Pokemon Sun and Moon officially announced

The news of the new Pokemon games comes from a new Pokemon-centric Nintendo Direct that happened today, ahead of the series’ 20th anniversary on February 27. Not much is known about the game besides a new legendary had been revealed and the game will be available Holiday 2016. Nintendo also announced that the 3DS Virtual Console re-releases of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow will use the Pokemon Bank app to transfer monsters between games virtually. Those games will be available on February 27.

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IBM Sponsors “Sword Art Online: The Beginning” VR Development

IBM Japan has taken on a project of making the VRMMO world of Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online light novels into reality, hopefully sans the whole brain frying deaths thing. A site has been launched for applications for 208 lucky souls to alpha test  SAO. Applicants will be selected by lottery to try out the experience in Tokyo on March 18 and 20.

Participants will be scanned in 3D to interact with the virtual space using IBM’s Cloud Services and SoftLayer technologies. Kirito (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka), Asuna (Haruka Tomatsu) and Yui (Kanae Ito) will be lending their voices for this project.

(Source: Crunchyroll)

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Episode 56

pokkenIt’s been a while since we’ve podcasted so I apologize if we’re a bit rusty.

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Star Wars VIII set for December 15, 2017

694px-Star_Wars_LogoToday Lucasfilm and Disney announced that Star Wars VIII will be released on December 15, 2017 instead of Summer 2017 as previously slated. It is written and directed by Rian Johnson and is in pre-production. Principal Photography will commence in London next month. Either way, I’m stoked for the next movie!

(Source: Star Wars)

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Nintendo Direct – November 12, 2015


Nintendo Direct

This is the first Nintendo Direct since the passing of the late Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata. Continue reading

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Pokémon Symphonic Evolutions Experience

pokemon-symphony-169Pokémon Symphonic Evolutions concert has been making it’s rounds in some big cities and I had the pleasure to attend it when they stopped in Toronto. Continue reading

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Pokemon Go Announcement

Pokémon Go was announced as an Android and iOS game. Developed by Nintendo and Niantic, the game allows players to explore the real world tocatch virtual Pokémon.  Continue reading

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New X-Files trailer

A new very short trailer is out for the series and David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are back! It’s it bad I’m giddy over this?

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Satoru Iwata has passed away

It’s always hard to see bad news but Satoru Iwata,  the president of Nintendo has passed away from a bile duct growth. There is an official Nintendo memo that came out today about the sad news.

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Universal Parks to partner with Nintendo to create new theme park attractions

nintendoToday Nintendo and Universal Parks & Resorts announced that there will be a partnership to bring Nintendo themed attractions to Universal Parks. Continue reading

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