Good news, Eva fans. The first ten minutes of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 will be shown worldwide on July 6. The movie is still slated for a 2020 release.
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Shipments for Sony’s Nasne, the PlayStation’s multimedia hub, will cease in the upcoming days. The Japan-only DVR was released back in 2012 primarily for the PS3 and Vita, and later got an update for PS4. Sony tells Famitsu that the hardware’s Nasne Access and Torne services will continue for a little longer.
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Here is the trailer for the live action version of The Flowers of Evil. Debuting as a manga, it was adapted into a rotoscoped anime in 2013. The movie will open in Japan on September 27. No word yet of an international release.
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As reported earlier this February, Japan’s first Nintendo Store will open this fall. But when? It’s been recently announced that the store will open in November on the sixth floor of the new Shibuya Parco building in Tokyo. Pokémon Center Shibuya and Capcom Store Tokyo will also open in Parco on the same floor.
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Service is ending for massively multiplayer online role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier Z in Japan. Monster Hunter Frontier launched in Japan in 2007 on PC, and a big update in 2016 changed the game’s name to Monster Hunter Frontier Z. Twelve years is a good run, no?
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