Why didn’t anyone tell me you could download DS demos? Too bad I don’t live in Europe. A demo for Sonic Colours has been posted in the Wii’s Nintendo Channel.
The demo lets you play through Tropical Resort Act 1 and try out the white Wisps.
[Source: Sonic Stadium]
Nico Nico Douga (translates to “Smiley Smiley Videos”) is a Japanese online video sharing site that is quite popular. It is basically the YouTube of Japan. Well, the site will have tie-in promo with the upcoming Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity.
You will be able to get TV-Chan and Niwango object for your room. Both are pictured above. SEGA still has more items to show in the near future, so lets hope for more SEGA tie-ins and less advert stuff.
Game hits Japanese shores on February 24, 2011. No western announcement has been made.
Crazy Taxi will be able to boost your achievement/Trophy score when it releases next month, but don’t expect a big boost. Like most downloadable games, it will have 12 achievements and only be worth 200 points.
But you already figured this much out, lets check out them achievements. Also note: that the trophies will be the same as the achievements.
[Source: Xbox360Achievements]
The Compile Hearts developed and SEGA published (in Japan) Neptune RPG (full name “Super Dimensional Game Neptune”) will be brought to North America and Europe by NIS America. They will be changing the name of the game, for copyright reasons. The Western release will be known as “Hyperdimension Neptunia”.
If you didn’t already know, SEGA will have some retro IPs guest star in this RPG. If you didn’t see the list, we did an old post about here. The game will be hitting exclusively to Playstation 3 in Spring of 2011.
[Thanks: TimmiT]
SEGA does a ton of genres in video games, so it is no surprise they have quite the catalog of horror games for you to feast on this upcoming Halloween. So turn off the lights, its time to spot light some must play games for this Halloween.
Check out the latest trailer for Sonic Free Riders, this one showing off some of the weapons you will be able to use in the upcoming game.
Sonic Free Riders is set to be a launch title for Microsoft’s Kinect add-on. It will be released on November 4th in North America and November 10th in Europe. No idea if there will be a Kinect bundled with the game.
Check out the new Vanquish interactive trailer above. Enter your zip code (European residents) and you get your interactive trailer.
Vanquish is out worldwide, if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, you are really missing out. We will have a full review posted up tomorrow, so be on the look out for that. We also have a couple more Vanquish related articles planned that should interest you.
We have scans from the Official Nintendo Magazine, this one has the DS and Wii review of Sonic Colors and an interview with the odd Takashi Iizuka.
Sonic Colors comes out Novemeber 11th in Australia, 12th in Europe and 16th in North America.
[Thanks: Speed The Hedgehog]
K-Mart, the retailer that shocks me by still being around. Well they are having a sale and that means you will be able to save cash on getting your copy of Vanquish. They will be selling it for $35 dollars, starting October 31st and ending on November 6th. Save your pennies!
I’m playing through the game to do a review, trust me, if you love the demo it only gets crazier and more awesome as the game continues. It is really good!
[Via: TQ Cast]
We posted the first day sales for Vanquish a few days ago and sadly the weekly charts didn’t change a whole lot. The charts ended on October 24th and the game came out in Japan on October 21st. That is about 4 days to sell.
That is about the same as the first day numbers of 47k on PS3 and 9k on Xbox 360. I hope that the game continues selling next week on this pace, but it doesn’t seem like it will. Damn shame.
[Via: NeoGAF]
We all loved Panzer Dragoon Orta, which was one of the early releases on the Xbox. Problem is that the game didn’t sell to hot, doesn’t mean that it will stop Xbox Live Indie creators from paying homage to the title.
What is the game called? Leucistic Wyvern. You can get it for a dollar (80 MS points) in the indie store. The game comes with 9 stages, 6 of which are bonus stages.
[Source: Siliconera]
We already know how Vanquish did on its first day in Japan, but what about the America? Mike Hayes seems pretty positive.
“It’s been in the marketplace for two days, we’ve seen the day one numbers and we’re reasonably encouraged, but I think we need to see the rest of week one and probably week two just to see how it’s going to play out
“The challenge is that it’s a new franchise and that it’s releasing head-to-head with a lot of established franchises in the busiest time of the year.” – Mike Hayes CEO SEGA West
Vanquish came out on October 19th in North America, comes out tomorrow in Europe. Also, IGN gave us a shout out on this article, check the source link.
[Source: IGN]
So i’m flipping through the manual of Vanquish, looking for whatever I can find. I look at the back to see if there is more artwork and see this AvP ad. I didn’t think much at first, then I saw that it was ‘Available To Download On Playstation Network’.
So I went to the Playstation Store and checked, it isn’t on there. I guess it will be on there and they rushed it to printing. So, fair warning, if you want a digital copy of the game, its coming. If you work at making manuals for SEGA, learn release schedules.
Yes, End of Eternity (Western title Resonance of Fate) has went budget priced in Japan. Not only that, it is one of the first games to get the new ‘platinum collection’ packaging from Microsoft.
So what did the old packaging look like? Check out the old Platinum Collection box art for Bayonetta. Yeah, it has improved for the better. End of Eternity reprint is coming out in Japan on December the 2nd.
[Source: Siliconera]
The first day sales for Vanquish are in and seem rather low. They aren’t a total failure, but I sort of assumed it would beat a Naruto game.
Hopefully they sell more copies this whole week. For reference, the Naruto game on PS3 sold 72,000 copies and 13,000 on Xbox 360. I guess its too much to outsell a big anime IP like Naruto.
Bayonetta’s first day sales in Japan where much more positive, selling 93,000 on the PS3 and the Xbox 360 version selling 45,000 units. A Bayonetta size hit this game is not, at least in Japan.
[Thanks: STORM!]
