One Piece dominates Oricon's monthly comics chart for July 2026—confirmation that Eiichiro Oda's franchise remains the main commercial crutch for Weekly Shōnen Jump amid a structural decline in print.
Aug 13, 2026 2 1
The 1.0 release of Palworld propels Pocketpair's game to nearly a million concurrent Steam players and surpasses 30 million cumulative sales. A textbook case for a 60-person Japanese indie studio that shook up Nintendo.
Jul 27, 2026 6 2
Some Japanese Pokémon card shops now require a biometric scan upon entry. A response to the ongoing crisis of wild resales - but which raises questions about privacy in Japanese retail.
Jul 27, 2026 8 2
An estimate relayed by Notebookcheck calculates the profitability gap between digital sales and physical sales for Sony. This sheds new light on the planned disappearance of discs.
Jul 17, 2026 14 3
Arise Dark Lord is an action-RTS indie game that puts you in the role of the villain: stylized Lord of the Rings map, undead army to build, humans to exterminate. We're hooked.
Aug 7, 2026 23 3
