{"id":32430,"date":"2012-02-14T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32430"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:44:14","slug":"konamis-dating-sim-service-sends-you-fake-emails-from-your-fake-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32430-konamis-dating-sim-service-sends-you-fake-emails-from-your-fake-girlfriend","title":{"rendered":"Dating sim service sends you fake emails from your fake girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just about the saddest thing I&#8217;ve seen all day, including the courier delivery first thing this morning that wasn&#8217;t flowers from a tall, handsome man &#8211; just a bunch of DVDs and Blu-rays I&#8217;d ordered for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Konami&#8217;s latest 3DS dating sim, New LovePlus (the sequel to LovePlus and LovePlus+, and presumably a prequel to New LovePlus+) hits shops in Japan today, alongside the company&#8217;s hot new Girlfriend Mail service, which is almost exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n<p>For \u00a5315 (just over R30) a month, subscribers will receive emails from their pretend-girlfriends, talking about their &#8220;day-to-day activities&#8221;, according to a report on Siliconera. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what virtual girlfriends get up to during the day, but something tells me they&#8217;re seeing other guys too.<\/p>\n<p>For \u00a5200 (about R2o), users can also purchase the LovePlus Tools app on the Nintendo eShop, which includes a feature for snapping photos of your pretend-girlfriend so you can print them out and show your friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, and this was when we went and locked ourselves in the bathroom for five minutes,&#8221; says Hypothetical New LovePlus Promo Guy. &#8220;Good times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2012\/02\/13\/konami-to-launch-new-loveplus-girlfriend-e-mail-paid-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siliconera<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, foreveralone.jpg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":32440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[153,31,1269,2374],"class_list":["post-32430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-3ds","tag-active","tag-konami","tag-new-love-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32439,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430\/revisions\/32439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}