Tokyo Bon Dance Festival Lets Children Become Creators of Music and Visuals
The festival reframes Bon Odori as a hands-on learning environment where children produce the music and visuals rather than only watching or dancing.
ASCII.jp
MOONDROP Announces 24-Driver Full BA Earphone Armature Art 24
The Armature Art 24 revives a full BA configuration at a time when hybrid earphones dominate the market, and its 24-driver-per-side design with a novel low-frequency module represents a technical push from MOONDROP.
ASCII.jp
Indent and Third Line Next Launch Joint Comic Label Comic E-CLIPSE
The label pairs a large creator platform with a publisher known for varied genres, aiming to produce dark fantasy series that can expand into media mix adaptations.
ASCII.jp
G-Mode to Publish Rhythm Adventure One Song, One Life, Demo Now on Steam
G-Mode, known for its Data East archives and indie publishing on Switch and PC, backing a branching rhythm game with over 20 songs signals a bet on narrative-driven music games as a growing indie subgenre.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark
New GTO Trailer Shows Takashi Sorimachi as Onizuka in His 50s
The trailer confirms the 2026 series is a full continuation of the 1998 drama, not a one-off special, with Sorimachi reprising the role at the same age as the character.
Comic Natalie
Truck-Kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?! Launches on Steam July 30
The game turns the isekai truck trope into a playable mechanic, with a ska soundtrack by Dredge composer David Mason.
4Gamer.net
10-Year-Old App Shukka Buta Hits 110 Million Yen Monthly Sales After Playtime Integration
The case shows how a mature free-to-play app can re-accelerate by targeting point-activity users who demand monetary rewards for play time, a shift from the traditional F2P model.
GameBusiness.jp
xAI Opens Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to General Availability, Adds Fast Model
The general release of Grok Imagine Video 1.5, which previously achieved top benchmark scores as a preview, and the simultaneous launch of a significantly faster variant put a production-ready video generation tool into wider use.
GIGAZINE
OpenAI Releases LifeSciBench Benchmark for Life Science AI
LifeSciBench shifts AI evaluation from narrow question-and-answer tests to real-world scientific workflows, setting a new standard for measuring practical utility in research.
GIGAZINE
Chunichi Dragons Mascot Doala Gets Visitor Uniform Plastic Model Kit
The visitor version expands the Doala plastic model line with exclusive details and a team-flag background card, offering fans a new way to display the mascot.
Inside
S.H.Figuarts Announces Shinken Red, Flame Reaver, and Ultraman Ginga Victory Figures
The Shinken Red reissue applies the True Bone Carving Technique-previously used on figures like Kamen Rider-to a Super Sentai character for the first time, using suit actor scan data to prioritize both screen accuracy and articulation.
Dengeki Hobby Web, Inside
Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Product Price Hikes Are Inevitable
By publicly pre-announcing price hikes, Apple is breaking with its usual silence on pricing strategy, signaling that the AI-driven memory shortage is severe enough to force a rare advance warning to consumers and investors.
Denfaminicogamer, ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE
Original Call of Duty Black Ops and Black Ops 2 Coming to PlayStation in July 2026
The ports bring two of the most acclaimed entries in the Call of Duty franchise to modern PlayStation hardware with full Zombies mode intact, addressing long-standing backward compatibility gaps.
Denfaminicogamer
Drone Sector Early Access Launch Set for July 21
The game's early access launch marks a rare solo-developed military simulation title that leverages the developer's background in military training sims, and its demo reception suggests a strong niche audience.
Automaton
Piapro Characters KAITO Gets 1/7 Scale Figure From Prisma Wing
The figure extends the PRISMA WING line's collaboration with lack, following the same hexagonal base design that allows collectors to connect multiple characters from the series.
Dengeki Hobby Web
GitLab Announces Project Switch for AI Agent Era
As AI agents increasingly perform parallel coding at massive scale, existing source code management tools face unprecedented load; Project Switch is GitLab's architectural response to that shift.
GameBusiness.jp
Bocchi the Rock! Serialization Resumes, Volumes 1-8 Free on COMIC FUZ
The return of Bocchi the Rock! ends a five-month hiatus and brings the full first eight volumes to readers at no cost for a limited window.
Comic Natalie
Daisenryaku SSB2 Adds Minamitorishima Crisis and Damascus Buffer Line Scenarios on June 25
The shift to one scenario and one free map per month extends Daisenryaku SSB2's post-launch content pipeline by nearly a year and a half, signaling a long-term support strategy for a niche military simulation title.
4Gamer.net, Automaton
Map-Making Game 'Map Map' Sells Over 10,000 Copies in Three Weeks
The game's early sales and 'Very Positive' rating show a niche audience for hands-on cartography gameplay that blends exploration with real surveying logic.
Denfaminicogamer
Six More Actors Join Prime Video Drama Criminal
The casting additions flesh out the supporting roles around the three leads in a high-profile Prime Original crime thriller from a notable director.
Eiga Natalie
Final Recovery SQUAD Released Today on Switch 2, Switch, and Steam
The release marks Waku Waku Games' first Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive title, leveraging the platform's higher frame rate and mouse controls to differentiate the experience from the standard Switch version.
GAME Watch, 4Gamer.net, Game Spark
After War Gundam X Gets 30th Anniversary Apparel at STRICT-G
The 1996 series gets its first STRICT-G apparel line for the milestone anniversary, offering fans a clean icon-style design across four items.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Cardcaptor Sakura: Key of Memories Pre-Registration Opens Ahead of June 25 Launch
The pre-registration window confirms the game is on track for a June 25 release, with the costume-collection mechanic as the core draw.
Inside
Dispatch Update Adds New Censorship Options, But Not on Japanese Switch
The update addresses player backlash over forced black censorship on Switch, but the regional restriction on the Japanese version means the controversy is only partially resolved.
Game Spark