Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Gets 50% Off Steam Sale Ahead of Anime Film
The discount arrives just before the September premiere of the anime film, giving new players a chance to catch up on the source game at half price.
Denfaminicogamer
POP MART Returns to Nagoya With Limited-Time Store Opening July 2026
The Nagoya pop-up marks POP MART's return to the city after an absence, with a location inside a department store that has operated for over 400 years, and brings both a major anniversary series and a sports tie-in to a single retail event.
ASCII.jp
Text-Only Rpg Saga & Seeker Gets 20% Off Steam Sale and Character Recruitment Campaign
The sale and recruitment campaign mark a push to grow the player base and user-generated content library for a game that relies on community-created characters and scenarios for replayability.
Denfaminicogamer
Sleep Measurement E-Sports Cup Wins YouTube Works Award Gold
The award recognizes a pharmaceutical brand using a competitive gaming format to build a fan community around a health product, a crossover that YouTube Works judges deemed best in its category.
ASCII.jp
VTuber Creators Share Contract and Live2D Workflow Tips in Celsys Roundtable
The roundtable surfaces real-world contract and workflow practices from active VTuber creators, offering a rare look at how independent talent handles legal and production coordination.
Automaton
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Love You Season 3 Trailer Reveals Opening Song
The trailer confirms the season will introduce three new girlfriends whose voice actors are being kept secret until broadcast, a deliberate choice that builds anticipation for the series' signature large cast reveals.
Anime News Network, Anime Corner
Snowball Earth Season 1 Ends With a Whimper, Season 2 Announced
The season finale's rushed fight and padded epilogue suggest the production struggled to pace the story, while the second season announcement indicates the series will continue despite the weak finish.
Anime News Network
NTE: Neverness to Everness Ver.1.2 Adds Shinku and Irohi, Hack-and-Slash Mode
The Ver.1.2 update expands the game's roster and introduces a substantial new gameplay mode that departs from the core urban exploration loop.
4Gamer.net
Tokyo Raises EV Subsidy to Maximum 1.3 Million Yen
The subsidy increase brings the effective price of a Tesla Model 3 below 3 million yen for the first time in Tokyo, making EVs more competitive with gasoline cars in the capital.
ASCII.jp
Wild Gate Gets Its Last Major Update In July
The update marks the effective end of active development for a title that launched with promise but could not retain players despite multiple turnaround attempts.
Automaton
Onono Launches Official YouTube Channel 'Onono Group'
The channel gives Onono a direct medium to explain its hybrid trading-and-promotion business, which the company says is hard to convey through service descriptions alone.
ASCII.jp
Camera No Kitamura and Pen Co-Host Hiroshi Sugimoto Talk Event
The event offers rare public access to Sugimoto's shooting notes and a demonstration of the large-format camera central to his work, tying technical craft to curatorial context.
ASCII.jp
Thermaltake Announces Thermal Camp 2026 DIY PC Culture Festival
Thermaltake is framing its annual event as an adult culture festival for DIY PC enthusiasts, blending product showcases with community interaction and retro-themed programming.
ASCII.jp
Abel Black Project Reveals Tone of Black Speaker With Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio
The speaker marks the Abel Black Project's first product that directly engages hearing, translating the company's surface treatment into a multi-sensory object.
ASCII.jp
Prime Video Adds 47 TBS Drama Series in July 2026 Lineup
The addition of 47 TBS dramas in a single month marks one of the largest single-studio catalog drops on Prime Video, giving subscribers access to multiple long-running franchise entries at once.
Denfaminicogamer
Persona 3 Reload Hits Lowest Price Ever on Steam at 65% Off
The deep discount on a critically acclaimed remake makes the game accessible to a wider audience during the Steam sale window.
Denfaminicogamer
Beppu City Releases 'Jigoku Korin' Illustrations by Hiroko Utsumi and INEMOUSE
The release of official illustrations and cast comments marks the first concrete visual and voice material for a publicly funded cross-promotional IP that blends municipal sports and tourism.
4Gamer.net
Quantic Dream Workers Strike to Save Star Wars Eclipse
The strike directly ties the fate of Quantic Dream's high-profile Star Wars Eclipse to the studio's internal restructuring, suggesting that management's decision to lay off rather than retrain staff could derail a major licensed project.
Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark, GameBusiness.jp
Be:First Stadium Live 2026 Gets Prime Video Streaming
The Prime Video stream gives a wider audience access to BE:FIRST's milestone stadium debut as the group enters its fifth year and expands internationally.
Cinema Today
Masami Nagasawa's 'Dollhouse' Hits Prime Video for Unlimited Streaming
The streaming release brings a major Japanese horror hit, which grossed nearly 2 billion yen and won a festival grand prize, to a wide audience on Prime Video.
Cinema Today
Cosplay Love Heroine Mitsuki Chiyo Joins AI Chat App Anini
The collaboration represents a new model for IP engagement, letting fans interact directly with a game heroine via generative AI rather than consuming a static story.
ASCII.jp
15-Year-Old Nikoru Kondo Leads Hero Egg Founding Party With VR Experience
The founding of Hero Egg Co., Ltd. by a 15-year-old CEO marks a concrete step in a project that aims to turn Japan's 9 million vacant properties into technology education centers, with corporate and government partners already engaging.
ASCII.jp
Wuthering Waves Ver.3.5 Adds Electro Conduction Attribute and New Region on July 10
The update introduces the fourth resonance attribute for the protagonist and a major new zone, expanding both combat options and exploration content in the live-service RPG.
4Gamer.net
Kanna Hashimoto and Junhyuk Choi Star in Akiko Higashimura's "Vacation Law"
Higashimura, a celebrated manga creator, is making her first serial drama as writer and director, with a format of short episodes released three times weekly on ABEMA.
Cinema Today