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Japanese government awards its first-ever working visas to foreign professional gamers

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2016
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Move applauded by industry members as a boon for e-sports in Japan.

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• Games & Tech, Japan, Korea
• (e-sports • professional gamers • professional gaming • video games • visas • working in Japan)

Bandai Namco announces plans to open virtual reality experience center

• Anime News Network
  Mar 29, 2016

Bandai Namco announced on Monday that the company will open a virtual reality “experience center” in Tokyo next month.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (Bandai • event • gaming • hands-on • Japan news • Tokyo • video games • virtual reality • VR)

Here’s how the awesome new Pokémon GO mobile game will look on your smartphone

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2016

Developers release new details about Pokémon gyms and team play.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (augmented reality • mobile games • nintendo • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Smartphones • video games)

New smartphone game lets you date real-life J-pop idols, but shockingly gives them 100 Boyfriends

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2016

Nogizaka 46 romance simulator is an odd mix of daydream fantasy and unintentional cynicism.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (datig simulators • Idols • J-Pop • mobile games • Nogizaka 46 • romance simulators • Smartphones • video games • weird)

This could be our first look at Nintendo’s next-generation gaming controller

• BUSINESS INSIDER
  Mar 24, 2016

There’s been lots of speculation about Nintendo’s next generation gaming console, which will reportedly be called the NX.

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• Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (console • controller • leak • nintendo • NX • photos • video games)

Nintendo: Wii U production to continue in next fiscal term or later

• Anime News Network
  Mar 23, 2016

Next fiscal year begins in April.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (consoles • nintendo • production • video games • Wii U)

The Pokémon Company, U.K. artist create world’s largest Pokémon trading card mosaic

• Anime News Network
  Mar 22, 2016

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• Europe, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • giant • mosaic • nintendo • Pokemon • video games • world record)

IBM’s Sword Art Online virtual reality MMO project teased in screenshots, videos

• Anime News Network
  Mar 18, 2016

Videos show players playing demo that includes bazaar environment, combat.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • Sword Art Online • Test • video games • virtual reality)

Watch the touching animated tribute to late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata【Video】

• Philip Kendall
  Mar 17, 2016

The former Nintendo frontman is remembered in this short but incredibly moving animation.

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• Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (GDC • memorial • nintendo • Satoru Iwata • video • video games)

Resident Evil/Biohazard games get stage musical in September

• Anime News Network
  Mar 17, 2016

Former Takarazuka actress Reon Yuzuki stars in musical of survival horror games.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (biohazard • Capcom • Japan • musical • play • Resident Evil • stage • video games)

T-virus perfume to go on sale at the Capcom Café — certified fresh by Umbrella Corp.

• KK Miller
  Mar 17, 2016

Smell like death, or at least the undead, with this brand new limited-edition scent inspired by Biohazard.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (biohazard • Capcom • merch • perfume • Resident Evil • T-virus • video games)

Sony officially announces pricing for PlayStation VR add-on for PlayStation 4

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2016

Here’s how much real-world money it’ll cost you to play in Sony’s virtual video game domain.

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• Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (Playstation 4 • PlayStation VR • Sony • technology • video games • virtual reality • VR)

Ditto infiltrates Pokémon plush line as Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, more

• Anime News Network
  Mar 15, 2016

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• Cute, Japan
• (anime • cute • Pikachu • plushie • Pokemon • video games)

Video shows that Street Fighter V’s story mode is so easy even a baby can beat it 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2016

What strength!! But don’t forget there are many babies like you all over the world.

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• Games & Tech, Internet
• (babies • Capcom • cute • funny • Street Fighter • Street Fighter V • video • video games)

New line of paired boy/girl Pikachu plushies kicks off with couple in Japanese school uniforms

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2016

As some Pokémon are graduating, others are just about to start life at their new schools.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • Pikachu • plushies • Pokemon • School Uniforms • stuffed animals • toys • video games)

Web-based emulator adds cool retro quasi-3D effect to classic NES games 【Video】

• Mike
  Mar 11, 2016

Vietnamese hobbyist Trần Vũ Trúc, using mostly undisclosed programming wizardry, introduced this Firefox browser-based emulator that adds a pixelized 3-D effect to many of the NES’s best games.

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• Internet
• (3-D • emulators • NES • nintendo • retro games • technology • video • video games)

Remember: virtual reality will make horror games way, way scarier【Video】

• Philip Kendall
  Mar 11, 2016

Whether or not it turns out to be the game-changer we’re hoping for, 2016 will be the year of virtual reality. Unfortunately, some people will be finding out the hard way how intense this new technology can be…

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (funny • Horror • Japanese TV • scary • video • video games • virtual reality)

Pokémon is getting another smartphone game this spring, and it’s “figure”-based 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2016

Leading Japanese AI developer collaborating on franchise’s second mobile title, in which you and your team of Pokémon have to think together.

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• Games & Tech, Japan
• (figures • mobile games • Pokemon • Smartphones • video games)

Amazon Japan suddenly begins shipping video games overseas

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2016

The world’s largest online retailer is now ready to give import gamers their fix.

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• Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (Amazon • Amazon Japan • video games)

Celebrate Pokémon’s 20th anniversary with a quick poké-history lesson【Video】

• Audrey Akcasu
  Mar 8, 2016

A lot has happened in the past 20 years of Poké-history, and now we have it conveniently summarized for us in nine info-packed minutes.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Global, Japan
• (game freak • history • nintendo • Pokemon • video • video games)

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