Reservations for the Yuru Camp Season 3 Blu-ray box opened on October 8 at 17:00 on Furyu Hobby Mall, the hobby e-commerce site run by Furyu Corporation. The set includes a walnut three-sided sleeve box with new artwork by original creator Afro, a roughly 100-page all-color booklet, about 275 minutes of video bonuses, and an advance ticket application for the Yuru Camp Music Festival 2027.
Tickets for "Lilia Game Music Selection vol.3 Kenji Ito with Tsutomu Narita" went on general sale on October 10, 2026 at 10:00. The concert is set for March 13, 2027 at Kawaguchi General Culture Center Lilia in Saitama Prefecture, with doors at 13:30 and the performance at 14:00. All reserved seats are 8,000 yen. Tsutomu Narita joins Kenji Ito as guest, both on piano.
D3 Publisher announced on October 9, 2026 that it is developing Girls und Panzer: All-Star Tank Carnival, a Sensha-do action game for the Nintendo Switch 2. The release window is sometime in 2027, and the price is undecided. Staff who worked on Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match, which launched for the PlayStation 4 in February 2018 and later on the Switch, are participating in development. The game keeps the drifting tank action from that title while improving graphics and presentation. Players operate tanks in matches and can explore a recreation of Oarai alongside protagonist Miho Nishizumi, walking the town or driving the Panzer IV. Talking to friends in various locations triggers game-original quests that lead into matches. Online battles support up to 10 participants, with players choosing their own tank and crew combination. A trailer is streaming. The announcement came alongside a separate smartphone game from G Holdings titled Girls und Panzer: Bokosuka Rush.
Kaiyodo is releasing a Revoltech Amazing Yamaguchi figure of Momiji in her battle suit from Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge. The figure has joints in the thighs and calves for action poses, an eye movement feature in the face, and includes her Dragon Shrine Maiden Naginata, the Heavenly Song Bow, a flame effect for the arrowhead, and a kunai. Preorders are open at AmiAmi and other retailers at 12,100 yen, with release set for June 2027.
Undead Labs has left the Xbox umbrella through a management buyout after a sale to a new owner did not go through. Studio head Philip Holt told The Game Business that layoffs announced on September 23 mean State of Decay 3 needs changes, but the game is already at the alpha stage and does not require a major scale-down. Virtuos, Wushu and Blind Squirrel are supporting co-development. Full-scale production began around 2022-2023.
The Yumeshima New Industry and Urban Creation Organization is running an art exhibition at Sennyu-ji, the head temple of the Shingon sect Sennyu-ji school, from October 9 to 15, 2026, with doors open 9:00 to 16:30 and the final day ending in the morning. Held under the theme "Innovation" in the Shueisho assembly hall, it features five artists: Maki Oi, Taishi Hatayama, Naoko Murata, Ko Taniguchi, and Moe Ishibashi.
BANDAI SPIRITS announced new Macross products. From Macross Delta, the Chuck Mustang and Arad Melders versions of the VF-31AX Kairos Plus are confirmed for release in the DX Chogokin line, which features internal mechanical reproduction and sound gimmicks. A Hayate Immelman version is in planning as a Macross Delta 10th anniversary edition. From Macross Frontier, a new completed VF-25 Messiah Valkyrie line was announced.
BenQ exhibited its MOBIUZ gaming monitor brand at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held from September 17, under a museum concept split into four themed areas. The first area let visitors compare the standard sRGB setting against the Fantasy mode on identical monitors using AION2 demo footage. A second area introduced Game Art Color HDR, a new BenQ feature with Clear, Balanced and Rich settings. The third area ran playable demos and video of Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember and Pragmata, each set to a BenQ-recommended color mode. The fourth area showed new WQHD monitors: the EX271QZ at up to 500Hz, the EX271QMZ at 240Hz, the IPS EX271QM at 320Hz and the entry-class EX271QP at 260Hz. The EX321UZ and EX271UZ, both 4K quantum dot OLED at 240Hz, appeared in the first two areas.
Bandai's candy toy line SO-DO CHRONICLE is adding a two-figure set of Kamen Rider G4 and Kamen Rider G3 Mild, tied to the 20th anniversary of the theatrical film Kamen Rider Agito PROJECT G4. Preorders open on Premium Bandai at 13:00 on Friday, October 9, 2026, priced at 7,260 yen including tax, with shipping scheduled for April 2027. The set includes a soda-flavor gum piece and a pedestal with the MPD SAUL logo.
Team17 announced The Escapists 3 during The Triple-i Initiative October 2026 showcase, which streamed on October 9. The prison escape simulation is planned for release in 2027 on PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The series moves from pixel art to a comical 3D style, and the game supports up to four players in co-op. Players live as an inmate and build an escape route by studying guard schedules, crafting items, digging tunnels, and finding secret passages. The game has more than 120 items and weapons that can be looted or crafted, and almost all of them can become parts of an escape plan. Inside the prison, players can search cells, make deals with other inmates, and take on jobs to obtain supplies. The announcement trailer showed escapes through ducts, tunnels, and a fence cut with wire cutters, plus a parachute jump from the rooftop as guards and searchlights gave chase.
A jailbreak tool called PS5 Relapse Exploit supports PlayStation 5 firmware versions 7.00 to 13.60, which includes version 13.60 released in July 2026. That range covers consoles currently on the market as long as updates are not applied. A second tool, PS5CEMU-HAR, runs Wii U and 3DS software on the PS5, with reports of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running there. Both are published on GitHub.
At The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture festival at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo, Katsura Hashino, Shigenori Soejima, and Shoji Meguro spoke on September 22, 2026 about Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. Hashino said Atlus handed the halted series to the team with the warning that it might be the last one, a do-or-die situation that shaped Persona 3.
Kura Sushi and lifestyle goods store 3COINS, operated by Pal, announced a collaboration on October 8. Sales start October 16 at Kura Sushi and 3COINS locations nationwide, and the special website lists nine items. At 3COINS stores, the lineup includes the assembly kit Bikkura Pon! at Home for 1,320 yen, which comes with one main unit, one capsule holding a Freshness-kun figure in 8 types (7 regular and 1 rare), nine empty capsules for 10 total, and 20 memo sheets. Online orders of that item are limited to one of each color per transaction. Other goods include Conveyor-Belt Sushi at Home at 3,080 yen, Paper Plates and Paper Cups at 550 yen, Takeout Eco Bags in S at 880 yen, M at 1,100 yen, and L at 1,320 yen, a Menu Clear File at 330 yen, a Menu Zip Bag at 660 yen, and Nail Tips at 880 yen. At Kura Sushi restaurants, a Soy Milk Green Smoothie is 300 yen and comes with a collaboration sticker.
Microsoft detailed nine titles for Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass between October 8 and October 16, 2026, seven of them day-one releases. Echo Weaver and Annapurna Interactive's Forever Ago arrive October 8, Deep Dish Dungeon on October 13, alongside Valor Mortis, Bluey's Happy Snap, Chained Beasts and Beyond These Stars. Battlefield 6 joins through EA Play and Neon Abyss 2 hits its official release.
A comment asking to bring back 3D Pinball appeared in Microsoft's Inside Windows video, drawing a response from Windows & Devices EVP Pavan Davuluri and CVP of Design and Research Marcus Ash. Davuluri said Windows has a history of in-box games and that 3D Pinball will be added to the consideration matrix. The game was bundled with Windows through Windows XP and removed after a 64-bit port produced a bug.
Gashapon Online will take pre-orders for Mobile Suit Gundam Gundam Head Mejirushi Accessory 3 from October 8 at 11:00, priced at 400 yen per play with shipping around late January 2027. The third volume in the head-shaped marker series draws its six designs from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM: Strike Freedom Gundam Type II, Black Knight Squad Carla, Infinite Justice Gundam Type II, Z'Gok (SEED FREEDOM Ver.), Destiny Gundam Spec II, and Akatsuki.
Paradox Interactive released Transport Fever 3 on September 30. In a roundtable interview, Urban Games publishing manager Nico Heini and Artdink director Junaki Ono with producer Takayuki Kiyomichi discussed both railway management sims. Urban Games is a Swiss studio founded by two brothers; Artdink marks 40 years, and its A-Train 9 PRIME LINE is set for Steam on December 10.
The METAL ROBOT Spirits <SIDE MS> Black Knight Squad Carla from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM is open for pre-orders on Tamashii Web at 26,400 yen including tax, with shipping set for April 2027. The figure stands about 145mm tall, uses ABS, PVC and die-cast, and reproduces the film's coloring and gold plating. Chest armor movement deploys the Super High Impulse Cannon Adro Onji.
The 2016 compilation film Assassination Classroom: 365 Days' Time is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, U-NEXT, d Anime Store and FOD, all as subscription titles. DMM TV and TELASA carry it as a rental, and TSUTAYA DISCAS offers it as a DVD home rental. No streaming availability was confirmed on Lemino, Hulu, Netflix, Disney+ or TVer. The film runs 1 hour 32 minutes and adds an original episode set seven years after graduation.
Bandai Spirits will release the ROBOT Spirits <SIDE LABOR> Griffon (Twin Unit Equipment) figure in March 2027 for 13,200 yen including tax, with reservations opening October 1, 2026. The Griffon, the rival machine to Shaft Enterprises' AV-98 Ingram, ships with a flight unit backpack, newly sculpted Aqua Unit backpack parts, and the damaged head of Ingram Unit 2, the part that recreates the Harumi Incident.
The two-hour Detective Conan special "30-gou Satsujin Jiken" aired on Friday Road Show on September 25, 2026, and Netflix began streaming it exclusively after the broadcast. The episode follows a murder case that begins with counterfeit new 10,000-yen bills, and Conan, Heiji Hattori and police from across the country work it together. Other major services in Japan do not carry it.
The 30th anniversary Detective Conan TV special "Case 30" aired on Nippon TV's Friday Road Show on September 25, drawing live viewers and a wave of social media reaction. The two-hour original story about counterfeit new banknotes assembles detectives, police, Public Security, and FBI. Fans celebrated returns including Toru Amuro, Shuichi Akai, Heiji Hattori, Kazuha Toyama, and the anime-only forensic officer Tome.
The capsule collection BEFORE DAWN pairs the Atlassian Williams F1 Team with Initial D Legend3 -Mugen-. It lists 14 items: jackets, hoodies, T-shirts, pin badges, keychains, bottles, and a mechanical watch. Prices run from 3,200 yen to 111,900 yen. Sales started September 21, 2026 on the Sector Zero member platform. Shipping begins in late November, with the PROJECT D AUTOMATIC WATCH alone set for late February 2027.
Strata is an app that runs a quantized version of the 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer gaming PCs. The repository lists requirements of an NVIDIA or AMD GPU with 12GB or more of VRAM, 32GB or more of RAM, 80GB or more of storage, and Windows 10/11 or Linux. Reported runs hit 94 tokens/second on an RTX 5070 with 64GB RAM, but the 2-bit quantized build produced looping output in one prompt.
360Channel Inc., a Colopl Group company based in Tokyo, handled the planning, production, and direction of an interactive information character named Sakimai Ichika for SIX WAKE ROPPONGI, a boat racing information hub in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. The character appears at the facility starting Thursday, October 1, 2026. Illustrator lack designed the character, whose visuals are entirely newly drawn, with no generative AI used in the CG conversion. Sakimai Ichika runs on a conversational AI system and is set as a rookie announcer who publicizes boat racing from the facility. She answers questions about boat racing, introduces racers, handles everyday conversation, and supports commemorative photos. Her backstory describes a serious hard worker whose enthusiasm sometimes causes stumbles, and whose goal is to handle commentary for an SG (Special Grade) race. The stated aims are improving visitor satisfaction at SIX WAKE ROPPONGI and communicating boat racing's appeal to new fans.
Publisher Galactic Crows has announced VCR83, a psychological horror game developed by Tarba Paul Cornel, with a demo now available on Steam. Players work as a security camera monitor who watches real-time feeds and clicks on anomalies that should not be there. Correct reports earn tokens that unlock new levels and move the story forward. Clearing each level also opens an epilogue of about 3 to 5 minutes in which the player returns to the site after the shift ends and checks what happened once the recording stopped. A virtual assistant named Pete supports the player, answering questions, singing, and growing more interested in the player over time. The game is set for release in the fourth quarter of 2026 and supports Japanese display. Stories tied to four different surveillance locations unfold across the shift.
Premium Bandai begins accepting preorders for "30MP Rei Ayanami (Uniform Ver.)" on October 5 at 12:00. The 30 MINUTES PREFERENCE kit from "Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition" adds two new facial expression parts over the Plug Suit version, a sitting pose, and newly sculpted uniform parts with a soft-material skirt detailed down to the wrinkles. It ships in January 2027 for 4,620 yen.
HypeTrain Digital and Explosive Squat Games have released Intravenous 3: Borderline, a free prologue version of the top-down action game Intravenous 3. The prologue carries two full-scale missions built on the main game's core systems. Players control Gideon, a mercenary who has lost everything and wants revenge, using darkness, sound, distractions, gadgets, and the environment. Intravenous 3 is scheduled for Q2 2027 on Steam and GOG.com.
Bandai will release Mejirushi Accessory Sanrio Characters All Stars Part.3 from the fifth week of October 2026, priced at 300 yen including tax. The gashapon set has 10 types: Pompompurin, Gudetama, Bad Badtz-Maru, My Melody, My Sweet Piano, Chococat, Little Twin Stars Kiki and Lala, and Lloromannic's Berry and Cherry. Each charm has carabiner and ring parts for attaching to umbrella handles and bottles.
Premium Bandai opened a second preorder round for the HG 1/35 Lancelot on October 2 at 11:00, part of the Code Geass 20th anniversary. The kit is priced at 4,950 yen including tax, with the second batch scheduled to ship in March 2027. It includes MVS x2, VARIS, Blaze Luminous, and Slash Harken deployment parts, plus a plamo original gimmick that lets it combine with the separately sold Zi-Artemis.
Coffee Stain has announced Ticket to Dizzyworld, the latest major expansion for Goat Simulator 3. The setting is a new sandbox amusement park with carnival games, rides, and events. Players collect tokens for rewards, use new goat gear, ride bumper cars, and build a roller coaster. It is scheduled for release on November 19 for PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox.
Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden plan to bring the 1992 Mega Drive robot SRPG Vixen 357 to PC via Steam in 2026. The port keeps the original's turn-based grid combat, 16 maps, free pilot and unit composition, and permadeath, while adding a gallery, rewind, speed-up, save anywhere, screen filters, and cheats. The store page lists Japanese support.
Paradox Interactive will release Transport Fever 3, the latest transport management sim from Switzerland-based Urban Games, on September 30, 2026 for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG.com, plus PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game spans over 100 years of transport history with more than 300 vehicle types. A Tokyo Game Show 2026 hands-on and developer interview covered tutorials, eight city management categories, and a final mission set in Tanegashima.
SCRAP has postponed its psychological horror game Play Prohibited and ended joint development with Fahrenheit 213, the studio led by former Fate/Grand Order staffer Yosuke Shiokawa. The two sides agreed to stop collaborating, and SCRAP will continue production under a new structure. The release was set for summer 2026 and has been pushed back; a new date will follow once the production schedule is settled. The game is planned for Steam.
The overseas YouTube channel ElAnalistaDeBits published a graphics comparison video for the Switch 2 version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, set against the original Switch release. The video shows the remaster running at 30 to 40fps, largely holding the announced 40fps upper limit, with higher resolution and detail, more natural light, shadow, and water reflections, and a wider draw distance. The game launches September 29, 2026.
Bandai Spirits will release Ichiban Kuji Gundam G W X 30th Anniversary from February 26, 2027, at 900 yen per draw. The lottery marks the 30th broadcast anniversary of After War Gundam X and groups it with Mobile Fighter G Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. The A Prize is a Gundam Double X bust, the B Prize a Tiffa Adill figure, and the Last One Prize a Gundam Double X Twin Satellite Cannon ver. bust.
Bandai Namco Filmworks will hold "SUNRISE WORLD ~Deformed Robot Fair~ VOL.3" at 6 Sunrise World stores starting October 9. The fair features deformed robots from six works, including Space Runaway Ideon, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Brave of the Sun Fighbird, Future GPX Cyber Formula, and Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Original items use newly drawn illustrations by Koji Yokoi, alongside new products from Bukubu Okawa's web manga IP Police Tsuzuki-chan.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7 billion parameter world action model derived from its FLUX 3 multimodal AI model, for robot control. It scored 42.92% on the Robolab-120 benchmark. That is higher than the closed model OASIS WAMNVIDIA at 39.0% and NVIDIA's Cosmos3-Nano at 36.8%. Black Forest Labs says FLUX 3 Action also runs up to 3.95 times faster than Cosmos3-Nano.
A playable demo of Romancing SaGa 3: Destiny United ran at the Square Enix booth during Tokyo Game Show 2026, held September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe. The full remake of the 1995 Super Famicom RPG lets players pick one of eight protagonists and rebuilds the battle and game systems. Producer Shinichi Tazuke discussed the project in an interview.
Tencent released a preview version of Hy Image3.5, an image model that handles text-to-image and image-to-image generation in one system with a maximum output size of 2K. Tencent says human evaluations rated its professional-grade accuracy 30 percent better than Hy Image3.0. It can also edit images. Access runs through the Tencent Cloud API at $0.024 per generated image, with referencing images free.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Diarization, a speech recognition model that identifies speakers while transcribing in real time. It handles up to eight speakers and labels them in order of appearance as Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on, without registering voices in advance. Training used public datasets and data licensed from David AI. The model is open, under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, and available on Hugging Face.
A first-person report on GameBusiness.jp timed an RTX 5090 running MiniMax H3 locally. One 5-second i2v clip went from 193.5 seconds to 31.6 seconds in 41 days, a 6.12x gain, using a 20-step baseline, the official Turbo 8-step LoRA, Hao AI Lab's FastH3 4-step, a community-converted TaoMate 3-step LoRA, INT8 attention, and sparse attention. H3 Max weights have not been released 28 days after fal said on X that it would publish them. Cloud H3 Max Turbo ran at 1.49 seconds on different hardware.
Undead Labs announced layoffs on September 23, 2026, saying it had "said goodbye to many of our teammates." The studio, known for the State of Decay series, recently moved from under the Xbox umbrella to become an independent studio. The statement says State of Decay 3 production continues, and the game remains planned for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S with a day-one Game Pass release.
Kotobukiya is taking preorders for a 1/72 scale plastic model kit of the Crest CR-C75U2 Delta Ver., a quad-legged unit from the game Armored Core 3. The kit is the fourth entry in the revival production project of the Variable Infinity Series. It has a total height of about 160mm and is priced at 9,900 yen including tax. The preorder deadline is October 27, and the release is set for February 2027. The design includes shoulder chain guns (CR-WB69CG) on both shoulders and weapon-arm machine guns (CR-WA69MG), armaments that the product description says deliver overwhelming firepower in close combat. Each of the four CR-LF93A2 legs moves independently, a feature intended to reproduce the movement seen in the game. A Kotobukiya Shop limited bonus adds an additional armament parts set. Preordering by the deadline guarantees the kit.
Razer Japan has announced the Huntsman V3 Pro Mini 8KHz, a compact 60% layout gaming keyboard, with a release planned in Japan during October at 30,880 yen, according to ASCII.jp. The keyboard pairs Razer Analog Optical Switches Gen-2 with True 8000 Hz HyperPolling. Its actuation point adjusts between 0.1 and 4.0 mm, and it supports Rapid Trigger for fast re-input after a key is released. Advanced Input Control functions include Razer Snap Flex, Razer Snap Tap, Dynamic Keystroke, and Dual-Keypress Priority. A reported average latency of 0.48 ms is cited from testing. The body uses a 5052 aluminum alloy top case and double-shot PBT keycaps. Four directional arrow keys share dual-purpose modifier keys, and onboard storage holds up to six profiles. Razer says the design targets portability and tournament use, and settings can be changed through Synapse Web in a browser.
Katsura Hashino, Shigenori Soejima, and Shoji Meguro spoke about the making of Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 at The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture festival held September 22 and 23, 2026, at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo. Hashino, who took over Atlus's RPG output after the Devil Summoner and Shin Megami Tensei teams, said the situation around Persona 3 was conveyed to him as the last chance for Atlus to make an RPG if the game did not produce results. Persona 3 shipped in 2006, Persona 4 followed in 2008, and Persona 5 arrived in 2016 after a direction change delayed its release. Persona 4 Revival is set for February 18, 2027, and Atlus announced Persona 6 in June 2026 with a teaser trailer.
Final Inc. will begin early backing for two new earphones on the crowdfunding service GREEN FUNDING from late October 2026. The ZE3000 ASMR for TINGLE is an ASMR-focused wireless model with Tingle and Relax modes and up to 7 hours of playback. The VR3000 PRO for Gaming pairs Bluetooth with a USB-C transceiver, adds FPS, MOBA, and FIGHTING presets, and lists latency of 30 ms or less. Prototypes of both appear at Potafes Osaka on October 3.
Bandai Spirits will open preorders for two METAL ROBOT Spirits items from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom on October 9 at 5:00 PM JST. The Black Knight Squad Carla articulated figure is priced at 26,400 yen including tax, with an April 2027 ship date. A dedicated effect parts set is priced at 6,050 yen including tax and ships the same month. The figure stands about 145mm tall and uses ABS, PVC, and diecast parts. Its chest armor moves to deploy the Super High Impulse Cannon Adulo Onji, and the included interchangeable face parts correspond to scenes from the film. The effect parts set carries Levitator effect parts with gradient paint and a wingspan of about 410mm. It also includes Sahasrabhuja effect parts and support parts to recreate the launch state. Both items are listed as manufacturer BANDAI SPIRITS. Preorders run through the Tamashii Web Shop and Premium Bandai, per the announcements.
Hiroaki Yura, the representative and creator of studio AREA35, discussed TINY METAL 2 at Tokyo Game Show 2026 in an interview at the studio's booth. Yura said the project began because he loves Nintendo's Famicom Wars and decided to make a strategy game himself when no remake appeared. The sequel follows the original TINY METAL, which he said removed unit congestion and added flanking attacks, plus visibility rules where enemies cannot be attacked unless spotted and radar reveals them. Development is ongoing, and Yura described the team as about 200 people, up from roughly 13 years ago. New character Lysandra is a shop clerk designed by Yusuke Kozaki, not a playable unit. Former Blizzard writer Michael Chu wrote the story, with script localization handled by a writer credited on Ace Attorney titles. An anime adaptation is in progress through contacts including CG director Hiroyasu Kobayashi.
Kadokawa is running an all-volumes-free fair for Mine Yoshizaki's manga Sgt. Frog on October 1 and 2, 2026, ending at 23:59 each day. Volumes 1 through 35 are readable at no cost on BOOK☆WALKER, BookLive, honto, Rakuten Kobo, au Book Pass, Reader Store, DMM Books, Comic Cmoa, LINE Manga, ebookjapan, Piccoma, and U-NEXT. The promotion is timed to the new Sgt. Frog anime, which begins airing Saturday, October 3, 2026. The manga has run in Monthly Shonen Ace since 1999 and is still ongoing. It follows an alien frog from Planet Keron who arrives to invade Earth, is captured by the Hinata siblings Fuyuki and Natsumi, and ends up living with the family as a lodger. A theatrical anime screened in June 2026. The fair notes that store end times, prices, and eligible products may differ by retailer.