That one leak, we posted before, has been confirmed as accurate. SEGA has updated the Virtua Fighter website with the information and new screens of the game.
Sadly the screens don’t show the changes made to the ‘customizing’ your avatar. Oh well, but does that seem like Kage has a new move?
[Via: Versus City]
The above is a Border Break action figure (NOT A TOY!) that is coming out on July 24th. The toy will be exclusive to Kotobukiya Shop online store and retail shops. (retail shops if you live in Japan)
The action figure will run you at 3,675 yen ($40 USD), that is a small price to pay to have a plastic toy of a game you will probably never play. Unless SEGA is nice and ports it over to consoles.
[Source: Tokyo Hunter Via: Kotaku]
Nick Hutt from Sutton, UK has taken back the high score for Space Harrier and has been verified by Twin Galaxies website. Really, I did not know the place existed, but then again I never tried to beat high scores myself. Score was submitted by Mr. Hutt on April 30th.
What was his score? 39,495,060. That is quite a bit and enough to put him on the top once again. His top score was taken down last year by another UK gamer called Philip Campbell with 38,530,220. This puts him in second place.
Apprantly UK gamers have held the high score for Space Harrier since August 1985, when Matthew Preece set the record and his score (31,900,730) lasted all the way till 2005, when Hutt topped it.
[Via Examiner]
After Burner came out in the 1980’s, even made a cameo appearance in the best movie ever made, Terminator 2. So when I heard that SEGA was bringing the franchise back again (in 2006), my expectations were high. Did SEGA deliver?
Welcome to the first ever ‘The Last Boss’, where I’ll be covering a different Sega Boss Character/Fight each article. It’s something I hope to do on a semi-regular basis, and as you well know there are a lot of unique and great ones to cover. In an ironic fashion, lets dive into the First Last Boss, The House of the Dead series’ Magician.
The Magician, like all other bosses in the House of the Dead Series (barring Overkill) is named after a Tarot Card. In Tarot cards, the Magician is representative of ‘creation by willpower and desire’. In the House of the Dead Games, he is representative of lots of fireballs and repeatedly inserting more money into the machine as he kills you again and again. And again.
Afterburner Climax comes out today on XBLA and tomorrow for PSN, who would have thought we’d ever see the game hit consoles? I didn’t. Now to celebrate the release, I put together 10 other arcade only SEGA games that need to come out on PSN and XBLA.
Hit the jump to see the list. If you guys have a arcade game I failed to mention, throw it up in the comments.
If you don’t know what LA Machineguns and Gunblade NY are, shame on you. They are light gun arcade games by SEGA and according to ESRB, SEGA is planning on bringing them in a collection, much like House of the Dead 2&3 Returns.
from ESRB website:
“This is an arcade-style first-person shooter in which players engage in missions to protect sections of New York and Los Angeles from enemy forces. Players aim targeting crosshairs on dozens of attacking soldiers, robots, missiles, and vehicles that explode when destroyed. Constant gunfire and explosions highlight the frenetic action; zoomed-in camera angles depict multiple projectiles striking the humanoid terrorist enemies.”
The compliation pack is suppose to be called “Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack” and exclusive as of now, for the Nintendo Wii. How about some Virtua Cop love next time?
(Note: I know we are late to post this, don’t whine at us)
[Source: Siliconera]
Above is the new 15 second TV spot for their Lil Puritsu arcade game, which is a card game where the user purchases the cards and scans them into the game.
Obviously the game is not aimed at us at all, its a little girl game. Hit the jump to see the second advert showing a little Japanese girl playing the game, how exciting.
SEGA Entertainment’s restructuring plan sadly means they will have to shut down some GameWorks locations. SEGA hopes to open up some of the locations again, after the resturcturing is done.
“Long Beach, CA; Columbus, OH; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Indianapolis, IN; Tampa, FL; and Miami, FL. The company has introduced potential new tenants to mall ownership, in hopes that some locations may be reopened in the future.
Hopefully SEGA finds a way to make their GameWorks business a bit more profitable. For the full press release hit the jump.
Check out SEGA of Japan’s new April Fools video for Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. They are showing the new gameplay, but does it remind you of another game?
Maybe it is a game called Super Street Fighter 4. Maybe? Just a bit? Pretty cool prank, lets hope they keep it up.
[Thanks: STORM!]
SEGA has announced a new version of Virtua Fighter 5 today via the trailer above. Outside of this, not much is known, the only thing we do know is that it will be for arcades and it will carry over your Virtua Fighter 5 R items to the new updated version.
So now that we got the “final” version out, can we have our console port SEGA?
SEGA have a fantastic line up for the AOU 2010 Amusement Expo! For those of you not in the know AOU Amusement Expo is an event held once a year in Japan where all of the top Arcade software developers show their hand.
SEGA never fails to impress, often having one of the biggest and best line ups at the show and this year they do not disappoint. Apparently this year their booth is huge, so lets find out what they have on show!