WARDOGS Names Cheaters as 11th Reason Not to Buy the Game
The developer extends its candid "reasons not to buy" series, which previously pushed Steam wishlists past one million, to set honest expectations about anti-cheat before launch.
Game Spark
Games
Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Console Opens Reservations at Nojima and Yodobashi
The console is already sold out at the Nintendo Store, so the Nojima and Yodobashi reservations are the remaining purchase channel for the anniversary hardware.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Wanderburg Early Access Launch Draws 8,834 Concurrent Players on Steam
The launch converts a 126,000-player playtest, a seventh-ranked Steam Next Fest demo, and a gamescom award into a live player base, with the developer already shipping balance and bug hotfixes the day after release.
Automaton
Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Lineup Opens Reservations at Joshin
The 40th anniversary Zelda hardware lineup now has a confirmed release date and price at a major Japanese retailer, giving the bundle a concrete retail path ahead of its October launch.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Roguelite RPG Daxiwang: Qisha Lunhui Puts Ming Rebel Zhang Xianzhong in Hell
The game casts a historical figure remembered for mass killings as a playable hell-escape protagonist, and its Steam description ties his in-fiction resurrection directly to player engagement.
4Gamer.net
maimai de luxe MAGiCAL Adds Hiroshi Nohara's Lunch Style Collab
The collab pairs the anime's opening song and four characters with the MAGiCAL version launch, giving players a reason to start the new version on day one.
Denfaminicogamer
FuturLab Cancels Unannounced Project as Seven Staff Depart
The cancellation reverses FuturLab's stated goal of not being a PowerWash-only studio, pulling the company back toward the series even as its 2025 finances improved.
Automaton
Steam Glitch Leaks Unreleased Game Achievements, Raising Spoiler Risk
The leak turns achievement lists into a spoiler vector for unreleased games, and the Exophase admin's account points the cause at Valve's API rather than the database sites.
Automaton
Sony DADC Corrects Disc Phase-Out: 10% Decline, Not a Tenth
The correction shows the disc phase-out is gradual rather than abrupt, and the real obstacle is that Sony has not licensed its proprietary disc production process, leaving no third-party path to keep physical discs in circulation.
GIGAZINE
Airframe Ultra Arrives November 5 with Demo Live on Steam
Videocult, the studio behind Rain World, is following that 2017 game with a violent cyberpunk hoverbike racer, and the Steam demo gives players a look at the new direction now.
4Gamer.net
Pokémon GO Brings 19 Legendary Statues to Tokyo's Nihonbashi, Yaesu
The event turns a shopping district into a playable Pokémon GO course for nearly three months, pairing physical statues with in-game spawns and a paid puzzle layer.
Anime News Network
SILENT HILL f and Urban Legend Dissolution Center Launch Collaboration
The free browser mini game is produced by Hakaba Bunko, the developer of the Shueisha Games-published Urban Legend Dissolution Center, meaning the crossover content comes from the smaller game's studio rather than Konami.
4Gamer.net, Game Spark
Library Tidying Game Monk Took Book Opens With 100% Positive Reviews
A two-person London studio has opened a sortslop title at a perfect review score by pairing free-form book sorting with a busy action layer at night.
Automaton
Shining Nikki's New Event Turns Nikki into a Doll Specimen
The event pushes Shining Nikki's dress-up freedom to a new extreme by treating Nikki herself as a display piece, with the specimen concept carried through to the gacha presentation.
Automaton
Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Product Page Goes Live at BicCamera
The retailer page going live with pre-orders being prepared signals the Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 bundle is close to opening for orders ahead of its October 29 release.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Ultraman VRChat Digital Fashion Launches September 16 at TOKYO AVATAR GATE
The Ultraman series, marking its 60th anniversary in 2026, gets official VRChat digital fashion through the TOKYO AVATAR GATE marketplace, with V Inc. building the kaiju costume items and ARROVA planning the line.
PANORA
Astraea Oratio Preview: A Magicless Bureaucrat Manages 89 Tokyo's Magic Users
Dynamis One's new title pairs a nostalgic, star-drenched 89 Tokyo with a premise built on a single magicless civil servant managing troublesome magic users alone.
Denfaminicogamer
NTE Adds Linko, a Radio-Wave Girl Who Calls Allies for Sync Attacks
Linko's kit is built around calling allies for Sync Attacks, a team-focused style the preview says previous characters did not have, and her pachinko-style launch gives her top-class gliding mobility for exploration.
Automaton
Kameoka Mayor Appears Bound in Tape for City Mystery Game
A city government is betting an immersive mystery game, with the sitting mayor bound in the promotional art, will pull visitors through the greenery fair and the city's art and history spots.
ASCII.jp
NIKKE Kyoto Collab Second Round Unveils Animated PV and Theme Song
The JR Tokai Oshitabi leg starts two days before the Kyoto event, extending the collaboration into the journey itself along the Tokaido Shinkansen rather than confining it to the city.
4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer
White House Pulls Tetris-Like Game from Arcade After Tetris Company Complaint
The removal shows the Tetris Company's copyright enforcement reaching a government-hosted game site, with the White House pulling the title within days of the complaint.
GIGAZINE
Ocarina of Time Remake Lands November 5 on Switch 2
The remake arrives roughly two months after its announcement, a faster turnaround than expected, and lands in the same release window as GTA6.
ASCII.jp
US White House Removes Tetris-Style Build the Wall Game
The quiet removal of the Tetris-like game suggests the White House responded to the copyright pressure from The Tetris Company, though no official explanation or legal outcome has been confirmed.
Game Spark
In Control: Rocketry Brings Hand-Built Spaceflight to PC in 2027
The game's defining feature is that the control panel itself is a buildable, wireable component, letting players construct their own control systems and automation rather than flying a pre-made cockpit.
Automaton