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Aliens Colonal Marines – Old Teaser, Good Quality

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The title says it all really. I think it was E3 2008 when this teaser trailer was first shown off behind closed doors. Somebody out there was good enough to film it, secretly off screen. The video quality left a lot to be desired. wobbly and out of focus if I remember correctly.

Rejoice, aliens fans! Someone has recently been kind enough to uploaded a perfect quality version of the same video. It hasn’t been officially released by Sega, so this is kind of old news. But still, it is very pretty.

As for the game, Aliens: Colonial Marines in a recent interview with Sega’s Alan Prichard the game was again confirmed to be in development and we should be hearing more about it in 2011. Fingers crossed!

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RSS Feed Fixed

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Hey everyone.

Just wanted to give a heads up that the RSS feed is now fixed, for those who have noticed it was broken. I want to thank the anonymous person on the SEGAbits survey who pointed out our RSS feed was broken, you rock, seriously! :3 It would of probably been broken for much longer had you not pointed it out.

An RSS feed is just something you except to work, so you don’t check it often to make sure it is working. Something must of went haywire when we updated wordpress. There is a new URL for the RSS feed so you might need to update your bookmarks accordingly.

Here is the new URL:
http://www.segabits.com/?feed=rss2

It’s also available in all the normal places where we have links to the SEGAbits.com RSS feed.

EDIT: FML. Must of messed something up, now the twitter feed is acting up. Will update this post when fixed.

EDIT 2: Should all be fixed now

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CHRiSTMAS INTO DREAMS: Journey of Dreamcast Deals

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Funny Picture by GagaMan of The Dreamcast Junkyard
Note: GagaMan is a registered trade mark of DCJY and is in no way related or affiliated with Lady Gaga

The Dreamcast Scene is going to be very active this fall German Publisher redspotgames won’t have a new Dreamcast game out his year, but they are not letting that get in the way of the celebrations, in order to keep the scene active they have  permanently dropped prices of Wind & Water: Puzzle Battle (13.25) and Rush Rush Rally Racing (29.25).

American Publisher and Pioneer of indie games for Dreamcast GOAT Store have the best offer though, as they will give a free copy of Feet of Fury (the first indie game ever made) to anyone who buys anything from them no price limit (well the cheapest item on the store is 24 cents, just under a quarter), which is perfect cause they run the largest online Dreamcast Store, from batteries for your VMU to Japanese imports they have everything at economical prices.

Lastly Dreamcast fans don’t foget NG:Dev.Team have just released Dreamcast’s only new game Fast-Striker :).

GSP’s heart felt press release after the jump:

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Round Table: Our favorite SEGA Christmas memories

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Its Christmas time, so you had to expect a ‘Christmas themed’ article. Well our article will be about our favorite SEGA Chirstmas memories. You can read our memories and if you want to share some of yours, feel free in the comment box.

Happy Holidays everyone, be safe out there and don’t stuff yourself too much.

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Yakuza of the End’s partner system detailed

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SEGA is changing up the Yakuza formula, not just adding more gun play and zombies, but a ‘partner system’. The partner system is called “Aibo wo Tsukurou!” or in English “Let’s make a partner!”

If you clear some sub story missions you will unlock partner characters, which you will be able to level up and bring with you to challenge dungeons called “Kamurocho Underground.” While fighting you will be able to give them commands.

Some of the partner characters will be returning faces like Kazuto Arase and Makoto Date. To level up your partner characters a user has to go to “Gary’s Boot Camp”, which is run by Gary Buster Holmes, who you might remember from the first two PS2 games.

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Yakuza 4 Character Trailer – Masayoshi Tanimura

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Here is another Yakuza 4 character trailer. This trailer tells the back story of ‘good cop gone bad’ Masayoshi Tanimura who is on the hunt for his fathers killer… But not before he does some gambling.

Anyone reminded of Shenmue?

This could be the final character trailer for the game as all main characters have had their story told now. Unless they plan on doing trailers for the sub-characters or bad guys. That could be cool.

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Project Diva 2 will be playable on PS3 too

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If you didn’t know, the first Project Diva game was playable on the PS3 via a application you bought called “Hatsune Miku Dreamy Theater” and now SEGA has said they are planning Hatsune Miku Dreamy Theater 2nd.

This app will basically let you play the PSP game, on the PS3 with high definition graphics. It is expected to come out in Summer 2011, no price announced just yet.

You can check out the official site here, even has a teaser for the app here.

[Source: AndriaSang]

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Gamefly’s year-end sale has super cheap SEGA games

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Seriously, bust out those wallets. Each game is used but comes with a never used case and manual. Best of all? They have free shipping. I hate paying for shipping! Check out the list of SEGA games you will be able to have…

PlayStation 3:

  • Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing -$12.99 [Review]
  • Yakuza 3 – $14.99 [Review]
  • Bayonetta – $9.99 [Review]

Xbox 360:

  • Iron Man 2 – $6.99 [Review]
  • Aliens vs. Predator – $9.99 [Review]
  • Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing – $12.99 [Review]

The Wii didn’t have any SEGA published game on sale, but there was a few games that SEGA fans might want like Sin & Punishment: Star Successor ($12.99) and Ivy the Kiwi? ($9.99). Check the full list here.

The sale ends on January 3rd, so you can still return all the cloths your parents sent you for the Holidays.

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New Trailer for Dreamcast’s Sturmwind

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Recently, redspotgames CEO, Max Scharl revealed their latest Dreamcast title “Sturmwind” on national television (German tv show “Neues” in a segment on underdogs). Since then, Sturmwind has received a lot of positive press even though only a handful of screen shots have been shown. Today we feast our eyes on.

The reason for all the excitement is that Sturmwind is an original Dreamcast game, built from the ground up to take advantage of Sega’s hardware, where as recently released shump Fast Striker (on sale at Play-Asia & NG:Dev.Direct) an excellent game in it’s own right is an enhanced Neo-Geo Port.

Fun Fact: A recurring theme in Dreamcast games these days is that Duranik the studio behind Sturmwind is composed off 2 brothers, just like KonTechs (DUX), NG:Dev.Team (Last Hope), Senile Team (Rush Rush Rally Racing), Yuan Works (Wind & Water: Puzzle Battles).

Hit the Jump for the press release.

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Yakuza of the End soundtrack cd has manliest cover ever

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For Japanese consumers that pre-order Yakuza of the End, they will get a full Karaoke soundtrack CD. The name of the soundtrack is “Ryu Uta: Ryu ga Gotoku Karaoke Best Selection” which will contain tunes from the game.

You will get a total of 10 songs on the soundtrack cd, being sung by Kiryu, Majima, Akiyama, Goda, Hana and Haruka. Click here to see the full list of songs.

[Source: AndriaSang]

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Hyperdimension Neptunia to have SEGA tie-ins intact

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As you know, NIS America is bringing over Hyperdimension Neptunia to the States. When it was announced, I assume that all copyrighted SEGA power-ups that where announced for the Japanese release would be taken out. Seems not so.

“Upon acquisition, they will allow you to customize your battle combinations to add, for example, an Alex Kidd or Space Harrier special summon attack where you can deal some serious late 80’s/Early 90’s damage to your foe.”– Ryan Phillips, Marketing Coordinator, NIS America

Not only was this info released, we also got a new trailer. Which you are able to view above.

[Source: PSblog]

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Round Table: SEGA IPs that could make great social games

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Social games seem to be the hot thing right, every company is doing them and most are having a big success. SEGA even has their own social gaming site, with some pretty neat flash based games.

But they don’t really use their old IPs, outside of Sonic, for their games and they are really just ‘flash games’ and not very social like Yakuza Mobile or Shenmue City. What SEGA games do we want to see become social games? Hit the jump and yell at us in the comment section.

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SEGA games 25% off on STEAM

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Do you like SEGA games?
Do you like PC games?
Do you like good deals?

If so, hopefully you have STEAM. If not, you will need STEAM if you want to take advantage of STEAM’s 25% off SEGA games sale. This SALE is for every SEGA game on STEAM… so buy until your heart is content!

An example of some games on sale are the Total War games, Football Manager, Mega Drive classics, THE CLUB, and SEGA All-Stars Racing.

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SEGA Mega Sale goes live tonight for PSN & iTunes

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Seems that the XBLA version of the sale will be delayed till at least December 30th. Don’t get antsy in the pants, we have a list for PSN & iOS games. Bolded the best deals.

PSN

  • Sonic Adventure – $4.99 (reg. $9.99)
  • Sonic Adventure DX – $1.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Ep 1 – $9.99 (reg. $14.99)
  • Gunstar Heroes – $2.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Afterbuner Climax – $4.99 (reg. $9.99)
  • Phantasy Star Portable 2 – $15.99 (reg. $39.99)
  • SEGA Genesis Collection – $9.99 (reg. $15.99)
  • Valkyria Chronicles 2 – $15.99 (reg. $39.99)
  • Iron Man 2 – $15.99 (reg. $19.99)

iTunes

  • Super Monkey Ball – $0.99 (reg. $2.99)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog – $2.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – $2.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Super Monkey Ball 2 –  $0.99 (reg. $2.99)
  • Super Monkey Ball 2 Sakura Edition – $2.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Sonic 4 Episode 1 – $2.99 (reg. $6.99)
  • Phantasy Star 2 – $0.99 (reg. $2.99)
  • ChuChu Rocket! – $0.99 (reg. $2.99)
  • ChuChu Rocket! HD  –  $2.99 (reg. $4.99)
  • Gunstar Heroes  – $0.99 (reg. $2.99)
  • Altered Beast – $0.99 (reg. $2.99)

Buy yourself some games, smile this Holiday season and have fun! This sale ends on January 3rd. Happy shopping.

[Source: SEGAblog]

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