Watch 24 straight hours of Pokemon anime on Twitch and other top stories.

• Watch 24 straight hours of Pokemon anime on Twitch

  Pokemon turns 20 today, and there are a lot of ways to celebrate — but none are as good as watching an entire day's worth of the anime. Starting tonight at 9PM ET, an official Pokemon Twitch channel will be holding an animation marathon, broadcasting 24 straight hours of movies and shows. Earlier today, starting at 1PM ET, a separate Pokemon channel began by showing a variety of gameplay footage and interviews to celebrate the special date. Maybe it'll even include a glimpse at Pokemon Sun and ..

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• Google is reportedly working with Vizio on Cast-ready TVs

  

  Google has tried reworking Google TV into Android TV, but we're still not seeing the platform embedded in many more new TVs that were announced at launch. Now, according to a report from Variety, the company could try convincing manufacturers to build Chromecast-like receiving directly into TV sets. The first rumored partner is Vizio, which could be looking for a new edge in smart TVs with Yahoo shutting down its platform, and the possibility of an Android tablet remote...

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• Shenmue 3 gets screenshots and collects $6M on Kickstarter

  

  Shenmue 3 developers unveiled on Saturday a new video showing screenshots and clips of weather and fishing areas of the awaited PS4 and PC title, at the Monaco Anime Game International Conference. The project that started as KickStarter has already collected more than $6 million. Shenmue will present the adventures of Ryo and Shenhua, who arrive at the Lake of the Lantern Bugs after their long journey, wrote project creators at Kickstarter. The game will be available for Windows and the Sony’s ..

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• 'Necropolis' Release Delayed: Hitting PS4, Xbox One, PC And Mac This Summer [VIDEO]

  

  "Necropolis," aka "Death with friends,"will be late. Developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Bandai Namco, the third-person dungeon crawler will land on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 screens later than expected.(Photo : Harebrained Studios) Harebrained Schemes has news that may disappoint some fans: its much anticipated title, Necropolis, will roll out later than expected on PS4 and Xbox One. The gaming company aims to see the self-published Steam variant of the game coming out at t..

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• If Apple loses, your home could be the next thing that's unlocked

  

  Look around your home, office or car. How many microphones, cameras or sensors are pointed at you right now? Even if these devices are not connected to a service or server, they're probably still there watching and listening. Hopefully the manufacturers did their jobs and all those eyes and ears are encrypted. But, if Apple is forced to help the FBI get into that iPhone, even that encryption won't matter. The Internet of Things have been a target of security researchers (and rightfully so), but ..

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• Personal, institutional racism focus of Black Lives Matter discussion

  

  While this week's Black Lives Matter panel in Elgin focused on healing personal racism, Mary Shesgreen said she would like to hear more about the problems facing the African American community."I find myself hungry for conversation about how to challenge and change institutional racism," which she is only just now learning about, said Shesgreen, one of the 125 people who attended the discussion. "I am only starting to understand myself how institutional racism works and I want to understand it ..

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• Oculus Rift exclusive card battler Dragon Front is VR's first stab at challenging Hearthstone

  

  High Voltage Software is creating a collectible card game, Dragon Front, as an exclusive for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The game plays like Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, except with the innovative twist that you play it inside VR. That’s a good thing because it shows that a popular genre of game can carry over to virtual reality, which is expected to generate a $30 billion market by 2020, according to Digi-Capital. As companies enable new genres on VR, they stand a b..

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