Sonic 4 Mad Gear Trailer [update]

The release date is also revealed in this trailer. October 7th for iPhone App store. October 11th for WiiWare. October 12th for PlayStation Network. October 13th for XBLA.

[Update: Now with more YouTube and less GameSpot embedded player]

H and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi at SEGA TGS 2010

Sorry I didn’t get this up sooner. Youtube was being really slow for me. For anyone who hasn’t seen this video yet, I hope you enjoy it! Songs that Takenobu sings include what looks like a Yakuza song, a Hatsune Miku song, and Daytona USA – Let’s go Away.

Seeing Sonic and the whole crowd dancing is awesome.

Valkyria Chronicles 3 TGS trailer

In this trailer you can see some of the nameless that were described in Famitsu. There is also a few surprises you will see in this trailer when you watch it. Sadly, the trailer is all anime and no gameplay. Still a cool trailer though.

SEGA announces new iPhone games and MMO [update]

I’ll start off with the one that is the most shocking. You might remember a while ago that SEGA trademarked the name Kingdom Conquest. Well, it turns out that Kingdom Conquest is SEGA’s first iPhone MMO and freenium game. A freenium game means that the app is free, but you have to pay for in game items and content. Kingdom Conquest is part hack n’ slash and part city building according to SEGA.

The second new announcement is Chu Chu Rocket. Chu Chu Rocket will be SEGA’s first iOS game to support Apple’s Game Center.

Among other new iPhone game announcements is Altered Beast and Gunstar Heroes. SEGA also hinted at more announcments coming later today on twitter.

[Update] SEGA just updated their twitter with new info. Chu Chu Rocket has all of the DC levels, multiplayer for up to 4 devices via Bluetooth/WiFi, and the iPad version will have 4 player multiplayer on same device.

[Source: SEGA Twitter]
[Thanks: AugieD369]

Sonic Colors – Act 1 Planet Wisp complete playthrough [update]

Kotaku had SEGA America community manager Aaron Webber play through the first act of Planet Wisp for them at PAX. This video is a change of pace from other Sonic Colors gameplay videos as of recently. RubyEclipse is an expert at this game. As you can see from the gameplay footage, Sonic Colors looks a lot like Sonic Unleashed.

[Source: Kotaku AU]

Edit: Here is another video, it is much clearer in quality but the player isn’t as good. Hit the jump to see it.

Explanation of the Emergency Maintenance

Hey everyone. Sorry about the emergency maintenance. We realized that WP-united was creating duplicate user accounts in wordpress for no reason at all. So I had to go through the user mapping tool and break all the integration on the duplicate accounts and then delete all the duplicate accounts while integrating the real accounts.

Then after that I had to go and link all the newly posted articles to their rightful author. I can’t link comments to a specific author, so all comments that have been made on the new posts since the site relaunch say “UNREGISTERED”. Just wanted to let you guys know about that.

Hopefully this error doesn’t happen again, seeing as I have all current accounts integrated. Sorry if this downtime caused any inconvenience!

Pre-order Vanquish at Zavvi and get a lenticular sleeve

Pre-order Vanquish at UK retailer Zavvi for the price of £28.99 and get an awesome lenticular sleeve with your pre-order!  This deal applies to both the XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. Why does SEGA Europe always have the best pre-order offers? SEGA America never gives us people living in the America’s anything good!

Hit the Jump to see the sleeve in action!

New SEGA Japan teaser site – code1935.jp

SEGA Japan has just launched a new teaser site for an upcoming game that will be revealed on September 16th. Just in time for the Tokyo Game Show! The URL for the teaser site is http://code1935.jp.

SEGA Japan recently registered valkyria3.jp as a domain name not too long ago. Also, 1935 is the year of the original Valkyria Chronicles game. I think it is pretty safe to assume this game is going to be Valkyria Chronicles 3!

[Source: Neogaf]

Vanquish demo up on XBOX Live

As of now the US Vanquish Demo is up on XBOX Live. Go download the demo and tell us what you think! Gold members only. The download clocks in at just under 500MB. The PS3 demo should be up later today whenever Sony decides to update PSN.

PSN usually updates in the afternoon, so don’t expect it up anytime soon.

Valkyria Chronicles II story trailer

1935 was the year of Gallia in Valkyria Chronicles. Valkyria Chronicles II brings Gallia into yet another battle. This time it is a battle against the Gassenarl family in the year 1937. Students from the Lanseal Royal Military Academy have to step up and protect their homeland in battle because the forces of Gallia are already stretched thin from other battles.

The trailer also displays a release date of August 31st, 2010.