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PARCO will hold GeGeGe no PARCO at Chofu PARCO from November 18 to 30, timed to Chofu City's GeGeGe Ki event, the company said on October 23. Under the concept "Beware of Yokai," the campaign plans a yokai search rally with a completion sticker, photo booths including a plush photo booth, limited goods, and a Nintendo Switch lottery for restaurant diners.
Sega will run "SEGA POP-UP SHOP in Okinawa PARCO CITY" at the San-A Urasoe West Coast PARCO CITY 3F Green Zone special venue from Friday, October 30 to Sunday, November 29, 2026. Goods cover Sonic the Hedgehog, Like a Dragon, Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, Puyo Puyo, and Persona. Shoppers spending 3,300 yen or more receive a shisa-themed Sega logo acrylic keychain.
PARCO GAMES will run the pop-up store "KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS x PARCO GAMES STRAND STORE" at Nagoya PARCO from October 17 to October 25, 2026, following runs in Shibuya and Shinsaibashi. The event sells the first official merchandise for OD - KNOCK, the title Kojima Productions is co-developing with Xbox Game Studios, alongside collaboration goods from more than 15 brands.
Pickyou Inc. will hold the influencer flea market event HIVE JUNCTION by PICKYOU with PARCO at three PARCO locations this autumn: Sapporo on October 10, Sendai on October 24, and Shizuoka on November 3. Influencers from each city sell items they have worn. Photo booths and DJ performances are planned. Admission requires free PARCO Members membership, and Shizuoka PARCO is free.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026 in Chiba on September 17, representatives from Sanrio, Toei, and PARCO discussed why they entered game publishing. Sanrio announced Sanrio Games on April 21, 2026; Toei announced Toei Games the same day; PARCO announced PARCO GAMES on August 19, 2025. Each cited global expansion, fan growth, and owning their own IP as aims.
PARCO GAMES announced on September 17, 2026 that a Nintendo Switch version of Finding Polka is in production. The dog-searching adventure game has no release date or price set for the Switch edition. The Switch version will carry additional content including new stages, and that same content is also planned for distribution on the Steam version. Finding Polka released on PC via Steam on August 12, 2026 at 1,500 yen. Every illustration and design in the game is drawn with ballpoint pen, and it has won TGS2026 SELECTED INDIE 80 Excellence Awards PLATINUM (Best in Show), gamescom Award 2026 Most Wholesome, BITSUMMIT Award 2026 Best Visual Design and Kids Selection Award, and BIC Festival Award 2026 EXCELLENCE IN ART. Tokyo Game Show 2026 runs from September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe, where the Switch version is playable at the PARCO GAMES booth, number 09-C65.
An immersive Panda! Go, Panda! exhibition runs from December 12, 2026 to January 31, 2027 at Nagoya PARCO West Building 8F PARCO HALL. It displays production materials, setting drawings and image boards, recreates the dining room of Mimiko's house, and adds a Rainy Day Circus area with a circus train, bed boat and photo spots. Exhibition-original goods go on sale, with advance tickets from September 12.
Publisher Panic's strategy RPG Arco has sold 100,000 copies two years after its August 2024 release, recouping development costs. Composer and sound designer José Ramón García revealed the milestone in a Game Developer interview. Most sales came through Steam, with a significant share of buyers playing on Steam Deck.
Hello Andromeda announced Sarco at the Ukrainian Games Festival 2026 on August 18. The first-person horror game has no jump scares, instead forcing players to keep their eyes on a sarcophagus holding a primordial being. Looking away lets it open, but oxygen is running out, so players must explore the facility to find a permanent seal. It launches on PC via Steam in the fourth quarter of 2026, with no Japanese support at this time.
Humble Bundle is selling the Indie's Support for Venezuela Bundle, a charity collection of 12 indie games from Venezuela including VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. The minimum price is $16.50, and the total value of the titles at full Steam price is 20,170 yen. Proceeds support relief for a recent major earthquake in Venezuela.
PARCO GAMES released Finding Polka, an interactive adventure by Japanese creative studio lidlocks, on Steam today, August 12, 2026. The game follows protagonist Frendy, who lives peacefully with his dog Jazz, as he searches for a dog resembling Polka, a companion from his childhood. Set in a world drawn with a ballpoint pen, players explore map areas while chasing Polka's figure, with optional mini-games such as mini golf, whack-a-mole, soccer penalty kicks, boat races, watermelon splitting, and volleyball. The game has no dialogue or words; characters convey emotions through facial expressions, gestures, and sound effects. Guest creators from the indie scene contributed, including HIPHOP group DON YASA CREW, known for SONOKUNI, who handled rap for insert songs and BGM, and Hiroshi Sawatari, developer of NeverAwake and Magical Princess, who directed the shooting game parts. Shoma, known for MotionRec, designed a stealth puzzle in the rocket factory section. The game is priced at 1,500 yen, with a 20% discount to 1,200 yen until August 25. Bundle versions with TOEM, Hidden through Time, and Lost and Found Co. are also available, and a launch trailer has been released.
The manga Magical Girl and Narco Wars, written by Yū Nomiya and illustrated by Merou Meiji, will end with its next chapter on July 21. The series launched on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ in May 2025 and has three compiled volumes, the third releasing August 4. Nomiya recently started a new manga with artist Fuji on June 15.
The Korea-Thailand co-production BL drama Wooju Bakery will stream exclusively on FOD starting July 8, 2026. The sci-fi romance follows a bakery owner (Barcode Tinnasit) and a space prince (Jeff Satur) who crash-lands on Earth. The 8-episode series also stars Korean actors DION and Q, and Filipino idol group members Jayson and Alpha. Four episodes will be released weekly.
At NDC26, NC AI head Jang Han-yong presented Varco SyncFace, a generative AI system that produces facial animations from voice input. The technology aims to eliminate the manual post-processing and QA that existing solutions still require. Jang argued that facial animation is the next frontier after graphics and body motion capture, but current tools degrade with game-like acting and reverb, forcing costly manual fixes. Varco SyncFace targets production-ready output that needs no further adjustment.
At BitSummit PUNCH, Parco Games announced it will publish DEPERSON, a 2D psychedelic horror adventure by Turkish studio Error Thing. A playable demo was shown at the booth, and a fuller demo covering Chapter 1 is already available on Steam. The game follows Aaron, an amnesiac in a totalitarian state called Indriya, and uses fragmented visuals and unstable text to convey psychological unease.