Sycom took first place in both the satisfaction and recommendation rankings in the gaming PC category of EAA!!'s Gamer Census 2025-2026, a survey that drew 11,850 respondents. The commemorative model, the G-Master Velox Campio Edition 2026, is limited to 200 units and sells direct for 348,000 yen with shipping. Its standard build pairs a Ryzen 7 7700 with a Radeon RX 9070 XT, 32GB of DDR5-4800 memory, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Bandai will release the HG Ultraman 60th Anniversary Edition gashapon in the fifth week of October 2026, at 500 yen per play. The lineup has four figures: Ultraman Zero LunaMiracle, Ultraman Belial, Ultraman (Type A), and Frilled Dinosaur Jirahs. Jirahs comes with a gimmick that lets you remove its frill. Bandai labels the set a special edition tied to the 60th anniversary of HG Ultraman.
RIOT MUSIC and Culture Entertainment have announced the full performer list for ESPERA -AdHoc Live Festival 2026-, a virtual music festival on VRChat running November 20 to 22, 2026. The first two days are free, and the November 22 final day is ticketed. Performers include Kiwa Suu, VESPERBELL, Yomi, Kizuna AI, Harusaruhi, Tsukishiro Rui, Shirakawa Shirase, Shikibu Meguri, and Doo/Sakujaku kaza. Tickets went on sale October 24 on ZAIKO, with S tickets at 15,000 yen, on-site tickets at 4,000 yen, and streaming tickets at 3,000 yen.
Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 24, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with 104 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 it scored 55, above Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon at 53. The model arrives free of charge on November 4, 2026, with API pricing at $2.00 input and $10.00 output per million tokens.
At Worlds 2026 in the United States, the official LoL Esports account posted a matchup image comparing Top Esports top laner 369's champion pool with Zeus's. 369's side listed VALORANT agents Clove, Reyna, and Iso. 369 had returned to TES's starting lineup after Zuian's travel trouble, and before the tournament he streamed VALORANT three days in a row. On October 24 Japan time, TES lost 0-1 to Hanwha Life Esports.
AMNIBUS will sell new Medalist illustration goods at Animate Girls Festival 2026 on November 7 and 8 at Ikebukuro Sunshine City. The lineup draws Inori Yuitsuka and Tsukasa Amakawa in starry-sky dresses and suits: trading cards at 300 yen each, BIG acrylic stands at 2,000 yen, plus badges, bromides, colored paper, keyholders, card sets and A4 clear files. Buyers spending 2,000 yen get a random bonus postcard from five types.
Sanrio is selling commemorative prints for the top seven characters of the 2026 Sanrio Character Ranking at 7-Eleven multifunction copy machines from Saturday, October 24. The lineup has 15 items: one 2L group bromide at 400 yen, and L-size bromides and smartphone cards at 300 yen each, one per character. Pompompurin, Cinnamoroll, Pochacco, Kuromi, Hello Kitty, Pekkle, and My Melody make up the top seven.
Haconect is selling Chamako birthday goods and voice products on its official BOOTH store from October 23 to November 22, 2026. The full set costs 10,000 yen and includes a B2 silk suede wall hanging drawn by Usasa, an A5 acrylic panel with a handwritten signature, an acrylic charm, and two birthday voice tracks. Standalone options range from a 500 yen voice set to a 5,000 yen acrylic panel set.
Sega detailed the houses and placeable objects coming in the Beans & Alpacas expansion for Farming Simulator 25, due October 27 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Mac. Six house types come with different interiors, let players enter to change clothes and save, and age over time; delivering paint restores them. More than 80 new objects, including sheds and fences, can be placed around the farm.
The Wound & Bandage anime added Shoya Ishige to its cast as Ginsuke Hatobane, revealed in a second teaser video posted on Friday. The series stars Hisako Kanemoto as Riyo Washizu and Chikahiro Kobayashi as Go Kiritani, with Miyuki Ishida directing at J.C. Staff and Susumu Yamakawa writing scripts. It begins on AT-X and the ABC and TV Asahi Animazing block on January 9.
Black onyX, the pro-gamer group in the anime film Cho Kaguya-hime!, will appear by video at anan AWARD 2026, the magazine's annual award for figures who define the era. The ceremony runs Saturday, November 14 from 13:30 and streams on anan's official YouTube channel. Actor Akari Takashi, soccer player Ayase Ueda, and jockey Ryusei Sakai join the second round of announced performers. The group's specific award will be revealed on the day.
LTR Co., Ltd. will open "&TEAM CAFE ~THE WOLF BUTLERS~" in four venues: Tokyo's BOX cafe&space LUMINE EST Shinjuku from November 12, 2026, Osaka's KITTE Osaka and Aichi's Global Gate Nagoya from December 3, and Tokyo's SHIBUYA109 from December 10. Reservations open October 26 at 18:00 for a 990 yen fee, with an afternoon tea set, venue-specific plates and parfaits, original goods, and order bonuses.
Bethesda Game Studios creative director Jonathan Rush says Fallout 76's C.A.M.P. system will move toward more freeform building, and that new raids are among the planned initiatives. Speaking around Fallout Day and a collaboration cafe in Omotesando, Tokyo, Rush said the team's past updates favored builders and adventurers while social, interaction-focused players have been underserved. He also said a large-scale Fallout 30th anniversary event is planned for Washington, D.C. in 2027.
The Kobe Calling 2026 organizing committee announced the second lineup for the October 31 and November 1 event at KIITO in Kobe. Kobe Steel joins with a VR exhibition on its manufacturing sites, Kobe University medical researchers present a heartbeat-driven installation, and Mazda's training school shows a Le Mans rotary engine. Registration opened for free student passes, and BizWorld Japan runs a free student hackathon, HackARThon.
Boulies held its Japan Market Entry 1st Anniversary Business Strategy Presentation on October 22, introducing the Boulies Master Rex 2026 chair. Sales opened the same day on Makuake, with a planned general retail price of 72,800 yen. The chair reclines up to 165 degrees and carries 6D armrests and lumbar support. Boulies also said Japan-market products and collaboration models with domestic IPs are planned.
Amazon Japan lists the fifth collected volume of Kumo Kagyu and artist Koutarou Sekine's Moscow 2160 as the series' final book. The volume ships on December 25. Sekine and Kagyu launched the manga in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan in December 2022, with Noboru Kannatsuki on character design. Square Enix shipped the fourth volume in December 2025. SB Creative released a light novel adaptation by Kagyu in June 2023.
Kobato Takanashi will hold the online 3D live "Kobato Takanashi Birthday 3D LIVE 2026 ~COLORFUL TOY BOX~" from 21:00 on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. Fifteen guest VTubers will appear, all with 3D models, bringing the total to 16 3D performers. The theme is a toy box, with singing, dancing, and comedy segments, and a major announcement is planned at the end.
The Hatsune Miku Yozora Program 2026 ran September 21 to 23 at Niigata Nippo Media Ship, drawing about 7,100 visitors. The main event paired large music fireworks with AR Hatsune Miku through the HoloModel app, and a first-come session ran 200 XREAL AR glasses at once. Two VRChat worlds, including a Bandai Bridge reproduction and a reopened and ST collaboration, drew over 316,000 users by October 7.
A researcher who goes by mochi64 rebuilt the 32 by 32 pixel stone tablet in Super Mario 64's castle courtyard by re-rendering candidate inscriptions and scoring them against the game's image. "Eternal Star" ranked first among 1,237,405 candidates, and a search of 17,700 common English words produced "We hope so" as the second line. Nintendo has not confirmed the reading.
Mouse Computer is sponsoring the esports event "DetonatioN FocusMe presents CONNeCT TOCHIGI 2026 powered by Ashikaga Bank," held October 24 at the multipurpose plaza of Ark Town Utsunomiya (Tobu Sogo Park) in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. Admission is free. Doors open at 11:00, the main stage runs from 12:00 to 17:15, and the venue closes at 18:00. At the Mouse Computer booth, visitors can play Street Fighter 6 on the G TUNE FG-A7G70, a collaboration model with the professional esports team DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM). Pro gamers Itabashi Zangief and Nauman appear for a match session. Mouse Computer products are also used in stage programs and exhibition matches. Seat use requires advance application, and the day's program details are on the official site. The event aims to connect local youth, companies, and the community through esports.
Bandai Spirits has published the full prize lineup for Ichiban Kuji Chokotto Whippy & Lappy on the Ichiban Kuji Club site. Each draw costs 550 yen including tax. In-store sales begin sequentially from Thursday, November 19, 2026, and online sales start at 11:00 that same day. The prizes run from Whippy, Lappy, and Puchi COCOPOCCH! plush mascots to a drawstring pouch, acrylic charm, zipper bag and sticker set, and a Last One Prize tote bag.
Rapper G PLANTS and producer STUTS collaborated on a Red Bull 64 Bars video, released October 22 at 19:00 on the Red Bull Mike YouTube channel. STUTS produced the beat sampling Tom Misch's "The Journey." The track comes out digitally as G PLANTS's single "GET GLUE 64 Bars" on October 23, with lyrics by G PLANTS and production by STUTS.
SB C&S will begin handling Aww's HITO interactive AI virtual human on October 22, 2026. HITO reproduces a human appearance on screen and talks with visitors in real time, covering reception, facility guidance, FAQ response and multilingual customer service. It runs on commercially available PCs, monitors, microphones and speakers, supports up to 15 languages based on Japanese, English and Chinese, and can be deployed in as little as a week when an existing character is used.
TONIQ Inc. representative director Yuki Kimura will speak at ad:tech tokyo 2026, held at Tokyo Midtown from October 21 to 23, 2026, with a booth at B5. On October 22, 13:00 to 13:40 at Exhibition Stage2, he joins J.League marketing director Shohei Takebuchi and Sanfrecce Hiroshima's Shun Yamaji and Akira Hamada to discuss using data and CRM to turn stadium attendance into repeat visits.
Hobby Japan's HJ64 mini car brand has opened Amazon.co.jp pre-orders on 1/64 scale models, including the Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT APEX (AE86) 2 Door Late Model in a JDM STYLE Carbon Bonnet version and three body colors, plus the Subaru S210 in three colors and the Subaru WRX S4 STI SPORT R EX (VB) with a separate rear spoiler. Each Trueno is priced at 4,180 yen and scheduled for release on February 28, 2027.
BTO PC maker STORM is running a Golden Sale on gaming PCs, and one listing is the GKB-57X56 at 199,900 yen including tax. The desktop pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and 8GB of video memory, plus 32GB of DDR4 memory and a 1TB NVMe SSD. It ships with Windows 11 Home preinstalled and an 850W 80 PLUS GOLD power supply in a black case with a clear panel and RGB lighting.
NIGHT HIKE 2026 in Makuhari runs October 31 and November 1 at Makuhari Messe, moving up from its 2023 start at Shibuya WOMB. LAM made the key visual and appears in the live installation SYNK, while Ilya Kuvshinov performs live drawing. In a joint interview, the two illustrators trace how they found each other's work online more than 10 years ago and discuss shared motifs, including short hairstyles.
The Illumination film Minions & Monsters is scheduled for rental streaming on U-NEXT and Amazon Prime Video from November 11, 2026, with Pierre Coffin directing and Ken Matsudaira, Yudai Chiba, and Koichi Yamadera in the Japanese dub. At the time of the report, DMM TV, TSUTAYA DISCAS, FOD, and ABEMA were not carrying the film, and the status for Hulu and Disney+ was still being confirmed.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CTO Scott Van Vliet said on October 21 that XBOX LABS, the small team formed on October 14, has run Xbox 360 interfaces including the Blade dashboard in a web browser. The video shows Blade panels moving left and right rather than sitting as a static background. Whether games can be played from the browser is not stated.
Puramokoujouiinkai opened Amazon.co.jp preorders on October 20, 2026 for two Racing Miku 2026 Ver. hobby tools: a high-capacity tool pouch at 2,750 yen and a 10cm by 10cm mini cutting mat. Both carry Kuroboshi Kouhaku's Racing Miku 2026 artwork. The pouch uses PU leather with embroidered Miku logos and a clear back pocket; the mat prints grid cutting lines on its reverse. Release is scheduled for November 30, 2026.
Anthropic will run Built with Claude: Japan 2026, a fully online hackathon co-hosted with the AI community Cerebral Valley, from 12:00 on November 2 to 14:00 on November 10. Applications for Japan residents close at 23:59 on October 26, and 250 people who pass screening can join, alone or in teams of up to two. Participants build with Claude Code; each screened applicant gets the Max 5x Plan and $500 in Claude API credits, and winners share $50,000 in credits.
Frederic will sell paid streaming tickets for the June 2026 fan club tour "Home Party Tour 2026-RAINVENT-" through the FanStream app and StreamPass platform, run by Fanplus and Ticket Plus. The stream includes live footage of 13 songs from the June 12 Tokyo show at Zepp Shinjuku and documentary footage from all three dates in Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi.
The FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM 2026 holds its final judging and awards ceremony on Saturday, December 12, 2026, at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Box1000, running from 13:00 to 19:00 with doors at 12:30. Eight finalists give final presentations, judges decide the winners, and a symposium with founder Yuima Nakazato and special guests is planned. The program was launched by Nakazato in 2021 to discover and support designers.
SNAPLACE released Umeshiwa ~I Want to Go Home on Time 365 Days~ for iOS and Android on October 19, 2026. The pixel-art mini-game adventure follows an office worker who meets a talking onigiri at a convenience store after overtime. It packs 100 mini-game types across 1,095 stages over a 365-day in-game year. The first 30 days are free; a one-time 300 yen pass unlocks the rest.
YouTuber mochi64 recreated the tiny 32x32-pixel pedestal inscription from Super Mario 64 in 1990s-era fonts and compared pixel differences against the original. The upper line matched best with "Eternal Star" and the lower line with "We hope so." Among roughly 470 period fonts, Adobe's 1990 Palatino Bold Italic gave the closest match. Mochi64 notes Nintendo has not confirmed the reading and wants outside verification.
Startup Factory will hold the Shibuya Startup Cultural Festival 2026 on November 3 at Shibuya Hikarie Hall A, with free admission and free experiences. Osamu Suzuki, THE RAMPAGE's Jin and Shogo Iwaya, Chidaruma Shin-tai's Takumi Goto, Takafumi Horie, Kyo, Suki ni Narimashita. members and Yutori's Takanobu Kataishi are set to appear. CyberAgent, Dwango, Naily and HA-LU are confirmed exhibitors.
A limited-time Initial D pop-up shop on the first floor of the FKD Interpark store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi runs until November 1. It displays and sells AUTOart's 1/18 scale Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86), made to mark 30 years since the manga's serialization began, alongside a real AE86. The model reproduces the Project D specification, and the shop also carries licensed goods, apparel, and car accessories.
AMNIBUS will sell Tougen Anki merchandise using new suit illustrations early at its Animate Girls Festival 2026 booth, held November 7 and 8 at Ikebukuro Sunshine City. The lineup includes random trading glitter can badges (10 types), cheki prints (10 types) and bromides (13 types), plus BIG acrylic stands and B8 hard card cases. A five-character A4 clear file is limited to the venue. Orders open on the AMNIBUS site from November 9 at 12:00.
The Steam store page is live for She's Coming Over & My Place is a Dump!, a first-person cleaning simulation from We Had a Plan, a small indie team based in Turkey. The game starts with a room full of piled dishes, scattered clothes, and dust, and tasks the player with tidying it before the woman the protagonist invited over arrives. It supports Japanese and is scheduled for release in Q4 2026, with pricing undecided.
REJECT will hold a public viewing of streamer Amaki Pururu's Halloween live "Angel & Devil Nocturne - Halloween Nightmare -" on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Minato-ku, Tokyo. The YouTube stream will run on the theater screen, with penlights as a visitor bonus, permitted Halloween costumes, vocal cheering, and a greeting from Pururu after the show. Tickets, 11,000 yen with a mask and penlight, went on sale October 19, 2026 at 19:00.
Chugai Mining will sell the fourth round of Yowamushi Pedal LIMIT BREAK "BIRTHDAY FLOWER" goods early at its Animate Girls Festival 2026 booth on November 7 and 8 at Ikebukuro Sunshine City. The lineup uses new art of six characters in white suits holding bouquets: Sakamichi Onoda, Shokichi Naruko, Junta Teshima, Sangaku Manami, Yasutomo Arakita and Toichiro Todo. Pre-orders are open on Chugaionline, with purchase bonuses at the venue and online.
Ankama will stream Aoki Densho Welsh & Shedar with English, Japanese, and French dubs and subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese for free worldwide on its Krosmoz YouTube channel starting November 5. Episode two follows on November 6, with more episodes weekly. The English dub casts Daniel J. McLean and Kevin Garcia, and Marissa Lenti as Zabelle.
EXO-6 is producing 1/6 scale figures of Ensign Pavel Chekov and Nurse Christine Chapel from "Star Trek: The Original Series," distributed in Japan by Platz. Chekov's sculpt follows Walter Koenig's likeness in a fabric Command gold uniform; Chapel's is a new mold based on Majel Barrett with a sky-blue medical uniform. Each costs 63,800 yen and is scheduled to ship in March 2027.
Tokyo Otaku Mode has put hololive Meet 2026 merchandise on sale, with sets devoted to Tsunomaki Watame and Chihaya Rindo, both named ambassadors for the global event series. Each ambassador has seven items available: an Acrylic Name Tag Mascot and a Square Can Magnet at 770 yen each, a Deformed Illustration T-Shirt at 3,850 yen, a Luggage Tag at 1,540 yen, an Oshi-Katsu Pouch at 3,300 yen, a 2way Aurora Acrylic Stand at 1,980 yen, and a Hologram Can Badge at 550 yen, all tax included. The lineup leans on key visual illustration acrylic stands and deformed-style artwork, with wearable pieces such as the pouch, luggage tag, and shirt alongside the badges and magnets. hololive Meet is described as a series that travels to bring the hololive production experience to fans around the world. Prices and stock status are as of the time the articles were published.
ANYCOLOR will bring NIJISANJI EN to Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2026, running November 27 to 29 at Suntec City Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Nijisanji booth, number M10, distributes venue-exclusive benefits while supplies last. Sonny Brisko, Shu Yamino, Luca Kaneshiro, and Ren Zotto appear remotely on the AFA NEXT Stage on Saturday, November 28 at 17:15 local time. Entry to the stage needs no stage ticket, but an event admission ticket is required.
Luke Dicken, former AI head at Take-Two Interactive, told Kotaku that AI-driven decompiling and porting of games without the rights holder's permission is an issue developers and publishers must take seriously. He expects more invasive DRM and platform-level countermeasures, which he says will disadvantage consumers. Godot Engine's Emilio Coppola argued platforms such as Steam should share the burden of policing AI clones rather than leaving it to developers.
Game & Co. and Samurai Kobo will air the first terrestrial TV commercial for the trading card game Xross Stars from October 20, 2026, nationwide except in some regions. The 15-second spot is titled "[Xross Stars] Appearing as a card! LEO joins Cross" and features Ryosuke Yamada in two personas: the artist Yamada and the streamer LEO, who is affiliated with the professional gaming team Crazy Raccoon. The two appear together on screen for the first time. Yamada also took the stage as LEO at an announcement event on October 19. He said the costume was settled through discussion with his own input, and on seeing the finished card he said, "It's super cool! Maybe a little too cool." He described LEO as his off-duty state. The commercial will also go up on YouTube on October 20, and a making-of plus interview video is planned for later release. LEO joins Xross Stars as a leader card in Booster Pack Vol. 5 "Ignition Vortex," due October 30 at 475 yen per pack of eight cards or 5,700 yen per box of 12 packs.
The CGWORLD 2026 Creative Conference runs December 6 at Ariake Central Tower Hall & Conference in Tokyo, free with advance registration. Animator and character designer Hanabushi drew the key visual under the theme "Creators connect. Beyond that." The first session round includes Framestore on its VFX work for "Project Hail Mary," Riot Games and Agora Community on facial animation, Whatever Co. on the Kao horror game "Shizukana Osouji," and Universal Entertainment on amusement machine video made with Unreal Engine.
Unite Tokyo 2026 runs November 17 at Bellsalle Shibuya Garden, and Unity Technologies Japan has posted the talk details. Staff from the Unity headquarters team visiting Japan will give the keynote and a Unity Roadmap session. Unity Japan engineers cover CoreCLR migration ahead of Unity 7 in 2027, BIRP to URP, URP lighting, Addressables, AI agent development, XR, and Unity Robotics. Some titles are provisional, and external speaker talks are still to be announced.
Hobby Japan's 1/64 MF Ghost Series is taking orders for two Toyota 86 GT (ZN6) die-cast miniatures, both modeled on the car driven by Katagiri Kanata: the Odawara Pikes Peak spec and the Ashinoko GT spec, the latter with gold-outlined 86 decals and its own wheels. Each is 4,290 yen with tax, planned for release in May 2027 or later, sold through Post Hobby and model retailers.