The mystery adventure game '5th Grade Class B Case Files' is set to release on Steam on July 26, 2026, with chapters 1 through 3 available at launch.
The Chinese indie developer Li Laoshi Studio, in partnership with Eternal Dream, will release the mystery adventure game '5th Grade Class B Case Files' on PC via Steam on July 26, 2026. The game follows two fifth-grade girls, Hanamori and Nagomi (also referred to as Wamu in some sources), who investigate strange events at their elementary school. The full game consists of five chapters. On launch day, chapters 1 through 3 will be available: Chapter 1 is free, while Chapter 2 'The Ghost in the Painting' and Chapter 3 'The First Setback' will be sold as DLC for 395 yen each. A 20% launch discount will reduce the price of each paid chapter to approximately 316 yen. Chapters 4 and 5, titled 'Blood-Colored Wings' and 'Chaos Choir,' are planned for later release as DLC. Each chapter takes about one hour to play.
The development team is a married couple: Li Laoshi handles scenario and programming, while Coordinate Zahyou handles graphics. Li Laoshi is a current teacher and mystery novel enthusiast. The game is already available as a demo on Steam, letting players try roughly one-third of Chapter 1 with Japanese subtitle support. The premise of two young girls solving everyday school mysteries with a Watson-and-Holmes dynamic, combined with the developer's background as a teacher and mystery fan, gives the game an unusual authenticity in the indie adventure space.
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Ubisoft has started a free giveaway of the Standard Edition of For Honor for PC, with the deadline set for September 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM Japan time. The game is a third-person online action title centered on melee combat, offering a single-player campaign, 2-player co-op PvE, 1v1 PvP and 4v4 PvPvE. The giveaway runs alongside a Ubisoft Store sale for the company's 40th anniversary, open until October 13.
Bitewing Games opened a Kickstarter campaign on September 15, 2026 for Baba Is You: The Board Game, a two-player competitive adaptation where players move words to change the rules and bring whatever has become YOU to WIN. The campaign runs jointly with Party House: The Deckbuilding Game, based on a UFO 50 minigame. Backer delivery is set for June 2027.
A new Detective Conan illustration series, Blue Butterfly Forest, gets its own merchandise line, released by YTE Co., Ltd. on November 7, 2026. The lineup covers four characters (Edogawa Conan, Haibara Ai, Amuro Tooru, Kaitou Kid) on acrylic stands at 1,980 yen, choidaka aurora holo can badges at 770 yen, clear files at 550 yen, and hard card cases with a card at 1,210 yen. A wider deformed-illustration group adds eight characters (Edogawa Conan, Kudo Shinichi, Mouri Ran, Kaitou Kid, Haibara Ai, Amuro Tooru, Akai Shuichi, Hagiwara Chihaya) on clear stickers and acrylic bookmarks, both 660 yen and 880 yen, plus a double pocket clear file at 770 yen. Trading items include foil-embossed cards at 550 yen each or 4,400 yen per box, mini acrylic stands at 880 yen each or 7,040 yen per box, and can badges at 495 yen each or 3,960 yen per box. Reservations open September 16 at noon, with AGF2026 YTE booths and other retailers carrying the line.
The Beyblade franchise's official X account announced Tuesday that the Beyblade X anime's "Bey Kingdom Arc" premieres October 9 on YouTube, alongside a new visual. The anime first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo and its affiliates in October 2023, entered the "True Future Arc" last April, and premiered globally in July 2024. Disney XD is airing the series.
The Reborn as a Space Mercenary anime site posted its main promotional video, two new cast members, and a key visual on Tuesday. Saori Onishi voices Shoko and Kana Ueda voices Mei. The video previews the opening theme "Unstoppable" by FLOW. The series debuts October 4 on Tokyo MX, with Crunchyroll streaming and ASTERISM on the ending theme.
Andon Labs announced Pion, a platform that hands company operations to long-running AI agents it calls Persistent agents. A supervisory agent, Andonos, oversees them. Pion supplies email, phone, browser, banking, and terminal access so agents can contact partners, gather information, and make payments. Andon Labs calls the businesses experiments, says the AI may misjudge, and notes Andon Market and Andon Cafe were not profitable when it wrote. Access opens from a waitlist in sequence.
FuturLab and Mattel announced the Barbie Pack for PowerWash Simulator 2 on September 15, with a trailer. The DLC adds five jobs based on Barbie playsets, including the Dream Camper and the Barbie Dreamhouse, plus Barbie-themed pressure washers and characters. It is scheduled for the second half of 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, priced at 880 yen, or 890 yen on the Microsoft Store.
Mercari announced on September 15, 2026 that it will ban listings of Pokemon Card Game "30th CELEBRATION" products sold by The Pokemon Company starting September 16. The ban covers unopened expansion packs "30th CELEBRATION" and the "30th CELEBRATION Card Set" in all nine types. The card set is blocked whether opened or unopened, and set sales that include the products are also prohibited. Single cards pulled from an opened pack can still be listed. Mercari says it will delete listings made during the period, warn users, and monitor listings through an AI detection system plus visual checks by a dedicated team. Accounts that repeatedly post the products face usage restrictions. The period runs as long as Mercari judges a safe and secure trading environment cannot be ensured. Mercari says the specific end date and time have not been disclosed. The company points to trouble from a rise in transactions right after sales begin, and to defamation and abuse aimed at trading partners.
The official website for A Returner's Magic Should Be Special season 2 posted a second promotional video, a main key visual, and an October 7 premiere date. The season opens in Fuji TV's +Ultra block, then runs on Kansai TV, Tokai TV, and AT-X, with Crunchyroll streaming. The video previews the opening theme "Sorrow" by FLOW; krage performs the ending, "Everlasting."
Kagurabachi chapter 132 was pulled from Weekly Shonen Jump's combined issue 42/43, dated Sep 14, because of author Takeru Hokazono's sudden illness. The manga's X account said Hokazono has recovered and the chapter will run in issue 44 on Sep 28. It is the second health-related break this year; a June hiatus ran over a month.
VTuber Azusa Honami announced on September 16 that production has been decided for Azure Memoria, a consumer game she will star in and supervise. Riichu, who handled Honami's character design, is handling the illustrations. The teaser site and key visual are out, and the game will be exhibited at the Entergram booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held September 17 to 21. Content, release timing, and platforms are not disclosed.
Triize, a Tokyo listed company, signed a share transfer agreement toward acquiring all shares of LIMNO, a Tottori-based manufacturer, and a new management structure took effect at LIMNO on September 15. Yasuhiko Hase, who has held senior posts at LIMNO, becomes representative director and president, while Triize head Shumpei Iwao becomes chair of the board.
ZETA DIVISION, operated by GANYMEDE Inc., signed a sponsorship contract with NTT East Japan Corporation. The two will work together on information dissemination and event measures. A special movie marking the start features YukaF of the APEX LEGENDS division, Sitetampo of the BRAWL STARS division, Shu of the OVERWATCH division, and Laz of the creator division. Original postcards will be distributed at the ZETA DIVISION booth at TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026, and 40 A1-size posters, 10 of each of the four, will be given away by lottery.
tinyBuild announced at its tinyBuild Connect event on September 15, 2026 that the PC game Road to the Sea of Trees, developed by Endflame, will launch on Steam in 2027. Previously introduced as Silent Road, the first-person horror game casts the player as a night-shift taxi driver in a small Japanese town ringed by a cursed forest, ferrying passengers across six nights.
AWS announced on September 15 that the Japanese version of AWS BuilderCards is available to order on Amazon, with the second edition scheduled for release on September 25. The turn-based deck-building game for 2 to 4 players was previously handed out in limited quantities at AWS study groups and events. Players buy Builder Cards representing AWS services and Well-Architected Cards worth 1 or 3 points, then total their scores.
Design studio Stereotype will hold a 30th anniversary exhibition at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo from October 2 to October 24, 2026. Admission is free. The show covers Stereotype's visual work for anime and games including "BLEACH," "Black Clover," and "Pokemon," and displays graphic and video works by founder Daisuke Yamada, who died in 2003, shown for the first time in 23 years.
HORI announced the HORI Arcade Classic Pro for Nintendo Switch 2 on September 14, 2026. The arcade controller is built for Hamster's Arcade Archives series and similar titles, and it supports Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 11 PCs over XInput. The price is 39,980 yen including tax. Pre-orders opened September 14 and run through October 2 at the HORI Store. The chassis measures about 50 by 29 by 11 centimeters and weighs roughly 2.0 kilograms without units. Eight buttons sit in the center of the top surface, and units mount on the left and right sides. The box includes four units: an 8-direction stick, a trackball, a paddle, and a loop lever, and they can be combined freely. HORI cites Qix for 4-direction stick input, Cybattler for the trackball, Arkanoid for the paddle, and Front Line for the loop lever. Rapid-fire and assignment functions are included. Release is scheduled for early spring 2027.
Bandai's shop nui Premium Bandai Store opened pre-orders on September 15, 2026 for Mini Mini Chibi Plush Mascots Mobile Suit Gundam, a set of six roughly 6-centimeter plush heads with hook keychains. The lineup is the RX-78-2 Gundam, MS-065 Char's Custom Zaku II, MS-06 Zaku II, and Haro in green, orange, and pink. Each item costs 1,100 yen and ships at random from February 2027.
coly Inc. will hold popup shops for the Shigure Ui and mezzo piano collaboration at three venues in October 2026: Nagoya PARCO from October 3 to 12, SHIBUYA109 from October 15 to 25, and Shinsaibashi PARCO from October 17 to 25. Admission is free, with timed entry tickets issued via LivePocket on select dates. Unsold goods move to made-to-order sales on Anime Bako.
Marsupilami 2 - Salsa Palombia, a 2D platformer action game released September 3, 2026, holds a Metascore of 81 on PC from 7 reviews, 80 on PS5 from 5, and 74 on Nintendo Switch from 4, per Game Spark's roundup. Critics call it fun and colorful, with some noting complex character switching and long stages. The Xbox Series X version has too few reviews to be scored.
The 2003 Korean cult sci-fi film Save the Green Planet! will be released in general theaters across Japan in a 4K restored version, more than 20 years after its Korean release. The film is director Jang Joon-hwan's feature debut and follows a young man who kidnaps the president of a chemical company he believes is an alien. Shin Ha-kyun plays the protagonist Byeong-gu, with cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo.
GIZMART closed its joint project with Keychron on September 14, and the split keyboard Keychron Orca echo passed 700 million yen. Final support totaled 704,681,824 yen from 26,165 backers, the highest figure for any GIZMART project. The campaign opened on June 19 and ran about three months, with the milestone reached during a YouTube live stream on the final day.
A collaboration between apparel brand ANGEL BLUE and Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising has launched. Newly drawn illustrations put Madoka Kaname, Homura Akemi, Mami Tomoe, Sayaka Miki, and Kyoko Sakura in Heisei-style outfits alongside ANGEL BLUE's original character Nakamura-kun. Goods include trading acrylic cards and aurora can badges at 10 types each, plus chibi character stands, keychains, badges, stickers, desk mats, tapestries, posters, and acrylic stands.
Battlestate Games began maintenance for Escape from Tarkov update 1.1.5.1 on September 15, with servers expected back between 20:00 and 22:00 Japan time. The patch adds the previously announced League system: season characters are placed into groups of 50 after their first raid, each group running its own leaderboard over weekly experience totals. Experience comes from kills, tasks, and item examination.
Taiwanese indie developer Rao Fenxiao released the yuri mystery comedy adventure Bloody Yuri: Serial Killer, Don't Get Between the Yuri for PC on Steam on September 15. Lily, who has a crush on her friend Sui, declares war on the culprit after a murder at the inn on their hot spring trip. Everyone other than the two leads appears as a silhouette, and choices branch the story into 10 endings. It costs 624 yen, discounted to 499 yen until September 29.
Comunii Inc., which runs the PTA operations tool Comunii, has been selected for the 11th cohort of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Women's Venture Growth Promotion Program, APT Women. Representative Director and CEO Mamiko Ueda said the selection comes one year after the service launched. The program offers management knowledge and networking for women building businesses. Comunii is a company spun out through NTT Docomo's docomo STARTUP program.
Yoom Inc., based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, raised 700 million yen in its first external funding round. The company runs a business autopilot platform where AI agents handle internal operations alongside people. It reports more than 70,000 registered users as of September 2026 and over 5 million tasks executed monthly. Investors include DUAL BRIDGE CAPITAL, Mizuho Capital, Shizuoka Capital, Harisley, and a Canon Marketing Japan fund.
Dreams announced that its Funbarus posture support plush toy series is getting a two-minute short anime, premiering October 3 on BS Yoshimoto at 11:25 p.m. JST and October 5 on Tokyo MX. The show centers on Nossori the sloth, with Wataru Komada in the lead role. Kazumi Nonaka directs at MI Co., and hip hop group Ketsumeishi provides the image song "Kimi ni BUMP."
Zakuzaku Game will show RD Remote Detective at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held September 17 to 21. The mystery game appears at the Konami booth in Hall 5, where original author and supervisor Takehiko Abiko joins a talk and live commentary on the latest playable demo. At the Zakuzaku Game booth in Hall 9, a life-size panel of Abiko will be installed, tied to a follow-and-quote-repost campaign.
4Gamer will host a stage event for Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. 2 Infinite Boost at its Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth on September 19, 2026, from 15:15 to 15:45. Voice actress Tomomi Isomura is MC, with game center employee and esports caster Nakao as guest. They will present the game and its latest information, and the stage will stream live on the YouTube channel 4GamerSP.
AXLBIT, a KDDI group company, will exhibit at Tech Week Singapore on September 29 and 30, 2026, at Marina Bay Sands. The company joins the JAPAN PAVILION organized by the Software Association of Japan and will present its enterprise platform AXLBOX, which carries security and AI solutions from Japanese vendors into the ASEAN market. AXLBIT is also recruiting Japanese software vendors and will hold a free webinar on overseas expansion.
Kotobukiya's 1/8 scale figure of Steins;Gate heroine Kurisu Makise is back for preorder at Rakuten Books. The painted complete figure, listed at 11,000 yen with a Rakuten sale price of 10,171 yen, is based on the illustration from the Xbox 360 version's limited quantity package. Kurisu sits on a base of interlocking gears, and the sculpt reproduces her loosely worn jacket and necktie, boots, and broken cell phone. It is a re-production item with a price change from the initial run.
The development team NERDY PENGUIN opened the Steam store page for CHIBBY: PROJECT PET on September 15, 2026, with a planned release window of summer 2027 and Japanese display and subtitle support. The game is a raising-and-observation horror title in which the player works a part-time pet care job, feeding and examining an animal, then treating abnormalities by selecting medicine that matches the symptom. The stated goal is to collect 80 rainbow-colored poops within 13 days. A wrong medicine adds abnormalities that build up, and a pet whose transformation advances attacks the player, while the poop quota continues regardless. Multiple endings are planned, with repeated playthroughs aimed at different conclusions. The opening section is scheduled for display at Tokyo Game Show 2026 in Hall 9 at booth 09-C67, where roughly 10 minutes is playable.
Sensor Tower released first-month data on September 15 for hololive Dreams, the music and rhythm game QualiArts launched on July 23, 2026, for iOS and Android. Japan took more than 70 percent of both downloads and revenue from July 23 to August 22, with South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong ranking high. The iPhone version hit first place in Japan on July 25, 26, and August 1, and first in Hong Kong on July 28, August 7, 8, and 17.
Drecom announced on September 15, 2026, during its Wizardry Day event, that the Super Famicom version of Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge will be ported and released in 2027. The port is handled by D4 Enterprise. The Steam wishlist page opened the same day, with price and full platform details to follow. The original SFC release was published by ASCII on September 29, 1995, and the Steam page describes the port as keeping its 1995 atmosphere, with 3D dungeon exploration and turn-based command battles. Drecom also confirmed four soundtrack albums are now streaming worldwide via Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music, distributed by Bandai Namco Music Live. Those albums collect music composed by Kentaro Haneda for earlier Wizardry entries. Merchandise includes signed reproduction art prints of new 45th anniversary art by illustrator Jun Suemi, apparel, a relief-style art board, and an upcoming collaboration with BEAMS MANGART.
Elon Musk's X and SpaceXAI have withdrawn their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to a September 14 filing. The companies had argued that Apple lowered the App Store rankings of Grok and X, and sought damages. The filing did not state a reason for the withdrawal or whether a settlement was reached. A separate suit against OpenAI over ChatGPT integration into Apple Intelligence continues.
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos camera company founded in 2019, for more than $300 million. Glass Imaging develops GLASS AI, which improves image quality at the time of shooting by learning a target camera's aberrations and noise. Its Neural ISP is used in HONOR's HONOR 600. Co-founders Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop are former Apple engineers who led the team behind iPhone Portrait mode. TechCrunch says OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment.
Shueisha Games said on September 15, 2026 that Jujutsu Kaisen RUMBLE: SURVIVATON has moved from a 2026 release window to 2027. The stated reason is to deliver the game in a better form. A specific date will be announced later. The survivors battle royale is developed by poncle, the studio behind Vampire Survivors, and is set for Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, with one to eight players and an online mode for up to eight. A second trailer is out. It shows the Co-op Build system, in which level-ups let a player fold another character's normal techniques into their own attack build, and pixel art for eight bosses, among them Naoya Zenin, Kenjaku, Junpei Yoshino, Jogo, Mahito, Uraume, Eso, and Toji Fushiguro. The same eight bosses appear in the playable demo. Price and rating are undecided.
Overlap Inc. revealed the cover designs on September 15 for Pocket Monsters Visual Art Book, an art collection marking the Pokemon series' 30th anniversary. The three volumes release December 18. The set spans Pocket Monsters Red and Green (1996) to Pokemon LEGENDS Z-A M Dimension Rush (2025), gathering pixel art, 3DCG, illustrations, promotional art, and design documents, including unpublished material. Each volume runs roughly 500 pages, about 1,500 total, at 5,500 yen per volume.
Bushiroad opened the Steam store page for Weiss Schwarz Online on Tuesday, September 15, and began taking wishlist registrations for the digital card game. The title ships in two editions, Weiss and Schwarz, with anime, game, and VTuber cards, online matches, tutorials, and CPU play. It is scheduled for spring 2027 on Nintendo Switch and Steam, and a playable demo is planned for Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Lovebox's meet-and-greet idol VTuber unit Rabipare!! will hold "Rabipare!! 2nd Anniversary Live Drawing Voyage ~Increasing Our Treasures~" on Sunday, November 8, 2026, marking the unit's second anniversary. Tickets go on general sale from Sunday, September 20 at 21:00. The live will be the last performed by the two-member lineup of Kanon Aozora and Yomogi Inumori, as the unit is currently holding auditions for new members.
OTAGROUP has opened applications for the Meta Grandma Silver Shield Project, a collaborator drive aimed at bringing the YouTube channel of late-stage elderly VTuber Meta Grandma to 100,000 subscribers. The channel has roughly 80,000 subscribers, and the project notes the timing could work as a Respect for the Aged Day plan. Hiroko, the 84-year-old original member from Mihara City, debuted in December 2022.
NVIDIA announced the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a professional GPU with 21,760 CUDA cores, the same count as the GeForce RTX 5090. Its GDDR7 memory is 84GB with ECC support, 52GB more than the RTX 5090's 32GB. Memory bandwidth is 1398GB/s, and the maximum power consumption is 600W.
The live-action adventure game Shibuya Scramble Stories is running a third crowdfunding round on CAMPFIRE, with director Jiro Ishii, cinematographer Ayumu Iino, and actor Fumihiro Kitagami explaining why. The round runs September 1 to 30 and is styled as development-participation crowdfunding. A gameplay demo video went up September 1 to show the quality the team is aiming for and to answer backers' questions about production costs and still-image quality.
SEGA announced an official partnership with Balenciaga, with the "Balenciaga | SEGA" collection going on advance sale on September 15 at select Balenciaga stores in Japan and the official online store, including Japan-exclusive items. A worldwide rollout follows on September 22 at select Balenciaga stores and balenciaga.com. Ready-to-wear includes a Japan-exclusive varsity jacket and long-sleeve T-shirt; merchandise includes a nylon bomber jacket, oversized T-shirt, zip-up hoodie, and brim cap.
Sega announced on September 15 that Kotone Shiomi, the female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable, will appear in Persona 5: The Phantom X on September 24. A collaboration OP animation movie was released the same day. Full details of the crossover event will be announced during the September 21 Persona X-Stream broadcast. P5X is a free-to-play title on iOS, Android, and PC via Steam, developed by BLACKWINGS Studio under Sega and Atlus supervision.
Life Below, the underwater city builder from developer Megapop and publisher Kasedo Games, will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs September 17 to 21. Three demo stations will be set up at the Norwegian Games booth, 08-C14, in Hall 8. Sessions run roughly 15 to 20 minutes, and a lottery for players who try the game offers a hardcover art book.
IzanagiGames has published streaming guidelines for AKIBA LOST, its long-form live-action suspense game, ahead of the September 17 release. Commentary, live streams, and social media posts are permitted up to the Day 6 chapter, with platform monetization such as YouTube ad revenue and tips allowed. Content from Day 7 onward and the live-action drama DLC are off limits, and streams that publish footage as-is without commentary or editing are not permitted.
Level Infinite will implement the latest Goddess of Victory: Nikke version, "COIN RUSH SHOWDOWN," on September 17, 2026, following maintenance scheduled from 11:00 to 18:00. The update adds two SSR Nikkes: Guilty: Mighty Bunny, voiced by Rina Sato, enters special recruitment after maintenance and runs until October 8, while Sin: Swift Bunny, voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki, opens September 24 at 5:00 and runs until October 15. The new story event is set at the first Three Great Companies Expo, where the Commander joins a battle royale with the Plan C Squad and becomes caught up in a conspiracy. The event runs until October 8 at 4:59. A limited-time selective recruitment lets players pick one of six limited Nikkes, among them Ruby: Winter Shopper and Guillotine: Winter Slayer. New costumes include Sugar's Killer Rabbit, Mana's Drunken Rabbit, and Crust's Treat Chef, and six past limited costumes return. A mini-game, a 14-day login event, Solo Raid, Co-op, and FULL BURST DAY fill out the schedule.
REALFORCE announced it will reveal details of a hololive collaboration on September 17, at its booth at TGS2026. A posted image shows two silhouettes, and fans are naming Koyori Hakui and Kanade Otose, who finished first and second in last year's Hololive Typing Fastest King. Both names are quoted from the official website.