NBA 2K27 released on September 4, 2026 for PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. As of the time of writing, its Metascore is 73 on PC from 10 reviews, 77 on PS5 from 23 reviews, and 84 on Xbox Series X from 5 reviews. The Switch 2 version could not be scored because it did not meet the required number of reviews.
McFarlane Toys is making a 6-inch action figure of Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and preorders are open at Rakuten Books. The figure stands about 15 cm with 22 points of articulation, and comes with a bat he can hold and a base carrying the MLB logo. It is listed at 5,800 yen including tax, 4,869 yen at Rakuten Books, with a domestic run of 3,000 units.
TDMI, a free browser game subtitled Trolley Dilemma Moral Catalog, released on September 6 and is trending on social media. Players answer 14 trolley-problem-style choices, with 5 seconds for the premise, 10 for the choice, and 5 for the result; if no choice is made, a lottery decides the route. Scores across judgment basis, involvement mode, reaction stability, and decision speed sort players into 16 four-letter types.
Akita Shoten announced on September 10 a collaboration between Keisuke Itagaki's Baki manga and the Japan National Tourism Organization. The booklet, "10 Smart Travel Tips for Japan," selects ten items from input by JNTO overseas offices in 26 cities. It covers hands-free sightseeing, regional visits, public transport behavior, and manners at temples, shrines, and hot springs, with Baki characters presenting the topics. It is produced in English, Korean, French, and Spanish, with posters and stickers also planned.
Capcom published the second wave of its exhibitor information for Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs September 17 to September 21 at Makuhari Messe. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds, set for release on December 4, 2026, joins the booth as a playable demo with two quests: a beginner-oriented hunt for Kematris and a veteran-oriented hunt for Lagiacrus. Demos run multiplayer only in handheld mode, with tickets distributed first come, first served. Three Resident Evil remake titles also join on Switch 2: Resident Evil RE:2 Z version Deluxe Edition, Resident Evil RE:3 Z version, and Resident Evil RE:4 Gold Edition, each playable from its opening story with novelties handed out in limited quantities. Capcom also detailed demo content for previously announced titles including Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Street Fighter 6, and set the Capcom Spotlight | TGS 2026 stream for September 16.
PANDORA Inc. and nana music will run a joint V-Singer development project through PANDORA's Jinkaku Uka Keikaku, the company announced. Applicants join Jinkaku Uka Keikaku Light and take two screenings at once: a streaming test on TikTok LIVE and a singing submission screening in the nana app. Strong performers in the streaming test move to one-on-one development, V-body provision, and monetization support, while nana music holds regular singing screenings.
The live-action drama Happi Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu 2 streams on DMM TV from September 17, with all five episodes released one per week on Thursdays. Non plays Kanako Nishino, Taisuke Fujigaya plays Sakurai, and Yuma Yamoto plays Takehara. Twelve other services surveyed have announced no plans to carry it, and TVer lists no catch-up stream.
At gamescom 2026 in Cologne, held from August 26 to August 30, Game Spark played CLUTCH, a racing game in development at Maverick Games. The studio is led by Mike Brown, who was creative director on Forza Horizon 5. The demo opens with a cutscene that hands control to the player across a police chase, a lavender field run, and a circuit race.
King Records launched Pop Team Epic into the Roblox license catalog at noon on September 9. The registration lets Roblox creators plan, build, and apply to publish games and experiential content using the manga's characters and world. Bkub Okawa's four-panel manga has run in Takeshobo's Manga Life WIN, now Takecomi!, since August 2014. The listing is positioned as a new form of IP use beyond manga and anime development.
Nitroplus announced on September 10 that a free major update for the PC (Steam) action game Dolls Nest will arrive in October 2026, adding the feature Combat Test. Players fight training units in arena-style content, and a combat skill grade rises with the number of units destroyed. Reward items come according to that grade. The feature will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026, though that trial build differs from the retail version.
Ghost Town Games, the team behind Overcooked!, released new gameplay footage for Stage Fright, a two-player co-op mystery adventure in development. The game moves the studio's chaotic co-op style from the kitchen into a strange town, following three children named Drew, Blake, and Charlie. Players swap between pairs of characters to see the story from different angles while solving escape-room-style puzzles. It is scheduled for spring 2027.
Sunny Side Up will release Happy Kuji "Disney Halloween 2026" on Friday, October 2, 2026, at Lawson, bookstores, hobby shops, and other retailers. Each draw costs 850 yen including tax. The theme is a sweets party, with Mickey & Friends and other Disney characters dressed for Halloween in pumpkin and candy motifs across ten prize grades plus a Last Prize. The headline item is the A Prize Stitch Halloween Plush, roughly 40 centimeters tall, shown as if bursting out of a pumpkin, with the pumpkin shell removable. The Last Prize, a Pumpkin Mickey sitting plush, also stands about 40 centimeters and goes only to whoever draws the final ticket, dressed in a pumpkin hat and cape. Rounding out the set are a B Prize plush pouch in five designs, a two-way C Prize eco bag, a D Prize bead smartphone strap, a pumpkin-shaped E Prize plate, F Prize magnets, G Prize sweets-package-style pouches, H Prize icing-cookie-style charms, and an I Prize deco card and sticker set. Handling varies by store.
MAPPA's 15th anniversary exhibition runs September 16 to December 7, 2026 at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM in Yurakucho, Tokyo. A newly recorded audio guide features Kenjiro Tsuda, Rie Ueda, Yui Ishikawa, and Asami Seto, free with an admission ticket and played by scanning a QR code on a smartphone. The English version has no voice actor narration. A 30-second commercial narrated by Tsuda uses footage from Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc, Attack on Titan The Final Season, and Jujutsu Kaisen.
HIGH-END Games released the full 1.0 version of the Steam rhythm game PLATiNA :: LAB on September 10. The update adds the first main story chapter, more than 100 playable songs, and over 10 characters called DB, with the story voiced by Korean voice actors. The SWEETIE;S DLC PACK adds 24 songs with background animations, and the FLAGSHIP Collection DLC collects collaboration songs, some playable free.
Kakehashi Games released a demo for the dungeon-crawling RPG Algolemeth on PC via Steam on September 10. The indie developer Gangee, also known as Medium-Rare Games, built the game around visual programming: players act as an alchemist, assemble self-propelled golems, and watch them clear dungeons automatically. Raw Fury will handle overseas publishing under the English title Dungeon Automata, and Yuzo Koshiro composed the BGM.
JR East Cross Station will sell a limited Suica Penguin Shichimi 3-Can Set, a collaboration with Nagano shichimi shop Yawataya Isogoro. The 5,000-set run, priced at 3,800 yen with tax, arrives Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Each set holds the Suica Penguin shichimi, yuzu shichimi, and shichimi garam masala cans with a limited sticker. Sales are limited to NewDays, NewDays Mini, and NewDays KIOSK stores in Nagano Prefecture.
The live-action film account for Mari Okazaki's Will I Be Single Forever? manga announced a second film titled Tenten Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori?, set to debut on Amazon Prime Video on October 23. The film has an original story and centers on three single women: 30-year-old Yamada, 38-year-old Shiba, and 46-year-old Shimizu. Sumi Morika, Ryuya Wakaba, and Yu Kashii lead the cast, with Yuko Hakota directing.
The live-action film of Shohei Manabe's Sins of Kujo began streaming a new teaser on Thursday, adding six cast members. Kiyohiko Shibukawa plays Takehito Mitarashi, Haru Kuroki plays Kanako Kujo, Yui Narumi plays Rui Ota, Eita Okuno plays Uji, Mutsuo Yoshioka plays Karigane, and Yu Tokui plays Kajiya. The film opens in Japan on January 8, 2027.
Cygames will release Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising update Ver 2.60 on September 17, 2026, alongside a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game. The update adds Id from Granblue Fantasy Relink as a playable character across all platforms. Id is a standard-type swordsman built around his greatsword Ragnarok, with a projectile, an invincible strike, and a rush Skybound Art. His defining system is the Alternative Gauge, which fills over time or through the special move Soul Link and drains while he is in the dragon state entered through the Skybound Art Ragnarok Form. Ver 2.60 also adds the shared Chain Attack system, which derives from the triple attack's overhead and low options at a cost of Brave Points and 25 percent of the Skybound Gauge, plus the Super Ultimate+ mode and the new stage Einsteed Isles. The Switch 2 release brings Gyro VS, where swinging the Joy-Con 2 triggers combos and automatic guarding, and local wireless play.
On September 10, 2026, indienova released the surreal psychological horror visual novel You, Me, and the Existence/Non-Existence for PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. Developed by 0x0Real Studio, the game follows dialogue with a mysterious girl named Lilith, who asks whether she or the player exists. On Steam it holds about 20,000 user reviews, 93 percent positive, and a Very Positive rating. The main story runs about two hours and includes multiple endings.
Gun Interactive announced on August 28 that Horror Inc. is suing the developer over royalties from Friday the 13th: The Game. Gun says it has paid more than $18 million and that Horror Inc. approved accounting reports; Horror Inc. wants about $4 million more over accounting methods. Gun argues the 2016 litigation shrank the game's revenue and says it will fight the suit. The complaint was filed in the Central District of California.
Bandai will release HG HUNTER×HUNTER Vol.1 in October 2026, priced at 500 yen per play with tax included. The lineup has four types: Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio, each about 7.9 cm tall and posed holding equipment such as fishing rods and yo-yos. Sales start sequentially on October 9 at the Gashapon Bandai Official Shop and Gashapon Official Shop @ASAKUSA.
System Service is releasing a color variation of the prize figure "One-Seventh Carat" of Magia Baiser from the TV anime Gushing over Magical Girls. The Evil Cow-Print version is a crane game prize, one type in total, standing about 17cm tall. It is scheduled to appear sequentially at amusement facilities from the third week of September 2026, while stock lasts. A follow and repost campaign running from September 10 to September 15, 2026 will pick five winners by lottery for the same figure.
Prime 1 Studio's Museum Masterline is producing a 1/3-scale Elder Predator statue from the 1990 film "Predator 2," standing about 94cm tall and weighing roughly 42.74kg. It is priced at 521,290 yen, with a DX version at 556,490 yen that adds wrist blades, a shoulder cannon with a light-up laser sight, and a silver logo plate. Pre-orders run from September 10 to November 10, 2026, ahead of a release planned for January to April 2028.
Prazto and RICE CLOUD, an Oracle NetSuite partner, have begun a business alliance aimed at companies running NetSuite, linking ERP and CRM data into one view for management use. The first deliverable is a NetSuite management Tableau dashboard pack, five core dashboards plus two industry-specific ones. Later phases extend to Salesforce and accounting data, then to indicators that only appear when ERP and CRM are crossed.
The Sgt. Frog and Sanrio Characters pop up store has added dates, starting at the Ekimaru A la Mode JR Kyoto Station West Exit Store from September 11 to September 23, 2026, then at ESPAL Sendai and the space in front of JR Ikebukuro Station South Ticket Gate. Two new items, the Mini Mini Boa Mascot and Multi Earphone Case, are 1,320 yen each with tax and go on early sale September 11.
Half Games released a gameplay trailer for Half Grip, a roguelite combat racing game where the driver controls everything with a single arm. Steering, gear changes, shooting, and reloading share that one arm, so timing matters. Races pay prize money for upgrades and weapons, including ramming equipment, shotguns, magnets, and landmines. The game is scheduled for release on PC via Steam in 2026.
Singer-songwriter Mahiru will perform at Victoria Theatre in Singapore on Sunday, November 29, 2026, her first solo concert in the city. Mastercard cardholder presale opens Thursday, September 17 at 10:00 local time, with general sale on Ticketmaster.sg from Friday, September 18 at 10:00. A VIP package limited to 100 people includes a group photo with Mahiru and a poster with a handwritten autograph.
Publisher Starry Dome announced The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon, a third-person shooter developed by Surgical Scalpels, and released an announcement trailer. The game adapts Liu Cixin's short story The Wandering Earth. Its story is set at the end of the project's first phase, as the United Earth Government moves to use 12 lunar engines to push the Moon out of Earth's orbit. Combat takes place on the lunar surface and in space, and gravity changes how you fight.
RedOctane Games added three songs to STAGE TOUR, its rhythm action game for Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S: Blur's "Parklife," Sabaton's "Night Witches," and Powerman 5000's "When Worlds Collide." That brings the announced track list to 48. The retail version is planned to include more than 90 licensed songs spanning six eras at launch when the game releases on December 10, 2026.
505 Games and INGAME STUDIOS announced Mayhem A La Carte - Chaos Kitchen, a co-op cooking shooter, on September 9. The game is an FPS where players work as chefs in a restaurant kitchen and fill a steady stream of orders while armed enemies raid the room. Players cook with a weapon in one hand, defend with the other, and can press cooking tools and dishes into service as weapons: a frying pan as a melee weapon, a thrown knife, bread fired from a toaster, a burnt failed dish that explodes like a bomb, and a cold dessert that freezes enemies. It supports solo play and online co-op for up to four players. Ingame Studios, known for the crime action FPS Crime Boss: Rockay City, is developing. The game is planned for early access on PC via Steam in 2027, with two restaurants included at launch.
Max Factory opened preorders for a Pop Up Parade L size figure of Guts in the Berserker Armor, in a Bloody Paint version. The figure shows Guts covered in blood, in a form the listing describes as having surpassed his limits through the armor's power. The seller lists a reference price of 9,799 yen including tax, and the Rakuten Books listing shows a sale price of 9,139 yen including tax.
VAIO announced the 13.3-inch VAIO T on September 10, a notebook built around a multi-flip mechanism that rotates the screen on a central pivot for three positions: notebook, view, and tablet. VAIO accepts orders from September 18 at 10:00, and the machine launches September 11, 2026. The external panel measures 312.0mm wide, 224.6mm deep, and 14.6 to 19.6mm high. A 2560x1600 touch display carries a 9.21-megapixel camera, the keyboard has about 19mm key pitch, and a 9.2MP camera sits above the panel. Ports include USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 USB Type-C with DisplayPort 2.1 output up to 5120x2880 at 60Hz, a second USB Type-C, HDMI at 4096x2160 at 60Hz, USB Type-A, 1000BASE-T wired LAN, and a headphone jack, plus Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. Three colors ship: Fine Black, Fine Red, and Kachiiro. Personal customizable models start at 374,000 yen, and the Kachiiro special edition is 423,500 yen.
Digital Gear will exhibit at VeXpo 2026, held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from September 18 to 20. At booth Hall 9 S09, the company's V-sai platform hosts V-sai LIVE in VeXpo, with a performance by VTuber NEPHLA, whose YouTube channel has 111,000 subscribers, and 8 to 10 overseas VTubers in meet and greet slots.
Developer Pocke released 'Nesgoshi' on September 4, a free browser game where players guess a station's name from a route map with station and line names hidden. It ships with three modes: a daily shared puzzle, a free-play mode with Easy, Normal, and Hard settings plus custom hints, and a roam mode that reveals names. The developer says the data spans roughly 600 lines and 8,800 stations.
Sega Fave will take reservations for the Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku and Persona 5 The Royal Fuwapuchi Deformed Figure Hatsune Miku from 11:00 on September 10, 2026 through November 10, 2026 at 23:59. The palm-sized figure is about 8 cm tall, costs 3,080 yen with tax, and is scheduled to ship in May 2027.
The third music video in the short anime series Running Girl was released on YouTube on Monday, September 7, 2026, at 16:00. Titled Luna, it is set on Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles and follows a 17-year-old American high school student who runs out into the city when she feels stifled. The music is a cover of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
Noriko Endo, who runs the overseas travel business Premium Travel Secretary, published her first e-book on Kindle on August 20, 2026. Titled I Wanted This Kind of Overseas Trip, it reached first place in seven Amazon e-book ranking categories, including Overseas Travel, Happiness, Motivation, Aging, and Humanities & Thought Reference.
BAKUTAN has begun supplying its HR AI platform, BAKUTAN OS, to Mitsubishi Electric. AI agents on the platform convert HR data held in different formats by each group company into a common format, supporting Mitsubishi Electric's Global Human Resources Information Infrastructure. BAKUTAN says the first stage targets a reduction of 60 percent or more in integration man-hours, with verification also under way on applicant-to-job matching for next-generation management candidates.
Universal Studios Japan opened Afterimage on September 11 as part of Halloween Horror Nights, which the park marks as its 15th anniversary. The horror attraction is R-18 designated and requires guests to sign a written contract, and a dedicated ticket starts at 1,900 yen. It runs about 30 minutes, from 10:00 to park close, through November 8.
D4 Enterprise began distributing EGG Console Subnac PC-9801 on September 10, 2026, priced at 980 yen including tax, as the 115th entry in the EGG Console series. The original Subnac is a 1991 fantasy puzzle game from Kogado Studio in which Alf uses a crimson mantle to revive petrified allies who revert to stone when separated from him.
Live2D Inc. announced on September 10, 2026 that a Live2D model of Kasukabe Tsumugi, illustrated by Sakamoto Ahiru, is now available in the browser-based online video editor "nizima ACTION!! β version." The model includes more than 40 types of expressions and motions and can be used for free. It can be operated through tracking apps such as nizima LIVE and VTube Studio, and it supports hand tracking. The model also works with the text-to-speech system VOICEVOX, which was added to the editor in May, so text input, voice synthesis, and lip sync can be completed inside nizima ACTION!!. The same model is also being distributed free on KASUKABEproject's Booth. Use requires compliance with the character's terms of use and credit notation such as "VOICEVOX: Kasukabe Tsumugi." The editor is free for anyone with a nizima account. A desktop version and collaborative editing features are in development.
KADOKAWA's online lottery service Kujibikido is running the Mob Psycho 100 III Eating Together Online Lottery, with sales starting Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:00 and ending Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 11:59. The lottery uses newly drawn illustrations themed around eating together and is tied to the 10th anniversary of the TV anime series. Each draw costs 770 yen including tax, with shipping fees separate, and every draw wins a prize. The S prize is a choose-one BIG fabric wall hanging in five types. Lower tiers include choose-one acrylic panels in five types, acrylic stand figures in five types, acrylic keychains in twelve types, and can badges in twelve types. A repost campaign gives three people a complete twelve-type can badge set. Buyers of the 10-draw set get a random mini bromide, and on October 10, Arataka Reigen's birthday, the same set also includes a birthday-day-only mini bromide.
TIFFCOM 2026 and the Tokyo International Film Festival have named 24 projects for the 7th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, including five animated ones. Two are Japanese: Ayumi Moriyama and OLM's Mahora, and YKBX and P.I.C.S.'s Princess Zonof. The market runs October 28 to 30 and takes projects that have already raised at least 60 percent of their budgets.
Key System Co., Ltd., which operates the Japan-originated health tech brand MYAKU, opened pre-sales for the screenless smart band MYAKU BAND on the crowdfunding service Makuake on September 10, 2026. The device omits a display and records daily activity, exercise, sports modes, and sleep data analyzed as REM, light, and deep sleep, with review handled in the dedicated app Health Trainer.
VITURE will sponsor and exhibit at Gadget Exhibition 2026 Autumn on September 19 and 20 at Futakotamagawa Tsutaya Electrics, with free admission and no reservation required. The booth offers a Nintendo Switch 2 large-screen gaming experience with VITURE Pro 2 XR Glasses and an ultrawide work experience with VITURE Beast XR Glasses, plus a special display of the VITURE × Phantom Blade Zero Phantom Beast XR Glasses collaboration model.
ASUS JAPAN announced on September 10, 2026 that it will exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs from September 17 to September 21 at Makuhari Messe, at booth 06-N03 in Hall 6. The booth will center on ROG Edition 20, a lineup marking the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Gamers brand, and several products will get their first showing in Japan. Those include the ROG XBOX Ally X20 handheld, the roughly 104L ROG G1000 Edition 20 desktop PC, the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-G Edition 20 monitor, and the ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20 motherboard. The ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace and ROG Strix OLED XG259QWPG Ace monitors, both announced at COMPUTEX 2026 and Gamescom 2026, will also be shown in Japan for the first time. Public days are September 19, 20, and 21, and visitors can play titles on the ROG XBOX Ally X20 and on ASUS and ROG gaming PCs.
Cover Corp's derivative game brand holo Indie released the free mystery adventure game HoloTrials: Case Covered on Steam on Thursday, September 10, 2026. Developed by VTAC Games, it is set in holoHigh, a parallel world where Hololive talents are high school students. Players control student detective Watson Amelia through exploration, interrogation, and courtroom battles, with English and Spanish language support.
WEGO will release a My Hero Academia collaboration line on September 18, 2026 at select stores nationwide and on the WEGO ONLINE STORE, which opens at 12:00 that day. The lineup uses newly drawn visuals of Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Ochaco Uraraka, Shoto Todoroki, Tsuyu Asui, and Kyoka Jiro across apparel, bags, caps, acrylic stands, and trading goods. Buyers spending 2,000 yen or more get one random sticker.
Shimamura will release a STAR WARS goods and apparel line starting September 12 at stores nationwide and from 3:00 PM the same day on its Shimamura Park online store. The lineup centers on Grogu designs and includes tote bags, backpacks, keyrings with reels, and acrylic cups, plus sweatshirts, caps, and relaxing pants. Item details are posted on Shimamura's official X account.