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Sonic Colors Cutscene Featuring the NEW Voices

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Courtesy of Sonic Wrecks, Sonic Stadium and Sonic Retro comes the first publicly shown video of a Sonic Colors cutscene complete with dialogue! Personally, I think it’s an all around improvement over the past couple of games. Definitely beats out Heroes and ’06, and is a bit better than Unleashed despite the lack of HD visuals. Tails sounds like a boy once again, and Sonic is… different. But not worse! I’ll have to see more of the game before making a concrete decision. Bonus points for Sonic performing the Moonwalk.

[Source: Sonic Wrecks YouTube account]

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Sonic Free Riders: Weapons Trailer released

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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.

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Vanquish interactive trailer powered by your zip code

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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.

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K-Mart: Get Vanquish for $35 bucks!

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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]

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Media Create Sales: Vanquish first chart appearance

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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.

  • Vanquish PS3: 48,318 (4th place)
  • Vanquish 360: 11.204 (14th place)

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]

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Hayes says early Vanquish sales are encouraging

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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]

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Aliens vs Predator coming to PSN?

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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.

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Rumour: Sonic Colors May Be Ported, Mario & Sonic 3 Not Sports Related

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So the long and the short of it is this, last year some random guy turned up on a site full of random people known as ‘4chan’. Calling himself  ‘Wentos the Traveling Salesman’ he claimed to be an insider from Sega with a lot of beans to spill.

Like some online Mystic Meg he then dispenses some rather vague predictions and info on upcoming Sonic games. For reasons unknown to me  people took stock in what this anonymous tipster had to say. Apparently many of his predictions did come true, albeit pretty vague ones I think anyone could have taken a stab in the dark at.

I’m not telling you this for the good of my health, so you have probably guessed it. He’s at it again… This time regarding Sonic Colours and Mario & Sonic.

Hit the jump to see what this guy is on about.

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End of Eternity testing out new 360 budget packaging

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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]

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Vanquish first day Japanese sales are in

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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.

  • Vanquish PS3: 47,000 units
  • Vanquish 360: 9,000 units

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!]

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Vanquish: 360 vs. PS3 face-off

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Seems that Platinum Games has finally delivered one of their titles that plays great on both consoles. Eurogamer said it was hard to really see the difference between the consoles and only thing they found was shadowing differences.

“In terms of graphical differences between the two games, it’s fair to say that there aren’t any of real significance – certainly nothing that might affect a purchasing decision: both run at 1024×720 resolution with 2x multi-sampling anti-aliasing (MSAA)…. only issue we did notice on a consistent basis was a difference in shadowing, which seems to favour PS3. In these shots you can see shadowing that’s either omitted completely or else suffering from “shadow acne” on the 360.”

So whatever console you bought it on, you are safe. No Bayonetta effect this time around, just pure gameplay bliss. Performance is a mix bag, but seriously, if you liked how the demo performed, no issues.

[Source: Eurogamer]

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Platinum Games & SEGA negotiating future titles

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We have always known that SEGA and Platinum Games deal would come to an end after Vanquish. Seems that the developer knows they now have the ability to strike a better deal with SEGA and they are negotiating.

“For the future of our partnership, of course, it’s not something that we alone can decide. Sega has its stance, and we have ours, but if Sega asks us to make something we might take the offer.”

Joystiq has said that Platinum Games wants to ‘create their own ip’, but I think they read the quote wrong.

“So as a studio we would like to do both [new IP and sequels], but the whole point of Platinum Games is to create our own IP, that’s what we do.”

I think what Inaba mean’t is that Platinum Games makes their own new IPs, as in their ideas, not SEGA’s and they will continue to do so. Doesn’t sound like he talks about ownership of the IPs. We already know since TGS that SEGA has more plans with Platinum Games and that Platinum Games is working on a massive online title.

Future looks bright and I can’t want to see what Platinum Games comes up with next.

[Source: Develop]

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