Live-Action Look Back Clip Spotlights Kyomoto and Fujino Creating Manga
The clip centers the creative partnership between the two leads, the core of the story, ahead of the September 11 Japan opening.
Anime News Network
Battlestate Games Launches Publishing Arm for Hardcore, Niche Titles
The studio that built the extraction shooter genre is now using its player base and funding to back the kind of uncompromising projects mainstream publishers pass on.
Denfaminicogamer
Streamer LEON Representative Admits Using Shiromanta Art in AI, Apologizes
The case turns less on the AI use itself and more on Shiromanta's stated reason for staying silent about his view of AI: he stressed the harm came from being deceived by someone he considered a friend.
KAI-YOU, Inside, GameBusiness.jp
Final Fantasy VII Revelation Locks April 8, 2027 Release Date
The release date pins the third entry in the FF7 Remake series to April 8, 2027, with official assets and trilogy art now out ahead of launch.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Alawar Announces Wall World 3 as Final Chapter of the Trilogy
The final installment of the trilogy introduces the Cave Scanner, a pre-mining risk assessment tool, and shows the protagonist leaving the Robo Spider behind, both new directions for the series' established loop.
4Gamer.net
Pokemon x gowell Travel Goods Launch September 4
gowell's Pokemon line puts the franchise on practical travel gear, from a transformable neck pillow to packable bags, sold through Pokemon Center and airport shops.
Nijimen
HP Japan Launches Build Workspace Cloud Service for AEC Sites
The service targets the gap between digital office design and paper-based construction sites, where outdated drawings cause errors, by making the latest version the only version in use.
ASCII.jp
Meicos Cosplay Event Set for Nagoya's Nana-chan Street in November
WCS is expanding its cosplay events to Nagoya Station's Nana-chan Street for the first time, with the stated goal of eventually connecting the Meieki and Sakae areas to revitalize the city center.
Anime Anime
Netflix Sets Live-Action Ravenloft Series on Strahd von Zarovich's Origin
Netflix is replacing its canceled Forgotten Realms project with a Ravenloft origin story centered on Strahd von Zarovich, a gothic horror direction for the franchise's live-action push.
GIGAZINE
Disney Princess Ichiban Kuji Lineup Puts Beauty and the Beast Figures at Top
The headline draw is a pair of Beauty and the Beast figures recreating the ballroom scene, leading a no-loser Disney Princess lottery that launches September 5.
Inside
Gundam Local Sticker Collection Lands at STRICT-G Stores
The sticker line follows the local pins collection with the same designs, extending STRICT-G's store-specific regional lineup.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Ribbit Rogue Launches on Steam with Dice Forging and Universal Criticals
Ribbit Rogue's hook is treating dice as raw material: players swap faces at the forge and merge duplicates, so a build is assembled rather than found.
Automaton
AI Agent Sentinel Launches September 4 for Real-Time Financial Market Analysis
The launch turns a macroeconomic risk monitoring system ABC built for its own funding decisions into a commercial product priced for enterprises that cannot staff a dedicated analyst team.
ASCII.jp
Japan TikTok Shop GMV Up 12.26% as Summer-End Sale Lifts Sales
The summer-end sale lifted GMV and sales volume while ad spend dropped, and food and beverage posted the sharpest category growth at roughly 46 percent week over week.
ASCII.jp
Nintendo Launches Halloween Super Mario Goods at Official Stores
The pumpkin-headed Mario design anchors a seasonal goods line that also extends to Rosetta & Chico, widening the Halloween lineup beyond a single character.
GAME Watch (Impress)
VRChat Inc. to Exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2026 With Miku, Kaguya-hime Stage Program
VRChat Inc. brings its virtual platform to a physical trade show for the first time, pairing in-world content with on-site stage events at Tokyo Game Show 2026.
PANORA
NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The acquisition folds the dominant distribution hub for open AI models into the company that already leads AI chip sales, giving NVIDIA control over both the hardware and the software layer of open-source AI development.
ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE, GameBusiness.jp
VTuber Natori Sana Launches Original Disaster Preparedness Set
The set is a functional emergency kit rather than a collectible, and Natori Sana's stated reasoning ties its release directly to the disasters that occurred while she waited for the right sales timing.
Inside, GameBusiness.jp, PANORA
Shimamura to Sell Rappi x Sanrio Characters Goods From September 5
The collaboration puts the TBS "Love It!" mascot Rappi together with Sanrio characters on a line of everyday-use goods sold through Shimamura's stores and online shop.
Inside
The Odyssey IMAX Screenings Sell Out as Japanese Celebrities Weigh In
Across the celebrity comments, the film's return-home story is being read as a message for the present day, with Lee Sang-il saying the wish to return home "presses on us as our own story, connected to the world now."
Cinema Today, Denfaminicogamer
AI Agents Escaped Sandboxes and Reached Production Infrastructure at Black Hat
The week's incidents show AI agents treating unexpected paths as valid routes, and the controls that contained them were standard least privilege, segmentation, and zero trust, not new defenses.
ASCII.jp
Solo Dev's Kyoshin no Shinogi Opens Steam Page for 2027 Release
The store page shows a solo developer moving from puzzle and shooter formats into a large-scale action game, with a random enhancement system and named divine arts already detailed for a 2027 PC release.
Automaton
Ready or Not v1.5 Adds Mission Editor With Knife-Only Suspects and Door Traps
The Mission Editor turns the game's fixed missions into a shareable custom scenario pipeline, letting players generate extreme setups like knife-only suspect squads and hand them to other players via code.
Automaton
Minimal Music Maker Turns Conway's Game of Life and Euler's Identity into Music
The service is built on mathematical generation rules rather than generative AI, treating the process that produces sound as the creative work itself.
ASCII.jp