Heaven Burns Red Media Mix Picks ASMR and Stage Over Anime
The choice of ASMR and stage over anime and manga shows a media mix planned around the game's narrative structure, not the standard adaptation path.
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Murder Mystery Writers Dissect Dialogue as Game Mechanics at CEDEC 2026
The lecture reframes player communication, often treated as an uncontrollable extra, as a core designable layer of multiplayer games, with the association's writers proposing a common structure applicable to digital games.
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Granblue Fantasy Relink Devs Detail Battle Design at CEDEC 2026
The session reveals how Cygames handled the challenge of 28 playable characters with three master styles each, using fast prototyping and a shared AI framework to keep development manageable.
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Universal Pictures Signs Deal to Adapt 10 Atari Games Into Films
The deal brings a slate of 1970s and 1980s Atari classics to film, with scripts by Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe and production by Entertainment 360.
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Nintendo of America Releases Beach Clip for Poko a Pokemon
The short clip is the first look at the Bubbly Seabed Town content, confirming the beach setting and the Pokemon that will appear there.
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Blue Archive Hina Dress Nendoroid Basic Figure Opens Pre-Orders
The Nendoroid Basic line makes a popular Blue Archive character available at a lower price point and with faster turnaround, expanding access to the figure line.
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Bomb Busters Designer Explains Turning Luck Into Deduction at CEDEC 2026
Hayashi's session showed how a game built on luck can be reshaped into a deduction game, a process that led to his historic Spiel des Jahres win.
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Steam Sale From Poland With Love 2026 Brings Witcher Tales and Moonlighter Discounts
The sale spotlights Polish-developed games on Steam, with deep discounts on 'Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales' and 'Moonlighter' as featured titles.
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Thrustmaster Unveils Ace Combat 8 Flight Stick With Vibration
The inclusion of vibration and a mini-stick, both requested by Bandai Namco Entertainment, shows the publisher is directly shaping peripheral design for Ace Combat 8, a level of involvement that goes beyond a standard licensed product.
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Weekly Steam Square Issue 163: Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms and Scrap Mechanic
The column spotlights Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms as a full rebuild of the popular siege combat series, adding a General Souls system and revamped territory warfare, while Scrap Mechanic offers a contrasting sandbox survival experience.
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STARCULT. Night: Twisted Age Demo Launches on Steam
The demo showcases the Emotion Palette system, which lets players shape Sylvia's personality and uncover hidden truths through repeated playthroughs, a core design of the full release.
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Co-op Roguelike Weather the Swarm Announced, Alpha Test Signups Open
The announcement opens alpha test signups through the official Discord, giving players a direct path to try the game ahead of its 2027 release.
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Golem's Infinite Mine Launches on Steam
The launch adds a new incremental mining title to Steam with a golem army and layered upgrade systems, and a demo is available for players to try before buying.
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FF14 Inspired Craft Beers Launch at EXBAR Tokyo Plus Akihabara
The beers and the Aetheryte monument extend the FF14 brand into a physical, social space in Akihabara ahead of the new expansion pack "Dawn of the Silver," giving fans a tangible gathering point.
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Cultivation Roguelike Huangtian Nitu Shows Gameplay Footage
The footage confirms Huangtian Nitu as a cultivation-themed roguelike with a weapon assembly system, and the team plans a Steam page and crowdfunding soon, indicating an early-stage indie project seeking support.
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Shuhei Yoshida Takes Stage at First YoshiP Night Indie Talk Event
YoshiP Night gives Yoshida a recurring public platform to discuss indie games, reinforcing 404 Not Found's third-year goal of becoming a hub for game lovers.
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Mingmo: Wings of Despair Tops 5 Million Sales in First Year
The 5 million sales milestone, announced alongside the first anniversary, shows the dark fantasy title has sustained strong global demand a full year after launch, with the developer committing to continued balance updates based on community feedback.
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Inn Over Your Head Releases Steam Demo
The Steam demo gives players a first hands-on look at the full product, which expands on the free itch.io version with new traps, upgrades, floors, automation, and talent trees.
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Zoids Liger Zero Falcon Joins Realize Model Line
The Liger Zero Falcon kit reached first place in Amazon's Hobby New Arrival Ranking as of August 6, 2026, indicating strong early demand for the Realize Model line's latest entry.
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Persona 5: The Phantom X Fan Event Crowns Kitazato Kiyoshi Top Character
The fan event used the popularity vote results to greenlight new content, including a short movie and the game's first ASMR, showing how fan engagement directly shapes the game's output.
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Shroud of Gloom Demo Updated With Japanese Support and New Trailer
The demo update and trailer give Japanese players a full look at a horror adventure that pairs classical point-and-click mechanics with survival horror tension and randomized puzzle design.
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gelato pique and Dragon Quest Tease New SPECIAL COLLECTION
The teaser confirms a follow-up to the 2025 gelato pique x Dragon Quest loungewear line, with details promised for July 28.
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Cyberpunk Village ADV Inshu Village 2200 Launches on Steam
The release adds a branching sound novel with multiple endings to Steam's indie lineup, priced at 600 yen with a 20 percent launch discount until August 10.
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Marvel's Wolverine Panel Reveals Jean Grey, Team X, and Japan Setting
The panel confirms Marvel's Wolverine is a full global adventure with a memory-loss premise, introduces Jean Grey as a central figure, and expands the Insomniac universe through Team X and a cross-game collaboration with Arc System Works' MARVEL Tōkon.
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