Gacha & Catch, a pop-up Japanese crane game store, is opening in the Santa Monica Promenade in Santa Monica on Nov. 22, 2025. The joint project between Japan Entertainment One Inc., TOMY Company, Ltd.

Aptoide’s AppArena is now available in Japan as an Apple Store alternative. It comes after regulators required Apple and Google to support third-party app marketplaces and payment systems. AppArena ...

Epic Games is not going to bring Fortnite to iOS in Japan as promised because of the fees imposed by Apple's new App Store rules, ‌Epic Games‌ CEO Tim Sweeney said on social media. Sweeney complained ...

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IKEA in Japan will collaborate with The Pokemon Company and Nintendo for a Pokemon Pokopia event both in real life and ...

Japanese department store Parco has launched Parco Games, its own indie game publishing label. As reported by VGC, Parco is best known for its shopping malls in Japan, with its Shibuya, Tokyo branch ...

AppArena is now available and comes with the Game Genie AI chatbot built-in. Aptoide has just launched AppArena in Japan.

The Japanese Fair Trade Commission is planning a raft of proposals that would emulate Europe's App Store regulations regarding Big Tech firms such as Apple and Google. It may now be consulting with ...

In a nutshell: Japan's government recently compelled Apple to introduce iOS App Store policies mirroring those in Europe, but the Cupertino firm has repeated its strategy of employing loopholes and ...

Jason Fennell is a writer and game designer based out of Chicago, IL. He has been writing articles about video games for several years now, with a professional interest in Adobe Flash and its legacy.