Cook Kawasaki & Hop Star Amiibo Released, Chaos Event Announced
The amiibo release and the all-Cook Kawasaki event show Nintendo leaning into the character's fan-favorite status with a chaotic multiplayer mode.
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EXE ARENA Smartphone Game Gets TGS2026 Booth With Trial Play
The trial play booth lands about a month before the October release, giving the studio a launch-window push at the largest domestic game event.
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EGG Console Volfes and the 5 Demons MSX Launches on Switch
The release adds a 1987 Crystal Software MSX action RPG to the EGG Console lineup, giving Switch owners access to a title that combines weapon upgrades, demon summons, and a scene select mode.
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Gachi Koi Kankin ♡ Melty Holic Steam Page Opens, TGS 2026 Demo Set
The Steam page launch and TGS 2026 playable booth give the first public hands-on access to Serial Games' new escape game, alongside two other in-development titles.
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Double Fine Slashes Kiln Price to Indie Level After Going Independent
The price cut and server changes are the first visible product decisions Double Fine has made since leaving Microsoft, and they show the studio reorienting Kiln around direct revenue and a smaller player base.
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Steam Weekly Releases Top 700 as Discovery Becomes the New Hurdle
With weekly releases exceeding 700 and most games drawing ten or fewer reviews, the developer challenge has shifted from releasing a game to getting it noticed.
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Wuthering Waves Ver.3.7 Shows Xin and Suoming Gameplay
The Ver.3.7 footage confirms Xin as the Suizhu herself, a core story figure, and shows a switching special attack that may revive the Coordinated Attack mechanic last seen with Cantarella.
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AKIBA LOST Builds a TV Drama to Raise Its Own Quality
The decision to produce and air a full TV drama solely to raise a game's quality, with Nippon TV's full cooperation, marks an unusual production format that the game's creators chose to strengthen the final product.
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RAZBAM JAPAN Brings ZERO-SIM Flight Simulators to Tokyo Game Show 2026
The booth offers hands-on trials of three flight categories, fighter jets, passenger aircraft, and helicopters, plus a Japan debut for the F-35 MR Flight Simulator.
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Yoshi-P Radio and Yoshi-P Night Set for September 21 in Shibuya
The event pairs two figures central to indie game support in Japan, Yoshida and Murakami, with a publisher and a creator, framing a direct conversation on how indie games move from creation to global release.
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Hypernet Explorer Early Access Trailer Shows a Broken Europe Where Y2K Actually Happened
The trailer's rapid view count and its premise of a butterfly-effect simulation where trivial actions can escalate into multiverse disturbances signal strong early interest in the game's free-form approach.
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Furyu Releases Extetra HD Remaster for PS5 and Switch
The console release brings the 2013 cult RPG to modern platforms with an HD remaster, following the Steam version's July 30 launch, making the kiss-based Prisma Knight mechanic accessible to a wider audience.
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Another Eden Begins Free Demo Now Live With Save Transfer
The demo's save transfer and six-chapter length give players a substantial preview ahead of the September 17 launch, with the full version adding Switch 2 support.
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Street Fighter: The Movie Trailer Doubles as Playable YouTube Mini-Game
The film studio and game publisher turned the trailer itself into an interactive rhythm-style experience, so watching the promotional footage is now a playable activity rather than a passive viewing.
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Kayak Photography Sim Slated for Early 2027 Release on Steam
The game strips out equipment screens, stamina gauges, timers, and rankings to make a pure drift-and-shoot experience, which is a direct counter to pressure-driven simulators.
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New Lollipop Chainsaw Game to Premiere at TGS 2026
The announcement places the Lollipop Chainsaw revival under a Taiwan-based licensee with JP UNIVERSE, founded by Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata, handling development, a setup that differs from the original studio structure.
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Emberward Sets September 17 Full Release After Two Years in Early Access
After about two years of Early Access and a period of roughly five months without regular updates, the September 17 launch delivers the fifth area as the major new element of version 1.0.
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Frictional Games' ONTOS Gameplay Shows Rat 'Brain Experiments' in Lunar Hotel
The footage confirms ONTOS retains Frictional's signature psychological horror, transplanting it into a lunar hotel setting where the line between human and rat consciousness dissolves.
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Lost Museum -Kaigami Tsuisoutan- Set for Summer 2027 Release on Switch 2 and Steam
The title brings a scenario writer associated with the 'Another Code' series to a museum-set mystery, and the untitled identity of the partner character Novi is positioned by one outlet as a potential major story mystery.
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Higurashi: When They Cry Steam Sale Runs Through September 15
The sale arrives months after the June 2026 announcement of a new anime marking the 20th anniversary of the 2006 adaptation, giving newcomers a cheap entry point into the original sound novels.
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Witcher 3 Expansion Memories of Melody Sends Geralt to Retten for Dandelion
The expansion's opening is a personal errand for Dandelion rather than a world-ending threat, and the new region Retten is built around interconnected daily-life systems like beekeeping, horse breeding, and brewing.
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He Who Watches Review: Gravity-Flipping Sokoban With a Bow and Arrow
The report highlights He Who Watches as a novel Sokoban variant that layers gravity-flipping traversal onto the familiar block-pushing formula, with hidden secrets for thorough players.
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Bodycam 'Locked and Loaded' Update Adds 400 Attachments, Trenches Map, and Drones
The update significantly expands Bodycam's customization and tactical options while adding host migration, a key stability feature for its multiplayer matches.
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My Hero Academia: All's Justice Adds Izuku Midoriya Overlay Full Style DLC
The new DLC and Switch 2 launch expand the fighting game's roster and platform reach, with the Switch 2 version adding a Pac-Man collaboration minigame and GameShare online battles.
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