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Konami's mobile game Suikoden STAR LEAP is running a collaboration campaign with five Gokurakuyu and RAKU SPA group locations from October 1 to October 20, 2026. Five baths inspired by characters will appear, alongside decorations using newly drawn illustrations and a digital stamp rally. Bonuses include limited muffler towels, washi-style stickers, coasters, and postcards, with goods also sold online from noon on October 1.
The booster pack Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Vol. 2 goes on sale Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 440 yen per eight-card pack or 4,400 yen per ten-pack box. The set has 112 normal card types and 158 parallel types, including five SEC, nine SSP, and 31 SP rarities, plus foil-stamped signature cards and a first edition limited PR bonus card drawn from 26 types.
Moebius Models is releasing three 1/25 scale plastic model kits: the 1963 Chevrolet Nova SS Convertible, the 1963 Chevrolet Nova SS Coupe, and the 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Landau Coupe. The convertibles include a straight-6 engine and a folded roof, while the Monte Carlo features a V8 engine, a removable hood, and detailed chassis parts. Platz will import and sell the kits in Japan starting in November 2026.
Xbox FanFest Tokyo ran at Terrada Warehouse B&C HALL in Tennozu Isle on the first day of Tokyo Game Show 2026, marking Xbox's 25th anniversary as the Tokyo stop of a tour across 7 countries and 8 cities. The venue featured demos including Minecraft Dungeons II and Forza Horizon 6, a talk with Larry Hryb, and a watch party for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 Broadcast, where Hideo Kojima appeared on stage as a surprise.
Taito announced on September 21, 2026 that it will release Estpolis Biography I&II, a package collecting the first two Lufia RPGs, in 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam. The set pairs the 1993 original, about a descendant of a legendary hero and a girl named Lufia, with the 1995 prequel Estpolis Biography II, which follows Maxim and his companions. Pixel graphics are kept as they were, and Masahide Miyata, the series planner, cooperated on adjustments for current hardware. Miyata said the Super Famicom version used heavy hiragana because of capacity limits, so all dialogue in both games was reread and converted to kanji. Taito also opened a teaser site and a Steam store page, and Clear River Games is handling North American and European sales. Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who had named Estpolis Biography II as an origin of his gaming, posted a delighted reaction on X.
Thermite Games brought O.T.K Games' Detained: Too Good for School to Tokyo Game Show 2026, where 4Gamer tried a demo that opens with Reika and Julie leaving juvenile detention and returning to school. Weekdays are spent on six class minigames that unlock abilities, while the student council recruits the pair to find whoever framed them. A gym errand involving wrestling captain Oleg branches by player choice.
Bandai's Tamagotchi franchise is marking its 30th anniversary with a first collaboration with the brand Maison de FLEUR, covering bags and goods decorated with ribbons, flowers, and embroidery. Eight item types go on sale Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at Maison de FLEUR stores nationwide and on the web store STRIPE CLUB, with the EC listing opening at 12:00 that day. Characters including Mametchi, Mimitchi, and Memetchi appear in the designs.
The Metropolitan Police Department, Chiba Prefectural Police, and Kanagawa Prefectural Police exhibited jointly at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Their booth used hands-on games to warn visitors about online troubles and cybercrime. At the Chiba Prefectural Police booth, Urban Legend Dissection Center ran a collaboration project with the agency, and clear files with newly drawn designs were handed out.
Golden Horn Studios announced Potato Please on September 20. The first-person simulation game tasks the player with peeling a mountain of potatoes to feed an army, starting with a knife or peeler by hand and later adding machinery that processes potatoes in batches. It is planned for PC via Steam, with Japanese in-game text listed on the store page. The workspace carries Russian slogans urging the labor on.
A Tokyo Game Show 2026 stage stream for Rockman: Dual Override, set for spring 2027, ended with producer Shingo Izumi revealing the boss Jetman, who switches between flight form and robot form. Gameplay shown had Jetman fighting Blues with missiles and charge attacks that call in fighter planes. Footage also teased Rockman using Astro Crush, which Izumi said appears as a Custom Chip unlocked by defeating Astro Man R.
Devolver Digital announced on September 21 that BALL x PIT will get its major DLC, Ascension of the Volbiron, on November 12, with Japan seeing it on November 13 due to time zones. The expansion adds 4 sky-city stages, 8 heroes, 24 balls, 45 passive items, and 20 buildings, plus a new Crystal building material. It follows three free updates to the roguelite, which has sold over 2 million units.
At ECS 2026, held August 27 and 28 at a Tokyo hotel, AMD laid out its physical AI strategy and put a Unified Memory architecture at the center of it, with the NPU and CPU sharing one memory space and the GPU sharing the same pool. The company argues external NPUs and GPUs on small systems force repeated exchanges over PCI Express or slower interfaces, and that overhead limits how fast the sense, infer, decide, act loop can run.
Kadokawa announced five additional cast members for the television anime of Kureha's Bride of the Barrier Master light novel series on Monday, alongside a new teaser promotional video and third teaser visual. Kanon Takao joins as Hazuki Ichise, Hana's twin sister. Hiroto Shimizu plays Nozomi Ichinomiya, Saku's younger brother. Yuzuki Tamukai voices Azuha, Hana's shikigami that rests on her hair like an ornament. Taihi Kimura and M.A.O play Aoi and Miyabi, two shikigami in human form created by Hana. They join previously announced leads Akari Kito as Hana Ichise and Kikunosuke Toya as Saku Ichinomiya. The anime debuts in January 2027. TROYCA animates the series, with Toru Kitahata directing, Yuko Kakihara handling series scripts, and Minami Murayama on character designs. Yen Press publishes the light novels and manga adaptation in English.
Re-Ment released JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders STAND on DESK -Fate- on September 21 at toy and general merchandise stores and character shops. The desk figures use deformed character designs and double as card stands and multi trays. The lineup is six types: Jotaro Kujo, Star Platinum, Joseph Joestar, Jean Pierre Polnareff, Silver Chariot, and DIO. Each is priced at 1,650 yen including tax. Combining figures, such as DIO and Polnareff, lets buyers recreate famous scenes.
Max Factory is taking pre-orders for a PLAMATEA plastic model kit of Shielder Mash Kyrielight in her Ortenaus form from Fate/Grand Order. The standard kit is 8,800 yen; a Black Barrel Edition with a transforming Paradox Structure barrel around 500 mm long when deployed is 17,800 yen. Pre-orders at Good Smile Company run until October 7, with shipping set for April 2027.
Taito will release "Estpolis Denki I&II" for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC in 2027, with the price still undecided, according to the announcement covered by Game Spark and GAME Watch. The package collects two Super Famicom RPGs: "Estpolis Denki," released in 1993, and "Estpolis Denki II," released in 1995. The collection is a port with some renewed elements, made with the cooperation of Masahide Miyata, the planner of the Estpolis Denki series. Clear River Games, a Sweden-based publisher that handles retro re-releases and physical editions of indie games, announced the project. A teaser site opened alongside the announcement, carrying comments from Taito's production team, Miyata, and the ClearRiverGames production team. The Steam store page lists support for eight languages, including Japanese. The announcement drew a reaction from professional skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who has long said he is a fan of the series.
D3 Publisher held an Earth Defense Force 6.2 stage event at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 20. Series producer Nobuyuki Okajima appeared with voice actors Kana Yuki and Chinami Hashimoto. Okajima played a mission live and retreated partway through, then cleared it after equipping a freezing-round rocket launcher and an incendiary-round assault rifle through customization. Okajima also showed combat against a newly appearing mushroom-type enemy.
Capcom announced on September 20, 2026 that the fighting game Street Fighter 6 and the anime Detective Pretty Cure are crossing over. The reveal came at the Capcom Stage Live <DAY-2> event at Tokyo Game Show 2026. A four-episode original collaboration story is scheduled to be distributed starting December 17. In the story, an incident occurs in which arcade cabinets in the Battle Hub are broken and their screens go completely black, and Cure Answer and the others investigate the truth behind it. A key visual and part of the story were shown at the stage event. Game screens also showed Luke, Jamie, and Kimberly from Street Fighter 6 drawn in a Precure-style touch. Capcom said further details will be announced in the future. The game is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.
Automaton's 100th weekly roundup collects seven game stories. Satchely, the character artist of Doki Doki Literature Club!, announced Faraday Blues, a card adventure with 64 endings that are almost all bad endings. Also listed: the SophieChat:AI chat app set in Atelier Sophie 2, a remaster of the 2009 arcade mahjong game Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan, the Steam multiplayer game Chou Excite Ball, Otomate's otome title Shinsou no Doppelt, the AWS BuilderCards release on Amazon on September 25, and Da Vinci Ushiyama's free browser game Riyou Kiyaku.
Kadokawa announced on September 20, 2026, at the "Machisuba Special Stage in TGS2026," that Machico's new song "WOOHOO!" is the theme song for the KonoSuba game "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! ~Prosperity to This Lovable Town!~" (Machisuba). The track was written for the game. Ikuko Iijima handled lyrics and composition, and Koji Mizuguchi handled arrangement. Machico, who has sung theme songs for the KonoSuba anime, said the song is packed with the power to make a chaotic everyday more lively. The game is an otherworld trouble life RPG with an original story, supervised by original author Natsume Akatsuki with cooperation from illustrator Kurone Mishima. Kadokawa plans distribution in 2026 for PC and mobile, with the date undecided. An X campaign runs from September 20 to September 28, drawing two winners who follow the official account and repost the designated post to receive canvas art bearing Machico's handwritten autograph.
SHIFT UP will release Stellar Blade Complete Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 on November 6, 2026, priced at 7,980 yen including tax. A demo launched on the Nintendo eShop on September 20, and the Switch 2 version is playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026 at Makuhari Messe. The package contains the main game plus all content released so far, including collaboration costumes with NieR and Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, with nearly 130 costumes total. Four Bayonetta collaboration costumes will be distributed free on the same day for Switch 2, PC, and PS5 owners. CEO Kim Hyung-tae said the port targets 60fps in both TV and handheld modes, dropping to 50fps in some scenes, and that the play feel is meant to match other platforms. He also confirmed the sequel Stellar Blade BLOOD RAIN is in development.
Konami Digital Entertainment announced during its Suikoden Live at TGS 2026.9.20 stream on September 20 that Chapter 3 of Suikoden STAR LEAP arrives September 24. The update adds Shampia, a land isolated from the outside world, and Rokkaku no Sato, presented in the trailer as a village players can walk around. Rachana, a compassionate assistant instructor at Shampia's Senrein Temple, arrives with companions Bubu, Tsubaki, Vaval, and Tenryu; Kasumi and Sasuke return from Rokkaku Village. A login bonus from September 24 to October 8 gives 1,500 Gensou Stones over seven cumulative days. Konami also confirmed development of overseas and Steam versions, with the Steam release planned to support gamepad and controller play. An anime collaboration event is planned for late November, and a login bonus starting September 30 awards SSR Nanami. Suikoden STAR LEAP launched official service on August 7, 2026.
Toei producer Shin-ichiro Shirakura said on X on September 20 that the V-Cinema (V-Cinext) label, which makes sequels and spin-offs of Kamen Rider works, has no plans for continued production for the time being. He said Kamen Rider Kabuto 20th: The One Who Inherits the Heavens, opening November 6, will likely be the last.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, the indie community Back-Alley Developers Cloud and Blast Edge Games shared a joint booth in Hall 9's Indie Game Corner, showing five titles: KARATE ROGUE, God-Slaying Blue Silver, a beast-raising adventure, an enemy-slamming shooter, and a sushi-bill shogi game. The community formed after a social media call asking whether individual developers could endure TGS's first five-day run.
Konami showed the PV for Chapter 3 of Suikoden Star Leap at Suikoden Live at TGS on September 20. The footage features Rokkaku Village and introduces Sasuke (voiced by Koki Osuzu), Kasumi (voiced by Miyu Ayase), and Tsubaki (voiced by Ai Kureha). The free-to-play mobile Suikoden title is planned for iOS, Android, and PC (Steam) and has been available on iOS and Android since August 7.
Kadokawa showed a new teaser video at KyoMAF on Sunday for the second season of Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian. The season was previously slated to debut this year but was delayed to 2027 to improve quality. Hiroshi Haraguchi directs at Doga Kobo, replacing Ryota Itoh, with Yuka Yamada on series scripts. The novels have 5.5 million copies in circulation worldwide.
At the 4Gamer booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, voice actor Kosaka Tomoya appeared on stage for "Kosaka Tomoya's Oshi Geki TGS Travel Edition," interviewed by fellow amuleto talent Nonoi Sou. The talk centered on KONAMI's Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 4th Heart and the character Kazama Reita, with Kosaka playing his own save data and showing his Reita goods collection.
Space Petal Studio will exhibit the 2.5D action RPG Edentopia at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held at Makuhari Messe from September 17 to 20. The booth sits in Hall 9, Indie Game Corner E27, and offers a playable demo covering spell-based battles, exploration, monster combat, and boss challenges. Three booth campaigns run alongside it: a Steam wishlist drive, an original goods lottery, and a boss challenge awarding can badges. The game is planned for PC via Steam with the release date undecided.
Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club announced on September 20 that "Obasan to Rido" will stream from the morning of September 27 as episode four of the Kamen Rider Mite: Twelve Signs, Ten Colors series. Rido, a Kamen Rider modeled on a black cat, is turned into a house cat and lives with a grandma played by Rie Shibata, whose last Toei tokusatsu role was in 1993. Twin acrylic stands of Rido and Kamen Rider Mao as cats are also planned.
Two new muffler towel designs from Detective Pretty Cure! are open for preorder on Premium Bandai, priced at 2,530 yen with shipping set for November 2026 and the preorder window closing at 23:00 on September 27, 2026. The lineup covers Cure Answer, Cure Mystic, Cure Eclaire, Cure Arcana, and Cure Arcana Shadow, with full-body designs meant to be lined up and displayed.
G-Mode's Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth drew crowds that forced staff to repeatedly pause and restart the line, director Koichi Takeshita said. The booth paired The Portopia Serial Murder Case Continued: Burial of Oblivion, a full remake of the Famicom adventure with a new scenario, set for 2027, with Streamer Girl's Secret Account Labyrinth, a novel RPG from Magical Girl Witch Trial studio Acacia, planned for 2026.
Bandai will release the gashapon PEANUTS Classical Mode in the fourth week of September, priced at 400 yen per play with tax included. The set has four figures, each about 4.3cm tall and finished with a glossy paint that looks like porcelain: Snoopy A in a cap and goggles, Snoopy B hugging Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and Olaf. All four are posed sitting.
Episode 23 of Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun Season 4 centers on Sabro turning down Baal's offer to back him as a candidate for demon king. Sabro's refusal rests on his rivalry with Iruma rather than on ambition, and Baal reads the choice as a weakness, answering with a jab about the apple not falling far from the tree. The Six Fingers hold an in with the Thirteen Crowns.
Hands-on time with Tokyo Game Show demos of the Switch 2 ports of Resident Evil 2 Deluxe Edition, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition found the games looking clear on the system's 7.9-inch 1080p screen, with no motion blur and no input lag on the Joy-Con 2. Colors read slightly muted on both the handheld screen and a connected full-size LCD, though that holds on both displays.
Toei and DC Comics announced a Batman and Kamen Rider Zero-One project at a Batman Day fan event in Tokyo on the 19th. The title is Batman x Kamen Rider ZERO-ONE LEGENDS UNITE. Toei producer Shinichiro Shirakura called the tag team a historic event. An original DC comic and Bandai merchandise are planned, with more news promised at events including Tokyo Comic Con.
Orders for four Uma Musume Cinderella Gray items began at AMNIBUS on September 14. The lineup uses Chibitoko designs, newly drawn illustrations of the characters walking. The Trading Chibitoko Acrylic Stand with Parts and the Trading Chibitoko Swaying Acrylic Keychain are each 880 yen, or 10,560 yen per box. The Trading Chibitoko Hologram Can Badge is 550 yen, or 6,600 yen per box. The Chibitoko Aurora Die-Cut Stickers round out the set.
City Connection's Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth has playable demos of Jajamaru no Hyakki Yakou Den and Baseball Fighting League Man Bases Loaded. The new Ninja Jajamaru-kun entry is a hack-and-slash action game set in a yokai party dungeon, scheduled for release in 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Players switch between sword, spear, kusarigama, hammer, and claws while collecting weapons and armor from treasure chests.
THINKR's Strange Eden project held its first fan meeting on August 29 at Tennei Memorial Hall in Kanagawa Prefecture, about half a year after launching in February 2026. Seven cast members appeared: Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Yuga Sato, Hidenori Takahashi, Shohei Komatsu, Shun Horie, Tomoaki Maeno, and Chiharu Shigematsu. The event included talk segments, a reading drama, a live concert, and a cover of Yodaka ni Natte.
San-X's Rilakkuma and Maison de FLEUR announced their seventh collaboration, set to go on sale on September 26, 2026 at Maison de FLEUR stores and the official web store STRIPE CLUB. The collection has 11 item types built around Korilakkuma and Chairoikoguma, including a cup holder offered for the first time and plush toys in houndstooth outfits.
G-MODE's Streamer Girl's Secret Account Labyrinth is a labyrinth novel RPG about girls trapped in UraU, a place where the darkness of social media is made real. Riiru Saika, a streamer and member of the band Lag Drops, is haunted by the death of bandmate Neon Hino. The trial play covers an ADV section, and a dungeon exploration part has you fight malice monsters while seeking the master of the secret accounts. Release is set for 2026 on PC via Steam.
Kojima Productions issued an official statement on September 20 responding to online speculation about why the publishing partner for PHYSINT changed. The studio said the articles in question were not based on official or documented reliable sources and asked readers to judge them carefully. According to the statement, Kojima Productions is in a healthy and profitable state, PHYSINT development is progressing smoothly in cooperation with Xbox, and the studio's relationship with PlayStation remains strong. The speculation covered the studio's relationship with PlayStation, the commercial performance of the Death Stranding series, and the production plans and investment for PHYSINT. Kojima Productions said the speculation and defamatory statements affect fans, creative partners, and people it has worked with for 30 years, and that overlooking the situation could have a serious impact on the studio and related parties. The statement closes by thanking fans for their continued support.
threezero's SIXTH series adds a 1/6 scale articulated Casca from Berserk's Golden Age Arc. The figure stands about 27.5 cm with roughly 44 points of articulation, a head with movable eyeballs, cloth shirt, trousers and wired cape, metallic-painted armor and a die-cast alloy sword. Preorders are open at Rakuten Books for 35,999 yen including tax against a 42,900 yen reference price.
Season 2 of the TV anime Shin Samurai-den YAIBA, subtitled Kaguya Arc, will begin airing January 9, 2027 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV's nationwide network, in the Saturday 5:30 PM slot, excluding some regions. A main visual was released alongside the date. It shows Yaiba Kurogane and Takeshi Onimaru crossing the Raijinken and Fujinken, with Kaguya, Tsukikage, and Gekko reflected in the blades as Kaguya abducts Sayaka Mine. The series adapts Gosho Aoyama's YAIBA, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1988 to 1993 with 24 volumes and a cumulative circulation of 17 million copies. Aoyama supervises the scenario. Takahiro Hasui directs, Toko Machida handles series composition, and Yoshimichi Kameda handles character design and chief animation direction, with WIT STUDIO on animation production and Studio Kurm assisting. Minami Takayama voices Yaiba, Manaka Iwami voices Sayaka, Yoshimasa Hosoya voices Onimaru, Ami Koshimizu voices Kaguya, and Koki Uchiyama voices Tsukikage.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, held at Makuhari Messe and TKP Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall, trial play tickets for several titles ended distribution on September 19, per the official X accounts of each title. Final Fantasy VII Revelation used a numbered ticket system for safety reasons, and distribution for the day closed at 9:24 AM once the planned number was reached. Persona 4 Revival tickets at the Sega/Atlus booth ended at 9:34 AM. Earth Defense Force 6.2 tickets at the D3P booth appeared to end at 10:28 AM. Distribution also ended for Final Fantasy Resonance, Romancing SaGa 3 Destiny United, STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, Ace Combat 8, GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT, Yu-Gi-Oh! TAG FORCE GX, and others. Social media posts included 'Already over!?' and 'So it's one of those that you can't make even with a opening dash.'
v0lt is giving away the retro-style FPS Deadshot on Steam until September 24 at 2:00 AM, and players who claim it keep it. The game released on Steam on September 18, 2024, and the 5-day giveaway marks its 2nd anniversary. It has 3 chapters of 6 stages each, 7 weapon types, and 5 attachment types. It is also on sale for 655 yen.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 18, G-SMASH held a session on its Made in Japan XR Project, in which students and young creators build XR games in a short intensive period with support through store release. Five speakers, including project lead Shun Harashima, discussed targeting North American teens, citing titles such as Gorilla Tag, Animal Company, UG, and Shark Go, and the store release numbers behind their case.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, 4Gamer played the PC title RULES OF RESIDENCE, planned for release within 2027. The protagonist takes out a 35-year mortgage on a home in a collective housing complex, then finds it governed by a dictatorial board chairman and a residents' association with enormous authority, and is chosen as a board member. One turn is one week; players allocate limited actions across information, funds, and connections with residents.
The Dengeki Daisy television anime will debut in January 2027 and air for two consecutive cours, a stage presentation at KyoMAF revealed. The main promotional video also named four new cast members: Tomokazu Sugita as Soichiro Kurebayashi, Yuka Terasaki as Riko Onizuka, Setsuji Sato as Masuda, and Kohei Amasaki as Akira. Crunchyroll will stream the anime, directed by Sota Ueno at Studio DEEN.
Kyomafu 2026 runs September 19 and 20 at Miyako Messe and ROHM Theatre Kyoto, with the Kyoto International Manga Museum as a second venue. Displays include a life-size Gabriel from Rakuen Tsuiho: Kokoro no Resonance, a Nabeshima Ware Ghost in the Shell Tachikoma, and Anis from Goddess of Victory: NIKKE in kimono at the Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts. FGO's Mash [Paladin] life-size figure, JOJOLands original artwork, and Nogizaka46 member standees are also on display, with Love Live! and My Dress-Up Darling figures taking preorders.
Mimic Busters, developed by DevAdam and Tape Corps and released by GameDev.ist, arrives on Steam on October 16. The online multiplayer game splits players into Mimics and Hunters. Mimics use 3D modeling tools to sculpt and paint themselves into everyday room objects, and larger models score more. Hunters lose health with each shot, so they must listen for the sound Mimics make every 30 seconds and aim carefully before time runs out.