games 2 sources Sep 15
Game Freak is building a smartphone title whose core loop depends on licensed meteorological data rather than in-game timers, and it is taking a club room recreation and merchandise-style novelties to Tokyo Game Show 2026 before the winter release.
Inside
games 1 source Sep 15
A third funding round for the same project is unusual, and the team is treating the demo video as the answer to why the money is still short.
Denfaminicogamer
gamesreview 3 sources Sep 15
Valve's own review program listed titles as playing comfortably on Frame that reviewers could not get to launch, so the standalone promise rests on a compatibility list that overstated what the hardware does.
Automaton, GIGAZINE
gamesannouncement 2 sources Sep 15
The crossover pulls Persona 3 Portable's female protagonist into a live-service Persona title, and Sega is holding the event details until a scheduled stream six days before she goes live.
Denfaminicogamer
gamesannouncement 5 sources Sep 15
Drecom chose the Super Famicom conversion over the PC original, and that version's 1995 rework by Game Studio with Jun Suemi character design and Kentaro Haneda music is the one that carried the game in Japan.
4Gamer.net, Automaton, Dengeki Hobby Web
gamesannouncement 1 source Sep 15
The game shipped in May with more than 40 marine species and two modes, so the TGS2026 booth is a chance to put the released version in front of Japanese players who voted for the Japanese Snow Crab and Japanese Seahorse.
Denfaminicogamer
games 3 sources Sep 15
The cutoff carves the seven-day story into a public half and a sealed half, which makes the unreleased Day 7 chapter the part of AKIBA LOST that cannot circulate as clips or streams.
Denfaminicogamer, Automaton, 4Gamer.net
gamesrelease 5 sources Sep 15
The bunny-themed banner arrives alongside a limited-time selective recruitment offering six past limited Nikkes, a reprint format that gives newer players a route to earlier limited units while the two new SSR units split their recruitment windows across two weeks.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Inside
games 2 sources Sep 15
The analyst's own numbers, drawn from routine US tracking rather than a measurement of the boycott, became the basis for headlines claiming the campaign had zero impact on Sony, which is why the disagreement on Bluesky is about what the data can support, not about whether the campaign happened.
Game Spark
games 1 source Sep 15
The trailer fixes the campaign's frame: a defeated player rescued by an obsolete carrier and handed a legendary ace's name, which is the setup that carries the numbered ACE COMBAT entries.
4Gamer.net
gamesannouncement 4 sources Sep 15
City Connection has built a business on reviving old mahjong games, and this remaster puts a 2009 arcade and handheld title from AQ Interactive back on current platforms with the original drama CD cast intact.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
gamesrelease 1 source Sep 15
Abylight Barcelona moves from military base and city-building management sims into online co-op submarine simulation, betting that crew coordination under pressure can carry a game where combat and internal chaos compete for the same attention.
Automaton
gamesrelease 3 sources Sep 15
A solo developer who expected 100,000 first-year sales and hit that mark in three days has now shipped the full version with a playable card game, and the retention question shifts from whether players will open packs to whether they will keep playing Tetramon matches in the shop.
Denfaminicogamer, Automaton, Game Spark
gamesevent 1 source Sep 15
The event covers PC, console, esports, and sim racing products at once, and pairs the main stream with a hands-on event in California and a same-day Japan edition, giving the announcement more than a single product line.
GAME Watch (Impress)
gamesrelease 2 sources Sep 15
The game turns cognitive disorders into the deduction system itself, so the murder scene and the testimony both change depending on who is perceiving them, and the player has to doubt their own reading of the case.
Game Spark
games 1 source Sep 15
The team's stated goal of keeping the resource grind from turning into chores is the design argument the game is being sold on, and the 100-hour content figure is the team's own measure of how far early access has moved it past the initial region.
Game Spark
games 5 sources Sep 15
The event arrives eight days after Apex Legends' official X account posted the hadoken input with a "Get Ready.... Fight!" audio clip, turning a teaser into a dated release with a full skin and mode slate.
GAME Watch (Impress), ASCII.jp, Game Spark
games 1 source Sep 15
Bungie is trading a fixed season cadence for open-ended polishing, which gives it room to fix Marathon's progression problems but lengthens the wait for the permanent PvE content the game's dwindling player base has been waiting on.
Automaton
gamesannouncement 1 source Sep 15
Road to Jukai is the second tinyBuild title to surface in a year of genre moves, and its shift from the working title Silent Road to a first-person taxi horror premise puts a small developer on a showcase stage next to a Hypnohead follow-up.
Denfaminicogamer
gamesrelease 3 sources Sep 15
The demo's save carryover lets the studio lock in pre-orders before launch, and Denfaminicogamer notes PlayStation Plus subscribers can pre-order at 2,552 yen, a steeper cut than the standard discount.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
gamesevent 1 source Sep 15
The Edgerunners account is using its own second season, set for Netflix on October 20, as the hook for game crossovers that will not arrive until 2027, so the marketing is running well ahead of either series.
Anime News Network
gamesrelease 8 sources Sep 15
Valve's own development team told Automaton that the launch slipped from early 2026 to September because securing memory and storage was difficult, a delay that puts the headset in the same supply crunch that hit Valve's other hardware.
GAME Watch (Impress), Denfaminicogamer, Automaton, and 2 more
gamesannouncement 2 sources Sep 15
Hypnohead is taking the constrained-space management of The King is Watching and replacing the fixed kingdom with a mobile creature, which turns route choice and layout pressure into the same decision.
Automaton
games 3 sources Sep 14
The pitch rests on the asymmetry: the player alone carries future weaponry, while the opposing side fields period defenses including ballistas and trebuchets that the player can destroy.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark