House of the Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut – Launch Trailer
Bigger, better and HD-er.
I haven’t got much else to say about it!
House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut is exclusive to PS3, go get it!
Yearly Archives: 2025
Rhythm Thief – New Trailer
This new trailer highlights some of the wacky rhythm based mini games you’ll be playing in Rhythm Thief. These include striking poses to hide from security guards, playing football in the streets of London and biting arses- as a dog.
Rhythm Heaven is exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS and is described as a blend of Professor Layton art and storytelling with the game play of Elite Beat Agents, sounds brilliant!
[Thanks SuzukiYu]
New Speed Highway Screens Go Up and Down and All Around
Six days to go until Sonic Generations arrives! In the meantime, enjoy these new screens of the rarely seen Speed Highway while your digital copy of Daytona USA downloads. The screens come courtesy of Famitsu, and show not only the remade Sonic Adventure stage, but also the Sonic and Shadow race plus more screens on the 3DS stage Radical Highway. You’ll note that the above screen seems to be taking place at dawn. Could that mean… at dawn concludes the stage? Also, nearly every Speed Highway screen features a fan service sign somewhere in the background. One screen in particular, you’ll know it when you see it, name drops just about every Sonic character in a cluster of road signs. Pretty funny stuff.
UPDATE: See high res versions of the screens here.
[Source: Famitsu]
Sonic Generations Original Stage Review
With less than a week to go ’til Sonic Generations, I thought it would be fun to take a leap back and run through the original stages featured in Generations. What made the original stages so memorable? Are they a fitting choice for representation of the game they originally appeared in? Were there better choices that could have been made? Those questions and more will be explored after the break!
Captain America 3DS Trailer
Today, Marvel and Sega have shown the trailer for Captain America: Super soldier on the 3DS. Like Thor, the game is a port of the Wii version. If you recall my review, the game’s not too bad and may be worth your time if you’re looking for a decent action/platform game. The game retails for $29.99 and will be available tomorrow, October 25th.
[Source:Marvel]
Sonic Generations Early Reviews and More!
With the release just a week away, early reviews are beginning to roll in for Sonic Generations. Thanks to members of Sonic Stadium’s forums, reviews are being compiled and new details from the game are being revealed. Before we get to the reviews, I thought this was an interesting tidbit: Iizuka revealed at Paris Games Week that the original Sonic the Hedgehog will be an unlockable in Generations. As long as the emulation is perfect, I’m all for adding a ninth copy of the game to my collection.
As for early reviews, the Germans have gotten their hands on the finished game. Videogameszone.de rated the game an 85/100 while the magazine 360 Live rated the game a similar 8.5/10. Very respectable scores! After the break, details from the two reviews.
What upcoming gaming products are SEGA employees looking forward to?
It is always fun to take a peak at what your favorite developers are looking forward too. Its nice to see what producers, artist and other SEGA employees are all looking forward to.
Daytona USA being ported by the team behind After Burner and Virtua On
SEGA has revealed that the same team that ported Virtua Fighter 5, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, After Burner Climax and Virtual On Force will be porting Daytona USA to XBLA and PSN. I think it has been stated around here and other places that AM2 were behind the ports, but it seems this is not 100% true. According to producer Toru Murayama, the team is being called “AM Port Team”. Sounds good to me!
The blog post that the producer posted says they want to keep the same atmosphere and controls of the original. Even though the game will keep the same 3D models, they changed the rest of the visuals to be enhanced for HD.
[Source: AndriaSang]
The Weekly Five: I’m Lovin’ Modern Sonic
The second Sonic Generations demo is out, and with it comes the first public demo of modern Sonic! Of course, we’ve had hours of footage and pages and pages of modern Sonic impressions. But none of that compares to actually playing the game. Having finally played the demo, I can happily say that modern Sonic is the best the 3D ‘hog has played in the HD era. Perhaps only being rivaled by the 3D Sonic of the Adventure titles. To celebrate Sonic’s return to form, let’s look at five reasons I’m lovin’ modern Sonic!
Sonic Generations 3DS gets an official release date
Sega has issued a press release to the media announcing the release date of Nov 22nd (USA) for Sonic Generations on the 3DS system.
UPDATE: It has been confirmed for Nov 25th in Europe.
SEGA’s much loved mascot Sonic the Hedgehog™ makes his way onto Nintendo 3DS for the very first time as part of the celebrations for his 20th anniversary. Speeding through many levels designed exclusively for the Nintendo system, Sonic Generations™ allows fans to play as both Classic and Modern Sonic across a range of iconic and memorable levels – all re-imagined for a completely new experience. Sonic Generations for Nintendo 3DS launches on 22nd November in North America.
Toirettsu! – The game you pee on!
You may remember a good while ago now we reported that Sega was making games that- well, you pee on. The ‘console’ is pretty much a modified urinal, the controller? Your stream!
Sega does what Nintendon’t!
Toirettsu is essentially a mini-games collection, with an alternative control method where wee-waggling is not just accepted but encouraged! Remind you of anything?
In one example the harder you pee the stronger the wind which blows causing an onscreen reporters skirt to lift. Who are the target audience? Potentially every man that ever needed to pee! So forget the ‘Nintendo Wii’ Sega have put their own stamp on casual gaming market which I am dubbing the ‘Sega Wee’.
There is method in the madness; the more pee you get into the urinal the longer you can play which is a good way to deter drunks from peeing elsewhere, such as the floor- or on their shoes. You may laugh but I honestly think it is a brilliant idea, genius in fact. This could pave the way for a whole new era for urination! I honestly wouldn’t expect this kind of thing from any other videogame developer. Sega are like the mad scientists of the industry, sometimes it pays off and other times it fails miserably but I think this time they are onto a winner!
As the game is being rolled out in more and more public places in Japan we have some game play videos directly from Sega and yes- it’s as wacky as it sounds! You can see more videos below.
New Sonic CD Trailer
A new, very TV broadcast-like (Is that a word?) trailer of Sonic CD has now been put up by Sega. The trailer emphasizes it’s Genesis Sega CD roots, while also keeping up the “prequel to Sonic 4” thing.
Sonic CD is due out later this year for LIVE, PSN and iOS platforms.
Source [Sega]
SEGA reveals Binary Domain multiplayer modes
SEGA have revealed their multiplayer modes and classes that will be in Binary Domain. Starting off with the classes, we have what you expect from slow moving characters like the heavy gunner to the sniper class like Recon.
It seems that the max players allowed to play at once in Binary Domain is 10. That seems rather low. SEGA is set to bring all those modes we expect in these type of games. Like Capture the Flag (renamed Data Capture) and team death match. For those that like to play together, SEGA has also confirmed the existence of Invasion. Which is basically like Horde Mode from Gears of War.
Shining Blade coming to PSP in Spring 2012
Didn’t we see this one coming? Are we surprised? No. The only surprising thing is that the new title is actually for the PSP (like the new Black Panther game) and is coming out in Spring 2012.
So what do we know? Tony is coming back to do character designs (oh, great) and music is being done by Hiroki Kikuta. Both of which worked on Shining Hearts (the last PSP Shining game).
[Source: AndriaSang]
New Sonic Generations demo on its way
Good news for fans who are eager to get their hands on Sonic Generations; there will be another demo, one that will allow you to play as both Classic and Modern Sonic on Green Hill Zone. According to a somewhat confusingly-worded post on the Sega Blog, the demo will be coming to Xbox Live and the PSN on October 19th (Europe) and to Xbox Live on October 19th and the PSN on October 28th in North America.
Sonic Generations will be released November 4th on both the PS3 and 360.
[Thanks to Sega Neptune]
Update: Looks like Sega has just posted a clarifying comment after the blog post, though to be honest it’s left me a bit more confused:
Just to clarify –
Europe: PSN and XBLA demo will be available on Oct 18th
North America: XBLA Demo will be available on Oct 18th, PSN on Oct 25th.
-Clumsyorchid
So I guess the demo will be available on either the 18th, the 19th, or the 25th depending on your platform of choice, which continent you live on, and whether you’re going by the dates in the Blog Post or the clarifying comment. It’ll be soon regardless.
Update 2: The 18th.