You can now buy SEGA’s sequel to Let’s Go Jungle, titled Let’s Go Island in the United States. If you own a small business, why not pack this odd ball title for your clients to spend their change?
Yeah, I know an arcade is a big investment. Hit the jump for that press release.
[Via: ArcadeHeros]
Sega sure are releasing a lot of great trailers today! Four new Valkyria Chronicles 3 trailers, two must see Yakuza Of the End trailers and now it is the turn of Total War: Shogun 2.
Another game that just keeps looking better, Shogun 2 is set to be the pinnacle of strategy gaming in 2011. With a return to the roots of the series, not only with the setting and era but a return to the sword based combat which made the series so great to begin with. This makes many Total War fans very happy, including myself!
The game has been refined in many areas not least the multiplayer mode which has really been fleshed out for the first time in a Total War game. The Multiplayer section of Shogun 2 could easily be a stand alone game. In multiplayer you build your own general and compete to be the ultimate ruler of Japan, the Shogun! At the end of each month the overall winner is given the golden shogun armour for bragging rights. Only one person in the whole world may wear this per month! Sounds fun!
With every new trailer and every new bit of information we come across the crazy Yakuza spin off title ‘Ryu Ga Gotoku: Of the End’ AKA ‘Yakuza: Of the End’ just looks better and better.
I hope with this title the series starts to get the recognition it deserves in the West because Sega pulled off a pretty amazing feet putting out a Yakuza game the size of any good RPG pretty much year on year and each time it has got better and better with the exception of Yakuza 3 which didn’t quite live up to the events of Yakuza 2, story wise in my opinion. With this and the English release of Yakuza 4 I’m going to be deep in the Japanese underworld all year in 2011!
Hit the Jump for trailer two!
To thank those who bought multiple versions of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1, Ken Balough (Digital Brand Manager, Sonic 4) and Aaron Webber (Community Manager, Sonic 4) issued a little thank you video. As a nice surprise, they revealed that the public thanking would not be limited to those who bought three or more versions of the game. Instead, they would thank every single person who put their name into True Blue initiative. At 1:35 you’ll see and hear Aaron Webber saying my name as he looks deeply into the camera. No doubt hoping that I heard his thanks. Well Aaron, your thanks has been heard. And in return I say: thank you too!
Here are four new trailers for Valkyria Chronicles 3, each trailer highlights one of the three groups in the conflict. The East European Imperial Alliance (the bad guys), The Principality of Gallia (The good guys) and in the trailer you see above The Nameless. (The group you will be playing as in VC3)
The fourth trailer details some of the features you will get to use in the nameless barracks such as tank building and weapon modifying.
In my opinion this one looks like the best game in the series yet, far better then Valkyria Chronicles 2 at least.
Hit the Jump for the other three.
SEGA have set Feburary 2011 as the date for their ‘Dreamcast Collection’ retail disc. Fans spouted out games they wanted like the usual favorites Shenmue and Jet Set Radio. Sadly, this will not happen, SEGA has confirmed the four games the collection will have.
Basically its a compilation of their digital titles they have already announced. Here is something new though, it is also coming to PC, no Playstation 3 version! The press release does not say if Sonic Adventure version will come with the DX downloadable content on disc, my guess is probably not. Hit the jump for the press release.
[Sexy zombie researcher? Check]
You can’t just have a game with zombies, that doesn’t work. You have to have classes of zombies, every game has to have a variety of these brain munchers and Yakuza of the End is no different. Famitsu this week introduced a few of the classes you can expect in the full game.
If you haven’t seen the other pictures, that lady in white is Reiko Hasegawa, a sexy zombie researcher. She will keep you informed on all your zombie craving news.
[Source: AndriaSang]
Here is a new trailer for Conduit 2, the sequel to High Voltage’s 2009 first person shooter, The Conduit. Just like the original game Conduit 2 is a Wii exclusive.
Watching this trailer the game is giving me a very ‘Halo’ vibe, although I can’t help but be distracted by the sheer amount of jaggies. Will it be a good game or not? It’s hard to tell at this point.
Conduit 2 will release in February 2011.
Answer to that question would be, Hideki Kamiya looked like a complete badass. Look at him, he is basically the male biker version of Bayonetta.
Stay classy, Hideki Kamiya!
[Source: GameSetWatch]
Toshihiro Nagoshi was in Nintendo World this weekend to promote the upcoming Super Monkey Ball 3DS; if you didn’t know, Nagoshi is also the director for the Yakuza series.
He updated his blog while he was there, and this lead to readers posting about a Yakuza 3D title, and if there will ever be one. According to Nagoshi, the team has already worked with 3D for a Yakuza title. He teases us, “Yakuza 3D was amazing.”
Most of his blog post was about 3D technology and why it’s difficult to use. He explained that making the image come out in 3D is not hard, but since 3D has to use an image twice, you lose some visual quality. He said that they had to choose between using the full power of the game or degrading it to half for the 3D effect. Why not have optional 3D like all 3D PS3 titles?
[Source: AndriaSang]
This is basically what you’d expect from a Super Monkey Ball game cover. It has those cute monkeys you love, though this one seems to be showing more of a cut out art style. Reminds me of Kirby’s Epic Yarn sort of.
Even though Super Monkey Ball 3DS was one of the first shown and one of the first games to get gameplay footage online, it will not be a launch title for the hardware, at least in Japan. Nintendo put up their official line up of games and it excluded this title.
The title will actually launch in Japan on March 3rd, one week after the 3DS is out. Reason for this? No idea.
[Source: Famitsu & AndriaSang]
According to the guys over at Arcade Heroes, they heard for a reliable source that we will be seeing a port of SEGA & Sonic All-Stars Racing for the arcades. The game will be part of Sonic’s 20th anniversary.
It is also said you will be able to link 8 cabinets together for multiplayer fun. This is the first time there has been a Sonic arcade game since Sonic the Fighters in 1996, if this turns out to be true, could be pretty awesome.
This is filed as a rumor until its confirmed by SEGA.
[Thanks: Adam]
[Source: ArcadeHeroes]
Here is another Volume of BB.TV. For those in Japan each episode of BB.TV highlights new and exciting features, levels and other interesting new additions to Segas online 20 vs. 20 mech fighting game Border Break.
To those of us not in Japan it’s another tantalizing look at an awesome game most of us will never get to play. Like googling attractive woman you’ll never get to… Erm, take to dinner.
The next Soul Cailbur game is in early production and it has already been confirmed that the team wants to add ‘guest characters’ from other franchises, which the series has been known to do. Many fans have been fighting it out in discussions, suggesting their favorite characters. Kamiya even re-tweeted fans asking for Bayonetta in the next Soul Cailbur installment.
Well, it doesn’t end there, Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada also likes the idea of having Bayonetta in the next Soulcalibur title. This is not the first time the Tekken team has wanted to do something with a SEGA IP, awhile back they chatted about wanting to do a Virtua Fighter vs. Tekken game.
I doubt SEGA will approve the use of Bayonetta in the game, but I don’t see why they shouldn’t. Free promotion for Bayonetta 2.
[Source: PlaystationLifeStyle]
If you haven’t seen ‘Talking Classics’ with Keith Apicary, then you are missing out. Some of the episodes can be hit or miss, but its basically a video game related Napoleon Dynamite.
In the latest episode, posted yesterday, Keith talks about SEGA’s Dreamcast. Give it a play, don’t take it seriously.