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ASUS announced four PC peripherals based on Hatsune Miku will become part of its TUF Gaming line in June 2025. These will be a themed H1 Gen II Headset, K3 Gen II Keyboard, mini wireless mouse, and P1 mouse pad to go with it. Prices aren’t available yet, but the standard version of that headset is typically $59.99 and that kind of keyboard can start at $94.99. 

The color scheme for all four items are similar. In each case, they are green with black, pink, and white accents. The headset, keyboard, and mouse all have Hatsune Miku silhouettes on them, as well as often the ASUS TUF Gaming logo. The headset works with PCs and the PS5.

The keyboard also has keycaps with images, iconography, and phrases tied to the Vocaloid. For example, the shift key has her image on it and says “Born to be different.” The Esc key has an 01 on it, and her name is on the enter key. It also has a detachable top plate, IP57 waterproofing, optical mechanical RGB switches, and you can swap keycaps. 

Here’s how the keyboard looks:

This is what the headset will look like:

And here are the mini wireless mouse and mouse pad:

The ASUS TUF Gaming headset, keyboard, mini wireless mouse, and mouse pad featuring Hatsune Miku will launch in June 2025.

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Super Groupies announced a 2023 Hatsune Miku merchandise collection. This means a whole new set of items based on the Vocaloid. Each features a new series of designs compared to past items. This time, there’s a Hatsune Miku bag, jacket, wallet, and watch. There’s also an early purchase bonus that gives people an illustration card with art by Fuka Hire. Pre-orders are open until September 25, 2023, with WorldShopping allowing worldwide shipping. Items are expected to arrive in February 2024.

The new Hatsune Miku bag, coat, wallet, and watch are all based on the Fuka Hire design in which the Vocaloid is wearing all of them as an outfit. The watch has a pink square hour hand, like her hair accessory, and its teal and black. It also notes 01, which is her number, and has HTN-39 on it. The jacket also features the same pink square hair accessory references on the buttons. It’s mainly black, with some teal and magenta accents. It features 01 on the back. The bag also features similar 01 and HTN-39 stitching and the teal accents, as does the wallet.

Here’s the full list of Super Groupies Hatsune Miku merchandise and the prices:

• Hatsune Miku Bag - ¥17,600 (~$119)
• Hatsune Miku Jacket in M, L, XL, and XXL - ¥27,500 (~$186)
• Hatsune Miku Wallet - ¥15,400 (~$104)
• Hatsune Miku Watch - ¥22,000 (~$149)

Here's a closer look at all the items:
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Finally, here's the Fuka Hire art card that people can get with orders:
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Super Groupies recently brought some past items back. In June 2023, older Hatsune Miku items returned.

The new Super Groupies Hatsune Miku merchandise is expected to arrive in February 2024.

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Hatsune Miku is turning 16 years old this summer, and Crypton announced a new celebration event as part of the festivities. The Hatsune Miku 16th Anniversary Celebration will be held in honor of the virtual idol singer. Though her birthday is officially on August 31, 2023, the large-scale exhibition begins on August 5, 2023, and will run through September 10, 2023. Niconico is hosting the Hatsune Miku exhibition in Tokorozawa Sakura Town in Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan. The only dates the exhibition won’t be available to the public will be the first, third, and fifth Tuesdays of both months, with the exception of August 15, 2023. [Thanks, Dengeki Hobby!]

The exhibition will be at the EJ Anime Museum from 10am to 6pm JST daily. However, ission for the Hatsune Miku 16th Anniversary Celebration closes at 5:30 pm. Tickets will go on sale starting on Saturday, June 24, 2023 at around 10am JST.

Advance online tickets cost 2,000 yen (~$14) for general ission, 1,500 yen (~$11) for students, and it is free for younger children. The tickets cost significantly more if someone pays at the door.

If attendees want to nab the commemorative anniversary face towel, they’ll have to pay 2,500 yen (~$18). It will be available at the event while supplies last. The towel features a portrait view of Miku holding a bouquet of flowers with a 16 on it.

Additional goods will be on sale at the venue itself, where fans will have the chance to explore the world of Hatsune Miku’s music across the last 16 years and catch a glimpse to the future of the virtual idol.

The Hatsune Miku 16th Anniversary Celebration will run August 5, 2023 through September 10, 2023 in Japan. For her last anniversary, a $300 figure appeared.

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Crypton announced Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S will release for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X worldwide on January 20, 2022. The PC version will release through the Microsoft store. Pre-orders for the Xbox and PC versions of the game are immediately available at a discounted price.

As mentioned previously, consumers can currently pre-order the title at a discount. Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S will cost 1,500 yen, or roughly $13. However, with the discount, the title will be available for 1,200 yen or $11.99. The discount will be available until January 31, 2021. This means that consumers do not need to pre-order the title to take advantage of the deal.

Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S features over 350 puzzles for players to solve. Additionally, puzzles from the smartphone version of the game will be available in the title. While the title originally released for smartphones, in March 2021 crypton announced a Nintendo Switch port would arrive sometime in 2021. The title was then quickly released for Nintendo Switch within the same month. It featured several new puzzles, which will all appear in the Xbox and PC versions of the game.

Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S is immediately available for Nintendo Switch, and will release on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on January 20, 2022.

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Crypton Future Media has released Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S digitally on the Nintendo Switch in Japan and the US. This is a nonogram puzzle game featuring Hatsune Miku with her Vocaloid friends and songs. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

Although Sega has been producing games related to Hatsune Miku, such as Project Diva and Project Sekai, this title is developed internally by Crypton, the original owner of the Vocaloid character. This title is based on Hatsune Miku Logic Paint, a mobile game available for Android and iOS devices. The Crypton Mobile Content team initially revealed the Switch version with a tweet on March 1, 2021.

Logic Point S has over 350 nonogram puzzles, which also include large 20x20 maps. You can choose one of the 6 Piapro characters — Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, MEIKO, and KAITO — to accompany you throughout the game. The game also has 18 Vocaloid songs that can be set as background music and unlocked gradually by clearing missions.

Crypton published an introduction trailer for Logic Paint S to celebrate the game's launch day. An English version of the trailer is also available to watch right below:

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Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S is now available on Nintendo Switch with Japanese and English subtitles. Crypton is also holding a 25% discount sale to mark the game's launch until March 31, 2021. It is normally $14, but is temporarily $10.50.

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We have a better idea of when the next Nintendo Switch nonogram game will appear. The Picross-like Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S will show up on the Switch soon. Crypton confirmed people in Japan won’t have to wait too long and shared a peek at the console-exclusive art.

Hatsune Miku Logic Paint is immediately available on mobile devices. It is a one-time purchase sort of game, rather than free-to-play. It costs $1.99 on the App Store and $2.50 on Google, to provide an idea of its potential price. 225 puzzles are there. Some of the stages have up to three difficulty levels, and people can ask for hints. You can also unlock over 150 Vocaloid pictures by completing puzzles.

To go along with the Switch update, Crypton shared a picture of the game’s art. NEGI, aka ULOG’be, designed the main visual. In the past, NEGI has created art and designs for the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva games, for example character modules, and MIKU EXPO art.

【✨タイトル発表&メインビジュアル公開✨】
内容をさらにパワーアップ💡「#ミクロジ」で遊ぼう!
『初音ミク ロジックペイントS』
Nintendo Switch™で近日発売予定🎉

メインビジュアルは「NEGI(@ulogbe)さん」描きおろし💖
#初音ミク #ミクロジS pic.twitter.com/dFILjpwiQE

— クリプトン・モバイルコンテンツチーム (@cfm_mobile) March 1, 2021

Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S will come to the Nintendo Switch in Japan in 2021. Hatsune Miku Logic Paint is immediately available on Android and Apple iOS devices.

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Sega faced a challenge when the company decided to make a Hatsune Miku game. They had to transform an Internet phenomenon into a video game sensation that would appeal to Vocaloid fans and the general PSP gamer. They succeeded with Hatsune Miku: Project Diva. It is the kind of game that I think will achieve the same status among importers as the DJ Max series.

The star of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva is Crypton's Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku. She's an imaginary figure that's used as the mascot for her vocaloid program who's become an iconic figure in Japan and on the Internet. While she's had cameos in games before, like 13-sai no Hello Work DS, she's never starred in a game before. Sega set out to change all that and, it is my belief that Hatsune Miku: Project Diva is as phenomenal as it is due to the fact that Sega was the company handling everything.

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva is a rhythm game like DJ Max, Guitar Hero or Rock Band. The twist is that there isn't a set grid on the game screen to watch. Instead, the indicators for the X, square, O and triangle buttons can appear anywhere on the screen in time with the music, and the trails indicating when to press glide across the screen. The goal is to try and get a perfect score on the song by maintaining a combo with only cool and fine hits. If you get a safe, sad or worst hit, you break the combo and lower your score. If you accidentally press the wrong button, though in perfect time with the melody, you won't receive a safe, sad or worst rating on that hit, but you will break the combo. An indicator in the bottom left corner shows your status, and the lyrics appear on the bottom of the screen.

There's also a chance mode that takes place in each song. During this point you can't see your score, your status indicator or whether the notes you hit are cool/fine/safe/sad/worst. This is your chance to score loads of points. As your combo grows during this portion, so do the points you earn for each perfectly timed hit. You start out earning 100 points, but if you manage to get 34 hits in a row, you can get 3400 points for the 34th Chance mode hit.

It's a game that can be challenging, especially if you play the songs with a difficulty level of four stars or higher. But overall, it's a rhythm game based on enjoyment and fun, not unspeakable difficulty levels. The easy modes of most songs are downright leisurely, making it the perfect rhythm game for those new to the genre or frustrated by more difficult titles. Since gorgeous videos play in the background of almost every song, this allows you to pay more attention to them.

I've found it's a wonderful game to leave in your PSP and play at any time. There are 39 initial songs included in the game, 32 are official Hatsune Miku songs from people like Ryo, OSTER project and Octomania, and 7 are entirely new songs created for the collection. There are over 100 images to unlock, over 30 costumes (including skins of the Vocaloids Meiko, Kaito, Rin, Len and Luka) and all kinds of furniture for Miku's home. Usually, you unlock new stuff by reaching certain milestones in songs. Getting "Great" or a "Perfect" rank, maintaining a combo of over 100, playing a song 5 times -- things like that. Something I found incredibly handy was the information displayed in the costume section. The game will actually tell you what you need to do to unlock certain costumes.

Most of the songs also have to be unlocked, though it's fairly easy. You typically only have to clear available songs on easy to unlock additional ones. The only exceptions are the Len and Rin versions of songs. In order to unlock those, you have to get perfect scores on the Miku version of said songs.

I want to pause at this point and say everything in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva is perfectly executed. I've noticed no lag, even when there are tons of icons on screen. The PVs look gorgeous, like real music videos, and are a joy to watch. Motion capture was used for all the dance moves, so everything looks realistic, and the character models are absolutely wonderful. There's a striking amount of detail, and you can tell Sega made the game with the Vocaloid fans in mind. There's also a bit of humor, as Hachune Miku shows up, Miku often wields leeks and fun songs like Ievan Polkka.

Where the game truly shines though, is in the edit mode. You can import practically any MP3 into your game and make it into a playable song in the game. You design every aspect of the video playing in the background, using the various models, backgrounds, costumes and dance moves seen throughout the PVs in the game. You can even modify Miku's face to make it appear as if she's singing the song. Then you decide what the pattern should be like and how difficult the song should be. There's even an in-game metronome to help you figure out the correct BPM for the song you're using. Best of all, it's fairly friendly. Time consuming, true. But still, it is very easy to use.

You can then trade your custom songs with friends over Ad-Hoc wireless. Or, you can your saved custom song to the Internet to share with others. The custom songs are saved separately from your save data, so it's easy to connect your PSP to your computer, zip up the file and share it with people around the world.

Sega has hit a home run with Hatsune Miku: Project Diva. It's a fantastic rhythm game that I feel even outshines the DJ Max games, due to the ability to create custom tracks. It looks beautiful, has a track list of incredibly addicting songs, has tons of extras and is a great game for people of any skill level. It's also incredibly import friendly, despite the fact that there isn't too much English in it.

Food for Thought:

• For some reason, I tend to have problems with the Normal and Hard difficulty levels of OSTER Project songs. Anyone else having the same problem?
• If Sony and Sega decided to release Hatsune Miku: Project Diva as a digital worldwide, I think it would definitely be a top seller.
• I was disappointed to see Gakupo, and the song "Dancing Samurai" weren't part of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva
• I'm considering trying to create a full custom song for a forthcoming article explaining the edit mode and how to make your own custom song. Any suggestions for songs to use? I'm considering "Last Samba" from the Katamari Damacy soundtrack (since it's only 1:01 min long) or "Sasasan Katamari" (1:21), but want to go with something widely accessible. Other possibilities include Smile.dk's "Butterfly", "Mexican Flyer" from Space Channel 5 or "Real Emotion" from FFX-2.

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