The Dead or Alive 6 series passed 1 million cumulative sales worldwide, and Koei Tecmo continues post-launch support for Dead or Alive 6 Last Round with new character Minato and a run of costume DLC through October 2026. Game Spark's November retrospective returned to ALIVE, the 1998 PS1 adventure that shares the name.
"ALIVE" is a crowded name across the Yomimono beat. The oldest use is General Entertainment's PS1 live-action sci-fi adventure, released August 6, 1998, and set in a 2020 Tokyo where citizens are managed by ID and drones with surveillance cameras watch private lives. Game Spark returned to it in November 2026, when the protagonist's framing through fabricated footage and her flight from police and unidentified assassins could be read against My Number, smartphone location data, and facial-recognition cameras. Retro fans remember it for its difficulty.
The newer uses of the name are unrelated. ProjectAlive opened a Steam page for Ebbtide, its single-player zombie strategy game, using the developer name rather than the title. Rhubarb & Rhubarb released Portal: Alive & Kicking, a Portal 2 mod that remakes the original Portal, and Portal developer Jeep Barnett praised it. Brain Alive is a manga by Rafal Jaki and Machine Gamu, the pilot chapter free in English on Kadokawa's KadoComi site with English serialization due in the fall, and it appears on the KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA label among seven titles.
The festival and the fighting game complete the list. Shokz Japan sponsored JOIN ALIVE 2026, the Hokkaido outdoor festival on July 18-19, with OpenDots 2 and OpenDots Air trial listening. DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round came out June 25, 2026, the same day the series passed 1 million cumulative sales. Koei Tecmo added Minato, a high school student who fights with a device called R-MN-T, on September 10, and a free Happy Halloween update arrived October 1.
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General Entertainment released ALIVE for the PS1 on August 6, 1998. The live-action sci-fi adventure is set in 2020 Tokyo, where citizens are managed by ID and drones with surveillance cameras monitor private lives. Its protagonist, Atsuko Kawada (played by Yoko Imai), is framed for a murder through fabricated camera footage and flees police and unidentified assassins. Game Spark looks back at the game's dystopia and its reputation among retro fans as an ultra-high-difficulty adventure.