Matt Mullenweg Returns as Automattic CEO Two Days After Board Placed Him on Leave
The reversal leaves Mullenweg in charge of both Automattic and the open-source WordPress project, after he publicly disputed how the board moved against him.
GIGAZINE
Shogun Season 2 Wraps Filming In Vancouver
The wrap locks the production into post, and the name-heavy cast list Marks' post sits behind shows how much of the show's Japan-side weight now rests on a returning ensemble plus a new intake of established Japanese actors.
Cinema Today
War of Genesis: Idle Loot Hits 25,000 Concurrent Players Four Days Into Early Access
The concurrent-player climb shows an idle desktop game with Steam Market trading and alliance raids finding an audience before its review score has settled, which is the unusual part: the market economy is doing the retaining, not the reviews.
Automaton
Belfine To Release TANKHEAD TYPE 33 HEIKEGANI Plastic Model Kit In April 2027
The kit turns Tung's Japan-facing mecha design into a model with a design credit and a box art credit from the original artist, so the release reaches the hobby side of a project that started as a concept-art world.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Otomate Announces Three Titles, Including Hakuoki Switch 2 Bundle
Otomate's 20th anniversary slate leans on the Hakuoki back catalog for its Switch 2 entry while adding one new romance adventure, so its anniversary year is built on a bundled rerelease plus two new titles.
Denfaminicogamer
INSOMNIA Sets INS×LAB Talk Session And Fan Meeting At Tokyo Game Show 2026
For a club founded in January 2024, INSOMNIA is using a Tokyo Game Show booth to present its university research project and its player roster as one package, rather than treating the booth as a merchandise or recruitment showcase.
ASCII.jp
Apple Arcade Adds Draw It+, A Drawing Game Where Speed Beats Skill
The game's scoring runs on whether the Keeper recognizes a drawing fast, so winning depends on economical strokes rather than artistic ability, which is what separates it from other drawing-based titles in the service.
4Gamer.net
Nintendo Direct Leads Weekly 4Gamer Roundup
The week's traffic consolidated around hardware-adjacent announcements and Direct season, while the industry's two biggest fan events sit days apart on the calendar.
4Gamer.net
Idolm@ster SideM Gets Film for November 20 and Switch Console Game
The SideM branch has been without a running game since Growing Stars ended service on July 31, 2023, so a film and a console title give the 315 Production roster its first new platforms in years.
Anime News Network
Bandai Namco Opens SideM Console Game Project For Switch And Switch 2
SideM's two previous games, Live ON ST@GE! and GROWING STARS, have already ended service, so this is the brand's return to games as a title of its own rather than a crossover appearance.
4Gamer.net, Automaton, Anime Anime
BanG Dream! Our Notes Ships with 100 Band Story Chapters at Launch
The launch build is stocked as a series on-ramp, with the 284 chapters at release aimed at readers who never caught up rather than at the existing fanbase alone.
Denfaminicogamer
Arc System Works Opens Pre-Orders For Demon's Night Fever Ahead Of October 22 Launch
The pre-order push shows a publisher leaning on recognizable Disgaea and Etrian Odyssey credits and a syudou theme song to sell a deliberately hostile premise, in which the core growth loop requires killing your own units, a system the sources call the Minion Abuse System.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
Overflow Sets Summer Days Remaster For December 18
The remaster follows Overflow's School Days remaster and lands in the same December slot, extending a piecemeal return of the franchise's back catalogue on PC rather than a new entry.
Automaton
NHK Rebroadcasts Symphonic Gamers 5 Concert on September 20
A rerun slot on NHK BS gives a concert built around game scores a second national airing, and the two-person MC lineup puts a game director and a voice actress in front of an orchestra program rather than a host from music television.
Denfaminicogamer
Idea Factory Announces Two Otomate Party 2026 Titles
The CharadeManiacs fan disc moves from a December 2025 announcement to a named product with defined content, while Ayashiki Togenkyo no Arias arrives with its cast and key visual already in place.
4Gamer.net
Dragon Quest Island POP UP Caravan Heads To Toyohama SA For First Expressway Run
The caravan moves Dragon Quest Island's merchandise out of Nijigen no Mori and onto highway rest stops, with three further service-area dates already set through June 2027.
Nijimen
G-Mode Details The Portopia Serial Murder Case Continued After Nintendo Direct Reveal
G-Mode is applying the remake-plus-new-story structure it used on Murder on the Okhotsk to a second historic adventure title, and Takeshita credits that earlier release's reception with making the Portopia project viable.
Game Spark
Otomate Opens Advance Lottery for 9 R.I.P. Sequel Event
By tying the advance lottery to Otomate Party 2026 attendance through a QR code on the entrance flyer, Otomate routes the first shot at 9 R.I.P. sequel tickets through its own flagship event rather than a general sale, which does not open until October 17.
Nijimen
SuperGroupies Unveils Bocchi the Rock! Kikuri Sukajan And Kessoku Band Jacket, Boots
The collaboration moves Bocchi the Rock! merchandise from the band's own iconography to a named supporting character's wardrobe, and SuperGroupies is placing it through Animate and Gamers storefronts rather than a music or apparel-only channel.
Anime Anime
Aetas Sets September 19 Release for Shine Post TINGS Plush Keychains
The merchandise and the Tokyo Game Show stage land on the same day, timed to the weekend of Shine Post BRiGHT STARS FESTIVAL 2026, so Aetas is routing the project's concert momentum into retail and a live-streamed booth event rather than treating the plush line as a standalone product drop.
4Gamer.net
#I'm Looking For Zombie Anime Sets October 3 Debut, Names Theme Songs
The trailer locks the broadcast slot and confirms Studio Comet and director Shinya Une, which puts the adaptation on a fixed production track ahead of its October 3 premiere.
Anime News Network
Taito Sets Yūkyū Gensōkyoku 2nd Album Revival For Switch On March 18, 2027
The remake keeps the 1998 voice tracks and brings back the original designer and Saturn theme composer, so Taito is selling restoration rather than reinvention for lapsed players of the Enfield setting.
Game Spark
Abema Anime Matsuri 2026 Reveals Goods, Food, and Stage Lineup
The goods and food details arriving days before the September 19 opening, alongside a five-day public broadcast that starts September 14, show the event spreading a two-day festival across multiple Shibuya venues and a full week of programming.
Nijimen
Doloc Town Leaves Early Access With 80,000 Copies Sold in Two Weeks
Doloc Town is the quiet version of Early Access: a game that sat in it since 2024, shipped updates instead of a second launch, and still cleared 80,000 copies in two weeks without a marketing push behind it.
Game Spark