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Update: Here’s a full transcript of the event from the official Pokemon website.

Pokemon GO was announced earlier today. In case you want to watch the whole announcement conference yourself, The Pokemon Company have uploaded a recording of the conference to their Youtube channel. Check it out below:

As announced yesterday, Nintendo just posted a brief video featuring Shigeru Miyamoto commenting on some Mario myths. Check it out below:

Super Mario Maker is one of Nintendo’s biggest titles this year and their marketing push for the game reflects that, according to Nintendo UK product manager Remy van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen told MCV that their “marketing push is on the same kind of level as [Mario Kart 8]. It’s really one of our big titles this year and it’s definitely in parity with Splatoon this year. “

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Super Mario Maker was released in Japan today and it has already received its first update. Patch 1.01, for which you’ll need 201 MB of free space, comes with these changes:

• “Create a course” scene: a small element was added
• Condition(s) for increasing the amount of useable parts (in the level editor) were added
• Various changes meant to improve the gameplay experience

It seems likely that this patch will also be applied to European and US versions of the game once they release tomorrow.

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Update: Official announcement is after the break.

Today, The Pokemon Company announced a new game for smartphones: “Pokemon Go”. Niantic Labs is working on the project in addition to Nintendo.

Here’s what we know thus far:

– For smartphones
– Out next year
– Niantic Labs (startup from Google, now independent) is making the game
– Nintendo is also on board for the project, along with The Pokemon Company
– Started out 2 years ago
– Satoru Iwata was pretty involved
– Meet up in the real world to play together, go on adventures
– Vision shared by Pokemon president Tsunekazu Ishihara and Iwata
– Capture Pokemon

– They will inhabit parks, countryside, places around the world
– One of the original creators of Pokemon, Junichi Masuda (Game Freak), is working on the game
– Seek out Pokemon, capture them, use them to battle other players
– Will have a lot of depth so it can be enjoyed by players of various ages
– Will use real location information
– Masuda is thinking about how it will connect with future Pokemon games
– Alongside Nintendo, they’ve come up with a device to perform certain actions without having to put down your screen: Pokemon Go Plus (Bluetooth enabled)
– This uses a LED and vibration to notify players of things happening in-game
– Game can be enjoyed without the accessory
– Focused on how players would look when making Pokemon Go Plus
– Nintendo still trying to expand the gaming population

You’ll find a trailer for Pokemon Go below.

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Japan just got a brand new Super Mario Bros. theme for the Nintendo 3DS today. You can grab the theme for 200 yen in the 3DS eShop. Check out the official video for the theme below!

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Nekki, the mascot character of Famitsu, will be added to the game as a costume. That’s according to this week’s issue of the magazine. Specifics about the partnership will be announced at a later date.

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As we prepare for the launch of Super Mario Maker this Friday, we’re highlighting some of the best, craziest, or most creative levels we’ve come across! On today’s episode, we play through a level that will make you realize Mario parties much more than you thought, Disco Fever!

Capcom issued another round of screenshots for Monster Hunter X today. We’ve gathered them up in the gallery below.

The Pokemon Company will be holding a press conference in just a few hours. It will be held at the following times:

06:00 UTC
07:00 BST
02:00 EDT
23:00 PDT
15:00 JST

We don’t really know what the conference will be about, but it will apparently cover a new “business strategy”. This may or may not be related to the Pokemon games.

The conference will be live streamed on Niconico here. If any notable news comes out of the event, we’ll have it right here on the site.

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