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.
A dissolution notice in Japan's Official Gazette wound up SNK Entertainment, the subsidiary once behind KOF and Metal Slug licensing. It handed that work to parent SNK in 2022. So why did an empty shell make headlines?
Kohei Ikeda, game director on Tekken 7 and 8, has joined Katsuhiro Harada's SNK-backed VS Studio, putting the three men who ran Tekken 7 under one roof. The response is less unanimous than it looks.
At Disney's D23, Tetsuya Nomura and Tai Yasue promised Kingdom Hearts IV arrives in 2027 with absolutely no delay. Given the studio's history, that is an unusual thing to say out loud.
A Czech team pooled five studies on what competitive gaming does to the body. Energy use barely moves, 1.3 to 2.5 kcal a minute, while heart rate can jump from 85 to 137 bpm. In Japan, the argument is about the word.
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.
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.