games 4 sources · 5d ago
Square Enix frames this as credential reuse from other companies' leaks rather than a breach of its own services, and it has named a second MMO, Dragon Quest X, under the same account system.
GAME Watch (Impress), Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
gamesrelease 2 sources · 5d ago
The card adventure's early reception suggests players are responding to a design where combat is optional and sneaking past a fight counts as a solution, not a failure state.
Automaton
games 1 sources · 5d ago
Hell Maiden's early access has run on two stages since July 16, and Gluttony plus Lucanus is the content that decides whether the roadmap holds players through the second half of the year.
4Gamer.net
gamesrelease 1 sources · 5d ago
SIGONO is steering an OPUS-series audience toward a barbershop game whose endings hinge on haircuts, so the demo and Next Fest slot are the current window to test whether the gimmick reads before a full release with no date or price.
GAME Watch (Impress)
games 1 sources · 5d ago
Morin's account puts the studio's gore problem on the hiring and playtesting side, not the game design side: Red Barrels says it screens applicants in interviews because the work itself can end a run, whether a tester's or an employee's.
Game Spark
gamesbusiness 1 sources · 5d ago
The first Meta VR Glasses accessory deal makes expandable storage part of the official ecosystem, though Meta has not yet said what the expansion will cost.
GameBusiness.jp
gamesreview 1 sources · 5d ago
The score spread is thin and high on all three platforms, and the strongest criticism lands on the dialogue and missing hints rather than the puzzles, which is the shape of a puzzle game whose content holds up and whose presentation divides people.
Game Spark
gamesrelease 1 sources · 5d ago
The game bets on a rule most party games avoid: the guessers cannot win by being sensible, only by matching one person's taste, which turns taste itself into the puzzle.
Game Spark
games 1 sources · 5d ago
Steam's profile and trading systems read as community building because, by a former Valve developer's account, that is what Valve has been building toward, and Epic's new launcher is being judged on whether it does the same.
Automaton
gamesannouncement 1 sources · 5d ago
The hook is bookkeeping as dread: the game asks players to do shelter paperwork and adoption screening while the real task is spotting which animal is not one, which puts the horror in the record-keeping rather than in a chase.
Denfaminicogamer
games 1 sources · 5d ago
A studio leader framing IP as a way to move content across games, anime, and comics, backed by Scopely's strategic investment, puts the cross-media model at the center of Studio AuKnow's stated plan rather than as an afterthought.
Automaton
gamesevent 1 sources · 5d ago
A canceled convention day cost this indie booth its closing-day audience, and a second Tokyo event is the cheapest way to put the same trial back in front of players before the 2026 release.
Denfaminicogamer
gamesannouncement 2 sources · 5d ago
MintLip+ is putting its name on a full-scale crime suspense adventure rather than another romance premise, and a March 25, 2027 Switch date with a 8,580 yen standard edition puts the brand's first original work on a fixed calendar.
Denfaminicogamer
gamesannouncement 1 sources · 5d ago
A brand launched on a teaser now has a date, a price, and a named creative team, which turns Astraea from a placeholder into a scheduled release Edia can be held to.
4Gamer.net
games 2 sources · 5d ago
The extortion attempt targets a small SRPG series with over 35,000 cumulative downloads, and Mochibe's refusal is a concrete case of an indie developer treating an AI clone threat as bluff rather than leverage.
Game Spark
gamesevent 1 sources · 5d ago
A roster rebuilt from the bottom of the Americas region turned the Stage 2 run into a Champions trophy, and its youngest player came out of the final as MVP.
Game Spark
gamesrelease 1 sources · 5d ago
The game's core loop is a negotiation between industry and a living host, so its reception will turn on whether players accept a city builder where the map has a will of its own.
4Gamer.net
gamesop-ed 1 sources · 5d ago
The Mail report shows the old games-cause-violence frame surviving into 2026, with a tabloid treating fandom for a single-player RPG as evidence about a fatal accident.
Game Spark
gamesevent 2 sources · 5d ago
A lottery of physical prizes and citywide ad placements tied to scan counts is Drecom spending on offline reach for a two-year-old mobile RPG, measuring interest by posts and scans rather than downloads.
4Gamer.net
games 1 sources · 5d ago
The denial settles the production question but leaves the shortage behind it untouched: memory prices keep climbing, RTX 5090 street prices in Japan have passed 1 million yen, and NVIDIA has not said when supply stabilizes.
Automaton
gamesevent 1 sources · 5d ago
The joint booth puts a Japanese publisher's incubator and a trade ministry program on the same floor as the Catalan public-private pipeline, which is the concrete form the Japan-Catalonia indie tie-up has taken.
4Gamer.net
gamesevent 5 sources · 5d ago
The accepted list is a snapshot of which games the speedrunning community currently treats as worth a slot, and this year that set runs from a July 2026 release to CD-era Tengai Makyou ZERO.
Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark, Inside, and 1 more
gamesreview 1 sources · 5d ago
The Miami-like label usually means a modern brush-up of the 2012 model, and Jackal's bet is that simulation-driven accidents, not memorized placement, give the genre a flavor of its own.
Game Spark
gamesreview 1 sources · 6d ago
The organizer port shows that a handheld text adventure with full kanji display and touch controls reached Japanese business commuters years before those features became standard on dedicated handheld consoles.
Game Spark