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.
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.
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.
Bandai Namco Filmworks reveals a new Gundam anime on July 24, timed to a San Diego Comic-Con panel. Japanese fans are guessing everything from Hathaway's finale to Crossbone and the cursed Gundam Sentinel. The English press release may have already spoiled it. Updated with what was actually revealed.
Sunrise (Gundam) and Shaft (Madoka Magica) are co-producing their first-ever anime together. With only a cryptic color script and a five-day countdown to a June 23 reveal, Japanese fans spent five days trading theories. The answer: an adaptation of Kasumi Yasuda's manga Fool Night.
A Tohoku University team grew rice to the heading stage in soil mimicking the Moon's surface, using fertilizer made from nothing but air and electricity via plasma. The unlikely inspiration? Gundam's beam saber. As NASA pushes toward a lunar base, it could become foundational tech for growing food in space.
Tokyo's life-size Unicorn Gundam in Odaiba is being redressed with new decals by original designer Hajime Katoki before its end-of-August removal. Here is what the Ver. TWC FINAL makeover involves, the final nightly light-up lineup, the free headband campaign, and how to see it before it's gone.
Tekken 8 game director Kohei Ikeda has left Bandai Namco after 20 years, the third series lead to exit in roughly nine months after Katsuhiro Harada. We unpack his career, what his statement does and doesn't say, the backdrop of fan backlash, and whether he'll reunite with Harada at VS Studio SNK.
Tokyo's 19.7-meter Unicorn Gundam statue, an Odaiba landmark since 2017, will be dismantled at the end of August 2026, leaving Japan's capital without a life-sized Gundam for the first time in nearly two decades.
Esports expands to a record 11 disciplines and 13 titles at September's Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. With KONAMI just signed as an official supplier, here's the full lineup (Pokémon UNITE, eFootball, Gran Turismo 7, the SF6/Tekken/KOF team event) plus why the IOC's 2027 Olympic Esports Games just unraveled.