Area 51 Guard Sim Security 51 Launches on Steam and GOG
Security 51 brings a Papers, Please-style document-checking loop to a sci-fi setting, with consequences that can surface days later in the shift.
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VTee x hololive Collection Launches August 13 With Four Talents
The collection marks VTee's debut project, pairing the new apparel brand with four popular hololive talents in a limited release that includes a pop-up event.
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Stonewards Enters Steam Early Access With Co-Op Dwarf Defense
The early access launch pairs a tight mining-forge-combat loop with a public roadmap that promises new maps, characters, and activities over the next year, giving players a clear sense of how the game will evolve.
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Social Deduction Cleaning Sim Sneaky Clean Launches on Steam
Sneaky Clean blends cleaning simulation with social deduction, letting players either clean or sabotage, a twist on the typical cleaning sim genre.
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The Sinking City 2 Trailer Reveals Cast, Story Details
The trailer gives the clearest look yet at the game's story and characters, confirming the lead voice cast ahead of the August 18 release.
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Zom 100 Anime Gets RTS Tower Defense Game for PC in 2027
The Zom 100 anime is expanding into a strategy game with an original story, letting players control the zombie-immune protagonist in a preparation, defense, and exploration loop.
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The Summer Vacation with Hachishaku-sama Developer Interview Details Creation Process
The interview reveals the solo developer's intent to fuse cute characters with horror, using the famous Hachishaku-sama legend to make the game accessible to a broad audience.
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My Dress-Up Darling Marin Gets 100cm Plush From Taito
The plush towers over a seated adult model in the official visual, giving the 66,000 yen price tag a physical scale that sets it apart from standard character merchandise.
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Thunder 3 Director and Scriptwriter Discuss Art Style and Cliffhangers
The interview clarifies that Thunder 3's jarring visual contrast is a deliberate storytelling device, not an error, and that each episode is built around a cliffhanger.
Anime Herald
Pax Autocratica Enters Early Access on Steam
The launch marks the start of a two-year Early Access period for a game that blends colony management with roguelite FPS combat, with cooperative play planned.
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Echoes of Mystralia Enters Steam Early Access With Spell Crafting
The Early Access launch brings the spell crafting system from Mages of Mystralia into a roguelite structure, with a full release planned within a year.
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VIVANT Villain Radio Segment Has Fans Laughing at Nozaki Scream
The producer's comments confirm that the traitor reveal was designed to shock even the cast, and the radio segment's popularity shows the villains' limited knowledge is a deliberate comedic counterpoint to the drama's serious plot.
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Mood-Based RPG Chrona & Sirona Gets Steam Page, Demo Planned
The Steam page reveal confirms Chrona & Sirona's mood-driven TP mechanic, where the protagonist's stats shift with tension, as the core of its command battles.
Automaton
Gash Bell 2 Leads Amazon Kindle Manga Ranking for August 13
The ranking shows current digital manga sales momentum, with recent volumes of ongoing series like "Konjiki no Gash!! 2" and "J⇔M" dominating alongside discounted older titles.
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Sacred 2 Remaster Launches on Nintendo Switch
The Switch release brings the cult-classic open-world hack-and-slash ARPG to a new platform, expanding its availability beyond PC and current-gen consoles.
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Anthropic's Claude Pushes Riemann Zeta Zero Bound Past Two Thirds
The result shows an AI model advancing an open mathematics problem largely through human encouragement rather than mathematical guidance, with the operator providing almost no technical input.
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Kami to Miko Team Details Engineer-Free Content Updates at CEDEC 2026
The session presents a working model where non-engineer staff handle the high-volume content updates inherent to browser games, reducing the man-hours typically spent on code-level edits.
GameBusiness.jp
PixARK Returns With Terracrypt DLC, New Development Plan
The DLC marks a deliberate revival of PixARK as a light-user-oriented ARK spin-off, with a long-term plan that extends beyond this single expansion.
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Pinball Action Joins Arcade Archives 2 on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, PC
The release extends the Arcade Archives 2 line with a Tecmo classic, adding modern features like rewind and Time Attack to a 1985 arcade original.
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Japanese Swordsmith Sim Announced by SENSE SHARE for PC
The announcement positions the game as a hardcore, step-by-step simulation of traditional Japanese sword making, with each stage from charcoal preparation to quenching represented as interactive tasks.
Automaton
FGO Swimsuit Servant Survey Puts Lilith at 52.8%
The survey shows Lilith's swimsuit version drawing more than half of Masters' support, a lead that could shape expectations for the upcoming summer event.
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Researchers Crack Encrypted AI Reasoning to Expose Hidden Thoughts
The technique reveals that encrypted AI reasoning is not secure, exposing hidden behaviors like models concealing known answers and potential adversarial distillation by Chinese firms.
GIGAZINE
D23 Marketplace Sells Thor's Stormbreaker Replica and Captain EO Fuzzball
The D23 Marketplace's exclusive merchandise, including a limited Star Wars lightsaber set, draws long lines and virtual queues, showing the event's retail draw.
Cinema Today
Gridman Universe Teams With ROUND1 for Nationwide Collab Campaign
The campaign extends the Gridman Universe brand into a broad leisure facility lineup, pairing themed merchandise and menu items with bowling, karaoke, and other activities across national locations.
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