Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi has revealed Crash Keys, a studio founded in March 2025, after a game it spent about a year and a half on was canceled. He is asking for work and investors, as he did in 2014.
Square Enix offers 300 million yen for first place and 1 billion yen across 15 games. Only Japan residents can enter, of any nationality, and winners transfer half their copyright with no release guaranteed.
Pokémon director Shigeru Ohmori made a free-to-play phone game about magical girls, real forecasts and laundry alongside Pokopia, which shipped in 9 languages. This one is slated for Japan only.
Netflix and SEGA are adapting three SEGA games: a live-action Crazy Taxi comedy, a Sonic cartoon for preschoolers, and a crime film from a game that has not shipped. Announced September 15, 2026.
Sony cancelled Physint in June and Xbox picked it up in September. English-language forums blamed Sony. Japanese forums argued about deadlines, budgets, and where they would even be able to play it.
1 million units on day one, 10 million for the series. Capcom's own sales list has the three PS2 Onimusha games at 1.52 to 2.10 million lifetime, and the habit of borrowing movie stars' faces goes back to 2001.
State of Play, KONAMI PRESS START and the run-up to Tokyo Game Show all landed in one week. Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Gundam Rogue Orbit and Rev. NOiR all got release windows, and every one of them falls in 2027.
The Switch 2 hit $499.99 in the US on September 1. Japan raised its price three months earlier, and Famitsu's numbers show a rush to 712,000 units in May, then 100,166 in June, with July still under April.
Godot has moved on Japan with a CRI Middleware partnership. Why an engine at 5% in GDC's 2026 survey gets called the third engine, why its MIT licence stops at the console door, and what Unity and Unreal actually cost.
CAVE built an assist mode that slows bullets instead of removing them, plus a 10-player Royale mode. Steam's overall rating came back Mostly Negative. The complaints are about missing content and price, not difficulty.
Some 21 years after launch, the developer of the 2005 arcade fighter Fist of the North Star explains where the basket bug came from. The code meant to stop infinite combos is what created them.