This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#24](+14) Sonic Colours
[#39](-9) Football Manager 2011
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#8](-2) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#18](+7) Aliens vs Predator
*Japanese Wii owners will soon be able to play the original (1992) arcade version Puyo Puyo as it will hit their Virtual Consoles soon (800 points). (thanks: Gamefront)
*Eurogamer posted a small news blurb on Sonic the Hedgehog 4 -episode II.
*Don’t live in Australia but still want to get your hands on that cool Dreamcast vinyl? Check out this auction. The results are going to charity, so you’ll be bidding for a good cause!
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*Eurogamer posted some footage of the recently released Yakuza 4 demo.
*ToeJam & Earl creator Greg Johnson is about to release a Facebook App. More importantly he doesn’t rule out the possibility of a new ToeJam game. Jammin!
*The first two review scores of Dreamcast Collection came in: ZTGameDomain rated it 7/10 while GameFocus was slightly less enthousiastic: 6/10.
*SEGA USA’s been rather busy the last couple of days, as they posted:
-Some new Super Monkey Ball 3D screenshots.
-Some (frankly ghastly) boxart of Thor: God of Thunder.
-Some new Total War: Shogun II screenshots and developer diaries.
-And finally, a multiplayer trailer of Conduit 2.
Virtua Tennis 4 (PlayStation3, Xbox 360 & Wii) will hit stores across Europe on April 29th. [Full press release][PlayStation 3 packshot]
*The Total War: Shogun II playable demo can be downloaded from Steam now. It weights nearly 6GB, so be patient..
*Another playable demo; a demo of Yakuza 4 can now be downloaded from the European and American versions of the PlayStation Store.
*Our friends @ SegaOnline posted the launch trailer of Dreamcast Collection (XBOX 360). It’s pretty good, a shame the same can’t be said of the actual collection itself..
*Famitsu magazine reviewed SEGA’s first Nintendo 3DS game: Super Monkey Ball 3D received respectable scores of 9/8/8 and 7.
*Gamefront posted three new scans of Max Anarchy (the Japanese version
of Anarchy Reigns, remember?) [scan 1][scan 2][scan 3]
*Eurogamer reports: ‘Project Gotham Racing and Blur lead designer Gareth Wilson has found a new home at Sumo Digital - maker of OutRun Online Arcade and SEGA All-Stars Racing.’ [Full news story]
*The first list of confirmed names for Gamescom 2011 have been posted.
It remains seriously doubtful SEGA will be there..more news soon, probably.
*Dengeki PS reviewed Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity. It gained ratings of: 85/90/90/85 (thanks: Gamefront).
*As expected, Super Monkey Ball 3D will be available at the US Nintendo 3DS launch.
*SEGA Japan posted another Shining Force: Cross Raid video.
Hope they don’t make it private all of a sudden (like they did last time).
*TSSZ News posted a ‘hands-on’ of the AOU arcade show 2011. Good stuff.
*SEGA is ‘happy’ with the sales of Football Manager 2011 despite describing them as “slow”. [Full story]
*Classic Game Room did a video review of NG:Dev.Team’s Dreamcast shooter Fast Striker. Sadly no GunLord news as of yet..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#30](-9) Football Manager 2011
[#38](RE) Sonic Colours
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#6](+2) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#25](+9) Aliens vs Predator
[#37](-8) Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing
The Nintendo DS version of Sonic Colors was nominated for ‘Best Handheld game’ in this year’s edition of the BAFTA Video Games Awards. Go Sonic!
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It’s a sad day, but (on the bright side) SEGA USA posted several new screenshots and a new (multiplayer) trailer of Total War: Shogun 2.
*’SEGA America Inc. today announced SEGA Genesis Classic Collection Gold Edition, games for the PC. This special edition consists of 46 classic Genesis titles and will hit North American stores on March 15.’
[Full news story]
*Famitsu magazine reviewed Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity and awarded it ratings of 10/9/9/9. It ranked as the highest rated game in the issue, easily beating games like Killzone 3 (8/9/8/9) and Bulletstorm (9/8/9/8).
*SEGA Genesis Collection is coming exclusively to PlayStation Plus subscribers (for FREE!) [Full news story]
*Amazon.de added a packshot of Super Monkey Ball 3D (Nintendo 3DS) to their database. Is it final? Time will tell..
Eurogamer posted a new trailer of Ryu ga Gotoku: Of the End (Yakuza 5). According to them it contains ‘Brains, babes and bonkers dancing.’ Ahem. Anyway, why not check it out yourself over HERE.
*SEGA announced the release of a playable Total War: Shogun 2 demo. You’ll be able to test your skills on the game’s new campaign map from 22nd February, via Steam. [Full news story]
*’SEGA have announced two games coming to Xbox LIVE® Games On Demand for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Alien vs. Predator™ launches today, and critically acclaimed BAYONETTA™ will be released on February 22′. [Full press release]
*SEGA Europe adopted SEGA USA’s Valentine’s Day Sale (even while
the day itself has passed). Grab a bargain and get downloading!
*’By now you probably have seen that for the Dreamcast Collection there’s going to be a limited edition pre-order vinyl for Australia available at JB Hi-Fi‘. SEGA Europe takes a closer look.
*Remember playing games like Metropolis Street Racer and Fur Fighters on your Dreamcast, or -more recently- a Project Gotham game, The Club, Geometry Wars or Blur? Well, the sad news reached us today that their developer -Bizarre Creations- is no more. They’ll be missed.
*Apart from being a rather awesome website, System 16 was quite a memorable piece of hardware for SEGA’s arcade division. It spawned games like Altered Beast, Shinobi and Fantasy Zone.
SEGA Japan now announced a special soundtrack CD (entitled ‘Sega System 16 Complete Soundtrack Vol. 2′). The album will span three CD’s with nearly 200 (!) tracks and will be available from February 28th.
*SEGA Oddity of the Day; a rather strange way of using a SEGA Nomad console. Fascinating what people can come up with..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#21](-6) Football Manager 2011
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#8](+1) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#29](+1) Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#34](+5) Aliens vs Predator
TOKYO (February 11, 2011) –
SEGA® Corporation is proud to announce that Yu Suzuki will be the recipient of the Pioneer Award, a Special Award presented as part of the 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards and one of the highest honors in video game development.
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TSSZ News posted an interesting article regarding the Metacritic scores of SEGA games in 2010. A quick quote:
‘SEGA came in 9th out of a list of top 13, with an average rank of 67.4 across games released last year. That doesn’t sound impressive, but consider the top developer Take-Two Interactive only averaged less than 10 points higher
at 77.1.’
Read the full story HERE.
..as they decided to launch a special Valentine’s Day iTunes App Store game sale.
- At just 99 cents:
Altered Beast
ChuChu Rocket
ChuChu Rocket HD (iPad)
Columns
Ecco the Dolphin
Golden Axe
Gunstar Heroes
Phantasy Star II
Shining Force
Shinobi III
Super Monkey Ball 1
Super Monkey Ball 2
Super Monkey Ball 2 Sakura Edition (iPad)
Sonic Spinball
Streets of Rage
Virtua Fighter 2 - At $2.99:
Sonic the Hedgehog 1
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 4 Episode 1
Yakuza 4 is not that far away, so SEGA Europe thought they would give you the lowdown of the various limited editions (some limited to specific countries) that will become available. People from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Australia might want to take note*. US costumers: see yesterday’s update.
*Apparently the Dutch market is still not taken seriously *sigh*
*Jeuxvideo posted new screenshots of Virtua Tennis 4 (XBOX 360 / PlayStation 3 / PC).
*Valkyria Chronicles 3 made quite an impact on the Japanese all-format chart; with 102.779 copies sold it claimed the #2 position.
*Nintendo has revealed the UK launch line-up of games for Nintendo 3DS. Super Monkey Ball 3D will be available from launch.
*SEGA USA tells us that Yakuza 4 will hit the US ‘with free DLC packed in’.
*SEGA Europe added another gameplay trailer of Anarchy Reigns to their Youtube channel.
*Developer of Aliens vs Predator (Rebellion) is working on a new Asura Engine for PSP2.
*AppleApp site AppleTell featured the iPhone version of Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master.
*Got $1800 to burn? Take a look at this Bayonetta statue (complete with complementary glasses) that was featured at a Japanese festival called Wonder Weekend. For $1800, yes, we do wonder..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#15](+3) Football Manager 2011
[#33](+1) Sonic Colours
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#9](-) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#30](-3) Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#39](-13) Aliens vs Predator
It’s one of these ‘Silent Saturdays’, so we thought we would give you an idea
of the most anticipated SEGA games:
*Total War: Shogun 2 does well; the Limited Edition of the game is firmly positioned in 1st place in the Play.com pre-order chart, as well a second place spot in Zavvi.com’s pre-order chart.
*Dreamcast Collection disappoints, while its release is just weeks away, it only managed a #47 position in the Play.com XBOX 360 pre-order chart..
*Conduit 2 just managed to make the Wii pre-order top 10 on Play.com, yet is kept out of Zavvi.com’s top 10 by.. Thor: The Video Game, which ranked 8th (!).
*Finally, Super Monkey Ball 3DS ranked as the fifth most popular Nintendo 3DS pre-order (software-wise), it should do well.
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