What are you doing on Thursday the 20th May? You don’t know yet? Well I do! You’ll be sitting at your computer frantically slamming the refresh button waiting for a sniff of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 related news, just like the rest of us.
Why? Well apparently Sonic Stadium and Sonic Retro will have a joined exclusive community press release with some ‘big’ and ‘good’ news regarding this controversial Sonic game!
Made by IGN’s Retro devision. 3D Dot Game Heroes is a throw back to retro titles with a weird, cube like graphical effects (3D pixels, if you will). The game has recently been released in the west by Atlus, on the Playstation 3.
Good to see that retro, especially 8-bit focused, get some SEGA love. Usually Nintendo hogs up all the spot light.
If you own the game, you can import IGN’s Master System characters (Opa-Opa and Mick), download here.
[Thanks: Monkeroony]
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]
VersusCity.net has come across what looks like a flyer for the upcoming Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown. Apparantly many sources say this is the real deal, and it leaks a bit of interesting information about the upcoming arcade game and the new features it brings to Virtua Fighter.
Hit the jump to see the translation of the flyer from versuscity.net!
If you buy them on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 of course. This is backed up by both product pages on PSN and XBLA.
No idea of this is native resolution or upscaled. I have decided to drop SEGA an e-mail and wait like a rabid dog all weekend for a response. I hope the answer is yes.
[Source: Sonic Stadium]
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SEGA has trademarked KINGDOM CONQUEST via the European trademark database. What will the game be? The forums have been buzzing from anywhere to a new Total War game to a Sonic game.
Your guess is as good as ours. Could even be one of the 15 Xbox 360 games that SEGA has planned for the year. Hit the jump to see all the details about the trademark.
[Thanks: F-D_M]
SEGA shared plans for this fiscal year already and one of those was software release plans. SEGA plans to release 15 Xbox 360 games, while PS3 and Wii will only get 11 titles released.
SEGA also expects 360 to be their biggest platform in software sales, with 2.66 million units. For PS3, SEGA expects 2.52 million units and Wii SEGA expects 1.55 million units.
Here we go, I usually dread these things because I have to post how much money SEGA loses, but this time around I get to talk about how much money they earned. So put your spandex pants on and get ready.
SEGA-Sammy’s fiscal year ends on March 31st, 2010. The company, as a whole, saw a 10.4% drop in sales to ¥384,679, but saw a 399% increase in operating income to ¥36,712 million.
Hit the jump for a break down…
Someone, somewhere has discovered something awesome, Sega have recently registered a new websites.
Currently the site isn’t ‘working’ there is nothing on it, but the URL already gives away some interesting clues as to what’s going down.
Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram sold well on XBLA and it was recently revealed that the game is indeed profitable. So it only makes sense to bring more Virtual-On too the service.
Roll on Virtual-On 4 Force! This is actually the 3rd game in the series not the 4th as you may think from the title. The 4 in the title actually stands for something far, far cooler! Because in VO 4 Force you can play 4 player! As far as I can remember this is a 2vs2 affair.
At the moment we are going to file this under rumour, but even at this point it seems fairly likely.
Their countdown site is titled “next-360action”, assuming the game will be an action game exclusive to the Xbox 360. Maybe its Yakuza series coming to the platform?
Who knows, I guess we can all sit down and throw some guesses out there. Check the site, right here. SEGA is suppose to be dropping hints via their twitter. Assuming its their Japanese account.
[Thanks: STORM!]
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Adam Hughes does comic book females in a sort of pinup model fashion. You can see that in this piece he did for Bayonetta.
He says that he was comissioned by SEGA, though he does not know what they will be using it for. They probably won’t use it, Kamiya probably doesn’t think he has enough love for the character. You can leave a message for him at his DeviantArt page.
[Via: Kotaku]
SEGA has recently closed the Virtua On Blog, with an update by Yasushi Yamashita, who said that the game has reached SEGA’s targeted sales goal. He did not say how much it sold, just that it has sold far more than the ‘rumored’ sales figures that are floating around (but did not say how much those where either!).
VOOT was already known as a success the moment it came out. Microsoft has announced it was the top selling XBLA game of 2010 and is the second best selling XBLA of all time.
There will be one more post made, after Yamashita’s and then the blog will close for good. Yamashita and the VOOT porting team have moved on to a new project, after the release of the game in April of last year. They then went and worked on the excellent After Burner Climax.
[Source: AndriaSang]
I guess Hideki Kamiya, director of Bayonetta, has never heard about rule 34 because he is shocked that someone would make pornography based on Bayonetta.
It seems there’s pornorgraphic doujinshi based off Bayonetta… There are fans who will resent that, and I hardly think those responsible [for the doujinshi] hold any love for the game…
Kind sir, it has been out ever since you showed off the game in 2008. That is what happens when you put a sexy female in your game.
[Source: Gamegrep]
