JAPAN GAMING & ENTERTAINMENT 
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Developer of Valkyrie Profile -Toga o Seou Mono- and WWF No Mercy Moves to New Studio: Naval Strategy Game Forturia: Trade Route Pioneers Launches Steam Demo
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Wagering Blood on the Dice: Deck-Building Roguelite Menherarium: Deadly Dice, Based on the Japanese Dice Gambling Game Chinchiro, Launches on Nintendo Switch
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Kafka at the Station shows Haruki Murakami's influence
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50 Floors Beneath the Old School Building — Dungeon-Crawling RPG S.O.L School Of Labyrinth From Game Dev Circle SUSHI Lab Launches on Steam
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Horror game 日本事故物件監視協会2 -Japan Stigmatized Property-, which has players monitor four real Japanese “stigmatized properties” until dawn, gets a Nintendo Switch version on August 20
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Hit exactly 21 to trigger your ultimate move — solo developer releases blackjack-meets-deckbuilding roguelite MEGAKO☆PUNCH!
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A First-Person Game About Shoveling Snow in the Mountains — New Chilla's Art Game Snowed Under Heads to Steam on August 14
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Finding Polka launches on Steam — three guest developers contribute rap music along with shooting and stealth-puzzle sections
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SATSUBATSU SUCCUBUS, an ultra-fast FPS where each stage lasts about 10 seconds, gets a demo on itch.io
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Cover up damage to a masterpiece in 3 minutes before the inspector arrives — NEVER HAPPENED launches in August
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Spotlight: Save One, Abandon Another — Two-Person Team BONA's LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON
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Spotlight: A board game group's first digital game — Boungeon is a deck-building roguelike in which battles are fought with bouncing magic bolts
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TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026: Finding Polka Wins the Platinum Award at the SELECTED INDIE 80 Excellence Awards, Chosen From 1,513 Entries
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Trigger a romance flag and get a bad ending — twin manga artists' dating sim Can I Not Fall for Idols? is coming to Nintendo Switch
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FURYU removes the end date from ANOMALITH and CRYMELIGHT demos — they had been set to end August 9
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Spotlight: Two developers, one from Japan and one from the US, build Delve Survivors — a grid-based roguelike layered with horde-survivor action
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Horror sim Japan Stigmatized Property 3 launches, tasking players with watching security cameras from midnight to 5 a.m. This entry adds cross-play between PC and smartphone
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Suikoden's first all-new entry in 14 years launches in Japan; global and Steam versions remain "to be announced"
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Spotlight: Kira Kira and MUSICUS! Screenwriter Renya Setoguchi Announces New Project Hyakubyaku Without Revealing Its Content
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STRANGER THAN HEAVEN Confirmed for TGS2026 With Seven Programs, Including a Playable Demo, a Theater, and a Five-Day Special Stage
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A doujin circle inspired by a 1989 adventure game releases a mansion-exploration game full of unreasonable instant deaths, completely free
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A Mystery Adventure Rated “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam Heads to Nintendo Switch — G-MODE Unveils Nine Titles in Special Broadcast
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