Operation Backlog Completion 2026

The 428: Shibuya Scramble Successor is Titled Shibuya Scramble Stories

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Jul 022025
 

Back in April, we discussed the announcement of a new successor to 428: Shibuya Scramble from its executive producer.

I still haven’t played 428: Shibuya Scramble, although I did start it. I’d hoped to finish it as one of May’s mystery games, but it was too long (and being balanced alongside too many other games) for me to get there.

But since I’ve started it, here’s hoping we’ll get back to it soon.

Anyway, let’s get back to talking about the successor. It now officially has a title, Shibuya Scramble Stories, revealed in a short trailer alongside some additional members of the cast.

They also blasted past their crowdfunding goal, as their Ubgoe page currently has them at over 700% of their intended goal.

(Speaking of crowdfunding, Volontés also made its goal, so I’m excited about that! They got an extension for their campaign and still have the rest of this week to hopefully hit the Steam version stretch goal.)

I’ve been enjoying what I’ve played so far of 428: Shibuya Scramble, so I’m happy to see they’re doing well with Shibuya Scramble Stories! Here’s hoping we get to play it someday too!

Could We Get Tales News at the Bandai Namco Summer Showcase?

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Jun 302025
 

Did the Not-E3 showcases ever really end?

We had a few showcases last week and Anime Expo coming up later this week, and now in between we also have the Bandai Namco Summer Showcase announced for this Wednesday.

The showcase will be held on July 2 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET. It will feature a new My Hero Academia game and a bunch of already-announced games (including Code Vein II and Little Nightmares III), but could there be other surprises as well?

I’ve been patiently waiting for the announcement of a new Tales game from Bandai Namco, and this could be the place where we learn about a new remaster.

After all, they already said the next Tales remaster will be announced this summer. That makes a summer showcase feel like a pretty likely choice.

On top of that, the official Tales Twitter account posted on May 19 about the first three games in the series in honor of the 30th anniversary, and every week since then they’ve posted about the next few games in order, until today’s post about Xillia 2, Zestiria, Berseria, and Arise. Setting up these posts to end right ahead of the summer showcase also feels like it’s perfectly preparing for the next game’s announcement.

I love the Tales series (even if I still have a ton of them in my backlog), and I’ve been excited to see what they’ll announce next. Personally, I have my fingers crossed that the next remaster is a Japan-exclusive title getting translated for the first time, but we’ll see.

Do you think the Bandai Namco Summer Showcase will include Tales news?

No Ace Attorney News (But We Have TGAA Anniversary Art)

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Jun 272025
 

All right, so the Capcom Spotlight yesterday didn’t have any Ace Attorney news.

It was a long shot anyway, but I admit I felt hopeful when they deviated from the announced four games to discuss a few other titles as well.

Nevertheless, the closest we got to Ace Attorney news was them mentioning it being on sale.

On the other hand, we do have some new art to enjoy!

This year is The Great Ace Attorney’s 10th anniversary, and now that we’re getting closer to the anniversary itself (July 9), they released a beautiful piece of tenth anniversary art, as well as a store where you can buy art and other merchandise, like acrylic character standees.

I still have high hopes for The Great Ace Attorney’s anniversary year and believe we’ll get some sort of exciting announcement, whether it’s a game (please) or something else.

In the meantime, that art is beautiful, and I’m really tempted by some of the merch…

Do you think we’ll get a big announcement to celebrate The Great Ace Attorney’s 10th anniversary this year, or is this art and merch the most we’ll see?

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