House of the Dead isn’t exactly the most beautiful game series, but it still required a substantial amount of concept art in order to determine the design of the protagonists, enemies, and game play scenarios. Below is a load of concept art, provided by our sister site Website of the Dead. As usual, we won’t be posting everything they have, so be sure to check out their database here!
Also, remember to submit something to our art contest!
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With the release of Typing of the Dead Overkill on Steam, we get to take a look at it along with other games in the House of the Dead series.
Update: Our livestream is over, but you can expect the Retro crew including Bartman3010, DavidTL, Overlord, Perfect Chaos Zero, GeneHF and Guess Who looking at several titles including The House of the Dead III, The House of the Dead 4, Zombie Revenge, and several random mobile games as well as The House of the Dead Overkill – Lost Reels, and the horrors of the mine cart in Sonic 4 Episode 1.
Fans of classic SEGA games, it’s happening! Today the SEGA Blog has revealed the prices and dates for the 3D versions of several SEGA classics headed to the Nintendo 3DS. Each game will be priced at $5.99/€4.99/£4.49 and the release schedule is as follows:
3D Space Harrier, 3D Super Hang-On – 11/28/2013
3D Sonic The Hedgehog, 3D Altered Beast – 12/5/2013
3D Ecco the Dolphin™, 3D Galaxy Force II – 12/12/2013
3D Shinobi III, 3D Streets of Rage – 12/19/2013
Nice to see SEGA staggering the releases so fans can digest each game. Especially excited to see 3D Space Harrier and 3D Super Hang-On releasing on my birthday. Which games are you downloading on day one?
Halloween is upon us. Now, on My Life with SEGA, I’ll show you something really scary….
Need I say more?
Yup, you head the headline correctly. Typing of the Dead: Overkill is now available to purchase on Steam for $19.99! Also, thanks to the Halloween sale, it’s only $9.99. Here’s Steam’s full description:
Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience!
This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county. Blast pieces out of the zombie horde across 9 stages, one keystroke at a time, in order to save you and a friends life as you work to uncover the mystery behind the outbreak.
Features:
• Randomised kill-words to make every game experience unique;
• Your keyboard is the weapon – type bullet holes into those zombie hordes!
• Three difficulty levels included to test your typing skills to the max as well as a special ‘hardcore’ level for true keyboard warriors!
• Redefined HOTD gameplay to complement the new typing mechanics;
• Full Steam integration
• Full and faithful port of the original PS3 edition of HOTD included in game
• Plus more to come*
*Two-Player co-op multiplayer coming shortly after launch as free DLC
GUTS WILL BE SPELLED thanks to the PEGI ratings site which reveals Typing of the Dead: Overkill on PC. The release date is said to be today, but other release dates on the site do not line up with the actual release dates of games. It also appears that the game will support online play: “This game allows the player to interact with other players ONLINE”.
SEGA’s twitter has recently been teasing that “GUTS WILL BE _______.” today, and given the PEGI rating it appears that those who guessed “SPELLED” were right. We’ll have more details on the game once SEGA officially reveals it. [Note: the screenshot above is from the console version of the game]
Twenty-five years ago today, SEGA released what was arguably their most beloved and popular console: the SEGA Mega Drive.
Since April 1st of this year, SEGAbits has been teamed with Sonic Retro, the internet’s best resource for all things Sonic the Hedgehog. But the folks at Sonic Retro didn’t want to limit themselves to just Sonic, and so the SEGA Retro wiki was born. SEGA Retro covers anything and everything SEGA, from hardware to games to arcade titles. Despite being less than four years old, the wiki has amassed nearly seven thousand articles and continues to grow. The SEGA Retro wiki has been just a click away from SEGAbits, by selecting “Info” from our navigation bar, but we wanted to go one step further and highlight the many excellent wiki entries in a new SEGAbits feature entitled “SEGA Retro Spotlight”.
Given the significance today has for SEGA history, we’re going to highlight SEGA Retro’s entry on the SEGA Mega Drive.
Its almost that time of season where most kids are waiting to tell their parents what modern day war shooter they want under their Christmas tree. Its also the time where older folks, like ourselves on the site, think about our previous holidays and how we used to make our parents waste hoards of cash to buy our affection. Wasn’t that great? Well this week on Monday Memories we will look at the 1996 holiday Toy ‘R’ Us video game catalog. I remember these where awesome as a kid, it was like window shopping for games in my underwear.
We posted a few days ago that SEGA was teasing something for the Playstation Vita. We didn’t know much outside of the platform (due to HTML code) and the phrase ‘The New Story will Begin‘. Guess what the new game was? It was a teaser for the fifth season of Samurai & Dragons and we have the trailer above.
If you have played Kingdom Conquest, that is pretty much what Samurai & Dragons is for the Playstation Vita. It seems that SEGA is trying to enter this whole free-to-play market. SEGA is set to start the new Samurai & Dragons on November 1st.
It looks like SEGA has more in store for October 29th than just the American release of Sonic Lost World. This image saying “On October 29th, guts will be _______” was just posted on Facebook and Twitter by SEGA.
My guess is that it’s something Typing of the Dead related. It better be cause that’s really the best possible outcome I can think of for a teaser like this, “spelled” fits into the blank spot after all. What do you think this could be? Feel free to leave your speculation in the comments. (Hint: it’s probably not Shenmue related.)
As a SEGA fan, I love a good SEGA ad. I don’t know why, but they just stick with you. Everyone remembers the catch phrases like ‘Welcome to the Next Level’ and ‘SEGA does what Nintendon’t’.
So here is the new commercial airing in the United States for Sonic Lost World. Like? Dislike? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Imagine now if SEGA never published Gunstar Heroes, the first game by then brand new studio Treasure Co? That was almost the case according to a brand new interview with Mac Senour over at SEGA-16.
“12 people looked at it and passed before it got to me. If I didn’t pick it up, he was going to be rejected. I played it for five minutes, maybe less, and threw the controller on the floor and said “this is game of the year.” Every one in earshot laughed.” – Mac Senour
According to Marc, the only thing he asked the developers to change was a boss character that was basically Hitler. Those Japanese people, they love putting Hitler in all their media.
“I was the last guy; if I said no then it would have been canceled. They spoke no English, so I had to go through my contact at SOJ, Henry Geison. Henry and I became friends when I was developer tech support.” – Mac Senour
I know the gaming industry was way different back then, but I seriously don’t know how more than twelve people could pass on a classic like Gunstar Heroes?
Join us in our next gaming community night for multiplayer mayhem featuring the SEGA Saturn’s hit title, Guardian Heroes on XBLA. The event will began this Sunday, October 27th at 6pm EST. If you want to join, send invites to KoriSX15 on Xbox Live. See you all online!
This year marks the 30th anniversary of SEGA Corporation as the company has started out as both arcade and consumer businesses. To celebrate their years of service, Famitsu mangazine managed to speak with Sega’s third CS Research and Development producer, Yosuke Okunari about his work.
Seems that some kickstarters (sometimes) run on pure nostalgia, case in point: Boogerman. Do you remember this 90’s not so classic video game? I mean, I get nostalgic when I see the box but I know the contents inside that box were garbage.
Boogerman wants to celebrate its 20th anniversary in style, so they are featuring a better 90’s hero in the game’s co-op mode: Earthworm Jim. Who doesn’t love the worm?
Boogerman 20th Anniversary kickstarter says that the game is a brand new HD adventure by the original creators. Worth funding? Let us know in the comments.