games 2 sources · Sep 15
A card game that only reached Japanese players through study groups and events now has a retail listing, widening who can pick up AWS architecture basics outside a certification track.
Automaton
figures 2 sources · Sep 15
Sanrio character licensing keeps moving into higher-priced fashion accessories, and this set puts Pompompurin inside ANNA SUI's own design vocabulary rather than the usual goods treatment.
Anime Anime
games 1 sources · Sep 15
The release shows a small, deliberately abrasive premise turned into a sellable Steam product, priced and discounted on the same storefront rhythm as any conventional indie launch.
Game Spark
games 2 sources · Sep 15
Producer and director Kota Terada says the game is an experiment in whether a hybrid casual model, free to play with gacha and ad support, can work in Japan, and he has said he would like to release it within the year if the beta response allows.
4Gamer.net, Inside
games 1 sources · Sep 15
Epic Games Japan's technical staff are walking developers through the parts of Unreal Engine mobile work that decide whether a shipped game holds up in live operations, and Lore is presented while it is already the built-in version control system for Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
GameBusiness.jp
games 4 sources · Sep 15
The move to a two-day business and public split at a science facility in Koenji keeps the festival inside the neighborhood where it started, and the 12,978 attendance figure for the previous edition is the number that will define what success looks like for the fifth.
4Gamer.net, ASCII.jp, Game Spark
other 1 sources · Sep 15
An exhibition at a gallery run by Takashi Murakami puts 30 years of promotional and title design on the wall in its own right, at a point when the studio that makes the key visual, logo, and trailer is usually the least visible party to a release.
KAI-YOU
games 4 sources · Sep 15
The four-unit swap system targets specific control schemes in Hamster's Arcade Archives catalog, a set of inputs that off-the-shelf arcade sticks do not cover.
GAME Watch (Impress), 4Gamer.net, Automaton, and 1 more
games 2 sources · Sep 15
Nintendo's own disclosure puts a proximity-reading risk on two ordinary Switch features, and the fix already shipped on September 10, so the remaining exposure sits with anyone who has not updated.
GAME Watch (Impress)
figures 1 sources · Sep 15
A six-type random assortment at 1,100 yen each turns a fixed set of Universal Century icons into a keychain gacha, which is how this merchandise line reaches buyers who want a small piece of the franchise rather than a scale model.
Anime Anime
games 2 sources · Sep 15
Xbox has confirmed that its own anti-fraud enforcement locked out paying Japanese users, which puts the burden of vetting code sellers on buyers the company has now told to stick to authorized retailers.
Game Spark
games 1 sources · Sep 15
A small publisher-backed adventure built on a single walk through a hand-drawn city, where the only interactive figures are the ones in trouble, tests whether curiosity about incidental detail can carry a game on its own.
Game Spark
games 1 sources · Sep 15
The pitch reads less like a novelty and more like an engineer applying factory-robot and measurement work to the childcare problem dual-income households face, which is why the simulation's failure states are the babies themselves rather than the machines.
4Gamer.net
vtuber 3 sources · Sep 15
The cancellation, announced two days after the project was revealed, shows that a merchandise collaboration can be withdrawn entirely when a creator and the people around her face violent threats.
KAI-YOU, MoguLive, PANORA
anime 1 sources · Sep 15
Kadowaki's account puts the film's festival attention on a specific method rather than a premise: a story assembled backward from one mid-film turn, with emotion paced like a roller coaster.
Anime Anime
other 1 sources · Sep 15
Two parks split the season between a villains-led parade at Tokyo Disneyland and a Coco-themed expansion at Tokyo DisneySea, which is where the event's growth is this year.
Anime Anime
games 1 sources · Sep 15
The demos put nine titles from G4's domestic publisher and overseas dispatch programs in front of an audience three weeks after the developers returned from Game Habitat, which is the point at which the program's support either turns into contacts or does not.
GameBusiness.jp
figures 1 sources · Sep 15
Evangelion Racing's cars have run in Japanese competition series without a mass retail miniature line until now, and putting the Unit-01 and Unit-02 Silvia into Tomica hands the livery to collectors who never see the cars at a circuit.
Dengeki Hobby Web
anime 1 sources · Sep 15
Sanrio is building a preschool audience directly rather than through licensed placements, and pairing the channel with an English-learning line aimed at children from age 0 through elementary school.
KAI-YOU
games 1 sources · Sep 15
The demo and the follow-up Steam closed beta give Yaneura Games two separate rounds of player feedback before a release date is set for a title that still has none.
Denfaminicogamer
games 1 sources · Sep 15
The spread across versions is narrow and the reviews agree on what the game is, so the scores read as a settled verdict on a well-liked genre entry rather than a divided one.
Game Spark
figures 1 sources · Sep 15
The figure turns Rella's concert key visual into the merch line tied to the Symphony performances, at 55,000 yen, a price point aimed at the collectors who already follow that concert series.
Dengeki Hobby Web
other 1 sources · Sep 15
A 2003 Korean cult film reaching Japanese general theaters for the first time through a 4K restoration shows that the theatrical rerelease circuit is now willing to treat older Asian genre pictures as repertory events rather than catalog titles.
Cinema Today
other 1 sources · Sep 15
A media-run commerce site clearing 700 million yen on a single keyboard project shows how much reach GIZMART's editorial-led crowdfunding model now carries with Japanese gadget buyers.
ASCII.jp