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gamesbusiness 1 source Sep 18

Paidy Brings Deferred Payment to Games With TGS 2026 Debut

Paidy is treating games as the entry point where its younger user base already spends, and it is betting that fee-free installments can create spending that a card or prepaid code would have stopped at the checkout screen.

4Gamer.net
gamesevent 3 sources Sep 18

Capcom Opens Applications for Monster Hunter Wilds Switch 2 Hands-On

Capcom is tying hands-on access to its own newsletter list while the Switch 2 port has no release date beyond December 4, and event details place the demo in front of players before a public trial version arrives.

4Gamer.net, ASCII.jp, Denfaminicogamer
games 2 sources Sep 18

RyzaChat:AI Adds China Dress And Halloween Skins

The stage ran alongside the announcement that a second app, SophieChat:AI, set in the world of Atelier Sophie 2, is in development with pre-registration opening the same day, so SpiralAI and Koei Tecmo are planning more than one title in this chat-app line.

GAME Watch (Impress), Automaton
games 1 source Sep 18

Reddit Weighs Japan Game Industry As Layoffs Hit West

A labor-market tracker's comparison between Japanese and Western studio staffing has turned the layoff conversation toward retention numbers and executive pay ratios rather than just headcount, though the same thread questions how Japan's own employment practices actually work.

Game Spark
gamesannouncement 3 sources Sep 18

SpiralAI Announces SophieChat:AI And Ryza Skins At Tokyo Game Show 2026

SpiralAI is extending the chat-RPG format from one Atelier heroine to a second before the first app is a year old, and the stage numbers for RyzaChat:AI (15 million total utterances, over 100 million X impressions, top of the App Store free entertainment ranking) are the evidence the company is using to justify the expansion.

GAME Watch (Impress), 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer
gamesevent 3 sources Sep 18

Level-5 Shows Professor Layton And The New World Of Steam At TGS 2026

QuizKnock's puzzles now carry the series' difficulty load once held by the late Professor Akira Tago, and the demo shows the studio has replaced hand-drawn cutscenes with 3D without dropping the puzzle standard.

Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark, Inside
gamesreview 2 sources Sep 18

Tropico 7 Hands-On Adds Terraforming And A Council Page

The two additions shown at the show push the series further toward city-planning logistics and away from requests that arrive as sudden pop-ups, which matters most to players who spend their time inside the build menu rather than the ballot box.

4Gamer.net
games 4 sources Sep 18

Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back Debuts First Footage at TGS 2026

The sequel's greenlight came from NADA HOLDINGS founder Joe Teng, a self-described fan who spent about a year negotiating with Dragami Games, an outside-in path that shapes a series now expanding into a film alongside the game.

Denfaminicogamer, Automaton, Game Spark, and 1 more
gamesevent 1 source Sep 18

Drecom Creators Studio Shows Three Publishing Titles At TGS 2026

Drecom is opening its publishing arm to outside creators because in-house game development alone limits how many challenges the company can take on, and it is selling that offer on support that reaches from programming to localization to assigning artists and composers through its existing network.

4Gamer.net