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gamesrelease 1 source Oct 4

Amata Games Sets September 30 Launch For Shinjuku Anomaly On Steam

Amata Games is shipping a small Steam visual novel while it also builds an officially licensed Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies VR project for Meta headsets, so the September 30 date is a near-term release from a studio whose larger licensed work is still a year out.

Anime News Network
games 1 source Oct 4

Stranger Than Heaven Streams Showbiz Video Ahead of January 15 Launch

Sega is building out the non-combat half of Stranger Than Heaven before launch, treating music and performance as a pillar of the game rather than a side mode, and pairing that with a cast that stretches from Japanese screen actors to Snoop Dogg, Ado, and Tori Kelly.

Anime News Network
gamesrelease 3 sources Oct 4

LEGO PlayStation Set Goes on General Sale for 27,980 Yen

The set treats two 1990s PlayStation games as the collectible pay-off rather than the console alone, which is an unusual choice for a licensed hardware replica aimed at adult builders.

GAME Watch (Impress), Inside
gamesannouncement 1 source Oct 4

Marvelous Announces VR Story Of Seasons Game For Spring 2027

The franchise's first move into headset-based play arrives as Marvelous is already reworking older entries in the series, so the VR entry tests whether the farming loop holds up without a controller.

Anime News Network
gamesannouncement 2 sources Oct 4

War Mouth Games Announces Tower Tanks Co-Op Roguelike

Tower Tanks bets on destructible tanks that force crews to keep fighting with damaged equipment, a design choice that separates it from tank games built around a fixed loadout.

Automaton, Game Spark
gamesevent 1 source Oct 4

Pixiv And VRChat Detail Partnership At Tokyo Game Show 2026

The two companies are pitching their marketplaces as covering different depths of VRChat use, with VRChat's Avatar Marketplace serving purchases that can be worn immediately and BOOTH serving users who modify avatars themselves.

PANORA
games 4 sources Oct 4

Universal Modder Tool Puts AI Agents Behind Game Mod Creation

Universal Modder automates the technical steps that once gated mod creation to people with reverse-engineering skills, at a moment when AI-generated mashup mods are already drawing takedown claims from rights holders.

Automaton, Game Spark, GameBusiness.jp, and 1 more
gamesannouncement 2 sources Oct 4

Q-Games Says It Handled Cloud Rendering Research For Ace Combat 8

Cloudly is the rare technical credit that ties the Ace Combat series' signature skies to a studio whose own history is built on flight games, which gives the announcement a lineage the marketing copy does not need to spell out.

Game Spark, GameBusiness.jp
games 1 source Oct 4

Nivalis Nights Gets Two Updates In Two Days After Heavy Launch

The two-patch cadence, less than a full day apart, shows the developer treating post-launch performance as a launch-window problem rather than a later fix, and the sequencing suggests the next patch will decide whether the Mostly Positive rating holds.

Game Spark