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Imagineer announced the release date for Medabots Survivors. It’ll come out as a free-to-play mobile game on February 10, 2025.

You can now pre- for Medabots Survivors via the Apple Store or the Google Play store. Imagineer also updated its website to include information on streaming guidelines. The guidelines are similar to ones that other companies released for their games. You can only monetize your videos through official means on platforms like YouTube. Imagineer also prohibits ing videos that contain derogatory, offensive, or illegal content. Illegal content includes mods or stolen s. Your content must also be transformative in some way.

Medabots Survivors is the first survival action game in the Medabots series. You can control a variety of Medabots from a launch roster of thirty, each with their own unique abilities or weapons. With these Medabots, you have to survive and mow down waves of enemies.

We first learned about this new mobile game in November 2024. Aside from fan-favorite Medabots, Medabots Survivors will also add new units by illustrators like K-Suwabe and Mine Yoshizaki. So far, the game is Japan-exclusive. There’s no information about a global release yet.

Medabots Survivors will come out on February 10, 2025 for mobile devices.

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Developer Imagineer announced Sanrio Characters Miracle Match: Magical Onigokko, a new Nintendo Switch title where players control Sanrio characters and play tag. The game will come out on March 27, 2025 in Japan.

In this new entry of Sanrio’s Miracle Match, a team of 6 characters known as “Challengers” cooperate to try and avoid the “Hunter.” People can play as both Challenger or Hunter. The game includes 42 different playable characters, including popular ones such as Hello Kitty, Kuromi, My Melody, Cinnamoroll, and Pompompurin, among others. The game allows for single player and local multiplayer with 2 people.

By playing you can earn Jewels, an in-game currency available to use in the game’s shop to buy new characters, as well as different costumes for them to customize their look. Each character has unique skills and attributes such as speed, magic, and radar, that can help in avoiding the Hunter or capturing Challengers with ease.

There is also a short promotional video showing how the game works, and you can check it out below. However, it is only available with Japanese text.

Sanrio Characters Miracle Match: Magical Onigokko will come out in Japan on March 27, 2025 for the Nintendo Switch.

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On January 24, 2025, C&R will hold a seminar for technical artists, as well as artists who focus on 3D models and animations, using Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku as an example. You will have until January 23, 2025 to apply for the seminar, and only 100 people will be allowed to . [Thanks, PR Times!]

Participation costs 2000 JPY ($12.70) for adults and 1000 JPY ($6.35) for students. Students need to bring their ID, while adults need to bring two business cards. As mentioned earlier, you have until 6:00 PM of January 23, 2025 to apply if you’re interested in the seminar. That converts to 1:00 AM PST/4:00 AM EST. As for the seminar, it’ll take place from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM of January 24, 2025. That would be 2:00 AM PST/5:00 AM EST. Koitaro Okamoto, a technical artist with Tokyo Studio, will be the presenter.

As mentioned earlier, the technical artists seminar will use Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku as the example game. Topics will include look development for the Vocaloid characters, the modelling and animation, the rigging, the various costumes, the work that went into the facial expressions, and DLC that came out after the game’s release. The latter half of the seminar will be more of a meet and greet, so you can meet other people in your field during that time.

Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku is available on the Nintendo Switch.

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Imagineer announced that it will hold a new wave of the Zoids crossover event in Medabots S. The re-run with additional new units will take place for roughly a month from December 12, 2024, then end in January 2025.

The new wave will have three new Medabots inspired by Zoids that did not appear previously. The Zoids in question will be Storm Sworder, Death Stinger, and Gojulas. Each unit will be available to obtain via an exclusive gacha banner.

As a reminder, Imagineer held the first crossover wave in late 2023. It added five new Medabots modeled after the Blade Liger, Shield Liger, Command Wolf, Geno Saurer, and Death Saurer. Players who missed the first event will have another chance to get all of the five returning units in the re-run.

In addition, Imagineer will add a new costume inspired by Zoids: Chaotic Century's Irvine for the Medabots S character Ikki. The company will also bring back Van's attire for Azuma and Raven's costume for Kohaku that appeared in the first wave.

Imagineer has also published a trailer featuring the crossover event re-run on YouTube:

The new wave of Zoids crossover event in Medabots S, which is available on iOS and Android mobile devices in Japan, will run from December 12, 2024, until January 9, 2025.

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It’s difficult to review entries in the Fitness Boxing line. It can come down to being about vibes sometimes. You need to spend at least a good two weeks with it, maybe more, and can’t grind like you would in traditional games. Also, unless there’s a set “theme” like Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star or Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, some changes might not be immediately visible. That said, after spending time with Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer, I do think it is as solid an entry in the exercise game series as ever, with a few niceties that make it potentially more attractive than Fitness Boxing 2 or Zero to Dance Hero. 

As with past entries, the main focus in Fitness Boxing 3 is to show up everyday for Daily Workout, in the hopes of also completing the Daily and Weekly Missions for personal satisfaction. You can select your trainer, with Bernardo, Evan, Guy, Lin, Monica, and Stella as options. You determine your focus. You can also visit the Lounge to check your progress and see if you’re keeping up with your goals and continually playing. As this is a boxing-focused endeavor, it is only tracking your arms and fists to play, though naturally there will be some movement as you pivot, duck, and get into the swing of things. It will suggest the stance you should be using for each workout, as well as highlight how you should be moving your feet during the workout even though the application isn’t tracking that data. Also, music is always a major focus in the series, so there are 30 songs to listen to as you “fight.” 

For the most part, this element of Fitness Boxing 3 doesn’t feel all that different from past entries in the exercise game series. You’re still primarily focusing on striking with your left and right arms, with indicators scrolling on two lines on the left and right sides of the screen. Said images are clearly labeled with arrows that are immediately visible via shape and color. Also, the trainer you chose and text appears to ensure you don’t miss any instructions. So everything is clearly telegraphed, the workouts do feel like they make sense and are designed to help, and the UI choices make it fairly easy to keep up. The music is generally fine, though not as memorable as the soundtrack for Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku.

There are some additional elements that make it possible to work out in different ways than the traditional Daily Workout or Free Training that lets you pick a specific exercise and focus on that alone. The one I actually ended up using a bit is Sit Fit Boxing. It’s basically traditional Fitness Boxing 3 sessions, only you do your workout while seated when playing the game. I found it handy when traveling, since I was concerned about possibly making noise for folks on the floor below me or rooms next to me while moving around. (Plus, let’s be honest, the developers probably knew some of us were doing this already with other entries.) It just means some of the more movement-based actions, like drastic ducks, don’t come up. I could also see this option being great for accessibility purposes.

Fitness Boxing 3 also incorporates two other modes that let you change how it works slightly. One is Mitt Drills. This removes the music and timing from the experience. Your chosen trainer will appear in front of you while wearing mitts on each hand. On the left side of the screen, you’ll see two rows with kinds of punches you are expected to throw. You can take your time to put these in at your leisure, for a more gym-like experience. The other option is 2-Player Mode. That’s a local multiplayer mode that involves either each person with one Joy-Con or two folks with two pairs of them. I didn’t get to sample this with an actual extra person, but it seems like a fine enough concept when I “tested” it on my own. 

I do think the Box and Bond element is sort of fun addition, even though I didn’t feel like I really connected with any of the trainer characters in Fitness Boxing 3. The concept is as you exercise alongside them during the game, your relationship grows. Which makes sense, since you actually will likely spend at least 10-15 minutes per day with them. There are five of these for each person, and they’re fine. I didn’t feel the same affection for them as I would characters from other games, so it isn’t like I’d be as excited about talking with them as I was about tea time with my Fire Emblem: Three Houses faves. 

Fitness Boxing 3 is a totally fine exercise experience, and I would recommend it over the first or second mainline game. The exercises in it make sense and feel like they make a difference if you stick with it. There are some interesting options for when you feel like opting for something other than the straightforward Daily Workout. However, I will say people looking for something a little more fun or engaging would be better served going with the Hatsune Miku or Fist of the North Star entries.

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer is available now for the Nintendo Switch, and a demo is on the eShop.

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Imagineer has revealed a new Medabots game for mobile devices. The new game will have the title Medabots Survivor, and it will be available as a free-to-play app exclusively in Japan in February 2025.

The new game's genre will be Survivor Action. The player will control a Medabot to fend off incoming hordes of enemy units in a similar fashion to Vampire Survivors and HoloCure. Imagineer will put over 30 playable Medabots at launch, and each of them will have their own unique attack skills. When the player has leveled up in a gameplay session, they can also recruit ally Medabots to help the main unit deal with the ever-increasing enemies.

Imagineer has also ed the first official trailer for Medabots Survivor on the franchise's YouTube channel:

The new mobile game release may raise a question about the longevity of Medabots S, which launched earlier in January 2020. While Survivor marks the franchise's attempt at another genre, Medabots S features team-based RPG battles that play similarly to the mainline handheld console entries. The latter has also been adding crossover content from numerous external franchises like Evangelion and Mega Man.

Medabots Survivor will be available for Android and iOS mobile devices in Japan in February 2025.

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Imagineer has announced that it will release a new editor mode for Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku. The Mixercise Editor will be available as paid DLC on April 25, 2024. Players of the game will have to spend 990 yen to purchase the new mode. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

The new Editor mode will let players design their own exercise courses based on Vocaloid songs featuring Miku and other closely related characters, such as Rin, Len, and Luka. They can start by editing existing courses, but the game will also offer options to create original courses from scratch. Players will also be able to their created courses and have other people play them.

Imagineer has also ed a new trailer on its YouTube channel, which gives a sneak peek at the new Editor mode:

The Mixercise Editor mode will be the first of numerous DLC that Imagineer will release for Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku. The company will gradually release more exercise music and costumes as paid DLC. It will also release a free update patch adding a new song, a new costume, and twelve illustrations that won official contests on Piapro.

Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku has been available on Nintendo Switch in Japan since March 7, 2024. The Mixercise Editor mode will be available as paid DLC on April 25, 2024.

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A new Medabots S crossover event will add content inspired by Mega Man X. Imagineer revealed that the special event will appear in the mobile game on February 22, 2024. Players will be able to obtain exclusive Medabots modeled after characters like X, Zero, Sigma, and Vile. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

Here is the full list of the Mega Man X-themed Medabots, along with the methods to obtain each of them:

• Hunter X - based on Mega Man X - available from clearing the special Robattle event
• Full Armor X - based on X's armor set from the first game - available from the gacha banner on February 22, 2024
• Vava Pride - based on Vile - available from the gacha banner on February 22, 2024
• Elite Zero - based on Zero - available from the gacha banner on February 29, 2024
• Fixer Sigma - based on Sigma - available from the gacha banner on March 7, 2024

The collaboration will also add more Mega Man X-themed content other than new Medabots. A limited Medarotter gacha banner will give players chances to obtain an Iris costume for Anis and an Alia costume for Kirara. The special Robattle event that rewards Hunter X will also come with a Mega Man X BGM set that contains "," "Vile 1," and "Sigma Stage 1~4". Imagineer will also sell more tracks from the Mega Man X series at the in-game shop during the event period.

An official trailer showcasing the new crossover has also appeared on the Japanese Medabots YouTube channel:

Mega Man X will be the second series from Capcom's Mega Man franchise to appear in Medabots S. Imagineer had previously held a crossover event with Mega Man Battle Network in 2021. The collaboration proved to be so popular that Imagineer and Capcom added two more event waves in 2022 and 2023.

Medabots S is available on Android and iOS mobile devices exclusively in Japan. The Mega Man X crossover event will run from February 22, 2024, to March 21, 2024.

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It turns out Fit Boxing feat Hatsune Miku, part of the Fitness Boxing series, will feature other Vocaloid characters as trainers. Imagineer confirmed Kagamine Len, Kagamine Rin, and Megurine Luka will also show up.

Initially, Miku was the only character confirmed to appear in the rhythm and exercise game. All videos and screenshots only showed her. However, the latest announcement confirmed Len, Rin, and Luka will also be characters you can choose. They will then show up on screen as the person whose movements you’ll need to follow, as well as offer like trainers in other Fitness Boxing games. 

A number of new screenshots showing the additional characters showed up on the official site. While none of them show Rin in action, the new images do feature both Len and Luka. You can take a look at them in the gallery below.

There’s also a new trailer for the game. It features a cosMo song called “Let’s Mikusasaizu,” as a sort of pun combining “Miku” and “exercise.” It offers a brief clip of the track while showing some of the exercise segments with Hatsune Miku as a trainer.

Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku will come to the Nintendo Switch in Japan on March 7, 2024. A worldwide release hasn’t been confirmed or announced yet.

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Imagineer will hold a new Medabots S collaboration with the Zoids franchise on October 5, 2023. The new crossover event will primarily convert five Zoids into playable Medabots. They will be the Blade Liger, Shield Liger, Command Wolf, Geno Saurer, and Death Saurer. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

Players will be able to obtain the Shield Liger by playing an event battle that runs until November 26, 2023. The remaining units will be available from rotating gacha banners. The crossover will also feature custom skins colored after the Lightning Saix, Blade Liger Mirage, Bloody Death Saurer, and Geno Breaker.

Imagineer has also ed a new trailer showcasing the Zoids collaboration on the Medabots S YouTube channel.

Imagineer has been holding numerous collaborations for Medabots S, which started a year after its 2020 launch. It has notably collaborated multiple times with Capcom's Mega Man Battle Network series. The mobile game also had crossovers with Evangelion, Digimon, and Full Metal Panic.

While the franchise originally known in Japan as Medarot is still thriving in its home country, Imagineer neglected the overseas market long enough for its European trademark to expire and be claimed by another entity. The Japanese company is on track to reclaim the trademark after winning a new trial at the Spanish Commercial Courts of Alicante in September 2023.

Medabots S is immediately available as a free-to-play game on iOS and Android mobile devices in Japan. The Zoids crossover content will appear on October 5, 2023.

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Imagineer announced that the company won a second trial in the Spanish Commercial Courts of Alicante regarding a lawsuit concerning trademark infringement of the Medabots international name in the European territory (known as Medarot in Japan). The Courts recognized that the use of the Medabots name by Kevin Comadrán de Frutos infringes Imagineer’s intellectual property rights. The latest court decision is not yet final and an appeal may be filed.

The case concerns a lawsuit filed back in May 26, 2020 by Kevin Comadrán de Frutos, a Spaniard citizen residing in Andorra, and who is not associated to Imagineer. Comadrán ed the Medabots name on February 2018 to launch his own NFT game project.

Comadrán then sued Imagineer at the Commercial Court of Alicante in Spain under the claim that the company was infringing on his trademark rights, and with the intention of stopping Imagineer from distributing and marketing games with the Medabots name in Europe. The EU Trademark Court initially ruled in favor of Comadrán on July 15, 2020.

The same Court dismissed Comadrán’s claim on November 29, 2021, and ordered a cancelation of the EU trademark. On February 23, 2022, Imagineer received an appeal from Comadrán against the Court’s decision, but was recently dismissed on September 15, 2023.

Imagineer will issue a press release once a final decision has been reached. The company also claimed that even in the case of an appeal, it will continue to take action towards Comadrán's lawsuit and bad faith use of the Medabots name in the European territory.

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The Japanese version of the September 2023 Nintendo Direct confirmed the release date for Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku. The fitness training game that stars the Vocaloid idol will be available physically and digitally on the Nintendo Switch on March 7, 2024.

The Japanese Direct trailer informed us that this collaboration game with Hatsune Miku will have the same interface as Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise. Imagineer's press release added that two instructors from the original Fitness Boxing 2, Lin and Evan, will also appear to Miku in the Exercise Mode.

Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku will also have a new "Mixercise" mode that synchronizes the training regiments with some of Miku's popular songs, such as "Melt" by ryo and "Vampire" by DECO*27.

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Imagineer had previously revealed Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku at the beginning of September 2023. However, its first trailer did not include a release date. Although the previous crossover game with Fist of the North Star had a worldwide release, Imagineer has yet to confirm this game's official releases outside of Japan as of September 14, 2023.

This Fitness Boxing game will be one of the numerous collaborations that Crypton set up to celebrate Hatsune Miku's 16th birthday. The company has also announced Project Voltage, where Hatsune Miku will perform new songs related to the Pokemon franchise.

Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku will be available for Nintendo Switch in Japan on March 7, 2024.

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Japanese game developer Imagineer revealed that Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku is the next entry in the series. A short teaser trailer of popular virtual idol Hatsune Miku preparing to coach in this new entry also appeared. The game doesn’t have a definitive release date yet. More information will appear at a later date.

The Japanese title of the game is Fit Boxing feat Hatsune Miku – Miku to Issho ni Exercise. The main theme for the game will be composed by famous Vocaloid composers and producer cosMo@Bousou-P. Additionally, other popular composers will collaborate to create original Vocaloid songs for the game.

Here is the teaser trailer for the next Hatsune Miku game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2qf6iotdU

The official social media for the game also revealed the full key visual of Hatsune Miku in her training clothes. You can take a better look at the artwork here:

https://twitter.com/FitBoxingMiku/status/1697414468001480778

The Fitness Boxing franchise is not a stranger to colorful crossovers. In March 2023, Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star appeared for the Nintendo Switch.

In honor of the 16th "birthday" of Hatsune Miku, Crypton prepared a number of collaborations for 2023. One of them is Project Voltage, a crossover with the Pokemon franchise to release 18 new songs.

Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku is currently being developed for the Nintendo Switch. There is no definitive release date for the game.

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Medabot S will feature a third collaboration event with Mega Man Battle Network, and it will add Dark MegaMan.EXE as a Medabot character. The crossover event will appear in the mobile game starting on April 6, 2023 in Japan. The event will also include new costumes based on MMBN human characters. Previously, Protoman.EXE was added to the game in a crossover event in October 2022. [Thanks, Dengeki Online!]

In addition to adding a Medabot character based on Dark MegaMan.EXE, the game will also offer seven costumes based on human characters from the Mega Man Battle Network series. These will be a Lan Hikari costume for Ikki, a Mayl Sakurai costume for Arika, a Eugene costume for Koji, a Yai Ayanokoji costume for Karin, a Tamako Shiraizumi costume for Samantha, a Higsby costume for Spike, and a Dex Oyama costume for Sloan.

Medabot S: Unlimited Nova released in Japan on January 23, 2020 for Android and iOS devices. This is the third crossover event with this series. The previous two events added several Mega Man Battle Network characters, including MegaMan.EXE, Roll.EXE, Bass.EXE, and Protoman.EXE. Other crossover events for Medabot S included an August 2022 event with Full Metal Panic, and most recently a January 2023 event with Evangelion.

The Medabot S x Mega Man Battle Network collaboration event will appear from April 6, 2023. The game is available in Japan for Android and iOS devices. In addition, the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection releases for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC on April 14, 2023.

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Nintendo Switch owners can soon Zankai Ken in their homes. Imagineer announced a Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star release date. People can start getting in shape with characters like Kenshiro and Raoh on March 2, 2023. Ahead of that, a demo is now available worldwide.

The Nintendo eShop page is open for Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star, showing both its release date and trial. It notes it will cost $49.99. It also clarifies that while this is an exercise game, it is a rhythm game as well. It points out the localized version will include 20 songs, including tracks from the series like “Aio Torimodose!!” and “Silent Survivor.”

As people go through this Fitness Boxing entry, there will be additional elements to reference the connections to the Buronson
and Tetsuo Hara series. Most notably, you can take part in Outlaw and Boss Battles in Battle Mode. These are designed to be like boxing matches and fights with rhythm game elements.

The North American and European Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star Switch release date is March 2, 2023, and a demo is available. The game launched in Japan back in December 2022. Viz Media handles the localization of the series’ manga, and the anime is streaming on Crunchyroll.

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