Taito Adds Shigure Ui-Designed Singer Amei To QQQbeats!!!
Taito is pushing the puzzle-rhythm game's crossover cast into voice-acting territory and marking the game's first year with its first major discount on the base software.
PANORA
Ibraid Runs 100-VTuber Campaign for Aniimo Launch
The campaign ties a casting service's roster of streamers directly to a launch window, giving Aniimo two weeks of distributed coverage that a single publisher stream cannot match.
PANORA
re;BON Virtual Artist yuragi Releases Debut Single Counter Trigger
re;BON, an agency known for representing VTubers such as Aoi Sakura, is opening a new project through a music-first artist rather than a streaming persona, which puts an established VTuber agency into the same distribution pipeline as independent musicians.
PANORA
European Commission Set To Present EU Kids Act Restricting SNS And AI Chatbots For Minors
The framework would put age verification and design limits on services that have so far been governed by national rules or platform policy, with AI chatbots and games pulled into the same scope as social media.
GIGAZINE
Earth Defense Force 6 Switch 2 Port Lands January 28, 2027
D3 Publisher is splitting the next Earth Defense Force step into two products: a straight Switch 2 port of the 2022 game and a separate PS5 rework, so the series' active player base now depends on which hardware they own.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Automaton
GALLERIA Starts Sales of Two Onimusha: Way of the Sword Verified PCs
The two GALLERIA boxes land alongside a GIGABYTE bundle campaign running September 17 to October 30 and a separately verified FRONTIER lineup, which puts the Onimusha compatibility label on store shelves from several PC vendors at once rather than one.
GAME Watch (Impress), ASCII.jp
S.H.Figuarts Adds Sakazuki From One Piece's Marineford Arc
The Akainu figure is built to be sold as one of three Marineford pieces, since its bonus face part and Ace-specific magma arm only complete the scene when paired with the separately sold Ace and Luffy figures.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Heart Machine Lays Off Nearly All Staff After Publisher Cancels Unannounced Title
A studio that lost staff in 2024 and 2025 now loses the funding behind its next project, leaving its survival dependent on a path Preston says he has not found.
Automaton
Kioxia Brings Asian Games Esports SSDs To Tokyo Game Show
A memory maker using a consumer game show to put its esports-certified drive in visitors' hands is hardware marketing aimed at players rather than enterprise buyers, and the Asian Games credential is the pitch.
GAME Watch (Impress), ASCII.jp
Fire Emblem: Kaleidoscope of a Thousand Flowers Scores 89 On Metacritic
A high aggregate for a Switch 2 simulation RPG that reuses the Three Houses setting gives Nintendo a strong review position for the console's strategy lineup, with reviewers singling out both the four-protagonist structure and the density of its interlocking systems.
Denfaminicogamer
Break My Case Details Rhythm Mode ROLL'N GROOVE and Pins Update
Two new systems, a rhythm mode and expanded Pins, are arriving together, so coly is describing how players will use items and card effects rather than announcing a separate feature update.
4Gamer.net
Artis Impact Launches on Switch With 11 Languages
Artis Impact already drew domestic attention through the RPG Maker Award 2026 Grand Prize, the BitSummit PUNCH Vermilion Prize, and TOKYO GAME SHOW 2025 SELECTED INDIE 80, and the Switch release with Japanese support gives that attention a version Japanese players can actually buy.
4Gamer.net
AWS Confirms Permanent Data Loss After Drone Attacks on Middle East Data Centers
Six months after the attacks, AWS is telling customers that isolation to a single availability zone turned an outage into unrecoverable loss, which puts the redundancy assumption at the center of how the region gets rebuilt.
GIGAZINE
All For One Joins S.H.Figuarts As Final Battle Set
The set's bonus head parts for S.H.Figuarts Katsuki Bakugo -The Beginning- tie the villain's release directly into the existing line, giving collectors a reason to own both figures for the final battle scenes.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Kotobukiya Opens Preorders for Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Soda Bunny Figure
At roughly 46cm, the figure puts Kotobukiya into the same large-scale range that FREEing already occupies with its 480mm Bay: Radiant Rabbit figure for the same game, priced at 44,000 yen.
Dengeki Hobby Web, Inside, Game Spark
Initial D Sukajan Goes on General Online Sale at CAMSHOP.JP
An officially licensed apparel item sold first through the brand's own online store puts Initial D merch in front of buyers without a retail partner, and the all-embroidery build is the reason it is priced and pitched as a collector piece rather than a standard print run.
Dengeki Hobby Web
MELTY BLOOD: TWI-LUMINA Hands-On Adds Ren, Neco-Arc, and Roa
The demo's two control schemes split the series in two directions at once: Act courts newcomers with one-button specials while Duel keeps the command inputs that veteran players spent years learning.
Denfaminicogamer, Inside, Game Spark
Toho Cinemas Sendai To Upgrade Its IMAX Screen To IMAX Laser On November 3
Sendai's IMAX auditorium is the only one in Miyagi Prefecture, so its closure for a month puts the prefecture's large-format screenings on hold until the laser projector and 12-channel sound system come online.
Cinema Today
Trash Technologies Launches NovaMine Circular Materials Brand
The launch pairs a recycled-metals brand with third-party digital certification, an attempt to make the chain from collected device to finished product checkable by manufacturers and end users rather than taken on trust.
ASCII.jp
Facilo Raises 6.4 Billion Yen In Series B, Adds Colabit To Group
The round and the Colabit acquisition show Facilo buying valuation technology rather than building it, to assemble a connected AI product line for brokerage work.
ASCII.jp
Dave the Diver Lands on iOS and Android With 1,500 Yen Launch Sale
Nexon is moving a 10-million-selling PC and console title onto phones with device-specific gimmicks and an introductory price, a test of whether the restaurant-and-dive loop survives touch controls.
4Gamer.net
Fate/EXTRA Record Demo Swaps Command Prediction for Deck Building
The remake keeps the original's read-the-enemy mind games but turns the original's six-move prediction into per-turn card and AP decisions, so the same hand can yield different lines of play depending on the Servant.
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Capcom Details Refine Update For Monster Hunter Wilds Alongside Ascendance
Capcom is shipping the convenience changes to the full player base rather than gating them behind the paid expansion, which makes the free update the part of the announcement that reaches everyone still playing the base game.
Anime News Network, Automaton, Game Spark, and 1 more
CHURA MIKU STREET 2026 Expands To Shuri Area With Round 2 Goods
Extending the event's stage from Kokusai Street into the Shuri area ties the walk-around format to the castle's restoration schedule, and the Shurijo Castle main hall opens to the general public on November 23, 2026, inside the event window.
Nijimen