Live-Action Renai Rubi no Tadashii Furikata Series Gets Second Season
The renewal confirms the series' audience traction a year after its first season and keeps Tanaka's BL manga adaptations in active production.
Anime News Network
Disney Pixel RPG to End Service in September 2026
The closure of a licensed Disney mobile game after only two years, with no explanation given, signals a short lifecycle for a major IP title in a crowded market.
4Gamer.net
Midjourney Demands Hollywood Studios Disclose Internal AI Usage in Copyright Fight
Midjourney is trying to turn the studios' own AI practices into evidence that unauthorized training on copyrighted works is standard industry behavior, which could reshape the legal boundaries of fair use for generative AI.
GIGAZINE
Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Concurrent Players Top 100,000 After 70% Off Sale
A seven-year-old single-player RPG hitting 100,000 concurrent players on Steam shows how deep discounting can still drive major engagement long after launch.
Denfaminicogamer
Quid Pro Games Announces Medieval Strategy Game Bergfried
Bergfried combines freeform castle building with tactical siege defense, a niche that has few dedicated titles on Steam.
Denfaminicogamer
Longplay Studios Opens Steam Page for FD's Industry Tycoon
The debut of FD's Industry Tycoon expands Longplay Studios' catalog beyond its successful turn-based survival roguelike Terminus: Zombie Survivors into the management simulation genre.
Denfaminicogamer
Ganbare Goemon Daishugo! User Ratings Hit 4.98 on PS Store
The collection's extremely high user scores suggest strong demand for well-ported retro compilations of dormant series, and may encourage Konami to revisit other classic franchises.
Game Spark
How Do We Relationship? Manga Gets Live-Action Series in September
The adaptation brings a completed yuri manga to live-action television with a full production team and an intimacy coordinator, a rare combination for the genre.
Anime News Network
RetroCrush Adds Hyakusho Kizoku, 500000000 Years Button Anime
The additions expand RetroCrush's catalog of classic and niche anime, bringing Hiromu Arakawa's autobiographical farming series and a surreal short-story adaptation to a wider audience.
Anime News Network
Steam Summer Sale Simulator Lets You Buy Games for Free
The simulator taps into the phenomenon of buying games for the thrill rather than playing them, offering a free outlet for that urge during the real Steam Summer Sale.
Automaton
Converge Motion Ultraman Series 15 Adds Ultraman Theo and 1973 Ver. Ultraseven
The lineup introduces the latest Ultra Hero Ultraman Theo alongside anniversary and retro designs, continuing the CONVERGE MOTION series' pattern of mixing new and nostalgic Ultraman characters.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Level Infinity Adds Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus Model to RTX 5090 Laptop
The new Level Infinity models are among the first laptops to combine Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh HX-series processors with NVIDIA's Blackwell-based RTX 50-series mobile GPUs, targeting both gaming and local AI workloads.
ASCII.jp
Trails in the Sky the 1st Switch Version Gets Free Trial Period
The free trial and simultaneous sale give new players a low-risk entry point into the remake ahead of the sequel's September release.
4Gamer.net
Ultraman Heroes Join Ningen Daisu Figure Series With Built-In Magnets
The Ningen Daisu line expands Ultraman merchandise into a modular display format that emphasizes placement on metal surfaces, targeting collectors who value flexible arrangement over static poses.
Dengeki Hobby Web
FrogTree's Type 3 Kiryu Art Sofubi Debuts in Godzilla Vinyl Art Line
The piece marks the latest entry in a series where international sofubi artists reinterpret Godzilla through personal artistic lenses, this time blending mechanical design with traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Dengeki Hobby Web
OceanVeil Announces English Dubs for Secret Mission and KAMUI: He's Behind You
OceanVeil is expanding its English-dub catalog with two adult-oriented anime, one a 2023 series and the other a current-season title.
Anime News Network
Hololive DJ Night Ft. Otakuni in Taipei Set for September 12-13
This is hololive production's first official DJ event in Asia for 2026, using a "Ghost DJ" format where talents curate but do not perform live, and partnering with a local collective to bridge virtual and physical fan experiences in Taiwan.
hololive production (EN)
GKIDS Announces Home Video Releases for Look Back, Angel's Egg, More Films
GKIDS is bringing three distinct titles to physical media, including a new 4K restoration of the classic OVA Angel's Egg and a first-time Blu-ray for Anno's live-action debut.
Anime News Network
HBO Max to Stream Live-Action Junji Ito Series Internationally This Fall
The international streaming deal brings a new live-action adaptation of Junji Ito's horror manga to a global audience via HBO Max.
Anime News Network
Finland's Tech Strengths and Japan Collaboration Gaps Laid Out at IVS 2026
The panel reveals a persistent mismatch in perception and communication that limits deeper tech collaboration between two countries with complementary strengths.
4Gamer.net
GALLERIA Launches Four Gaming PCs With Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition
The new GALLERIA PCs are the first retail systems to feature AMD's 10th-anniversary edition of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a CPU built around the Zen 3 architecture and 3D V-Cache technology, targeting high-end gaming and content creation.
ASCII.jp
Full Clearing Another World Anime Casts Sōhei Horikane, Ikumi Hasegawa, October Debut
The adaptation arrives as the light novel series approaches its conclusion, giving the anime a defined endpoint from the start.
Anime News Network
IVS 2026 Panel Examines Tokens' Shift From Marketing Gimmick to Business Tool
The panel signals a maturation of the token space, where industry players are now prioritizing practical infrastructure over speculative marketing.
4Gamer.net
IVS Panel: Japan's Game Industry Struggles to Co-Create With New Markets
The panel highlights a structural gap in Japan's game industry: a lack of firsthand market knowledge and local adaptation that limits its ability to compete in fast-growing regions like the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
4Gamer.net