SEGA seems to be pushing the Shining series as much as possible, so much so that they tweeted an announcement on their Shining Blade twitter account. What was it? Well, a hint on the next Shining game will be inside of Shining Blade’s package.
So what is the announcement? We don’t know, we will have to wait till the game comes out on March 15th in Japan. If it was Capcom, i’d wager it was the announcement of “Ultimate Shining Blade”.
Are you a cat lover? So are lots of Japanese people it seems. Did you know in Japan they have such a thing as ‘Cat Cafes’? In Black Panther 2, you will be looking for Tsukahara who runs the fighting tournaments, but before you can enter he will force you to find his 102 cats. Pictured above is the new mission revealed by SEGA.
Talking about collecting, you can also collect sexy cards that if you put together in the right order create a sexy lady. That’s right, cats and wank materiel in one game? It does have it all.
Here are some of the latest screens and artwork for Shining Blade. The latest upcoming game in the Shining franchise. If you are a old school fan of the franchise, you might want to skip this. Seeing by the screens its full of wimpy looking boys and anime girls with huge boobs. But who doesn’t like boobs, right?
Do you like your dinner staring back at you with a pissed off face? If so, SEGA’s new ‘PuyoPuyoMan‘ (Google translate) might be for you! This meaty edible is part of SEGA promotion for Puyo Puyo’s 20th Anniversary last year. The product came out in January 23rd and already its a big seller. It seems to have sold out at 25 shops.
The PuyoPuyoMan is suppose to include tasty pork and bamboo shoot. They say that the red one is spicy, if you see the picture in the gallery below you will see that they also turned the other Puyo Puyo’s into snacks. A delicious Puyo could be yours for about $2 bucks (and if you live in Japan, of course).
Binary Domain‘s Mr. Attack is leaving SEGA HQ in recent promotional vides. He goes and visits a convenience store then decides to check out the fine ladies at the nearest hostess club. Also remember that Binary Domain’s demo is hitting the Japanese PSN & XBL on Feburary 1st. Get ready to download!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifU5ca7rYo
The new promotion video released by SEGA shows off some of the games features. If you have seen any of the Project Diva news post, you will know what the game is about anyway. Its a rhythm music game featuring vocaloid artist Hatsune Miku. Enjoy because you will probably never play this game unless you import it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=327MNKMQyEI
Toshihiro Nagoshi always said that the Black Panther PSP games was about aggression and being a man. He has decided to use the same idea for the sequel, Black Panther 2: Yakuza Asura Chapter. Who better to tell the men at home to play the new Black Panther than the most manliest man Nagoshi knows? That’s right, himself.
SEGA of Japan has always been known for its more alternate (And sometimes rather effective) marketing campaigns and this one for their up and coming third person squad based shooter Binary Domain is no different. Say hello to Assult-kun, a green humanoid robot working in an office as he deals with the dangers of the working enviroment as every other person.
In the above video him and his co-worker is being scolded by their manager, when the manager leaves, his co-worker writes “Die, Manager!” as she leaves, Assult-kun tries to clean the white board but realises she used permenant ink, horrified that his manager is returning, he turns it over only to realise even more insults on the otherside! Click after the break for a second video and know that SEGA’s (Strange) marketing for Binary Domain is well and truly underway!
Everyone knows that I wasn’t too happy with the US/Europe box art for Binary Domain. But now we get to see the Japanese box art, which might not be amazing, but is better than the US/European artwork by a lot. Not only that, this one has the new ‘Team Yakuza’ logo on the box. Nice. That should move a few copies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPF124mm-VA
Like what you heard? Then go buy it on iTunes. You should go buy it anyways, since it’s only 99 cents, and your purchase goes to help Japan’s relief efforts from the Earthquake / Hurricane. Hell, if I can afford it, so can you! Song of Hope is available in both Europe and the US on iTunes.
This isn’t your typical Crush 40 cheesy buttrock song, it actually sounds more like traditional rock, so I think more people will like it =)
Well, I was told that the money made off this song goes to Japan charities by someone, but now I’m not sure, I can’t find solid info anywhere about it. I don’t want to give you guys false info. If anyone could let us know in the comments section that would be great!
For those of you that want to relive the memories of the Game Boy Advance Sonic game, properly titled Sonic Advance, now you can. SEGA Japan have brought the game to the Japanese Android Market.
The game will cost you 415 yen (about $5). No idea if the game will be brought over West or other platforms. Here is hoping.
Crazy to think that Hatsune Miku fans all went out to get an extended version of Project Diva 2 at full price. At least 184,673 fans went out and threw their hard earned yen at SEGA to get a copy of Hatsune Miku Project Diva Extend.
The sales charts counted from November 7th to the 13th, but since Project Diva Extend came out on the 10th, it only got 3 days of sales counted. Hit the jump to see the full sales chart.
Didn’t we see this one coming? Are we surprised? No. The only surprising thing is that the new title is actually for the PSP (like the new Black Panther game) and is coming out in Spring 2012.
So what do we know? Tony is coming back to do character designs (oh, great) and music is being done by Hiroki Kikuta. Both of which worked on Shining Hearts (the last PSP Shining game).
[Source: AndriaSang]
SEGA is apparently working on a girly golf game for Vita called “@Field”. The game was leaked by Amazon.co.jp.
The game isn’t all about mini golfing, it will also combine pinball elements into the game. The girls in the games aren’t really girls, they are called dolls. You will be able to customize them, to dress them the way you want.
There will be a mission mode that promises over 100 missions. Rewards for clearing missions include costumes and new fields to play with. There is an edit mode where you can make your own fields and share them with friends via ad-hoc mode or wifi. Sadly is unclear right now if there is online play, we will probably get this info when the game is formally announced.
@Field is coming out this Winter in Japan, priced at ¥3,990. No Western announcements has been made (duh), it doesn’t seem like a title that would be brought over though.
[Source: AndriaSang]
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Extend is actually a re-release of Project Diva 2, with more of everything you like. But will it have enough songs added to make it worth you importing it? We have an almost complete set list, you be the judge.