Seems that pal customers have the best deals from SEGA! Before we ran a Play.com pre-order bonus that gave you Bayonetta for free, now Tesco is offering a free copy of Alpha Protocol to purchasers of Vanquish.
If you have been waiting to try Alpha Protocol, this might be your chance! Especially a good deal if you where planning on picking up Vanquish anyway.
[Source: CVG]
The third trailer for Sonic Colours is here! This time showing off a brand new level set in an outer-space level.
The trailer also shows three wisps in action including the brand new Purple Frenzy wisp, Blue Cube wisp and the already announced Green Hover wisp and Pink Spikes wisp.
I’m not sure what to make of the purple one yet. Looks like the least interesting of the lot so far. The blue on the other hand seems to work like a Mario Power (P) item changing blocks into blue rings you can collect. I see a lot of potential for platforming and puzzles in the blue wisp.
Also worth noting is the pink wisps ability to Spin Dash, pretty cool but something Sonic should have by default in my opinion.
[First scan/concept art of the upcoming game]
Yuji Naka’s upcoming game has been teased in Famitsu and it won’t be published by SEGA. The game will be published by Kadokawa Games. Never heard of them? I don’t blame you, all they have done was a port of RPG Maker for DS and some other girl anime game. But it seems the company wants to become bigger, first step is with the Yuji Naka HD game (along with a game by Grasshopper).
“The game itself is an action title that takes place in the sky. The action gameplay is what I’m focusing on the most with this project — interactivity is the most important attraction with any sort of game, and if that doesn’t evolve, then games won’t be everything they can be. Sonic was all about completely taking over the land, and Nights brought that same concept into the skies. I had always thought that action games that take place in the sky are too hard for players to cope with, but then I thought up a new method for dealing with it. That’s how this project got started. If I had stuck around at Sega, then I might have used this concept to make a sequel to Nights!” – Yuji Naka (Prope)
It is most likely that SEGA passed on publishing Yuji Naka’s title. Most likely due to how poor a bigger known IP like NiGHTS did on Wii and how he compares the concept to that or it could be due to how poor Let’s Tap did. We will never know. We wish Naka luck with his new title and if its good, of course we will all be playing it, regardless of publisher.
[Source: 1up]
Users have been asking if Space Michael would be in the final game, even though we already had this confirmed last time, I think a ton of users skipped over that yes, Space Micheal will be in the final port from SEGA. He is in the newly released screenshots.
There were some questions regarding if SEGA would use Michael Jackson’s likeness in the game, mostly because the pop artist recently passed away and because SEGA has not been afraid to cut out content in their re-releases (See Crazy Taxi’s music and adverts). Next article: Bass fishes in SEGA Bass Fishing XBLA/PSN port?
You got to feel bad for Sonic, SEGA just relies on the blue blur to make so much money for the company and with the way the economy is, even he has to take jobs like this. Seriously, Sonic isn’t even needed to hold the sign, it has its own leg thing. Come on!
Apprently this was taken by a UK:R reader at a Lewisham located Gamestation.
You can now download the Sonic Fan Mix demo from the link below. The demo has 1 zone that spans 3 acts. No boss battle has been included.
Personally I haven’t played it yet, but I would love to hear what you guys think. Leave your feedback in the comment section. This is the same one I posted the screens about, which I called Sonic 2 HD. Sorry, the name is ‘Sonic Fan Remix’.
[Thanks: CrazyTails]
This game puts you in the shoes of Daimyo, a clan leader that is trying to re-unite Japan. This game also features ship battles and of course land battles (depicted in the screens).
Shogun 2: Total War is looking really nice, just makes me cringe knowing that I will probably have to upgrade my graphics card for this game. Game will be coming out next year, so maybe I do have plenty of time to upgrade.
With the release of Sonic Free Riders only a few weeks away, it’s about time that SEGA showed off a bit more of the game. The latest trailer, seen above, features some new tracks, voice acting and best of all a certain metallic hedgehog.
[source: SEGA Blog]
by Gagaman(n) of The Dreamcast Junkyard
They are Sega Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5 Part 2. JeuxVideo24 have screenshots of how they will look on the new consoles in 720p and widescreen.
Space Channel 5 Part 2 is an interesting choice. before you ask where part 1 is, I believe they’ve picked this one simply because it’s easier to port. Part 1 one used pre-rendered video backgrounds (as opposed to in-game graphics like in Part 2) so not only would they need to re-render those videos in HD, they would either have to stretch them or force the game to be 4:3 (like the Sonic Adventure port was). Maybe this is why they have skipped to Part 2. To be fair though Part 2 is a much rarer game, especially on Dreamcast on which it would cost you a small fortune, especially if you went after the special edition box set.
[sources: The Dreamcast Junkyard and jeuxvideo24]
The demo will be coming, but only the Japanese version. Luckily I pretend to know Japanese so everything will play out just fine. The demo being released for the game will continue the story of the TGS demo, which we never played. The demo will include two missions, one has you retake a mountain base. Those that are getting the Japanese version will unlock special bonuses from playing the demo.
Date for the demo has not been given.Valkyria Chronicles 3 will be hitting PSP spring of next year. Now where is that western release date?
[Source: AndriaSang]
There has been a ton of debate as to whether Sonic the Hedgehog 4 should be considered a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 3. We give the latest console version of the downloadable title a spin. Hit the jump for the full review.
“Out this Friday 22nd in Europe, Shinji Mikami’s latest offering from the Platinum Games studio. Without provocation the Earth plunges into a new and ferocious war. A war that will only be won by those with the technological edge – an edge like the A.R.S battlesuit.
Fight, survive and claim vengence for the lost.
War has accelerated. This is VANQUISH.”
-SEGA
This trailer looks awesome, the game looks awesome.
Go now… Buy Vanquish.
I’ll finish this post with a quote from the Euro gamer review;
“Vanquish is a trailblazer. It is a game of astounding creativity and polish, exhilarating on the ground in the moment-to-moment thrills of high-speed-to-slow-motion combat, as well as in its wider, twisting trajectory. Doubtless the best third-person shooter ever to come out of Japan, Vanquish builds on Western developers’ triumphs to push the genre in new, interesting directions, shifting the balance of power, and cementing Shinji Mikami’s position as one of the best directors working in videogames today.”
[Eurogamer review]
SEGAhas launched the website for Sonic Colors, it has a Wisp scavenger hunt. You will be able to find them once you click around the planets and such. After you click on one, you get a screenshot of the game.
It also has music from the game, so remember to turn down your speakers. The official site can be found here.
It is no secret that Vanquish used Playstation 3 as a lead platform, it also isn’t a secret to gamers that Sony uses bluray discs for their games. According to Atsushi Inaba, they almost cut content out of the game, so they could fit in on a DVD disc.
“But just speaking of media, since Xbox 360 still uses DVD, for games like Vanquish that have a lot of data in one disc and lots of voice over, it’s a bit hard to compress everything in one disc. That is the only complaint I have.
We thought we might have to do that [cut content] during the development but in the end we were able to fit everything in the DVD. So there’s nothing we had to cut.”
As for what version to get, Inaba states that both versions will be idititical and seeing the early demos they showed, I have to agree. It is hard to tell the difference between both versions. Read more of Eurogamer’s interview with Inaba right here.
He really thought about the question
Cliff Bleszinski, or as he is known to his fans, Cliffy B, is a design director for Epic Games. His name is all over video game media after Microsoft did the huge hype train for Gears of War.
When twitter fan @AGamestopMgr asked him:
“if you could attach your name to any game in history, which game do you wish you made?”
Cliff said “Bayonetta”, that is right, out of all the games in history, he picked Bayonetta. I guess this guy is an ass man.
[Source: Examiner]