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gamesannouncement 2 sources Oct 3

Shochiku Games To Publish Hela: Of Mice & Magic In Japan On December 1

Shochiku Games, the game business office Shochiku set up in June 2024, is staking part of its catalog on a title that took Most Entertaining and Most Wholesome at gamescom 2025 and has already passed 1 million wishlist registrations worldwide.

4Gamer.net, Game Spark
games 2 sources Oct 3

Bankrupt OddNo. Ends Link! Like! Love Live! Offline App On October 30

An offline preservation build normally outlives the service it came from, and this one is being pulled about four months after the service ended, so the announced date is the last practical window for players to secure their own card and sticker data.

4Gamer.net, Automaton
games 2 sources Oct 3

WARDOGS Tops 3 Million Sales Two Weeks Into Steam Early Access

The first-day 1.25 million and the week-two 3 million together show the launch spike did not collapse at the usual point, which is the pattern publishers watch before committing to a live-service roadmap.

4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer
gamesevent 3 sources Oct 3

TGS2026 Draws 257,642 Visitors Across Four Days

The four-day gate count of 257,642 landed with a full day lost to a typhoon, so the number reflects a shortened show rather than a soft one.

Game Spark, Inside, PANORA
gamesbusiness 6 sources Oct 3

Yahoo! Kids to End Service on December 4, 2026 After 29 Years

LINE Yahoo is retiring a filtered search portal built for a PC-era childhood and shifting its youth protection budget toward digital literacy material, school partnerships, and consultation desks suited to a smartphone and generative AI environment.

4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, ASCII.jp, and 3 more
gamesrelease 2 sources Oct 3

Tokyo Xtreme Racer Adds Free MINI GT DLC And Sunny Truck

Genki used the PC full release's first anniversary to confirm paid DLC is in development and that more guest rivals and cross-genre collaborations are planned, so the free MINI GT pack is the opening move of a longer rollout rather than a one-off.

4Gamer.net, Game Spark
games 2 sources Oct 3

NO LAW Dev Diary Details Player Freedom And Non-Linear Missions

The developer video frames player freedom as the main design pillar while the game is still a year out, so KRAFTON and Neon Giant are selling systems and replayability rather than a release date or story reveal.

4Gamer.net, Game Spark
gamesrelease 2 sources Oct 3

SawyerK Games Releases Apocalypter Driving Survival FPS on Steam

Apocalypter lets players modify every vehicle part with a position and angle tool, including functional parts like the engine and exhaust pipes, a level of car customization the sources single out as the game's defining feature.

4Gamer.net, Game Spark
gamesrelease 2 sources Oct 3

Control Resonant Launches With 34,000 Steam Concurrents

The studio cut enemy health and respeccing costs on day one, which is unusual for a launch hotfix and signals the early-game difficulty drew enough complaints to act on immediately.

Denfaminicogamer, Automaton
games 1 source Oct 3

REMATCH Season 5 Begins With Blue Lock Collaboration

Sloclap told Automaton it deliberately gave the Blue Lock characters no special abilities, expressing their identities through cosmetics and animations instead, which keeps REMATCH's all-players-have-identical-stats balance intact even as it borrows a franchise built on superhuman strikers.

Automaton
gamesrelease 2 sources Oct 3

ODDCORE Mall 33 Update Adds Roulette Mode And Star Meter

The Star Meter turns a single-player score chase into a streaming parody with its own economy, which is the design novelty here rather than the added content volume.

Denfaminicogamer, Automaton
gamesrelease 3 sources Oct 3

Japanese Ramen Simulator Early Access Hits Steam Review Delay

The delay of the Steam pre-release review left the launch date and time undecided, and Wild Dog CEO Hiroto Chujo said on September 29 that the review results had still not arrived, a rare public statement about Steam's review queue.

4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
gamesrelease 4 sources Oct 3

This Week's New Game Releases Led By ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

The week's biggest release is a paid 9,790 yen flight shooter, yet the Steam chart still puts two free-to-play titles directly behind it, a reminder that this week's strongest seller is competing against no-cost rivals rather than the other boxed games in the roundup.

4Gamer.net, ASCII.jp, Game Spark, and 1 more
games 7 sources Oct 3

Sony Store Opens PS5 Pro Purchase Applications With 60-Hour Play Requirement

The 60-hour playtime requirement, which ASCII.jp reports is believed to be aimed at preventing resale purchases, ties console access to account history at a time when stock remains short ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19 release.

GAME Watch (Impress), Automaton, ASCII.jp, and 4 more
gamesannouncement 2 sources Oct 3

Junklab Opens Steam Page For RED SKIES AT DAWN Sailing Sim

Junklab is an indie studio in Australia that also does contract development and is building a separate plant-cultivation game called Perianth, so RED SKIES AT DAWN is one thread of a studio working several projects at once rather than a single-title bet.

Denfaminicogamer, Automaton