gumi Posts 2 Billion Yen Ordinary Loss After Crypto Impairment
games 1 sources · Sep 11

gumi Posts 2 Billion Yen Ordinary Loss After Crypto Impairment

gumi's flagship game missed its own targets and the crypto write-down landed on the same quarter, so the recovery it now describes rests on a KLab co-developed title released August 6 and an OraDora anniversary campaign, with no full-year forecast on the table.

GameBusiness.jp
IZUTSUYA 3DGS Channel Passes 100,000 Subscribers
industry 1 sources · Sep 11

IZUTSUYA 3DGS Channel Passes 100,000 Subscribers

A scanning technology company reaching six figures on YouTube with a mostly overseas audience suggests its production demos, not marketing copy, are what carry the reach.

ASCII.jp
MOCHITEC AI Dept Manager Ryo Ueda Picked For Snowflake Squad 2026
other 1 sources · Sep 11

MOCHITEC AI Dept Manager Ryo Ueda Picked For Snowflake Squad 2026

A program that weighs blogging and community support alongside technical skill puts a Japanese AX firm's data-side work into Snowflake's ecosystem conversation, which matters for a company selling AI Ready infrastructure design to its clients.

ASCII.jp
Kadokawa Releases Genshin Impact Illustration Collection Vol.3
games 1 sources · Sep 11

Kadokawa Releases Genshin Impact Illustration Collection Vol.3

A third Kadokawa art book for Genshin Impact, sold through Amazon, Rakuten Books, and ebten with a goods-bundled variant, shows the title's merchandise line still running on a volume cadence well after launch.

Denfaminicogamer
Black Forest Labs Adds Region-Specific Editing to FLUX Video Edit
other 1 sources · Sep 11

Black Forest Labs Adds Region-Specific Editing to FLUX Video Edit

Black Forest Labs is positioning targeted, partial-frame video editing as a cheaper API tool than the generative video services it competes with, which points to editing rather than generation as the next sellable layer in this market.

GIGAZINE
RED DUNES GAMES Taps KENKI and MAO for TGS2026 Booth Play
games 1 sources · Sep 11

RED DUNES GAMES Taps KENKI and MAO for TGS2026 Booth Play

For a publisher that already set up a joint development project with Acquire, putting Japanese streamers on the booth is the marketing half of the same Japan strategy, and the first concrete test of whether influencer reach substitutes for a domestic publishing arm.

GameBusiness.jp
EX Gamers And ROUND1 Launch Collaboration Campaign
vtuber 1 sources · Sep 11

EX Gamers And ROUND1 Launch Collaboration Campaign

The campaign puts a NIJISANJI VTuber unit into ROUND1's store network rather than a dedicated venue, using menus, packs, stamp rallies, and bowling score monitors to carry the seven members across 20 locations.

Nijimen
Akira Yamaoka Talks Horror Design With Tarsier Studios
games 2 sources · Sep 11

Akira Yamaoka Talks Horror Design With Tarsier Studios

The talk puts Yamaoka's sound-first horror method next to Tarsier's own approach to unpredictable design, and REANIMAL's 78 percent Very Positive rating across 13,486 Steam reviews gives that method a measurable result.

Game Spark
Minecraft Reveals Wilderness Bound Game Drop for September 16
games 1 sources · Sep 11

Minecraft Reveals Wilderness Bound Game Drop for September 16

Wilderness Bound keeps Minecraft's update cadence on a dated release rather than a teased window, and the Dappled Forest plus Poplar wood set gives builders a biome and material palette the game has not shipped before.

4Gamer.net
LEGO Star Wars/The Mandalorian Special Is Streaming Only On Disney+
anime 1 sources · Sep 11

LEGO Star Wars/The Mandalorian Special Is Streaming Only On Disney+

With one 49-minute special carrying a single subscription window and being absent from DMM TV, U-NEXT, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, d Anime Store, Hulu, Lemino, FOD, ABEMA, TELASA, and TSUTAYA DISCAS, Disney+ is the sole route to the title, and the article frames that as the case for subscribing.

Anime Anime
BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita Ends Its Run As Fans Thank The Project
anime 1 sources · Sep 11

BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita Ends Its Run As Fans Thank The Project

The finale lands with the franchise already committed to an Ave Mujica film in fall 2026, a sequel TV anime in January 2027, and a new mobile game, so Yume∞Mita closes as one piece of a schedule that keeps running rather than as an ending for the project.

Anime Anime
ToHeart's Multi Sensor Unit Becomes a Wearable Product
games 1 sources · Sep 11

ToHeart's Multi Sensor Unit Becomes a Wearable Product

The item is positioned inside the fiction rather than alongside it, with a manufacturing request routed through Kurusugawa Electronics, the in-world company that built Multi, so the merchandise doubles as worldbuilding for a 1997 visual novel that already returned as a 2025 3D remake.

Dengeki Hobby Web
Urusei Yatsura New Edition Leads Amazon Manga Weekend Festival
manga 1 sources · Sep 11

Urusei Yatsura New Edition Leads Amazon Manga Weekend Festival

The sale pushes a complete 34-volume run whose print edition carries a 34-artist Lum gallery that the digital version does not, so the point-back price and the format choice are the two decisions the promotion actually puts in front of a buyer.

ASCII.jp
Vspo GG Travel Edition Heads To GALLERIA Booth At Tokyo Game Show 2026
vtuber 2 sources · Sep 11

Vspo GG Travel Edition Heads To GALLERIA Booth At Tokyo Game Show 2026

The booking puts a VTuber agency program on the same booth calendar as the hardware brand's esports stages, with Riot Games attached to the VALORANT session, so the collaboration runs through publisher and sponsor channels rather than the agency alone.

PANORA