- Winter Sale Time! - 19 December 2025
Taito games up to 70% off! Winter Sale is on! Stay cozy at home and enjoy Taito games this holiday season!
- Autumn Sale Starts! Check Out the New Value Edition! - 30 September 2025
TAITO Games Up to 70% Off! Autumn Sale is Here! To celebrate the start of our Autumn Sale, we’ve just released a brand new Edition! Operation Night Strikers Digital Deluxe Edition This special Edition includes the main game, "Operation Night Strikers," plus three awesome DLCs—all bundled together at a great price. You’ll also get an extra 10% off each DLC compared to buying them separately! Operation Night Strikers CS Pack Operation Night Strikers BOOK Operation Night Strikers - TAITO SOUND BULLET For more details about each DLC, please check out the store page!
- Celebrate Darius Reveal Day! - 24 September 2025
Celebrate “Darius Reveal Day” on October 7th with a blast—Darius series titles are now 50% OFF! Get your favorite Darius games ahead of the big day and join the celebration!
- Operation: Night Strikers Day, Aug 15th in Akihabara! - 14 August 2025
All units: converge on Akihabara! On August 15, we’re holding a special Night Striker-focused event above the Hey arcade in Akihabara, Tokyo. The venue will feature merchandise sales—including limited and early-release items—an actual arcade Night Striker cabinet on display, and a hands-on play area. In the morning, we’ll host the “Night Striker Special Tactical Action Force Skills Trial in Hey” competition. Players will take on designated stages, competing for the highest Running Point score (displayed on the game’s gadget) at stage end. Entry is limited to 20 participants; if applications exceed this number, players will be selected at random. Those wishing to participate should register at the Hey 2F counter between 10:00 and 10:15 on the day of the event. At 15:00, we present the “Monthly ZUNTATA NIGHT – Special Summer 2025 Edition in Hey”. Guests will include M2 development staff f…
- Thorough explanation of Gadget functions in “M2STG LiveBroadcast 3 #1”! - 11 July 2025
Time to scramble—M2 Shot Triggers Live! M2, the developer of “Operation Night Strikers” and “Night Striker GEAR,” will broadcast the live program “M2STG LiveBroadcast 3 #1” on July 17, 2025 at 19:00. "M2STG LiveBroadcast 3 #1" will introduce M2-developed titles, including Taito-related titles. "Operation Night Strikers“ will be introduced with producer Yuichi Toyama, and ”Night Striker GEAR" will be shown in gameplay. In addition...? The streaming will take place on M2's YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the channel and look forward to the event. "M2STG Live Broadcast 3 #1" Distribution Overview Date: July 17, 6:00 (EDT) / 10:00 (UTC) / 19:00 Viewing page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0P5NUjp8S0 Performers (in no particular order, titles omitted): -Naoki Horii (Representative Director, M2 Co., Ltd.) -Kazuki Kubota (Director of M2ShotTriggers, M2 Co., Ltd.) -Yokel Hibana (Public R…
- Shooters Fes 2025: See Operation Night Strikers live! - 13 June 2025
A hail of lead is heading to Tokyo!Taito will be showing Operation Night Strikers and Night Strikers Gear during a live stream at Shooter Fes 2025, an online event focused on shooting games and organised by City Connection and Game Centre Mikado. The event runs over two days; June 14th and 15th with livestreams starting at 12:00 on each day.The team from Taito will be on stream from 18:00 on Saturday 14th, with producer Yuichi Toyama and Zuntata’s Katsuhisa Ishikawa being joined by guests Naoki Horii and Hibana Yokeru from developers M2. Learn all about the game play and sounds of Operation Night Strikers Night Strikers Gear while seeing the games in action and listening to the music. The stream will run on Mikado’s YouTube channel and can be viewed live at Red Bull Gaming Sphere Tokyo.Shooter Fes 2025 Times/dates Day 1：Jun 14th 2025, 12:00 - 23:00 (JST) Day 2：Jun 15th 2025, 12:00 - 22:…
- Operation Nightstrikers Wishlist now! - 23 December 2024
Operation Nightstrikers is a celebration of two Taito smash-hit arcade games from the 1980s; Operation Wolf and Nightstriker, coming to Steam in 2025! Wishlist below and follow us on X for more info! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099790/Operation_Night_Strikers/
- Darius Debut Day: October 7th! - 25 September 2024
To celebrate Darius Debut Day on 7 October, we’re having a sale on series titles until 23:59 (Japan time) on Tuesday 8 October 2024. Celebrate with us by experiencing the Darius series’ titles! What is Darius Debut Day? The original Darius was first unveiled at the Amusement Show in Japan, on 7th October 1986, and was subsequently launched in game arcades in February 1987. Thus, 7th October, when the title was first announced, is now designated as Darius Debut Day. Title lineup: Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638330 G-Darius HD https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640160 DariusBurst Chronicle Saviours https://store.steampowered.com/app/377870 *all DLC 50% off!
- New update and leaderboard reset - 9 April 2024
We've successfully updated the game, fixing the leaderboard issue, and in line with this, the leaderboards and replay data have been reset too. Thanks for your understanding and apologies for the inconvenience, but we hope you al continue to enjoy beam-battling giant space-faring fish in G-Darius HD!
- Incoming update and leaderboard reset - 2 April 2024
A bug has been discovered in the leaderboards for the game, which prevents scores of around 33 million or more from registering correctly. In order to correct this issue, we will be testing a fix on the the following date: Monday, 8 April 2024, 23:00-27:00 (PDT) Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 15:00-18:00 (JST) During this time, G-Darius HD may be played as usual, but the leaderboards and replay data will be reset when the update is released. Please accept our apologies and thank you for your continued support of G-Darius HD.
- Steam Deck update now live! - 10 January 2024
Happy New Year and a huge thanks to everyone who tested the beta branch release (see here), the updates are now live in the main branch.
- You will see the creation of new lives, on Steam Deck! - 19 December 2023
We noticed a recent OS update meant the game stopped working properly on Steam Deck, and now Ray’z Arcade Chronology is working again, we're launching a fix for G-Darius HD via a beta branch until January 8th. There's also a test running for Darius Cozmic Collection too! If you have a Steam Deck and would like to participate, the details are below. Right-click on Darius Cozmic Collection from the library page and select "Properties", then select the "BETAS" tab, and enter the password "TRIPODSARDINE". All G-Darius games included should now work, so you can witness the creation of new lives on the go! However, if you encounter any issues which mangle your α Beam, or prevent your capture ball fun, please let us know here!
- G-Darius HD update news - 28 April 2022
Thank you for the reports and your patience! We just released the following update: Fixed an issue where certain graphics cards would cause the game to run slowly Fixed a freeze which occurred in Ver.2 when certain bosses were shot with the Alpha Beam Added a slowdown on/off option to Exhibition Fixed some other minor bugs Thanks, the Taito Steam team
