Nintendo published its 86th shareholder meeting Q&A. Beyond the stock-price headlines: Miyamoto says IP runs at nearly 100% profit versus 30% console margins, the DS/3DS backward-compatibility dodge, game-preservation friction, My Number ID checks for Pokemon cards, and the India and China playbooks.
Sony will stop producing discs for new PlayStation games from January 2028, going download-only. Here's what it means for physical culture, the used-game market, ownership, and how it compares to Xbox, PC and Nintendo.
Shueisha, the publisher behind ONE PIECE, revealed Wild Wild Eden, an original game that uses none of its manga IP. Co-developed with a Malaysian studio, this open-world survival RPG treats monsters as family, not tools. Steam Early Access is planned for spring 2027. Here's what sets it apart in the crowded post-Palworld field.
The IOC's Future Host Commission says it wants the Winter Games back in Japan, and bid movements are stirring in Sapporo and Nagano. But at home the mood is cold. A look at the cost, the corruption memories, and the climate math that keeps pointing to Sapporo.
The studio behind Evangelion is joining a four-country team to turn India's biggest live-action epic, Baahubali, into an animated film. We look at the careers behind The Eternal War, from indie director Ishan Shukla to Khara veteran Mahiro Maeda.
We converted all 32 World Cup 2026 knockout teams into Dragon Ball power levels, One Piece bounties, Pokemon base stats and Forbes billionaires, using each team's pre-tournament FIFA ranking. Here is the full Round of 32 bracket and its most absurd matchups.
At a Tokyo kids' sports event, Olympic sprinter Shingo Suetsugu graded Ichiro's running across ten categories and landed on 59 out of 100, one point shy of passing. The baseball legend turned his latest near-miss into a perfectly on-brand joke.
Sony is ending Japan sales of its aibo robot dog (ERS-1000), then said it isn't quitting and teased a next-gen model. Here is the panic, the history of AIBO funerals, and Sony's physical-AI plan.
Studio Ghibli is opening a Zen exhibition in Kyoto, running October 3 to December 6, 2026, at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. Built around The Boy and the Heron, it traces back to a book of dialogues between producer Toshio Suzuki and three Zen monks. Here is what Zen actually is, and the surprising things it shares with Ghibli's films.
The first theatrical trailer for Sekiro: No Defeat is here. We break down the hand-drawn 2D look, the story of Wolf and Kuro, the no-AI pledge, Ryuichi Sakamoto's theme song, and how (and where) the rest of the world can watch it on Crunchyroll.
Nintendo's stock has fallen more than 50% since its August 2025 peak, even after a record fiscal year. We unpack why, for an overseas investor audience: the Switch 2 price hike, a softer FY27 outlook, and how Nintendo stacks up against US gaming names like Roblox, Take-Two, and EA.