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ANANTA Release Date: None Has Ever Been Announced. The Licence Granted 588 Days Ago, 17.3 Million Pre-Registrations and 312 Days of Silence
August 3, 2026Ananta
Silver Palace Has No Release Date, No Window and No Year: Every Dated Fact, Including the Chinese Licence of 24 December 2025
August 3, 2026Silver Palace
Astrae Oratio CBT Applications Open 19 August at 03:00 UTC and Close 21 September, and the Test Itself Still Has No Date
August 3, 2026Astrae Oratio
SHINOVI NEXUS -Senran Kagura-: Pre-Registration Opened on Two Stores, Not Three, and Google Play Was Left Out
July 31, 2026Senran Kagura
Genshin Impact Version 7.0 "Everwinter Without Mercy": Every Date, Banner and Code From August 11 to September 22
July 31, 2026Genshin Impact
Wizardry Variants Daphne's Final Fantasy XI Collab Gives You One Free Adventurer From Six, and the Scrolls Stop August 26
July 30, 2026Wizardry Variants Daphne
Aether Gazer's Echoes of the Past Is Version 4.7, Not 5.1, and Runs 28 Days Against 42 for the Version It Replaces
July 30, 2026Aether Gazer
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Pale Blue Firmament Reaches Global 85 Days After CN, and It Adds Three Sinners, Not One
Path to Nowhere brings Pale Blue Firmament to Global on August 7, 85 days after CN shipped it as main story N9 and N10 on May 14, 2026. The chapter adds three Sinners, not one: Isomer and Celine are both S-Rank, and Pixel is a pullable A-Rank. Global has published a date with no time, no timezone and no patch note.
Bungo Stray Dogs: Tales of the Lost Closed on One Day's Notice, 27 Days After Ambition Filed for Bankruptcy
Ambition filed for bankruptcy on July 3, 2026 and ran under a court-appointed administrator for 27 days with the game's shop still open. On July 29 its other titles were rescued by Vitalify. On July 30 at 13:01 JST it told Bungo Stray Dogs players they had until tomorrow, and refused refunds under Article 14 of its own terms, against a statute that normally compels them.
Cookie Run: Crumble Is Live: 2 Million Pre-Registrations, 69 Cookies, and an August 29 Mailbox Deadline
Cookie Run: Crumble launched globally on July 30, 2026 at 10:00 KST, a single simultaneous unlock that put the Americas on the evening of July 29. Pre-registration closed above 2 million, and the launch mailbox holding 400 summon items, 1,000 Crystals and 10,000 Coins expires on August 29. Day one ships 69 Cookies, 54 Pets, three classes, and a 7-day login track ending in a free SSR Cream Soda Cookie.
July 29, 2026
Cookie Run: Crumble Pre-Download Went Live 12 Hours Before the Servers, at 665.7 MB on iOS
The iOS build published at 12:12 UTC on July 29 and the servers did not answer until 01:00 UTC on July 30, a gap of 12 hours 47 minutes. Apple prints 665.7 MB, Google Play prints no size at all, and the two APK mirrors that guess disagree by 39 MB. Full device bar included, down to the Windows admin account and hardware virtualization the PC build requires.
Brown Dust 2 Splits Off a Korean Build: Refunds Run to 160,800 Free Diamonds, and Take the Costume Back
Korean accounts have run on a separate Brown Dust 2 build since the July 30 maintenance, with two costumes and one secret event modified in place. NEOWIZ is paying 4,000 free diamonds to every account by August 6 and offering refunds at 13,400 free diamonds per enhancement level, up to 160,800 for both costumes at +5, but the refund reclaims the costume and the window shuts on August 31. No regulator is named anywhere on the record.
Chaos Zero Nightmare Season 4 Went Live July 29 With Hilde and Eunie, and the Fei Patch Was a Separate July 8 Preseason
Galactic Disaster Season 4: Shattered Light and Claw launched July 29, 2026 with Hilde, Eunie, the Outfit System and the Kaleidoscope Hatchery. The Fei and Ruixiang build most coverage still calls Season 4 was a separate preseason patch that shipped three weeks earlier, on July 8. Every published date, the real CZNS40729START window from July 27 to August 20, and the four things Super Creative has not dated.
July 26, 2026
Iron Saga Confirms a Gunbuster x Diebuster Collab on July 24, Chinese Server Only
Gameduchy teased a Gunbuster and Diebuster crossover on the Chinese service on July 24, 2026, with both anime licensed and no date, units or shop announced yet. The 2025 Gunbuster collab took eight days from tease to launch on CN and JP, and five more months to reach Global.
Jump+ Jumble Rush Ends September 17 After 56 Days' Notice: Japan-Only, Never Global, and a Refund Japanese Law Requires
Jump+ Jumble Rush closes September 17, 2026, and since it only ever released in Japan, that date ends it everywhere. Bandai Namco gave 56 days' notice on July 23 and stopped Prism sales the same day. Unused balances are refundable under Article 20(1) of Japan's Payment Services Act, with the notice due after the shutdown, not before it.
Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem Ends October 15 After 2,863 Days: A Worldwide Closure With No Refund Committed
Scopely closes Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem on October 15, 2026, ending a single worldwide build 92 days after the notice. Purchases stop August 16 and the stores delist it August 23, and neither official document uses the word refund even once. Aquiris Game Studio built it; it launched December 13, 2018.
Wizardry Variants Daphne x Final Fantasy XI Collab Dated July 30 to September 10, Abyss Mask Follows in August
The Wizardry Variants Daphne and Final Fantasy XI crossover was dated on July 24, 2026: July 30 to September 10, with both ends of the window announced together. The reveal ran in four moves across three weeks and two companies, and one piece is still open: Square Enix has published no dates for the August Abyss Mask campaign.
Granblue Fantasy x BLEACH Closes August 3 at 20:59 JST: Ichigo and Yoruichi Are Free Permanent SSRs
BLEACH: Echoes in the Blue Hollow runs to 20:59 JST on August 3, 2026. Ichigo (SSR Dark) and Yoruichi Shihoin (SSR Light) are free story rewards kept permanently, while the two Collab Draw units and the event-only Konpaku Anima stop being obtainable when the window shuts.
Sword of Convallaria Global 2nd Anniversary: the Full UTC-4 Schedule for Every Banner, Event and Unlock
Global's second anniversary opened July 31, 2026, and XD published the whole calendar on July 24 with a UTC-4 stamp on every row. Here it is transcribed: 13 summon windows, 13 events, the sign-in track, 3 skins and 3 permanent unlocks. The 70 free pulls figure in circulation is an August 2025 number, and Vow of Reunion is a returner rate-up, not a Legendary selector.
Arknights CN Announces a Persona 3 Reload Side Story: Koromaru Is a Free 1-Star, With 30 Free Pulls Attached
Hypergryph announced a Persona 3 Reload Side Story for Arknights CN at the July 25 Summer Carnival livestream, set in Laterano with Koromaru as a free operator and 30 free pulls attached. No CN start date exists yet, and the six-month collab lag puts a Global run around March 2027.
Starseed: Asnia Trigger Ended Its Content Roadmap With No Shutdown Date, Then Put a 30-Day Battle Pass on Sale
Com2uS ended the content roadmap for Starseed: Asnia Trigger in a July 23, 2026 notice, effective August 5. New Proxyans, story and Pickup banners stop; servers, events and support continue with no end date committed. Six days after the roadmap was declared over, a 30-day Battle Pass went on sale running to August 30.
Ash Echoes Global Ended June 18 With No Cash Refund: The Transfer Terms, and Why SEA Is a Separate Game
Ash Echoes Global closed on June 18, 2026, with logins cut at 23:00 the night before. NEOCRAFT announced no cash refund: money spent converts at 60 Rainbow Gems or 40 Spiral per USD $1, claimable only inside Tree of Savior: NEO or Tales of Wind after levelling a character to Lv.20. The SEA version runs under a different publisher and has announced no closure at all.
Aether Gazer Global Stops Updating December 1: the Companion Server Is Planned Until September 2031, Not Guaranteed
Version 5.2 on December 1, 2026 is the last content update for Aether Gazer Global, and the Companion Server that follows is planned until September 2031, not guaranteed. The five-year figure belongs to CN, whose own wind-down already finished with dated refunds and a delisting, and the company on the hook is Yongshi, not Yostar.
Langrisser: Sea of Sword Gameplay Trailer: a Brand-New Entry, No Release Date, and No Console Announced
The first gameplay trailer runs 3:06 and has 2.33 million views, and it ends without a release date or a single console named. Sea of Sword is a brand-new entry from the Langrisser Mobile team, published by HongKong GameTree Limited rather than Zlongame, and unrelated to the 2019 Langrisser I & II remake.
hololive Dreams Launch Clock: Pre-Download Opened July 22, Servers July 23, and Two Separate App Builds
Pre-download opened July 22, 2026 (JST) on the App Store and Google Play only, with no Steam pre-load and no hour ever published. Servers followed on July 23; the 11:00 JST maintenance lift is a Game8 JP figure, not an official one. Two separate app builds ship, so the store link you follow decides whether the game installs at all.
Honkai: Star Rail Fate/UBW Part 2 Is Live: The Free 5-Star Is a Choice, and Collab Pity Is Separate
Part 2 of the Fate/stay night collab went live July 24, 2026 with Rin Tohsaka and Gilgamesh, and the free 5-star is a choice between Archer and Gilgamesh rather than a handout. The four Fate banners share a separate 90-pull pity that regular warp progress never feeds, and Part 1's Saber and Archer banners are still open thirteen months after launch.
WuWa 3.5 Phase 2: Suisui release time by server, her Energy Regen build, and Aemeath's rerun
Suisui went live on July 30, 2026 at 10:00 server time on the Blessings From Dewy Wings convene, the first limited 5-star Glacio Rectifier built as a healer. Her healing scales off Max HP but her team buff scales off Energy Regen, up to a 260% breakpoint. She and Aemeath both close August 19.
ZZZ 3.1 "The Long Goodbye": banner windows, the Rescreening that skips the 50/50, and 30 free pulls
Version 3.1 has been live since the global unlock on 29 July 2026 at 03:00 UTC, which was the evening of 28 July in the Americas. Remielle Dan holds Paradise Regained for the full six weeks, Aria closes 19 August, and the Exclusive Rescreening has no 50/50 at all: a hard 90 guarantees Dialyn, Yuzuha or Harumasa.
NTE 1.2 Phase 2: Iroi release time, The Lifeline banner and the five-hour maintenance gap
Iroi went live on The Lifeline board on July 29, 2026 at 11:00 UTC+8, five hours later than most coverage said, after a full server maintenance. Her release clock by region, the Haniel/Aurelia/Skia rate-ups, the three conditions on her revive, and the pity maths for The Wrong Gate.
Shangri-La Frontier: The Seven Colossi Has a Year and No Month, and September 17 Is the Only Date on the Calendar
The release date has been "within 2026" since March 18, a year with no month, no season and no quarter, and it covers the Japanese service only. Nothing was announced in July 2026: Netmarble booked Tokyo Game Show and opened English and Korean channels. September 17 at Makuhari Messe is the only date on the calendar.
Bleach Mirrors High Closed Beta: What the Test Showed, and What the Rules Ruled Out
The closed beta ran July 22 to 29, 2026, and its user agreement, since deleted by Bandai Namco, ruled out the complaint that travelled furthest: no in-game currency could be purchased in the test. Here is what the rules, the two outlets given access, and the tester footage actually establish.
Aniimo Put a Legendary Aniimo in a Shop 25 Days After Saying It Would Not
The third closed beta closed July 25 with every server wiped. A time-limited Challenge Dungeon called Rift Exploration: Irisalis ended in a shop screen listing a Legendary Aniimo at a fixed price of 99, captured at 52/99 with a Buy button, 25 days after Pawprint said there would be no Aniimo in the store. No rates were ever published, and no statement has followed.
Stella Sora 1.13: The August 3 Cut-Off, Suntide Willow to August 10, and 20 Free Pulls
Version 1.13's main event and its Event Shop closed August 3 at 12:59 UTC-7, seven days before the Suntide Willow banner and the log-in event end on August 10 at 19:59. Every window in the patch with its own end stamp, the 20 free pulls (not 21), the two beta modes correctly identified, and the three live codes with no published expiry.
