Street brand GALFY released the music video for "GALFY8" on Tuesday, October 20. The song features rapper Filix O, Itaq, and idol group Yurumerumo!. The track is the eighth in GALFY's promotional song series and was made for its Don Quijote collaboration items. SEM handled planning and production, with illrain on sound. Six items go on sale from Tuesday, November 3 at stores nationwide.
Talent agency 81 Produce announced Tuesday that screen and voice actor Hiroshi Tsuchida died on October 11 due to heart failure. He was 54. Born in Tokyo on February 8, 1972, Tsuchida played Ninja Blue/Saizo in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger and voiced the AI unit HANE2 in Ultraman Decker. His anime credits include Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt's J.J. Sexton, The Witch from Mercury - Prologue's Nadim Samaya, and Black Clover's Damnatio Kira in its latest episode.
RGG Studio posted a memorial statement on its official X account after the death of voice actor and actor Hiroshi Tsuchida, who played Stardust owner Kazuki in the Like a Dragon series. The studio offered condolences and prayers for his soul. Tsuchida's roles also included Igazu in ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON, Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan, and NinjaBlue in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger. In Like a Dragon 8, Kazuki appeared in the Ending Note content.
A limited-time Initial D pop-up shop on the first floor of the FKD Interpark store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi runs until November 1. It displays and sells AUTOart's 1/18 scale Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86), made to mark 30 years since the manga's serialization began, alongside a real AE86. The model reproduces the Project D specification, and the shop also carries licensed goods, apparel, and car accessories.
EST N8 acquired worldwide sales rights to Pilgrims, a Korean science-fiction animated feature, and launched international sales at the Asian Contents & Film Market during the Busan International Film Festival, held October 10 to 13. The film won a technical award at the 2025 Bucheon International Animation Festival. It is the feature directorial debut of Pyoungkang Heo, a veteran of the Japanese animation industry, and adapts a short story from Choyeop Kim's If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light.
Hasegawa will release a 1/72 scale kit of the Su-33 Flanker D flown by Shadows from Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. The aircraft parts are dark gray, a display stand is included, and the package uses CG imagery. New decals cover the Sotoa Air Force, 1st Special Operations Air Wing, 11th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 44th Flight, Lux Lunae, known as Shadows. The finished kit measures 305.5 mm long and costs 5,500 yen, scheduled for release on Wednesday, December 16, 2026.
Hobby Japan's 1/64 MF Ghost Series is taking orders for two Toyota 86 GT (ZN6) die-cast miniatures, both modeled on the car driven by Katagiri Kanata: the Odawara Pikes Peak spec and the Ashinoko GT spec, the latter with gold-outlined 86 decals and its own wheels. Each is 4,290 yen with tax, planned for release in May 2027 or later, sold through Post Hobby and model retailers.
Game Spark's weekly ranking for October 9 to October 15, 2026 covers its five most-read stories. The top entry is the first look at Yujiro Hanma's 3D model for Tekken 8, shown at EVO France 2026 alongside a new Roger Jr. trailer. Rounding out the list: a Tales of Eternia Remastered font option, a PS1 mansion horror game compared to Resident Evil, and the mixed reception of the new Fire Emblem.
Famitsu's software chart for October 5 to 11 puts the Switch 2 version of Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] at No. 1 with 23,411 copies. Rhythm Heaven Groove is second at 14,527, and Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is third at 13,801. Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen enters at fourth on Switch 2 and eighth on PS5, and the PS5 Kingdom Hearts Collection takes fifth at 6,261.
C#4R4CT3R, a game label based in Shibuya, Tokyo, released the Steam demo for Rain98 on October 17, 2026. The psycho-suspense adventure is set in 1998 Tokyo, where a young man who time-slips from the present day shares a one-room apartment with Amahara Reina, a heroine who says she is Angolmois, the Great King of Terror from Nostradamus's prophecy. Reina wants to destroy the world in July 1999, and needs heat, the stirring of her heart, to do it. The player earns Angel Seals by interacting with her, pastes 100 of them into an Angel Passport, and completes the ritual. The demo covers the story's first two chapters. It adds playable content beyond the build shown at Tokyo Game Show 2026. A hands-on event ran at UKIYO GAME BAR & CAFE in Yurakucho, where a collaboration cocktail called Melancholy Blue was served. The full version is scheduled for release in 2026 on PC via Steam.
Aoshima Bunka Kyozai is accepting preorders for a renewed ACKS 1/48 ARX-8 Laevatein plastic model, the kit that opened the ACKS line in 2018, at Rakuten Books. The renewal keeps the build supervised by mechanical designer Kanetake Ebikawa while adjusting some fitting and ease of assembly. Armaments include the Boxer 2 76mm shotgun, Demolition Gun, M1108 anti-tank dagger, GRAW-4 monomolecular cutter, and the Lambda Driver Canceller Fairy's Feather. Reference price is 8,580 yen, with a Rakuten Books sale price of 7,151 yen.
Hasegawa revealed a completed sample of its 1:72 scale Su-33 Flanker-D "Shadows" kit on October 14. The aircraft is the Su-33 of the 44th Squadron flown by Lux Lunae, an ace unit of the Sotoan Republic, which is hostile to the protagonist side's Central Usean Federation in ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE. Release is scheduled for around December 16, 2026 at 5,500 yen.
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced on October 13 that the Steam version of Ace Combat Zero, offered as a pre-order bonus for Ace Combat 8: WINGS OF THEVE, is expected to be distributed as a standalone application. The port was previously playable only by launching Ace Combat 8 and selecting it from the start options. Both formats will coexist once the standalone version ships, and save data will be shared between them through Steam Cloud. The company said final quality and operation checks are underway. Bandai Namco stressed that the change applies only to players who already have the pre-order bonus and does not make Ace Combat Zero newly obtainable for anyone else. The issue drew complaints because Ace Combat 8 is roughly 140GB and the bonus could not be installed on its own.
Wataritama Studio LLC released a free demo for the VTuber training simulation 'BuzztteVTuber: Go Viral in 2018?!' on Steam on October 10, 2026. The demo covers the first six months of the game, up to week 26, or ends early if the channel reaches 5,000 subscribers. Save data carries over to the full version. The game has players time-leap to 2018, the dawn era of virtual YouTubers, and aim to go viral within one year from zero subscribers. Players train five stats: talk, production, games, illustration, and singing, reading weekly trends to grow subscriber and viewer counts. A capture function pulls windows and virtual cameras from OBS and VTube Studio so players can show their own model on the in-game stream screen. The full version is scheduled for 2026 and is expected to enter early access. Pricing is undecided.
Famitsu's chart for September 28 to October 4 has Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve at No. 1 in its first week on PS5 with 63,013 copies. Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered Complete Edition follows on PS5 at 18,724, and Rhythm Heaven Groove is third at 15,894, bringing its running total to 1,065,816. New entries also include Minecraft Dungeons II, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Ghost of Yotei Complete Edition.
Platz will ship two aircraft assembly kits in December 2026: a 1/72 F/A-18E Super Hornet carrying VFA-137 Kestrels 2025 CAG markings, and a 1/48 Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Fighter Model 21 in Tainan Naval Air Group livery. The Super Hornet kit is about 253mm long and costs 5,940 yen; the Zero Fighter uses Eduard-made parts, measures about 190mm, and costs 6,380 yen.
Bandai Namco Entertainment began streaming the gameplay reveal trailer for Roger Jr., a Season 3 character in Tekken 8, on Sunday. Early access opens November 11, with the full release on November 16. The trailer also previews the in-game model for Yujiro Hanma, who debuts in early 2027, and confirms a Yujiro Hanma trailer for January 17 at the Tekken World Tour Finals in Singapore.
Bandai Namco released a new Tekken 8 gameplay trailer at EVO France 2026 on October 11 for the additional character Roger Jr., the kangaroo parent and child. A first look at the 3D model of guest character Yujiro Hanma, who joins this winter as the fourth additional character of Season 3, closed the trailer, though his battle system and specific moves were not shown.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, the director of Rain98, developed by C#4R4CT3R, described how the psychological thriller romance adventure began around the end of the year about two years ago, when he wanted to make a novel game. A K-pop song he heard at an IVE live performance turned his attention to the late 1990s, and he set the game in 1998 Tokyo.
Season 2 of the app game 18TRIP, subtitled Reach for the Next Star, began distribution on October 9. Seven new KOBE ward mayors join the cast. To mark the launch, an advertisement event called HAMA TRANSIT CHECK-IN to Season2 runs for three days from October 10 at Minatomirai Station on the Minatomirai Line, with an airport-themed booth, exhibits, photo spots and novelties.
A free web player called remix8d.com plays music from YouTube as spatial audio in the browser. Users enter a YouTube URL or search by song or artist, and the processing happens in real time on the device. No download, upload, or prior conversion is required. The service is free, needs no account, and runs on PC and Android browsers. iOS is unsupported.
The Ace Combat series' official X account announced that ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE has passed 1 million cumulative copies worldwide in the fastest time in series history. To mark it, footage of the band live "LIVE MUSIC FEST. 2026," which performs music from the series, is scheduled to premiere in late December. Details will be announced later. The game is on sale for PC (Steam), PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
SNK announced at EVO France 2026 in Nice on October 10, 2026 that Reina from Tekken 8 will join Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as a downloadable character. She is scheduled for release in December 2026. The teaser trailer shows Reina facing off against Nightmare Geese and launching a strike, with lightning-like attack effects carried over from her appearance in Tekken 8. Reina closes out Season 3 as its final additional character. SNK has not detailed her move set, and the circumstances behind the crossover will come later. Before Reina, the Season 3 slate brings Manjiro Sano (Mikey) and Ken Ryuguji (Draken) from Tokyo Revengers on October 22, followed by Laocorn Gaudeamus from the anime film Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture in November. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is available now on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Xbox Series X|S.
At the 64th All Japan Model & Hobby Show, held at Tokyo Big Sight from October 2 to 4, 2026, Kadokawa displayed the test shot of its 1/48 Arbalest plastic model from Full Metal Panic!. The ARX-7 kit is the second entry in the Kadokawa Plastic Model Series and is accepting preorders for a February 2027 release. Kadokawa plans further refinement of the sculpt and surface treatment.
SNK announced a collaboration between Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and Bandai Namco's Tekken 8 on October 8, 2026, releasing a teaser video on YouTube. A silhouette appearing about 20 seconds in, behind Rock Howard, has drawn speculation that it may be Reina from Tekken 8. No details beyond the phrase "Fate crosses" were revealed. Character trailers for Tokyo Revengers collaboration fighters Manjiro Sano and Ken Ryuguji were published the same day.
The Xiaomi Pad 8 is an Android tablet built for gaming, with a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip and a 5.75mm body. Its 11.2-inch display runs at 3.2K resolution and up to 144Hz, and the battery is 9200mAh. The tablet is the first in the lineup to carry the 8s Gen 4 chip. Xiaomi brought the tablet to the TOKYO Gaming-PC STREET 9 event in Akihabara on October 10, where attendees can try it.
Toei's Aranami Project, running since October 2024, announced a new character on October 8, 2026, this year's Toei Day. Arainami T081 is the anthropomorphized form of Toei's distribution mark, drawn by illustrator Ryosuke Takeuchi, who has worked on art for Pokemon and Monster Hunter. The name's T081 reads as TOEI through wordplay.
MSI Computer Japan will start selling the limited-edition Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition E8W gaming laptop from October 14 at open price. The package pairs a Stella White chassis with a white mouse, mouse pad, and headset. Inside are an AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX with 16 cores and 32 threads, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and either the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or RTX 5060 Laptop GPU.
Bandai Spirits announced GUNDAM XMX, a new Gunpla brand aimed at Gundam fans in China. The kits stand about 11cm tall, drop the usual realistic and SD proportions for a new design, and use a joint structure built for posing. Parts come off without tools and some are pre-painted. The first lineup is a blind box of Strike Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED in six types, five standard plus one secret, at 59.9 yuan, roughly 1,400 yen.
Steam's Top 100 sales chart for the week of September 29 to October 6, 2026 placed ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE third overall, the highest position for a paid game on the list. Steam user reviews across all languages reached 80 percent positive out of roughly 11,300, giving it a Very Positive rating. SteamDB shows its 24-hour peak concurrent count above 30,000 since release.
Mouse Computer will release the G TUNE FZ-I7G80, a gaming PC marking the 50th anniversary of Intel's Japan subsidiary, the company announced. The price starts at 500,000 yen and the release date is undecided; sale timing will be posted on a special page once set. The unit uses blue LEDs inside the case, Intel's corporate color, and the side panel carries a design commemorating the anniversary. Sales are limited to 50 units, with original pin badges, stickers, and figures included; the bonuses ship later. Inside are an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 270K Plus and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, with 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. The PC runs Windows 11 Home 64-bit and has a water-cooled CPU cooler, Intel Z890 chipset, Wi-Fi 6E, and 10GbE wired LAN. Purchases are planned on the Mouse Computer website, at each direct shop, at G-Tune:Garage Osaka, and by telephone.
Xsolla and Game8 are partnering to place in-game item purchase links inside Game8 walkthrough articles, routing readers to Xsolla's Web Shop without going through app stores. Game8's Japanese-language site draws over 55 million monthly users (40 million domestic, 15 million overseas), while its English edition runs about 1 million monthly page views and roughly 16 million users. Game companies decide whether the links appear; the two firms are now pitching their combined client lists.
Hasegawa has published its shipping schedule for January 2027, covering 20 plastic model kits and two resin figure kits. The plastic lineup includes a 1/72 F/A-18C Hornet in Queen Squadron markings from ACE COMBAT 8, a 1/72 VF-1D Valkyrie, and a 1/72 Type 2 Large Flying Boat (Kai) from Godzilla-0.0. The resin kits are a 1/12 Chizuru Minamihara from Chodenji Robo Combattler V and a 1/12 Bikini Armor mery. Ship dates run across January 8 to 29.
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.
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.
A PC benchmark of Ace Combat 8, the 30th anniversary entry, tests graphics settings on an RTX 5090 ahead of release. The game runs on Unreal Engine 5 with cloud rendering technology. Steam lists RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 with 32GB of memory as recommended for 1080p at 60fps on Medium settings; the official 4K/60fps table lists RTX 4080 or above.
Bandai Namco Entertainment said in a Steam news post that some flight sticks that worked with Ace Combat 7 have configuration features that cannot be used in Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. The company said fixing this will take time and that it will work on improvements so the devices run in an environment close to the previous game, with further details to be announced later.
Early access for Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve opened on September 29 at 7:00 AM, and the official X account warned that the bonus port of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War cannot be obtained after launch. Staff on the Ace Combat 8 Information Bureau #5 livestream said fighter jet licensing agreements block a separate sale, though distribution as a bonus falls within the contract.
Benchmark results for ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE, published by tech outlet GameGPU ahead of the game's October 2 release, put only the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 above 100 FPS at 1080p with Ultra settings and TSR upscaling at native resolution, at 128 FPS and 115 FPS on average. At 1440p only the RTX 5090 clears 100 FPS, at 102 FPS, and it averages 60 FPS at 4K.
Game*Spark reviewed Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, due October 2 from Bandai Namco Entertainment. The review reports the story follows Lieutenant Colonel Jean Cope, called "Wings of Theve," during the Republic of Sotoa's invasion of the Usean continent. It says the campaign has more than 20 missions, a full run took over 20 hours, and the game runs on Unreal Engine 5 plus the volumetric cloud engine Cloudly.
The 1.5th Anniversary Roadmap Announcement Livestream on September 23 named four titles joining the simulation game. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam enters the main stage on September 30. Story events follow for The Colony Dropped on It, from October 16 to October 31, G-Unit in mid to late November, and Missing Link from late November to early December. The 1.5th Anniversary Pickup Gasha starts September 30.
A demo play report for Rain98, a psychosuspense romance adventure from developer C#4R4CT3R, describes a protagonist who time-slips into his own 1998 Tokyo room and meets Amahara Reina, a girl who wishes for the world's end. The opening has Reina attempting to hang herself, and the two do not begin living together right away; the protagonist is chased off as an intruder and lives as a vagrant until Reina shelters him in the rain about three days later. Minigames like filling gachapon capsules and making iron bead accessories provide money to live on.
A leaker's post describes Chinese iPhone buyers checking each year whether their display came from Samsung or LG, with some returning units until they get a Samsung panel. He also shared a rough user tier list for the iPhone 18 Pro series released September 18, placing Samsung's G9N and G9P above rival panels, while noting the rankings are impressions that vary by unit. Supply figures put Samsung and LG panels close in volume.
The October 2026 Gunpla Journal rounds up Bandai's upcoming kit schedule, led by the MGSD 00 Raiser at 6,050 yen, the MGEX 1/100 Mighty Strike Freedom Gundam at 26,400 yen, the HG 1/144 Hamma Hamma at 4,400 yen, and the RG 1/144 Ground Type Gundam at 4,620 yen. All four are scheduled for 2027 releases.
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE is No. 1 on this week's Steam sales ranking for a second week, with user reviews rated Very Positive. Apex Legends is No. 2 and AION 2 is No. 3. Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors 2 with Xtreme Legends Remastered debuts at No. 5. The chart was surveyed at 13:00 on October 5, 2026, during the Autumn Sale.
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.
Ace Combat 8 launched October 2 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. On SteamDB it peaked at 48,743 concurrent players, about 3.5 times Ace Combat 7's 13,758. Players on social media have taken to calling the game ASMR, pointing to its three-dimensional wind, engine and explosion audio and to Kenjiro Tsuda, who voices pilot Jean Kope and speaks to the protagonist.
Prime Video announced its October 2026 lineup on September 30. The additions include the live-action Exit 8 film starring Kazunari Ninomiya and directed by Genki Kawamura, arriving October 2, and the Made in Abyss anime seasons plus its theatrical releases on October 1. The service also adds 26 James Bond films, A Minecraft Movie, and The Apothecary Diaries season 3, among other titles.
Belgian indie studio BiteMe Games exhibited two titles at OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held October 3 and 4 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka. MMO98, an incremental simulation about growing a small MMO studio, launched on Steam on April 20, 2026 with Japanese support. Silicon Architect, a hardware engineering game with a Windows XP-style UI, is still in development.
The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Low-profile Tenkeyless 8KHz will be among the gaming gadgets on display at TOKYO Gaming-PC STREET 9 in LIFORK AKIHABARA II on Saturday, October 10, 2026, from 13:00 to 17:30. Admission is free. The keyboard has a thinnest point of 19.5mm, supports rapid trigger, carries a multi-function digital dial with dedicated control buttons, and runs an 8KHz polling rate.