Doctor Pedal, NCD Team Up to Repair Bicycles at Parking Lots
The collaboration turns the parking lot, a place cyclists already use daily, into a maintenance point, addressing the gap left by shrinking bicycle shop networks.
ASCII.jp
DIFF.3D Personalized Shoes Go on Sale at 25,000 Yen
DIFF. is positioning digital design and 3D printing as a middle path between mass-produced shoes and expensive bespoke ones, cutting the price and wait time of full-order footwear by roughly an order of magnitude.
ASCII.jp
KOBE JAM 2026 Sets Kobe Date for October 25 With Rake, KAY-I, d-iZe
The event is built on bringing disaster preparedness to people who came for music and food, and the first three editions have already drawn roughly 25,000 visitors by the organizer's count.
ASCII.jp
Alienware Unveils 4K Tandem OLED and 560Hz Esports Displays
Dell is splitting its OLED push in two directions at once, a 4K tandem panel built for image quality and a 560Hz QD-OLED built for competitive play, the latter co-developed with Team Liquid.
4Gamer.net
Mandalorian and Grogu Mini Wallet Freebie Sells Out, Gets Reprint
The sellout and emergency reprint show demand for Mandalorian and Grogu merchandise is strong enough to push a magazine release schedule back by weeks.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Mashiro Shiki's Shino Mikuro Nurse Ver. Figure Opens Pre-Orders at AmiAmi
A popular illustrator's original character moves from artwork to a 1/6 scale figure, with pre-orders open and a concrete price and release window set.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Mahjong Fight Girl's G-14 Iyo Gets Roshan Maid Summer Figure
The release puts a niche arcade game character into the premium figure market at 32,978 yen, with the sculpt centered on the maid costume's frills and the character's hip-to-thigh line.
Dengeki Hobby Web
Shibuya Scramble Stories Crowdfunding Tops 100 Million Yen
The milestone keeps Ishii's live-action Shibuya ensemble drama funded through a second open campaign, with production-access rewards and a September event lineup still ahead.
Denfaminicogamer
Plott Selected for METI IP360 Program to Expand Short Anime Overseas
METI backing gives Plott up to 40 million yen in support to turn a single-year surge in overseas views, roughly 20 times growth, into a repeatable export model that works across multiple short anime titles rather than one hit.
KAI-YOU
Japan's First Permanent Star Wars Official Store Opens in October
The announcement gives Japanese fans a permanent physical Star Wars retail presence for the first time, timed ahead of the franchise's 50th anniversary in 2027.
Denfaminicogamer
DRECOM CREATORS STUDIO Unveils First Publishing Slate of Three Indie Titles
The announcement gives DRECOM CREATORS STUDIO its first concrete publishing slate, three genre-diverse indie titles that will make their public debut at Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Automaton
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN Pop-Up Store Lands at Isetan Shinjuku
The game gets a physical retail presence at a major department store event, with advance-sale goods and novelties, extending its merchandising push after the May 2025 release.
Denfaminicogamer
NTE Unopened Area Hints at Minato Mirai, Tokyo Government Building
The unopened area appears to be built around recognizable Japanese landmarks, a sign that the game's Japan-themed city design will continue into future updates.
Automaton
SHIFT AI Junior Launches at Seifukan High School in Hyogo
The program moves SHIFT AI's school outreach from one-off lectures to a structured curriculum, giving Seifukan students ongoing AI training tied to the school's PBL-based approach.
ASCII.jp
REDMAGIC Astra 2 Gamer Tablet Launches in Japan on September 16
The Astra 2 packs a liquid-cooling unit into a tablet chassis, visible through a translucent back panel, and is pitched at sustained high-frame-rate play rather than raw specs alone.
4Gamer.net
11 Bit Studios' Crop Demo Pairs Farming Sim With Suspense
The demo reveals that Crop carries the moral-conflict storytelling typical of 11 bit studios' published titles, wrapped in a farming sim that slowly turns eerie.
4Gamer.net
Crimson Moon Launches With Mixed Steam Reviews
The launch-day backlash over missing keybinding and camera controls, met with a promised fix within the week, shows how a high-profile State of Play reveal can still stumble on basic PC customization expectations.
Game Spark
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 with Coding Gains and 75% Cache Price Cut
The release pairs a broad performance jump in agentic and coding work with a 75% cut to cache pricing, the cost that scales with long-running agent workloads.
ASCII.jp
NIKO Designer Akutsu Launches shuku+ga Photo Project With Kawashima Exhibition
A fashion designer's project reframes unremarkable days as occasions for celebration, packaged as a limited wearable, readable, and hangable set with a free gallery show.
ASCII.jp
HUNDRED LINE SRPG Designer Built Combat as the Opposite of Fire Emblem
The battle system inverts the genre's core rule: where Fire Emblem treats death as permanent loss, HUNDRED LINE makes character sacrifice the engine of both combat power and scenario impact.
Automaton
Google Unveils Google Pics, an Image Editing AI Built on Nano Banana
Google is folding AI image editing directly into its document workflow, extending the Gemini integration it already built into Docs and Slides.
ASCII.jp
GOAT -INAZUMI Terrace 2026 Features Salyu and bird at Free Beach Festival
A town of about 3,500 that previously drew 5,000 visitors keeps its festival free and hands creative roles to local students while booking established artists.
ASCII.jp
Elecom Announces Four Compact Wi-Fi 7 Routers for 1Gbps Fiber Lines
Elecom sized the routers for the standard 1Gbps fiber connection rather than multi-gig speeds, and the SENSE-equipped model extends security to devices that cannot run software.
ASCII.jp
Graveyard Keeper 2 Pre-Orders Pass $1 Million in Five Days
The five-day pre-order surge follows the April free giveaway of the 2018 original, which revived player interest and pushed Graveyard Keeper 2 wishlists past 400,000, giving the sequel momentum before launch.
Automaton