A German team had 50 students play Super Monkey Ball on a Wii and then work an arthroscopy box trainer. The game scores tracked surgical scores. Splatoon 2 did not, and gamer status predicted nothing.
Good Smile Company's Gyaru Tomie x Hello Kitty figure ships from May 2027 at 18,800 yen. The all-gray sculpt with one red bow, the Junji Ito and Sanrio crossover behind it, and how to preorder from outside Japan.
A Japanese developer has built a full Sengoku strategy game that runs inside the Vim text editor. Set in 1560, it holds 41 provinces, 32 clans and 256 historical generals in one 2,371-line file.
At CEDEC 2026, Nintendo explained how Donkey Kong Bananza's QA team kept fun exploits as features, planned for sequence breaks, and embedded testers in the dev team.
BE:FIRST release BRUCE WAYNE feat. Flo Milli, ATL Jacob on July 31, 2026. Five months after drawing 100,000 people to a Tokyo stadium, the six-piece plays a 650-capacity New York theatre in October. How a Japanese boy group is entering the U.S. on a route that is not the K-pop playbook.
On July 25, 2026, Toei Animation announced a new Galaxy Express 999 theatrical anime, with Rintaro (director of the 1979 film) drafting the story. Toei named no title, no release date and no director. Here is what the announcement actually says, and where fans outside Japan can watch the 1979 original in the meantime.
Japan's first Formula E night race had Nissan racing as a works team and Yamaha building the powertrain inside another team's car. Those roles are converging.
Famitsu's 40th-anniversary Miyamoto interview, read whole: Nintendo has been feeling like a preservation society, and film scripts now drive the release calendar.
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island opened in Japan on July 24, 2026. One Tokyo multiplex gave it all ten screens and 41 showings, with 32 near sold out by 7 a.m. Why this cute-but-brutal series travels, and what fans abroad can actually get.
Japanese fans split within hours over Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, due in 2027: hope for real SF from Kamiyama and EnJoe, resistance to an alien enemy.
Kingdom: Decisive Battle of the Soul opened to 2.06 billion yen in four days, the biggest live-action debut in Japan this year. Why the series keeps beating the manga-adaptation curse, and how to watch it abroad.