Veterum Ends Early Access on September 7 With Price Increase Planned
The full release date and planned price hike give Steam users a narrow window to buy the SRPG at its early-access discount before the cost goes up.
Game Spark
Sushi Restaurant Simulator Opens Steam Page, Covers Ingredient Prep and Online Co-Op
The game distinguishes itself from typical restaurant sims by requiring hands-on ingredient preparation and inventory management, and it adds online co-op for shared busy periods.
4Gamer.net
Pokemon And J.League To Distribute 60 Types Of Eco Bags At Stadiums
The campaign ties a 1-million-unit giveaway of environmentally certified merchandise to 60 distinct club identities, making it one of the largest single-branded promotional runs in Japanese sports.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Short Adventure Game ECHOES Gets Steam Page, 2026 Release
The game's core puzzle mechanic-decoding a fictional language from an android's broken speech-is an unusual hook for a short-form adventure title.
Game Spark
Easy Red 2 Expansion Blood on the Danube Gets July Release Date
The expansion significantly expands Easy Red 2's scope with a scale the developer calls unprecedented, adding content that covers the final major Eastern Front campaigns.
Game Spark
Hatsune Miku Creator Hiroyuki Ito to Appear on NHK Program About Generative AI
The creator of Hatsune Miku, a figure born from user-generated content, will speak on a national public broadcaster about how generative AI relates to creative work.
KAI-YOU
SNS Mystery Game Observer of the Mikakutei Incident Passes 10,000 Sales
The game's rapid sales and high user rating show strong demand for narrative-driven SNS puzzle games that treat social media as a core mechanic rather than a framing device.
Automaton
Ichiban Kuji Overlord Lineup Revealed With New Figures and Prizes
The lineup expands the Overlord merchandise slate with a new Chokonokko figure and a metallic poster alongside the previously teased Gracemaster figures, giving collectors a clear release date and price point.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Mushoku Tensei III Eris Figure Opens for Pre-Order at AmiAmi
The simultaneous rollout of figures for Eris, Sylphiette, and Lucy, plus a confirmed Roxy figure in production, indicates that merchandise partners are treating the entire Greyrat household as a coordinated product line for the third season.
Dengeki Hobby Web, GAME Watch (Impress), Real Sound Anime
Retro FPS Immersive Sim 'PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION' Gets July 31 Steam Release
The announcement locks a release date for a retro-styled immersive sim that emphasizes player choice and multiple endings, a subgenre that has seen renewed interest on PC.
Game Spark
VTuber Style and Gravity App Hold Magazine Feature Ranking Event
This event marks a rare direct pipeline from in-app streaming activity to print media exposure, offering Gravity creators a concrete external reward and extending the app's oshi-katsu model into traditional magazine publishing.
PANORA
Haconect Operator Analog Launches Akihabara Station Ads for Creator Project e-VALT
The station ad campaign marks the first public-facing promotional push for e-VALT, a creator-support project that distinguishes itself by allowing participants to maintain existing agency affiliations.
PANORA
Gundam Seed Freedom Nebuta Floats to Parade at Aomori Nebuta Festival
This is the first time the Gundam Festival Project has adapted a mecha design into a traditional nebuta float, blending a major anime IP with a UNESCO-recognized festival craft.
Cinema Today, Denfaminicogamer, Anime Anime
Counter-Strike 2 Tops Steam Ranking, Echoes of Aincrad Debuts at 7th
Echoes of Aincrad's debut at seventh place on the Steam chart, ahead of its full release, signals strong pre-launch interest in the latest SAO console game, which Bandai Namco is backing with a streamer recruitment campaign and dedicated PlayStation talk show segments.
ASCII.jp, GAME Watch (Impress), 4Gamer.net
Death Gavvan Gets New DX Weapons From Ultra Space Detective Gavvan Infinity
These are the first Dark-version weapons for Death Gavvan in the main series, expanding the toy lineup with combinable robot modes.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Idol VTuber Unit Quinte Reaches 10 Original Songs With 'Watch Me'
Quinte's rapid output of 10 original songs in roughly 18 months demonstrates the unit's sustained production pace and the Lovvebox model of blending virtual streaming with monthly offline live events.
PANORA
Coly Reveals Ranka Manku, Third Upbeats! Member in Disney Sparklink Stars
The daily character reveals are building out the UPbeats! unit, with each member directly tied to a classic Disney character, confirming the app's core concept of original characters based on Disney icons.
4Gamer.net
Pompeii: The Legacy Developer Cites Thermae Romae as a Favorite Influence
The interview reveals how a Croatian solo developer drew on a Japanese manga about Roman baths to shape the tone of a historical city-builder, a cross-cultural influence not typical for the genre.
Game Spark
Blue Lock Teams With Hair Care Brand Medulla for Limited Collaboration
The collaboration extends Blue Lock's merchandising into personal care, with a pop-up exhibition showing the characters in pajamas and a web commercial that plays on the series' ego-driven themes.
Anime Anime
Xreal Launches Entry-Level Ar Glasses Xbx A01+ At 43,980 Yen
The xbx a01+ drops the entry price for XREAL AR glasses by roughly 24,000 yen compared to the XREAL 1S, making the category accessible to a younger, price-sensitive audience for the first time.
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Sukiyaki Daisuki TV Returns With First Dead by Daylight Video in Over 2 Years
The return of a long-dormant major fan channel signals renewed community energy around Dead by Daylight's 10th anniversary, with the video's trending performance showing sustained interest in the game's VOICEROID content niche.
KAI-YOU
Hakos Baelz, FUWAMOCO Nendoroids Lead Dengeki Hobby's June 2026 Hololive Ranking
The monthly ranking provides a direct measure of which Hololive merchandise and figure announcements generate the most reader engagement on a major hobby news site.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Airborne Empire Developer Traces Game's Origins From a Hotel Simulator
The interview provides a direct account of how a small remote team iterated from a hotel sim to a full aerial city-building game, and how Early Access feedback shaped the final release.
Game Spark
Half of 100 Once-Successful Blogs Lost Over 85% of Search Traffic, Study Finds
The study quantifies the collapse of the blog-ad-revenue model that relied on Google sending free clicks in exchange for content, a premise founder Daniel Stanica says broke in 2023.
GIGAZINE