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Nintendo ended its Direct today by revealing that Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is coming to Switch in 2020. Xenoblade Chronicles first came out for the Wii in 2010. This updated…
“We see tremendous potential in Advanced Farm Technologies’ robotic harvesting solution as a means of helping to meet the growing global market demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. “With this…
Pokémon Masters launched today, and the mobile game has become a fast hit. 1 for iPhone downloads in 27 countries, according to mobile market analyst Sensor Tower. For the U.S., this is an …
The Yakuza series is returning next year, but it is also getting some major changes. But the biggest departure for the series is that it’s now using a turn-based combat system. Yakuza …
A good example of that is the software’s most recent update, which uses artificial intelligence to translate Japanese text to English with the press of a button. Some months later, and here we a…
More recently, Toyota invested $500 million in Uber to jointly develop self-driving cars, deepening its existing partnership with the ride-sharing company. And it worked with CALTY Des…
The Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games franchise is now more than a decade old. But Sega, which develops the games, has finally come up with something that has me excited for Mario…
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) has officially launched its taxi-hailing business in Japan as part of a previously announced joint venture with SoftBank.
Promising new research out of the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science shows that the dispersion of radioactive material can be accurately predicted with the help of machine learning.
If you haven’t heard of “virtual YouTubers” or VTubers, you’re not alone: the recent Japanese trend turns human actors into cartoony virtual characters for YouTube videos. Now Japanese gaming and med…
