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Soft Space Enters into Strategic Partnership with JCB

  Collaboration will expand JCB's presence in Southeast Asia and act as a bridge for Soft Space to link Japanese consumers with the region and vice versa KUALA LUMPUR & TOKYO, Jan 13, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - The world's leading fintech player, Soft Space Sdn. Bhd. ("Soft Space"), has announced a new strategic partnership with Japan's only international payment brand, JCB Co. Ltd. ("JCB"). This strategic partnership is the first of its kind in Malaysia for the payment giant and involves a combination of US$5 million investment in Soft

Government Blockchain Association (GBA) Deploys PlatoAi across GBA’s Opensource Intelligence Platform (OSINT)

Washington DC, July 6th, 2023. Government Blockchain Association (GBA) announced the successful deployment of PlatoAi’s Ai Powered Web3 Intelligence inside the GBA Members Site. The result of this successful deployment stemmed from a strategic partnership between the two companies with a collective vision and deep commitment towards driving commercial adoption, standards and regulatory compliance of global government blockchain initiatives. Through this deployment GBA’s community will immediately benefit by accessing the latest premium intelligence across 36 Market Verticals including Ai, Digital Assets, Regulatory Initiatives, Web3, NFT’s, CyberSecurity, ESG and Carbon Offsets.

On August 30, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection offers a taste of the action.

Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. Today, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will be released on August 30th and will be released on PlayStation 5, PlayStation®Xbox Series One, 4, Xbox Series X |S, Steam® and Nintendo Switch™. In collaboration with Nickelodeon, thirteen awesome games from KONAMI's entire archive of old TMNT 8-bit and 16-bit arcade titles, arcade and Japanese versions* will bring Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo to life on console and PC at a suggested retail price of £39.99 / €39.99. Physical copies are still available for pre-order at

The Pokémon Company reveals more cards from VMAX Climax including Character Super Rares

At the beginning of the month, The Pokémon Company unveiled the next Japanese set for Pokémon TCG, VMAX Climax, revealing multiple new cards from the set today. VMAX Climax will see the return of Character Rare (CHR) cards andwill be the first TCG set to include Character Super Rare cards. These are full print cards, with art featuring both a Pokémon and its trainer. Eight cards showcased today were a variant of character rares, while the others were simply the regular partners for the featured Pokémon. The five Character Rare

NetEase Games Acquires Goichi Suda Studio Grasshopper Manufacture

Top GamesNetEase Games has acquired the studio behind the No More Heroes series. / Photo courtesy of Grasshopper Manufacture/NetEase GamesChinese conglomerate NetEase Games has acquired development studio Grasshopper Manufacture, the company announced Friday. Grasshopper Manufacture is best known for the games it's made with founder Goichi "SUDA51" Suda, including Killer 7, Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes.This is the second time Grasshopper has been acquired. Suda founded the studio in 1998, and it remained independent until Japanese publisher GungHo Online Entertainment acquired it in 2013. GungHo Online's stake in the

Top four locked in for Magic World Championship XXVII

After ten rounds over two days at the Magic World Championship XXVII, it all comes down to a top-four finals bracket on Sunday to determine the 2021 world champion. Ondrej Strasky, Yuta Takahashi, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, and Jan Merkel are in the finals of the World Championship by earning seven match wins this weekend. Sunday’s double-elimination finals will be played in Standard. Upper bracket matches will be one best-of-three game. The lower bracket and championship match are best-of-three match series. The top four decks are all different but are derivative of

DetonatioN FocusMe become first LJL team to qualify for Worlds main event group stage

After a banger of a tiebreaker match against Cloud9 today, DetonatioN FocusMe have etched their names into the history books as the first Japanese League of Legends team to qualify for the group stage at a World Championship. Before the game, DFM looked like the hottest team in the play-in stage, picking up must-win matches against all other competitors in dominant fashion. The only team they had lost against was C9, but they had plenty of momentum on their side. C9, on the other hand, were reeling from an unexpected

Sora from Kingdom Hearts is the final fighter coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai revealed the final fighter joining Smash Ultimate as part of Fighters Pass Vol. 2 during today’s “The Final Mr. Sakurai Presents”—Sora from Kingdom Hearts. Sora will be the final fighter added as part of the second Fighters Pass, as well as the last piece of character DLC for Ultimate as a whole after nearly three years of support. Along with Sora, a new stage, Hollow Bastion, and music from the Kingdom Hearts franchise are being added to the game. This was one