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Prime 1 Studio has opened pre-orders for Prince and King figures from Katamari Damacy, the first release in its new A-SYMBOL series. Pre-orders began October 22, with both figures scheduled for November 2027. The Prince stands 15cm with a magnetized Katamari that accepts included objects or metal items; the King stands 50cm with a movable neck and cloth cape. Bonus editions cost 10,120 yen and 32,340 yen.
Amazon will stream "Fallout Shelter: The Experiment" on Amazon Prime Video starting January 13, 2027, the company announced. The unscripted series runs 10 episodes and places contestants inside a Vault-Tec shelter inspired by the Fallout games, where they compete for a large cash prize through escalating challenges that test their abilities. The project was first announced under the working title "Fallout Shelter" on January 16, 2026, when participant recruitment opened. The official title and the streaming date are new. The show is one of several Fallout adaptations Amazon has in motion: a live-action Fallout drama streams on Prime Video through Season 2, and Season 3 was reported in 2025 as planned to film from summer 2026. Bethesda's merchandising arm is also active in the same window. DPI Merchandising announced a wearable T-60 power armor helmet replica, priced at $169.99 with shipping expected in May 2027, and a $199.99 power fist replica.
uploader.jp, the free file storage service that includes getuploader.com and ux.getuploader.com, will close on November 25, 2026. The service announced the decision on its official X account, citing changes in usage conditions and other circumstances. All uploaded data will be deleted at 23:59 that day. Since 2006 it has hosted fan-made Japanese localization patches and mods for overseas PC games.
Inti Creates will bring a playable Nintendo Switch 2 demo of Grim Guardians: Servants of the Dark to Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 on October 31, 2026, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall. The demo is the same build shown at TGS2026, running from the game's opening through the encounter with head maid Raisa. Demo players get one of two 57mm can badges while supplies last. The Switch 2 version releases January 28, 2027.
Good Smile Company's MODEROID line is taking preorders for a plastic model kit of Cherno Alpha from Pacific Rim. The kit is about 22 cm tall with movable joints and interchangeable hands, and its exterior is modeled on the film's 3DCG. Swapping parts lets the arm punch sit extended or retracted. Clear parts come in pre-painted and unpainted versions, and molding colors, pre-painted parts and decals reproduce a color scheme close to the film's. The reference price is 8,900 yen; Rakuten Books lists it at 7,396 yen with tax.
A mod called "Cat Huffing" for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is out on Nexus Mods, made by creator and streamer haggy. It lets players sniff the cats added by the separate "House Cats" mod in first or third person. Sniffing a cat fully restores health, magicka, and stamina, and grants Cure Disease plus doubled gold acquisition for 24 in-game hours.
Prime 1 Studio's new figure series A-SYMBOL starts with Katamari Damacy's Prince and King. The 1/1 scale Prince is 5cm tall and 15cm tall on its Katamari, which has magnets built into its protrusions so three included objects (eraser, film, soy sauce bottle) can be swapped in. A King figure over 50cm tall ships alongside. Preorders run October 22 to December 22, 2026, with release around November 2027 at 10,120 yen.
Furyu released a playable demo of CRYMELIGHT on Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5 on October 22. The demo covers the opening of the main story through the end of Chapter 1, runs 1.5 to 3 hours or more, and matches the demo already distributed on Steam. It is available only until the full release on November 5. The roguelike action game uses a poker-style build around five-card hands.
The Horimiya 15th POP UP SHOP has announced a second round of goods: a trading clear card two-card set at 550 yen, a nine-sticker set at 1,300 yen, a multi case at 1,500 yen, and a cotton tote bag at 1,200 yen, all using newly drawn 15th-anniversary illustrations and strawberry motifs. The shop opens at Yurakucho Marui on Friday, December 4, 2026, the first of four venues, and will also carry items from the running Horimiya CAFE Katagiri High School Cultural Festival.
Pearl Abyss released a six-and-a-half-minute preview video for Charting the Unknown, the Crimson Desert expansion that moves the action from the land of Pywel onto the open sea. Players build and customize a ship, sail between islands, explore underwater ruins, and fight hostile factions in naval battles. It launches October 30 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
NIS America will release the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA on February 25, 2027 local time. The port runs at up to 120fps and supports local and online co-op through the hardware's GameShare feature. A Nintendo Switch version already exists. As of writing, no Japan release of the Switch 2 version has been announced.
Prime 1 Studio is taking pre-orders from Tuesday, October 20, 2026 on an Ultimate Premium Masterline statue of Ryu Hayabusa from NINJA GAIDEN 4. The 1/4 scale polystone piece stands about 70cm tall, 57cm wide and 61cm deep, weighs about 9.46kg, and costs 272,690 yen including tax, with release scheduled between March and June 2028. A DX Edition adds hands holding the Snakebone Gate for a display tied to the downloadable content "Two Super Ninjas."
RocketWerkz and Ahwoo, led by DayZ developer Dean Hall, released the game development framework BRUTAL on October 15, 2026. Built on C# and .NET with C++ libraries and Vulkan, it is meant as a foundation for custom engines rather than a complete engine like Unity or Unreal. It is free for commercial use with no royalties, though the license requires credit and a logo display.
EST N8 acquired worldwide sales rights to Pilgrims, a Korean science-fiction animated feature, and launched international sales at the Asian Contents & Film Market during the Busan International Film Festival, held October 10 to 13. The film won a technical award at the 2025 Bucheon International Animation Festival. It is the feature directorial debut of Pyoungkang Heo, a veteran of the Japanese animation industry, and adapts a short story from Choyeop Kim's If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light.
RIM, the KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO virtual singer, will release the single "Fukai desu!" on October 21, timed to the 7th anniversary of her activities. She announced it on October 18, the date she began activities with the studio's launch in 2019, calling the release a birthday present from Team RIM to listeners. The announcement came amid information tied to the studio's founding anniversary.
After former child actor William Chapman died on October 10, 2026, at a wildlife park in Yorkshire, England, the Daily Mail framed his Skyrim fandom as possible motive, asking whether he had blurred the line between game and reality. Windows Central editor Jez Corden mocked the speculation on X, and replies noted that media panics about games go back to Dungeons & Dragons and DOOM.
The BanG Dream! Ave Mujica prima aurora anime film opened in Japanese theaters on Friday, and the franchise's official YouTube channel began streaming a second promotional video the same day. The video previews Ave Mujica's song "A Song of Romance." Nichicaline animated the film. The voice cast includes Kanon Takao as Sakiko Togawa/Oblivionis, Yuzuki Watase as Mutsumi Wakaba/Mortis, Rico Sasaki as Uika Misumi/Doloris, Akane Yonezawa as Nyamu Yutenji/Amoris, and Mei Okada as Umiri Yahata/Timoris. A promo video for the next BanG Dream! It's MyGo!!!!! and Ave Mujica sequel television anime is screening after showings of the film. That sequel series will premiere in January 2027 on NTV and 29 affiliated channels in Japan. The Ave Mujica television anime premiered in January 2025, and Crunchyroll streamed that series as it aired. A second promotional video for a film that has just opened usually arrives to capitalize on the first weekend of theatrical screenings.
Inti Creates will hold an in-store demo event for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Grim Guardians: Servants of the Dark on October 24, 2026, from 12:00 to 17:00 at Trader Akihabara 2nd Store. Players get a postcard, and anyone who reserves the standard or limited edition on the spot, or brings proof of an existing reservation from any store, receives a promotional B2 poster. The game releases January 28, 2027.
Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, has released the BRUTAL game development framework and its source code through his studio RocketWerkz. BRUTAL is used in RocketWerkz's Kitten Space Agency and was provided as the foundation for Waylith, the engine built for Ludeon Studios' RimWorld. It is open source under the MIT License and free for commercial works, with conditions: credit, copyright and logo on the startup screen, and the NOTICE file.
Prime 1 Studio is adding an Ultimate Premium Masterline Batman (Comic) Batman VS Clayface statue, built from a Jim Lee illustration from Batman: One Bad Day. The 1/4 scale piece stands about 83cm tall and weighs roughly 44.55kg, priced at 340,890 yen. Pre-orders run from October 15 to December 15, 2026, with release set between March and June 2028. A DX Version and DX Bonus Version add extra parts.
Prime 1 Studio will release a Justice League (Comic) Batman 'Advanced Suit' White Ver. statue designed by concept artist Josh Nizzi, part of the Ultimate Museum Masterline line. The polystone piece stands 50.8cm tall, 29cm wide and 27.6cm deep, weighs about 6.3kg, and includes a special base and a detachable fabric cape. The chest has an LED light-up function. Edition size is 300, priced at 139,590 yen, scheduled for release around February to May 2028.
Shueisha is listing two new novel adaptations for December 4. Nanao writes The Promised Neverland: A 10th Year Gift, a 10th anniversary novel following Emma and the other children after the manga's final chapter, with stories about Cislo and the Lambda group and about Phil and the younger children. The same author writes Blue Box Epilogue, set before and after that manga's ending, including Taiki and Chinatsu's drive and Hina in university rhythmic gymnastics.
Ludeon Studios announced RimWorld update 1.7 on October 13, moving the colony sim from Unity to Waylith, an engine built in-house. The studio says startup, loading, map generation, and in-game processing are 2 to 4 times faster, and that a stress test of a late-game colony ran at 2.2 times the speed of version 1.6. With a mod pack of 1,500 mods, load time fell from 14 minutes to 6 minutes. Ludeon states that 1.6 saves load in 1.7, 1.7 saves run in 1.6, and most mods work without changes, though some may show an incompatibility warning and the build may not run on PCs more than 10 years old. Version 1.7 is playable now on Steam's unstable beta branch, with no stable release date given. The studio also said a new title is in development on Waylith, with details to come later.
Dungeon Settlers, a dark fantasy strategy game from CanOpener, entered early access for PC and Mac on September 4 at 2,480 yen with Japanese support. In a Game Spark interview, CEO and director Logan said the game pairs RimWorld-style base and character management with Darkest Dungeon-style tactical dungeon combat, and that he plans to address player criticism of thin content and shallow base management.
Anamanaguchi will play Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE on October 13, the band's first Japanese stage as a full band since Blip Festival Tokyo in 2011. In an interview ahead of the show, Peter Berkman traced the band from its 2004 start in New York and the 2006 EP Power Supply through music for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, the Netflix anime Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and a Hatsune Miku collaboration.
Animalsoft released a free playable demo for Indoor Shrimp Farming Simulator on PC via Steam on October 9. The aquarium sim starts as a tank management game where players breed shrimp for money, then shifts into third-person 3D exploration: shrimp leap from the tank, ride a skateboard around town, talk with other shrimp, and take on requests. The demo covers more than 1,700 shrimp color varieties, and firearms appear.
The first wave of merchandise for "Horimiya 15th POP UP SHOP" has been announced ahead of its Friday, December 4, 2026 opening at Yurakucho Marui and other venues. The lineup includes acrylic stand keychains with newly drawn strawberry-motif illustrations, hand-signed reproduction original art by HERO and Daisuke Hagiwara, and Hori and Miyamura plush mascots designed by HERO. The event runs at four venues in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Aichi, and Osaka, with a separate cafe event starting October 14.
Prime 1 Studio opened preorders on October 8 for a 1/4-scale Reze/Bomb statue from Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc, part of its Ultimate Premium Masterline line. The standard edition costs 187,990 yen. A DX version at 238,590 yen adds a Bom upper body, two dynamite bundles, and a bust stand. A DX Bonus version adds a right-arm part for the pin-pulling pose and is handled in Japan only through Prime 1 Studio's official online store. Preorders close December 8, with release set for around February to May 2028.
Good Smile Company has opened preorders on Amazon.co.jp for the G.S.Collection Hatsune Miku Cheerleading Ver., a 1/7 scale painted plastic figure based on an illustration by Morimoto from the Hatsune Miku x Good Smile Illustration Contest Vol. 3. It stands about 254mm, is sculpted by Pot of Digital Pot with coloring by Ekoshi and production cooperation from the GSC Production Department, and is priced at 27,800 yen with a release date of November 30, 2027.
RENGAME announced on October 8 that Keroro Gunso☆ Hachamecha TV Show will release on December 9, Keroro's birthday. The minigame collection launches on Steam and Nintendo Switch at 1,980 yen with tax included. A trial version is now available on Steam with three minigames across 25 stages, while the full version adds shooting and calculation games.
The ABEMA Channel will launch on October 9 at 7:00 PM to mark the tenth anniversary of the KonoSuba TV anime. It carries all 33 episodes from Season 1 through Season 3, the spinoff 'An Explosion on This Wonderful World!', and the film 'Legend of Crimson', streaming free daily for five days. Each title stays free for two weeks after it airs. Season 4 arrives in 2027.
Mod creator urtubesrclogged has released a mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Skyrim VR on Nexus Mods that adds an adventurers guild system, inspired by classic RPGs and isekai manga and anime. Players talk to innkeepers acting as guild representatives in each hold capital, earn reputation through combat and dungeon reports, climb ranks from E to S, carry a portable guild card, and register up to nine companions in a party.
Developer Farelas released the co-op survival horror game The Crimson Hunt on Steam for PC at 1,600 yen, discounted 20 percent until October 21. Set in a mansion deep in a remote forest, it follows Victoria, a vampire hunter haunted by her past, and Eleanor, a young woman abducted by an ancient vampire. The game has local split-screen co-op, third-person combat, resource management, and environment-based puzzles. A major update is planned with costumes and new elements.
The film BanG Dream! Ave Mujica prima aurora will give first-week theatergoers shikishi-style cards with new illustrations by Osamu Shigenawa, across all five types. An "Ave Mujica Manner Course Theater" segment will screen before the main feature. The goods line includes acrylic stands, a hologram can badge set, a brooch-style acrylic keyholder, a clear file set, trading acrylic blocks, costume acrylic keyholders and acrylic keyholders. Stage greetings are set for October and November with Riko Sasaki, Yuzuki Watase, Mei Okada, Akane Yonezawa and Kanon Takao.
NEOLAVI began distributing a demo version of the PC game "Are You Curious About What's Inside Your Oshi?" on Steam on October 6, 2026. Players take the role of a rookie security guard at the entrance of the VTuber agency Stellaria, deciding whether to allow or deny visitors entry. The guard is a longtime listener of the agency's VTuber Hoshino Luna, having followed her since her debut, and took the job to protect her from close range. Players inspect entry passes, schedules, affiliation certificates, and other documents. Inspection items increase as days pass, adding anti-counterfeit logo verification, X-ray baggage inspection, voice authentication, and emergency response to suspicious individuals. Visitors include agency staff, stream-related personnel, VTubers, and unidentified individuals. Players can interrogate those who seem suspicious. The game is in development for Windows on Steam. The demo supports Japanese.
Tentacle Soft exhibited "Don't Call It a Kusoge, Streamer-san" at OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held October 3 and 4 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka. The game is a metafictional jump action in which a Korean developer makes a house call on a Japanese streamer who reviewed a fictional predecessor, "Happy Nanaru." It is built on the developer's own earlier run-and-jump game, "Super Nanaru."
A beta of "Fallout 4 Community Shaders," a fan-made graphics plug-in, is out on Nexus Mods. Kuzey Gok, a software development engineer at Microsoft, ported it from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition." The beta adds upscaling, frame generation, and lighting adjustments. Installation needs prerequisite mods, the supported game version is Windows 1.11.240, and it conflicts with the separate plug-in ENB.
Chiikawa Kuji will open sales for its Kurimanju Darake lottery at 11:00 on September 24, at 1,100 yen per play, running through 23:59 on October 1 with shipping scheduled to begin around late February 2027. The A Prize is a super BIG plushie holding a beer mug and flashing a peace sign, and the E Prize mascots come in six types, including Kinshu with a sobriety stamp and Futsukayoi looking pale.
A Valheim player using the handle Naguta recreated Riverwood, the first village most players visit in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and posted a three-minute video of the build. Naguta told the outlet it took about three days, helped by a Valheim setting that removes material costs for building, with a friend handling the land flattening.
Manga Time Kirara Forward announced on Thursday that Norimitsu Kaiho and Kurageso's Akarui Mirai will end in the next issue on October 23. The pair launched the series in the magazine in August 2025, with Kaiho writing and Kurageso drawing. Houbunsha shipped the second compiled volume on July 10. The story follows Mirai, a girl who struggles to socialize, and a foul-mouthed AI from the future.
Pearl Abyss said on September 30, 2026 that the release of Charting the Unknown, the first large-scale DLC for the open-world action adventure game Crimson Desert, has been moved from October 15, 2026 to October 30. The studio said it needed additional development time to deliver higher-quality content and a stable play experience, and apologized to players who had been waiting. In the Asian region including Japan, distribution is scheduled for October 30, 2026 at 7:00 JST. The DLC adds new adventures by sea and underwater, housing, and deeper interaction with NPCs. Pre-orders are open, with the Unknown Explorer Diving Suit Set for Cliff and Unka and the Unknown Explorer Lightweight Diving Suit Set for Damiane. The DLC is set for PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store, plus PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. App Store sales are undecided, with Pearl Abyss to provide separate information when a decision is made.
THQ Nordic will release Titan Quest II in full on January 19, 2027 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The action RPG from Grimlore Games has been in early access on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store since August 2025. Version 1.0 completes the adventure that grew through that period and adds new elements, with pre-order bonus details still to come. The game supports solo play and online co-op for up to four players. Its ancient Greek setting has Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, lose control and try to impose eternal punishment on anyone who defies her. Players cross sandy beaches, temples, ruins, and the realm of the Moirai, and fight centaurs, griffins, hippocampi, cyclopes, and Ixion. Classes come from combining two masteries, with skill modifiers, attributes, and equipment left open to the player. Development continues after launch, with new lands, features, and story planned.
ArtDink announced on September 25, 2026 that A-Train 9 PRIME LINE will launch for PC on Steam on December 10 at 18,480 yen including tax. The city-development railway simulation reworks track and road laying with a new Flexible setting that generates curves and gradients at any curvature or angle, allowing long gentle curves and loop lines. Track appearance can be chosen from four types: ballast track in gray or brown, direct-fastening track, and slab track. Train consists expand to a maximum of 16 cars, up from 10, and coupled trains can run freight formations of up to 32 cars. Curved stations with curved platforms are added, along with two-lane-each-way roads. The Japanese version includes 341 vehicles from JR and private railways and about 600 structure types. ArtDink also plans a special-price campaign for owners of A-Train 9 Ver.1.0 through Ver.5.0, with details to come on Steam News and the official website.
Takara Tomy will add five figures to its Transformers Age of the Primes line in late March 2027, with pre-orders opening Friday, October 2, 2026. Transformers AOTP-53 Guzzle is a fully transformable figure of a Wrecker, around 168mm tall and priced at 7,150 yen. AOTP-54 Cybershark is a Maximal who changes between robot mode and a shark beast mode, listed at the same price and roughly 206mm tall. The lineup also names Skygard, Autobot Breakaway, and Alpha Bravo, though the sources give no scale, price, or SKU details for those three. The Age of the Primes line builds its figures around the 13 Primes, the origin figures of the Transformers fiction, and has been working through Primes that had rarely been made as toys. Each figure ships with a dedicated weapon and poseable joints.
Amazon published the Prime Video slate for October 2026 on September 30, and the month is carried by Japanese film. The Exit 8, the live-action adaptation of KOTAKE CREATE's 2023 anomaly-spotting game, starts unlimited streaming on October 2 with a reported domestic box office of 5.17 billion yen. Sakamoto Days, the live-action film of Yuto Suzuki's manga starring Ren Meguro and directed by Yuichi Fukuda, arrives October 30. The Apothecary Diaries season 3 begins October 3, and Dragon Ball Super Beerus streams from October 12. Maronie Kingdom's Seven Knights, an adaptation of Nao Iwamoto's fantasy manga, is set for October 4. Anime titles include Aoashi, Blue Exorcist season 2, and A Sign of Affection season 2. The overseas film section carries all 25 James Bond films, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Minecraft: The Movie, which began streaming October 1.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, the booth closest to the entrance of the indie area showed someone in VR goggles thrashing around. The game is Torima Hedoban, a rhythm title where you headbang with no controller. It was made in BitSummit Game Jam 2026 under the theme "High Impact: Break Through." The results screen grades how many times and how fast you shook your head. The team wants paid distribution eventually.
The 3D turn-based RPG Tougen Anki Crimson Inferno, developed by Com2uS from the TV anime Tougen Anki, will carry an original story and original characters that appear only in the game. The development team told 4Gamer that the split between anime-based content and original content is effectively about half and half, after original elements went unshown at Tokyo Game Show 2025.
Prime 1 Studio is producing 1/4-scale statues of Master Chief and of an Elite Zealot & Grunt Minor pair under its Ultimate Premium Masterline line, based on Halo: Campaign Evolved. The Master Chief statue stands 78cm tall, includes a special base and swappable arms for an energy sword or assault rifle, and carries LED features in the base, helmet and energy sword. Preorders run September 18 to November 18, 2026, priced at 278,190 yen, with release planned for around February to May 2028.
Amazon Game Studios has started giving away three PC games to Amazon Prime members through the Luna service. DOOM Eternal arrives in its Microsoft Store version, alongside RiMS Racing and Wall World 2. Members who claim each title within its distribution window keep it afterward without restrictions. DOOM Eternal is the second entry in the reboot series that began with DOOM in 2016, built around Glory Kill finishers and aerial dash movement.
Kotobukiya is producing a 1/8 scale painted figure of Ren Bright in her The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II -CRIMSON SiN- outfit. The figure shows her holding a scythe. It is listed at a reference price of 25,300 yen including tax, with a Rakuten Books sale price of 22,498 yen including tax. Preorders are open at Rakuten Books.