Round1 on its official Facebook page has announced the start of a playtest run of Project DIVA Arcade machines at their Puente Hills location after many photos of the machines had started popping up on social networks. This confirms previous rumors of the presence of these arcade cabinets at Round1, although instead of being permanent
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Universal Music Japan has announced that they will be including a remix track by livetune on well-known electronic dance music producer Zedd’s upcoming Japanese release of the album Clarity. Zedd has previously made many remixes of his own and had also written songs for Skrillex, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga; he’s also producing her upcoming
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According to a new post on the official Hatsune Miku Facebook page, the official Hatsune Miku channel, now dubbed “39ch” or “MIKU channel”, will start syndicating weekly content. A teaser video (featuring the song Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!) shows off the various types of content that will appear on the channel, including art, music, live performances and interviews,
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Word has been spreading on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites with unconfirmed reports about the appearance of SEGA’s Project DIVA arcade cabinets in an arcade in Southern California. According to one post on Facebook, the machines have been spotted at a ROUND1, although they are currently not out on the gaming floor yet,
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As was noted in a pamphlet being passed out at NAMM, INTERNET is making available a demo version of their upcoming Megpoid English sound bank. As of now, people interested in trying out the new VOCALOID3 sound bank for 14 days can register to obtain a download link via email, with an unique user identification
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The official Mikupa website has now announced that MAGES. in cooperation with WOWOW will be holding a concert in Wakayama on March 9, 2013. The event, titled “Hatsune Miku Live Party 2013 in Kansai (Mikupa♪) -39’s Spring the 3rd Synthesis-” will be held at the Wakayama Big Whale and is expected to start at 2PM
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Production group Vocalekt Visions, who have written several VOCALOID songs and previously held a few concerts in the United States, has just put up a KickStarter campaign to raise money in an attempt to improve the quality of their concerts. They hope to raise 50,000 USD in two months, with most of the money going
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In a recent article on Yomiuri Online, Kenmochi Hideki, head of VOCALOID development at Yamaha, talked about various things regarding VOCALOID, including its humble beginnings, how it became a hit and what role subculture plays.
As many companies get back to business in Japan after the New Years break, company staff often post greetings for a new year. The VOCALOID team at Yamaha was no exception. What is interesting, however, is that this year marks 10 years of VOCALOID, and the team wanted to kick off projects to celebrate this
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INTERNET Co., Ltd. has now unveiled a website for the upcoming Megpoid (GUMI) English VOCALOID3 library release as well as a full version of the demo song “You Are the Reason”. A snippet of the song was previously posted as the first demo of the English soundbank, and the full version even includes a portion
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