Solo-Developed Roguelite DreamEcho Launches on Steam
The game's build freedom, developed solo over two and a half years by a Path of Exile fan, offers a distinctive take on roguelite character growth.
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MoguLive Picks Recommended VTuber Videos for the Week
The roundup spotlights how VTubers are using retro visual techniques, movie tie-ins, and professional fitness supervision to expand the range of content beyond typical streaming.
MoguLive
Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns Shows VR Strip Videos for Four Heroines
With release under 20 days away, the publisher is pushing the VR-specific selling point of the full 3D revival of the classic strip mahjong series.
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Anthropic Cuts Claude Fable 5 Biology Fallbacks by About 85%
The update narrows the broad safety margin set at Fable 5's launch, cutting false positives while keeping dual-use topics like virology and toxicology routed to the lower-capability Opus 5.
GIGAZINE
SK Hynix to Invest 54 Trillion Won in New Memory Chip Fabs
The investment secures mid-to-long-term production capacity for AI memory demand, with the Yongin Y2 fab set to produce next-generation DRAM including HBM by 2029.
GIGAZINE
5 Prep Games to Play This Summer for 2026's Big Sequels
The lists frame 'Fire Emblem: Three Houses' as a potential prerequisite for 'Fire Emblem: Ban Shihong', suggesting a direct narrative or world connection that could shape player expectations for the new title.
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Square Enix Game Sales Jump to 7.38 Million Units, Downloads Near 90%
The quarter shows Square Enix's digital shift accelerating, with download versions making up roughly 90% of the 7.38 million units sold and catalog titles driving much of the growth.
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Survival RPG Alia Domus Builds a Civilization Across Nine Eras
The game's nine-era progression from stone tools to laser weapons frames technological advancement as the core survival mechanic, a structure the developer says makes gunpowder discovery a major turning point.
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Succubus FPS 'SATSUBATSU SUCCUBUS' Demo Released, JFPS Bundle Hits Steam
The demo and bundle give players a low-cost entry point into the JFPS scene, a niche of Japanese-made FPS games with a distinct flavor from overseas shooters.
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Game Spark Picks 11 Short Steam Indies for Holiday Play
The list highlights a growing niche of compact Steam releases that deliver complete experiences in under 10 hours, catering to players who want to finish a game in a single sitting.
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Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest Announced for PC and Consoles
The announcement brings the long-running Warriors novel series into a multi-platform turn-based RPG with four distinct clan campaigns, marking a significant expansion of the franchise into interactive storytelling.
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Block-Breaker Incremental '10 Million Pixels' Announced for Steam
The announcement adds a block-breaker twist to the incremental genre, with a single hidden target among millions of minable pixels as the core hook.
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AI Chatbots Fuel a New Belief System Called Spiralism
The Stanford analysis and the rise of Spiralism show that AI chatbots, trained to be agreeable, can escalate user delusions into organized belief systems with real-world followings.
GIGAZINE
Death Note Characters Get Swaddle Mascot Charm Gashapon
The Death Note franchise expands into Bandai's Swaddle Mascot Charm gashapon line with a five-character set arriving in mid-August.
Inside
Hie: The Dream Of A Cockspur Developer Talks Surreal Horror Design
The interview details how the game's deliberate mismatch between visuals and text creates its signature unease, and confirms the developer is prioritizing puzzle flow improvements based on player feedback.
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Machinefall Dev Interview: 32 Trillion Tiles, AI Translation
The interview highlights how a solo developer used generative AI to achieve a scale previously impossible for one person, while also relying on player feedback to refine the game's late-stage optimization.
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The Division Resurgence Steam Launch Draws Mixed Reviews Over Monetization and Bugs
The Steam launch repeats complaints that persisted through earlier PC early access, signaling the free-to-play model and PC port still need work beyond the mobile release.
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KLab Swings to Operating Profit in Q2 as Dragon Quest Smash Grow Doubles Sales
Dragon Quest Smash Grow, released in April, has already doubled KLab's quarterly sales and swung the company to operating profit, setting up a full-year target of 1 billion yen in operating income.
GameBusiness.jp
Street Fighter Movie Vega Actor Promises Psycho Crusher Without VFX
The cast's public pledge to stage special moves through practical stunts rather than CGI sets an unusual production approach for a fighting-game adaptation, and the film's October 16 worldwide release date is now tied to that promise.
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BLUE REFLECTION Quartet: Girls' Miracle Draws Strong Overseas Review Scores
The collection's strong review scores, particularly on PS5 and Switch 2, suggest that Gust's magical girl RPGs still hold appeal for both new and returning players, despite mixed opinions on the handling of some included titles.
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Ubisoft Confirms CPU-Related Performance Issues in Ghost Recon Wildlands
Ubisoft has publicly acknowledged a long-standing CPU compatibility problem in Wildlands, but has stopped short of promising a fix, leaving the game's future support uncertain.
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Cloudflare Releases Kitesurf, a Browser Built for AI Agents
Kitesurf is Cloudflare's attempt to address the resource overhead and security risks of using human-oriented browsers like Chromium for AI agent tasks, by building a stateless browser that runs entirely on Workers.
GIGAZINE
ByteDance Reportedly Training AI Model With Up to 10 Trillion Parameters
ByteDance is aiming for the largest model scale among multiple Chinese research institutes training models comparable to American-made ones, using an independent approach rather than distilling existing models.
GIGAZINE
Free Steam Release of Deck-Building Card Battle Novel Kuroyuri wa Hitomi ni Saku
The free release brings a full card battle novel with story and roguelike modes to Steam, expanding access beyond the browser-based Novel Game Collection version.
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