2016

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Contains news concerning Koei Tecmo's activities in the year 2016.

January

February

March

  • Shin Sangoku Musou Online Z shall have a Bao Sanniang weapon event and One Thousand and One Nights themed outfits starting March 17.
  • Kou Shibusawa hosted this year's FOST awards. The social contribution awards were given to Hiroaki Shirai and Masami Ido. Shirai founded the Yokohama Business Game project, which challenges enrolled students to invent business games that could realistically simulate the end of global poverty; Ido founded a gaming and simulation lab that has been recently recognized to have helped university students learn Ancient Japanese history.
  • Gamecity Shopping is offering a series of limited prints of select IPs dubbed Digital Art Collection. Interested buyers have until March 10 to purchase them.
  • The eleven year anniversary event for Daikoukai Jidai Online shall begin March 15 on Japanese servers.
    • The next expansion pack Age of Revolution will be live on Japanese servers April 19, 2016.
  • Nobunaga's Ambition Day is March 30. The series's social games shall host several campaigns to celebrate.
  • The 1.04 Update for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 addresses balancing issues, the choice of issuing alliances after battles and other changes.
  • Purchase a Neoromance game in March at participating Japanese outlets for a chance to receive two random Neoromance White Day postcards.
  • Three Neoromance card designs will be used in Koei's collaboration with Espos cards. Based on the artist credits within the copyrights, the skins will borrow visuals from Angelique Retour, Haruka and Corda.
  • Three Haruka events will commence throughout March and April to celebrate its fifteen year anniversary. These events are being made in thanks to fans and hopes to reach the twentieth.
    • An exhibition to celebrate fifteen years of illustrations will take place May 5~8; details will be posted at a later date with teasers posted on its Twitter account.
    • A continuation of Haruka 6 was announced at this year's Haruka Festival.

April

May

June

July

  • A new mobile game for the Toukiden series has been announced and will be released some time in 2016.
  • Shin Sangoku Musou Online Z is holding a collaboration event to celebrate the upcoming release of Toukiden 2. Players will be able to obtain Tenko parts for their avatar until July 31.
  • Daikoukai Jidai Online will be starting the second chapter of its Age of Revolution expansion on July 29. The event will be broadcast in Niconico Live the day before its release.
  • Koei has recently released the latest patch for the Sengoku Risshiden expansion of Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence. It includes multiple bug fixes, a new revolt command, and a scenario editor.
  • Niconico Live will be broadcasting the latest version of Nobunaga no Yabou Online on July 12 with voice actor Megumi Toda as a guest MC for the event.
  • Nexon Korea will be working with Koei and XPEC Entertainment to develop Project Dynasty Warriors, a mobile game based on Dynasty Warriors 8. It will be released for the iOS and Android some time in late 2016.
  • Neoromance BRAND NEW SUMMER is a voice actor event that is scheduled for July 31. The official website shall be posted this month.

August

September

October

November

  • Shin Sangoku Musou Online Z has updated on November 17 with a Zhang Jiao weapon themed update. For its nine year anniversary, the game will be holding a collaboration event with Toukiden 2; players can earn costumes of Tsubaki and Kamuna.
  • Daikoukai Jidai Online Age of Revolution will begin its Thanksgiving event on November 15. Players can partake in various challenge missions for special rewards.
  • The developers of Sangokushi 13 with Power-Up Kit have announced the winners of their scenario writing contest: one from Japan and another from Asia. Their entries will become available as free DLC once the game is released.
  • Shin Sangoku Musou SLASH PLUS will be starting a joint service with the Yamanote Line on December. Registered players who check in with any of the line's 29 stations will receive original items for their game.

December