Bandai Namco Entertainment and ILCA founded a new company called Bandai Namco Aces. As for what the studio will be working on, one example that comes up is the Ace Combat series.

There are 15 former Kadokawa Games titles that Dragami Games has announced it will be taking over sale of, including Relayer, God Wars: Future Past, √Letter, and Demon Gaze.

One Ring Fit Adventure player’s success story has been gaining attention on Twitter in Japan. A Twitter user posted their results after consistently playing the game for one year and shared details regarding their playstyle and how they lost 17 kg (37.4 lbs).

Cocos Technology has announced that their Cocos Creator game engine, which is geared toward mobile game development, will soon support the Nintendo Switch.

During Capcom’s last fiscal year which ended in March of 2022, the company saw sales via Steam increase by 62.5% over the previous year to a tune of 17.2 billion yen (roughly $126 million). This accounted for 15.6% of the company’s overall sales.

The Nihon Pro Mahjong association will be holding a test specifically for VTubers in February of 2023, with those who pass being qualified as professional mahjong players. VTubers with 1,000 or more subscribers on their YouTube channels are eligible for the test.

Chidoriashi, a bar operator in Japan, has started a crowdfunding campaign for a board game about running a sake brewery called Kurasaku. With limited resources such as funds and personnel, players will need to secure their ingredients, invest in equipment, brew their sake, and sell it to run their business.

Japanese beverage company Suntory is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Capcom’s Street Fighter II in a collaboration with their carbonated water brand “The Strong.” The collaboration AR minigame reimagines the classic car bonus stage in Street Fighter II.

Cosmic Fantasy Collection (tentative title) is in development for the Nintendo Switch. Cosmic Fantasy Collection will include ports of two RPGs from the Cosmic Fantasy series: the 1990 released Cosmic Fantasy: Bouken Shounen Yuu and the 1991 released Cosmic Fantasy 2.

Japanese publishing company Kodansha has announced the winners of their Trash Game Competition (known as kuso games in Japan) which was held in conjunction with the Shangri-La Frontier manga. One of the winners is a visual novel about eating tomatoes.

Free sound library Springin’ Sound Stock provides over 600 free sounds which are also free for commercial use. It includes 10 different categories covering everything from combat and vehicle sound effects to background music, 8-bit sounds, and button pressing effects.

The Steam version of SystemSoft Beta’s Daisenryaku SSB is scheduled to launch in June, but it’s the scenarios in the game that have gamers in Japan buzzing. For example, one is called Crisis in the Straits of Taiwan and sees a Taiwan that’s been abandoned by both the United States and Japan fighting alone against China for their independence.

Japanese YouTuber Takatin has issued an apology to fans after lying about one of his Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Let’s Play videos. He had initially claimed that the video in question was a first playthrough when it in fact wasn’t.

Garage is a cult classic adventure game that was originally released for PC in 1999. The game takes place in a psychological world that is teeming with dilapidated wooden buildings, rusted metal, and sewage. The Steam version of Garage: Bad Dream Adventure will be completely uncensored.