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SEGA appears to have another game project in the works, as a new teaser site has been opened up. Other than for the site url (http://miku.sega.jp/mmr/), the only other info we have for now is the opening date for the website: April 18th.

The teaser page can be found here. And according to SEGA’s twitter post, there will also be an update in the weekly Famitsu magazine. Anyone care to take a guess at what it could be, and what “mmr” could possibly stand for?

Via VO.net and Hatsune Miku Miku blog.

[Updated 4/16/2013] I previously guessed it was a second Project Mirai game for the 3DS, and it looks like the Weekly Famitsu has confirmed this (via TaleTaleSource).

初音ミクProject mirai2（仮題） (Working Title)
発売日／2013年秋発売予定 (Fall 2013 Release)
機種／3DS (System)

リズムゲームは全曲タッチモードとボタンモードがある。収録曲は全てフルサイズで収録される。(The game will be playable in both touch screen and button press modes. All songs used will be full-length)

収録曲 (Music Tracks)
子猫のパヤパヤ（ワンカップP） (“Koneko no Paya Paya” by OneCup-P)
ドレミファロンド（40mP） (“Do Re Mi Fa Rondo” by 40mP)
ゆめゆめ（DECO＊27） (“Yume Yume” by Deco*27)

Images by Japan Otaku Channel.

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I simply could not get this one up fast enough. This is pretty big news since this event is being held in an online game by one of the largest Free to Play companies in the world. And to top it off, the event is being held on global servers.

From March 28th until April 23rd, players of Mabinogi will be able to purchase outfits based on several Cryptonloids, as well as win roulette bingo prizes. The events are detailed as such:

From March 28th to April 23rd, 2013, get the prefix title with your limited Character Card during the sale period.

From April 10th to April 23rd, 2013, Females can get the costume and hair style of Kagamine Rin. Males can get the costume and hair style of Kagamine Len.

From April 10th to April 23rd, 2013 visit Caravan Joe to start Roulette Bingo! You can get a Game Board by speaking with Caravan Joe. You get one Spin Token every 30 minutes, or by defeating monsters. Depending on where you land, you can get EXP, gold, or even special items! Be careful though! Not every space on the board is a pleasant one. Curious about what items you can win? Check out some of the goodies you can get:

Tear-Jerker Garden Enchant Scroll, Tear-Jerker Enchant Scroll, Refreshing Enchant, Smooth Enchant, Sweet Enchant, Garden Enchant Scroll, Hatsune Miku Shirt, Kagamine Len Shirt, Kagamine Rin Shirt, Kaito Shirt

It certainly looks like Mabinogi is about to get a decent upsurge in player traffic.

On March 7th, Project Diva F for the PS3 was launched within Japan. So how well did the game do in its first week of sales? You can say it did well enough with all factors considered, but still a bit below positive projections.

Looking at the sales reports on dengeki, we can see that Project Diva F on the PlayStation 3 managed to take the #1 spot in game sales in its first week with 117,000 units, beating out the 109,000 units of “Soul Sacrifice” for the PlayStation Vita that launched on the same day.

These are fairly modest sales numbers for a new launch during a slow release week, and actually puts the sales below the 154,000 units of Project Diva ƒ for the PS Vita in its first week on the market. Despite the fact that there are far more PS3 owners than Vita owners by comparison, PjD F still sold far less units. It is quite possible that the sales of the Vita version have cannibalized the PS3 version’s sales.

The estimates do not include sales of the Capital Letter DLC pack (costing a whopping 3000 yen) for PjD ƒ on Vita, which was designed to upgrade the game to include all the new content offered on its PS3 counterpart. So without a more in-depth analysis of the sales figures, it’s starting to look like Project Diva F may be off to a shaky start.

This sudden announcement is short and simple, yet shocking. Just one day following the launch of Hatsune Miku Project Diva F in Japan for the PS3, the official SEGA Facebook page has posted an image asking users to show their support for a Western launch of the game. The campaign even has the support of Crypton and Sony PlayStation.

The only detail known is that SEGA is asking users to “like & share” the image they posted on their wall. A pretty simple but effective method of measuring fan interest. If the campaign succeeds, it is unknown if the distribution will happen in physical or digital format, or possibly even both. We will have to wait and see!

Not sure if this small detail is true, but I have heard word that the Western launch will happen anyway, and this campaign was created to build hype. Well, it certainly earned it.

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This news is nothing short of exciting for fans of the Project Diva series. It seems that previous rumors of Project Diva Arcade machines being imported to the U.S. are true. An announcement by ROUND 1 tells us that SEGA will be testing units at the location. The location is Puente Hills, California, United States.

The cost per play will be 4 credits, or $1 USD per play. According to an image taken by a fan on twitter, the location will be testing the units until March 18th. Any fans located in Southern California may not want to miss out on this opportunity. I suspect that we may have a few fans travel even further just to play these machines.

EDITED 2/19/2013: Crypton has mentioned that more test locations will be announced soon. [Source]

Below is an image of the machines being set up earlier today.

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