Above is the official box art for Valkyria Chronicles 3 in Japan. The game is set to release on January 27, 2011. No Western release dates have been announced.
Here is the official site, which has interviews and other goodies. It is easier to navigate if it was in English, but it would have been even better if SEGA West gave us a release date on this.
[Source: AndriaSang]
The official site for Shenmue City has opened up, more info is trickling down. Shenmue City was thought to be a sequel to Shenmue 2, it has been revealed that is not the case. The game will take place in a parallel universe and you will start off where Shenmue 1 started.
Seems that characters exclusive to Shenmue Online (cancelled game) will be used in this title, as well as CGI from the past titles. As far as pricing, the game will be free to play, but you will have to pay for some items.
As for who is making the game, it is not SEGA, they are not developing or publishing the game. The game is being developed by YS NET, an independent studio started in November 2008. The director of this project is Yu Suzuki. Sunsoft is helping with the project.
[Thanks: STORM!]
SEGA-Sammy Holdings remained profitable during the second quarter of 2010. But how much did the company earn? A cool $302 million dollars, compared to the net loss of 78 million dollars the year prior.
We do a break down.
[HAPPY HALLOWEEN!]
It’s that time of the year again folks! The night that all kinds of hideous ghouls, creeps and basement dwellers come out to play… And that’s just the Sega fans.
With Halloween come pumpkins and what kind of self respecting Sega fan would we be if we didn’t do a Sega related pumpkin!? This year we decided to base our pumpkin on Puyo Pop. We got some Puyos on there and classic character Carbuncle.
(Note; we even got him a small ruby for his forehead! Now that’s commitment… Even if it’s plastic.)
Hit the jump for more pictures plus a reminder of last years Pumpkin!
Vanquish is directed by Shinji Mikama and produced Atsushi Inaba, so it has a lot of hype behind it. Did Mikama deliver another masterpiece? Hit the jump and find out.
Why didn’t anyone tell me you could download DS demos? Too bad I don’t live in Europe. A demo for Sonic Colours has been posted in the Wii’s Nintendo Channel.
The demo lets you play through Tropical Resort Act 1 and try out the white Wisps.
[Source: Sonic Stadium]
Nico Nico Douga (translates to “Smiley Smiley Videos”) is a Japanese online video sharing site that is quite popular. It is basically the YouTube of Japan. Well, the site will have tie-in promo with the upcoming Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity.
You will be able to get TV-Chan and Niwango object for your room. Both are pictured above. SEGA still has more items to show in the near future, so lets hope for more SEGA tie-ins and less advert stuff.
Game hits Japanese shores on February 24, 2011. No western announcement has been made.
Crazy Taxi will be able to boost your achievement/Trophy score when it releases next month, but don’t expect a big boost. Like most downloadable games, it will have 12 achievements and only be worth 200 points.
But you already figured this much out, lets check out them achievements. Also note: that the trophies will be the same as the achievements.
[Source: Xbox360Achievements]
The Compile Hearts developed and SEGA published (in Japan) Neptune RPG (full name “Super Dimensional Game Neptune”) will be brought to North America and Europe by NIS America. They will be changing the name of the game, for copyright reasons. The Western release will be known as “Hyperdimension Neptunia”.
If you didn’t already know, SEGA will have some retro IPs guest star in this RPG. If you didn’t see the list, we did an old post about here. The game will be hitting exclusively to Playstation 3 in Spring of 2011.
[Thanks: TimmiT]
Courtesy of Sonic Wrecks, Sonic Stadium and Sonic Retro comes the first publicly shown video of a Sonic Colors cutscene complete with dialogue! Personally, I think it’s an all around improvement over the past couple of games. Definitely beats out Heroes and ’06, and is a bit better than Unleashed despite the lack of HD visuals. Tails sounds like a boy once again, and Sonic is… different. But not worse! I’ll have to see more of the game before making a concrete decision. Bonus points for Sonic performing the Moonwalk.
[Source: Sonic Wrecks YouTube account]
SEGA does a ton of genres in video games, so it is no surprise they have quite the catalog of horror games for you to feast on this upcoming Halloween. So turn off the lights, its time to spot light some must play games for this Halloween.
Check out the latest trailer for Sonic Free Riders, this one showing off some of the weapons you will be able to use in the upcoming game.
Sonic Free Riders is set to be a launch title for Microsoft’s Kinect add-on. It will be released on November 4th in North America and November 10th in Europe. No idea if there will be a Kinect bundled with the game.
Check out the new Vanquish interactive trailer above. Enter your zip code (European residents) and you get your interactive trailer.
Vanquish is out worldwide, if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, you are really missing out. We will have a full review posted up tomorrow, so be on the look out for that. We also have a couple more Vanquish related articles planned that should interest you.
We have scans from the Official Nintendo Magazine, this one has the DS and Wii review of Sonic Colors and an interview with the odd Takashi Iizuka.
Sonic Colors comes out Novemeber 11th in Australia, 12th in Europe and 16th in North America.
[Thanks: Speed The Hedgehog]
