Kirinka Wine Joins deleteC Campaign to Fund Cancer Research
A Nagano winery is turning an everyday purchase, a bottle of wine, into a direct donation channel for cancer treatment research through the deleteC Campaign 2026.
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Sweetheart Horror Game Announced, Set for 2027 Release
The announcement pairs a domestic breakup horror premise with a studio founded by a former screenwriter, putting the narrative weight of a failing couple at the center of the scare.
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Wishcat CG Anime Launches Full Japan Push With YouTube Stream and Bandai Toys
The full-scale Japan expansion pairs a same-day 13-episode YouTube drop with a November Bandai toy release, treating the streaming debut and merchandise as a single coordinated market entry.
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Naniwa Underground Life Sim Opens Steam Page With Crime-Filled Osaka
The game leans on its Osaka setting, with the developer born and raised there, and includes an option for all NPCs to speak in thick Kansai dialect, grounding the criminal sandbox in local flavor.
Automaton
Naniwa Danshi Announces New Song "Moonlit" for 11th Single
The new single reunites the group with the team behind their debut song "Ubu Love," pairing a mature love song with a movie starring member Shunsuke Michieda.
KAI-YOU
Farming Simulator 25 Tops 5 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
The 5 million sales milestone, confirmed by GIANTS Software's Boris Stefan, signals the series' continued reach as the Beans & Alpacas expansion prepares to add banana farming and South American terrain to the base game.
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Hieronymus Gets New Gamescom Footage Ahead of PC Release
The new footage gives the clearest look yet at how the game translates Bosch's bizarre painted monsters into interactive first-person encounters.
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Yuki Yamada Stars in Super Mob Ninja, Directed by Yugo Sakamoto on Prime Video
Sakamoto and Sonomura reunite after Baby Assassins, putting Yamada, known for intense roles like Bomb's Ruiya, into a deliberately low-presence lead for an action comedy centered on a nameless mob character.
Cinema Today
Spider Webs as DNA Traps
Spider webs could ease the labor-intensive work of environmental surveys, offering a new sampling route for monitoring ecosystems.
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Frog RPG Amphibian Gets World Premiere Footage at gamescom 2026
Amphibian skips traditional leveling and economy systems in favor of turn-based battles that hinge on resource management and a branching class system, making each playthrough's party composition distinct.
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1047 Games Ends Development of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded and EMPULSE
The dual shutdown marks the end of 1047 Games' live-service era, as the studio concedes that neither relaunched Splitgate nor EMPULSE could sustain the player base needed to cover server costs.
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Pokemon Tales: Sirfetch'd and Pichu's Adventure to Stream on Disney+ in 2027
This marks Aardman's first major streaming distribution deal for a Pokemon series, bringing the studio's stop-motion craft to a global audience through Disney's platform.
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MOTTERU Announces Semi-Solid Mobile Battery It Says Hardly Catches Fire
The semi-solid design directly answers growing user concern over battery fires and abnormal heat, trading capacity for safety and longevity in a consumer product.
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SYNXRO Project's Second Work 'Heroic Mistake' Releases Opening 'Monologue'
The release continues the SYNXRO PROJECT's approach of building IPs from fictional anime openings, with this second work exploring a Hero-Villain relationship in modern Japan.
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Rabbit-Eared Shotgun Girl Game 'CICADAMATA"' Hits 97% Positive on Steam
The game's blend of PlayStation-era polygon visuals, high-tempo BGM, and jump-and-shotgun action has landed it an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam rating within days of release.
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Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler Streams Free on YouTube for 72 Hours
Toei is pairing a free, time-limited streaming event of a classic 1991 Cooler film with the in-game debut of ULTRA "Final Form Cooler" in Dragon Ball Legends, tying old anime footage directly to a mobile game promotion.
Denfaminicogamer
Spatial Pleasure to Present at Waseda ACROSS Seminar on Mobility CO2 Value
The lecture reframes who owns mobility CO2 reductions, arguing that companies with commuting and logistics needs should claim them for Scope 3 reporting rather than leaving them to transport operators alone.
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Yamaha Holds Top SOHO Router Share for 22 Straight Years
The 22-year run reflects Yamaha's full network product line and support systems, not a single sales push, as it moves into new fields like Media over IP.
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Marshall Unveils Second Wave of Hendrix 60th Anniversary Collection
This final wave closes out the anniversary collection with a cosmic-themed redesign of three core products, timed to the 60th anniversary of Hendrix's first use of Marshall amplifiers.
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Vocacolle 2026 Summer Draws Over 7,200 Works, OSTER project Takes Top 100
The event's continued growth, with submissions rising by over 800 from the previous edition, shows VOCALOID culture still draws new creators in the 2020s.
KAI-YOU
Dreamtonics Ships AI Instrument Synthesizer Instrument X
Dreamtonics, best known for the Synthesizer V vocal line, is applying the same generative approach to instruments, building sound from notes instead of stitching together sampled audio.
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Fantasy Frontier Echo of Cube Adds Memory Fragments and Reminiscence Roulette
The update pairs a permanent stat progression system with a roulette that recycles past avatars and spirits, giving veteran players a reason to keep pulling and a way to reach content they missed.
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BykingRooKIES Announces 7 Free Steam Games Across Two Release Dates
The trainee program's free releases return this year split across two dates, with seven titles spanning genres from horror to rhythm action.
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Gunvolt Information Bureau Episode 91 Set for September 2 With Switch 2 Edition Details
The September 2 broadcast is the final pre-release push for the Switch 2 Edition, which Inti Creates has set for an October 22 launch with a paid upgrade path from the Switch version.
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