GamerGate's support lists when they briefly and neutrally discussed the scandal in their 2014 recap.