Mogu Mogu Festival 2026 Brings Musical Fireworks and 500-Drone Show to Fukui Beach
The festival pairs a 500-drone show and musical fireworks with popular J-pop songs, turning Fukui's beach into a late-summer destination event.
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Sky x Sweets Paradise Collab Cafe Report Also Covers Van Gogh Pop-Up
This is the first restaurant collaboration for Sky, and the report confirms the menu items are both visually faithful and tasteful, offering a complete dining experience.
Denfaminicogamer
Sanitarium Enhanced Remaster Announced for 2026 Release
The remaster reworks the original's dated mouse-based controls and adds modern conveniences, making the acclaimed 1998 title accessible to players who previously gave up on the Steam version.
Automaton
Dotemu Releases Free 8-Player Party Battle Game Blasterbug on Steam
The Windjammers 2 team's free Bomberman-style homage leans on Steam Remote Play Together for online play while keeping the core experience local multiplayer only.
Automaton
KOHODO Enters Hong Kong With YATA Retail Sales and Kanesaka Adoption
The Hong Kong entry pairs retail pickup at YATA with fine-dining adoption at Kanesaka Hong Kong, extending KOHODO's Japan-cultivated meal-pairing concept overseas.
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Acts of Blood Teaser PV Reveals Hendra's Revenge Story
The teaser frames Acts of Blood's revenge plot in a dystopian Bandung and confirms a near-future release window with a full trailer pending, giving the long-gestating brawler a concrete landing point.
Denfaminicogamer
Cinderia Update Adds 37 New Items, Pet Walking, and Gem Equipping
The update deepens the build meta with pet walking and accessory gems while rebalancing weak equipment, giving the early access roguelite more options as it holds a 'Very Positive' Steam rating.
Automaton
Roulette Roguelite 'Trust Your Gut' Sets November 19 Launch on PC
The game's hook is bending roulette odds through Mementos, special balls, and offers, letting players reshape rules and probabilities rather than rely on luck.
Automaton
White Cat Project Hololive Collab Third Round Opens August 31
The third Hololive collaboration reopens the first two events with adjusted parameters, letting players who missed earlier runs catch up while the four Hololive Gamers members arrive as playable characters.
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Ultra Kaguya-hime! VR Weapons Become Metal Charms, Now on Sale
The metal charms turn the distinctive, overly free weapons from the film's virtual game into physical collectibles, letting fans carry Kaguya and her friends' gear anywhere.
Denfaminicogamer
Karaoke Chain Manekineko Launches Music Label, Debuts First Artists MiiNA and Kokone
The karaoke chain is turning its nationwide stores into a pipeline for discovering, developing, and promoting new artists, with its first label signees coming directly from its own audition.
KAI-YOU
SORACOM Knowledge MCP Server Now Listed in ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Directories
The listing removes the need for manual endpoint registration, making SORACOM's official technical information directly searchable from widely used AI assistants and developer tools.
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TAKARA To Perform at BMSG FES'26, First Live Show on Odaiba Stage
A unit that debuted barely two months ago and has never performed live will open its stage account on the main BMSG festival lineup, the same event that drew roughly 80,000 people across two days last year.
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Dungeon Lurker Passes 100,000 Steam Wishlists, Demo Now Live
The story frames the player as uncovering a deceased friend's game, and the wishlist milestone plus the August 25 Pixel Arcadia footage suggest the unsettling secrets are the hook drawing players in.
Denfaminicogamer
FIRST CUT: SAMURAI DUEL Adds Japanese Support in Major Update
The update finally answers long-standing calls for Japanese localization, making the tense one-hit-kill duels accessible to Japanese players who had been requesting the translation since release.
Automaton
NHK Plans Memorial Programs for Actress Keiko Kishi
The lineup spans Kishi's career from a 1960 Kon Ichikawa film to a 2019 drama, showing NHK's full retrospective of her work across its channels.
Cinema Today
Vspo! to Mirror Broadcast Every Match of Street Fighter League JAPAN 2026
The league pairs its official competitive season with a dedicated VTuber support ambassador whose mirror broadcasts of every match extend the event's reach beyond the main CAPCOM Fighters JP stream.
KAI-YOU
Mouse Cursor Anime Gets Trailer, Visual, October 4 Premiere
The anime's September 11 streaming debut on AnimeFesta gives it a head start of over three weeks before its television broadcast, a scheduling pattern OceanVeil used for its other recent adaptations like Marika's Love Meter Malfunction.
Anime News Network, Anime Corner
Mabinogi Mobile Hands-On: The Auto Features Redefine Cozy Play
The hands-on report shows Mabinogi Mobile is built around expanded auto features that let quest progression, dungeon clearing, and combat run almost hands-free, a significant departure from the original game's manual play.
Automaton
Dokimon Quest Free on Steam for 48 Hours as Yanako RPGs Plans Sequel
The free giveaway is a direct bid to gather feedback for two upcoming monster-collecting titles, the sequel Dokimon Quest II and Yami Kids, before their release.
Automaton
Arinco Sells Anthole, a Fully Local AI Knowledge App for PCs
Anthole targets government, medical, and legal fields where cloud data transmission is restricted, offering a local-only AI environment without infrastructure setup.
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Koji Yakusho's Seven Transformations Unveiled in Netflix Series Teaser
The teaser showcases Yakusho in seven dramatic transformations, from King Lear to a sauna attendant, signaling a broad comedic range for the acclaimed actor in Kudo's script.
Cinema Today
Pokémon Tales Stop-Motion Series Reveals Teaser, 2027 Debut on Disney+
This marks Aardman's first full Pokémon series, a collaboration that pairs the studio's signature stop-motion style with the franchise's British-inspired Galar region, while the Disney+ deal signals a major shift in where Pokémon animation is distributed globally.
Anime News Network, Cartoon Brew, Anime Corner
Apex Legends Tops Steam Ranking, CoD MW4 Debuts at 8th
The ranking shows a mix of returning free-to-play hits and new releases, with CoD MW4's pre-order push and MGS Master Collection Vol.2's imminent launch making their mark on the Japanese Steam charts.
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