Osaka Indie Games Summit Returns With Over 20 Picks From Shuhei Yoshida
An event 4Gamer and Yoshida both assumed was already covered turned out to hold a slate neither had seen, which says the Osaka indie calendar is producing titles the Tokyo circuit has not absorbed.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
The second OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT ran on October 3 and 4, 2026 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka, organized by Phoenixx. Shuhei Yoshida, the former president of SIE Worldwide Studios, sat for an interview and named more than 20 titles, including an action game whose abilities decrease on each clear, a VR game, and a cow flying at 1000 km/h. Roughly half the exhibited titles had not been covered by 4Gamer before the trip.
The event ran two days at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka, put on by Phoenixx as its second holding. Before the trip, 4Gamer's editors built a list of which exhibited titles the outlet had and had not covered. About half fell in the second column, which the interviewer had not expected after BitSummit and Tokyo Game Show. Yoshida said on site that he had underestimated it the same way.
He named more than 20 titles in the conversation, among them an action game whose abilities decrease each time you clear it and a VR game involving licking a girl's legs. The talk later moved to publisher and creator dynamics in the indie scene and why he stopped initiatives from his SIE years.
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