Running Late Platformer Announces Steam Early Access for August 2026
The game's short early access window and planned community features suggest Unbreakable Interactive intends to use player feedback quickly before a full release.
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Forza Horizon 6 Culture Advisor Details Two Years of Japan Authenticity Work
The session reveals how a major studio built a culturally accurate Japan setting without any Japanese staff, relying on a single advisor and a research trip.
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Xbox and Ubisoft Expand Partnership With 13 Free PC Versions
The deal gives Xbox console owners of 13 Ubisoft titles free PC versions, a notable cross-platform ownership benefit that strengthens the Xbox on PC ecosystem.
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Ratatan Release Date Slips to October 2026, TVT Reveals at CEDEC
The lecture doubles as a confirmation that Ratatan's official release has slipped from its originally planned date, with the small team's cross-platform and localization workload cited as the context.
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Hie: The Dream Of A Cockspur Review: Horror Built on a Single Translated Word
The review argues that the game's horror stems not from poison but from the fear of selection, a theme encoded in the translated word 'hie' from the Parable of the Tares.
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Garfield - Escape from Monday Gameplay Footage Shows Nightmare World
The footage gives the first extended look at how the game adapts Garfield's character traits into platforming mechanics, with costume-based abilities and a customization element.
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Nintendo Reports Switch 2 Sales of 23.68 Million Units
The quarter shows a shift in Nintendo's revenue mix: hardware sales fell sharply, but software and digital sales grew, and a one-time US tariff refund of about $300 million boosted operating profit by 150.5%, masking the underlying slowdown.
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Neuroaesthetics Researcher Tomohiro Ishizu Explains Why Sad Games Feel Beautiful
Ishizu's framework offers game designers a scientific basis for crafting emotional experiences, positioning beauty as a core human need rather than a decorative extra.
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Project Sekai Adds New Songs, Creators, and The Music Style Collaboration
The announcement bundles multiple content drops, including a Jin song campaign and a Vocaloid collaboration with limited members, signaling a busy late-summer schedule for Project Sekai.
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Tekken Motion Director and Martial Artist Stage CEDEC 2026 Fighting Animation Lecture
The lecture reframes a common fighting game animation habit as a foundation problem, offering a structured design concept that separates realism from theatrical exaggeration.
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HIBOO Wins APAC Cycle 3, Takes Two Straight in The Finals Grand Major
HIBOO's back-to-back cycle wins put them atop the APAC leaderboard, setting up a tight race with KZ and DRG heading into the final cycle that decides which teams advance to the TGM Grand Final 2026 in November.
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Phantom Blade Zero Development Complete, Pre-Orders Open August 12
The completion announcement locks the October 29 release date and confirms the game will launch simultaneously on PC and console, a commitment S-GAME has maintained despite the crowded fall window.
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Riot Games Details Vanguard Revamp, Non-Resident Mode Requirements
The revamp addresses the long-standing complaint that resident anti-cheat software consumes memory and slows systems, by making Vanguard non-resident on Windows machines that meet the new hardware and security requirements.
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Game Freak Details Shared Battle System Behind Pokemon Legends Z-A
The lecture reveals how Game Freak's centralized battle team keeps a single battle logic foundation compatible with both turn-based and real-time modes, a key design decision for Pokemon Legends Z-A.
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Heaven Burns Red Media Mix Picks ASMR and Stage Over Anime
The choice of ASMR and stage over anime and manga shows a media mix planned around the game's narrative structure, not the standard adaptation path.
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Murder Mystery Writers Dissect Dialogue as Game Mechanics at CEDEC 2026
The lecture reframes player communication, often treated as an uncontrollable extra, as a core designable layer of multiplayer games, with the association's writers proposing a common structure applicable to digital games.
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Granblue Fantasy Relink Devs Detail Battle Design at CEDEC 2026
The session reveals how Cygames handled the challenge of 28 playable characters with three master styles each, using fast prototyping and a shared AI framework to keep development manageable.
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Universal Pictures Signs Deal to Adapt 10 Atari Games Into Films
The deal brings a slate of 1970s and 1980s Atari classics to film, with scripts by Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe and production by Entertainment 360.
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Nintendo of America Releases Beach Clip for Poko a Pokemon
The short clip is the first look at the Bubbly Seabed Town content, confirming the beach setting and the Pokemon that will appear there.
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Bomb Busters Designer Explains Turning Luck Into Deduction at CEDEC 2026
Hayashi's session showed how a game built on luck can be reshaped into a deduction game, a process that led to his historic Spiel des Jahres win.
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Steam Sale From Poland With Love 2026 Brings Witcher Tales and Moonlighter Discounts
The sale spotlights Polish-developed games on Steam, with deep discounts on 'Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales' and 'Moonlighter' as featured titles.
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Thrustmaster Unveils Ace Combat 8 Flight Stick With Vibration
The inclusion of vibration and a mini-stick, both requested by Bandai Namco Entertainment, shows the publisher is directly shaping peripheral design for Ace Combat 8, a level of involvement that goes beyond a standard licensed product.
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Weekly Steam Square Issue 163: Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms and Scrap Mechanic
The column spotlights Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms as a full rebuild of the popular siege combat series, adding a General Souls system and revamped territory warfare, while Scrap Mechanic offers a contrasting sandbox survival experience.
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STARCULT. Night: Twisted Age Demo Launches on Steam
The demo showcases the Emotion Palette system, which lets players shape Sylvia's personality and uncover hidden truths through repeated playthroughs, a core design of the full release.
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