Backrooms Director Kane Parsons to Appear Live on TOKYO MX
A 21-year-old director whose YouTube short became a global hit is fronting Japanese TV promotion ahead of the film's Japan release, capped by a stage greeting with Hideo Kojima.
KAI-YOU
Pokémon Teams With Polaroid for 30th Anniversary Camera Line
The collaboration pairs each camera edition with its own themed film frames, tying physical instant photography to Pokémon's 30th anniversary.
Anime News Network
Cake-Carrying Horror Game Don't Drop The Cake Launches on Steam
The game makes the player's own panic the core failure state, tying the horror to a simple mouse-balance control rather than to combat or puzzle mechanics.
Denfaminicogamer
FUBUKI Blower Returns to Makuake September 2 After 24,694% Campaign
FUBUKI earned Makuake's encore re-sale frame, reserved for projects with unusually large response, by rejecting the wind-speed numbers race in favor of a wide-nozzle design that drew an average of about 21,500 yen per supporter.
ASCII.jp
Japari Talk Zoo Mode Web Version Launches at Morioka ZOOMO
The web version removes the LINE account friend-add requirement, letting any visitor start chatting with a QR scan, and Trippy intends to carry the model to zoos and aquariums nationwide after ZOOMO.
ASCII.jp
Ravvi Pare!! Reveals Casino-Themed Merch for September 5 Mini Live
The live continues the unit's monthly offline live series, and the casino theme doubles as a bet on the group's future ahead of new members joining.
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Taiwan Cosplayers Recreate Sangokugunenden: Arena Heroes at Taipei Expo
The exhibition bills itself as one of Asia's largest comic and anime events, and the roughly 635,000 attendance figure across five days reflects that scale.
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ESOTERIC N-01XE Network/DAC Brings Grandioso N1 Core Tech to 01 Series
The N-01XE carries the Grandioso N1's two core technologies into the 01 series, evolving from the N-01XD SE with a second-generation discrete DAC and a fourth-generation network engine.
ASCII.jp
K&D Technology Enters Japan's Automotive and Industrial Display Market
K&D Technology is betting that vertical integration, a group supply chain and in-house back-end production, will answer Japan's strict quality demands in automotive and industrial displays, where stable sourcing at competitive prices is becoming a competitive issue.
ASCII.jp
JUSA Sets Up Free Cloud Phones Across Kumamoto Quake Shelters
The deployment extends JUSA's cloud PBX disaster support model, and this time adding municipal networks to satellite lines cut on-site setup time and let the phones reach shelters across a wider area.
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Orbital Lasers Takes Equity Stake in Mirror Maker Logist Lab
Orbital Lasers is converting a supplier relationship into an equity-backed partnership to lock in the large precision mirrors that sit at the core of its lidar satellite and debris removal business.
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Digital Rise CEO Chazono Returns to GMO Conference for Second Year
Chazono's second consecutive appearance moves the discussion from AI in business to physical AI, carrying the workforce and organization-building angle into a conference themed on industry-academia-government collaboration.
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Startup Design Tool BOOST Launches with Free AI and Human Retouch Model
The launch shifts the cost burden of startup design from the founding stage to later business pivots, funding free AI generation through backend professional support.
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Fenestra: my focus, her future Turns Real Work Into a Raising Sim
The reveal introduces STAYRESIDENT, a new indie label, and pairs a Seiun Award-winning novelist with a productivity tool, making the player's real work time the core of a narrative game.
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REALITY Studios Adopts Markerless Motion Capture System Captury
The markerless system collapses the staff and preparation a 3D stream used to demand, which is what lets a company running three VTuber labels promise higher-frequency 3D content rather than the occasional live events its previous setup allowed.
MoguLive, PANORA
Eco Volunteer Garbage Collection Sim Launches on Steam September 8
Eco Volunteer folds animal rescue and wildlife photography into the cleaning loop, with auto-generated missions meant to keep each run distinct.
Denfaminicogamer
ESET Helps Takedown Amadey Botnet and Stealc in Operation Endgame
Because both malware families are sold as services with affiliates running their own infrastructure, the takedown depended on ESET's clustering analysis to identify shared C&C servers worth prioritizing.
ASCII.jp
Terraria 50% Off on Steam for 600 Yen Until September 8
The sale lands as Re-Logic moves past the final Bigger & Boulder build and toward 1.4.6, the crossplay-focused update planned in two phases.
Denfaminicogamer
Weekly VTuber File Profiles Okayama's Amanohare Hokaru
The profile documents how a broadcaster-endorsed Okayama VTuber pairs FPS and fighting game streams with a monthly local news segment, using the VTuber format to promote the prefecture.
4Gamer.net
Nintendo Adds Ikari, Dragon Buster, Ninja Gaiden III to Famicom Classics
The Ninja Gaiden III addition completes the trilogy on the service, making a game that trades for around 5000 yen used and tens of thousands of yen sealed available to any subscriber.
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Kano Eikito's YouTube Channel EIKO!GO!! Passes 3 Million Subscribers
The milestone, reached about two years after the channel passed 2 million, confirms Kano's game streams as the main driver of his YouTube growth and is being marked with a five-city collab cafe and large-screen screenings.
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Shueisha's Manga Mee Opens Permanent Submission Window on Nola
Shueisha's shoujo and josei app is formalizing a standing pipeline for original IP discovery, pairing Manga Mee's editorial investment with Nola's base of over 700,000 writers.
ASCII.jp
LEVEL∞ Launches Gaming Laptops With Foldable Stand and RTX 5060 or 5050
The foldable stand is a built-in answer to heat management, letting the laptop tilt itself and raise the vents without an external stand during long gaming sessions.
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PlayStation Plus September Free Play Adds Chained Echoes and Sniper Elite: Resistance
The September lineup pairs a 16-bit style JRPG and a physics sandbox with a tactical shooter, though one announced title, MLB The Show 26, was not visible in the store when the window opened.
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