Remember the Super Monkey Ball price fight? Well, this time around we’re looking for the best Virtua Tennis 4 prices*. Meet the contenders:
Up to serve: Roger Federer (Play.com)
He offers the game for :
£38.89 / €48.99 (PlayStation 3)
£39.99 / €49.99 (XBOX 360)
£39.99 / €49.99 (Wii)
Free shipping: Yes
2nd Serve for Rafael Nadal (BlahDVD)
He offers the game for :
£34.99 / €40.06 (PlayStation 3)
£38.85 / €44.48 (XBOX 360)
£30.99 / €35.48 (Wii)
Free shipping: Yes (UK only, mind)
‘Love game’ Andy Roddick (TheHut)
He offers the game for:
£37.85 / €43.93 (PlayStation 3)
£37.85 / €43.93 (XBOX 360)
£29.85 / €34.93 (Wii)
Free shipping: Yes
Game, set and match.. Andy Murray (Zavvi.com)
He offers the game for:
£37.85 / €43.95 (PlayStation 3)
£37.85 / €43.95 (XBOX 360)
£29.85 / €34.95 (Wii)
Free shipping: Yes
*prices correct at moment of posting
This is a rather excellent Conduit 2-themed papercraft model by High Voltage software. Download the PDF from their website, build it and send SEGA USA your creations!
*SEGA Europe released the first gameplay trailer of Binary Domain
as well as some news screenshots.
*Will SEGA’s latest arcade game ‘Operation G.H.O.S.T.’ be a sequel to Ghost Squad? We sure hope so! (thanks: SegaOnline)
*Sonic Scene posted some new Sonic Generations screenshots and artwork.
*Streets of Rage 3 has hit the iPhone. (Price: £1.79 / $2.99 / €2.39)
*SEGA USA lets us know SEGA Play! Baseball was updated.
*According to 1UP, SEGA is working on a new Shining Force game.
Creator Tsuyoshi Sawada quoted: ‘Currently, we’re preparing a title that sums up the whole series and should provide an answer to users’ curiosity. I can’t give details yet, but I’d like to reveal it before we go too far into the future’.
*Bayonetta’s back..in ‘Developer Commentary part 2′ by PlatinumGames’s Director Hideki Kamiya who ‘has been playing his creation, recording not only his game play, but a commentary track on the inspiration, creation, and intent behind one of the most revered action games of all time’
*TSSZ News reports: ‘HUB Worlds Coming to Sonic Generations?’ (we sure hope not). Also from TSSZ News comes this Sonic Generations Q&A.
*PALGN was the first site to review Virtua Tennis 4. ‘With some good gameplay additions and a new twist on the career mode, Virtua Tennis 4 still manages to play a great game of arcade tennis.’
*Couldn’t make out what was being said in the Phantasy Star Online 2 trailer we posted? Try this subtitled version.
*Siliconera reports: ‘Binary Domain, SEGA’s futuristic squad shooter, won’t be in stores until 2012′ [full news story]
*Conduit 2’s first 15 minutes courtesy of Eurogamer. Not too shabby..
*SEGA USA posted a 2nd multiplayer trailer for Total War: Shogun 2.
Not much improvement this week, sadly..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
NONE (D’oh!)
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#16](-1) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#20](-2) Aliens vs Predator
[#22](-) Vanquish
[#27](+1) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
The UK Chart update will be posted tomorrow (Chart Track won’t update their records during Easter), so we’ve got the Easter bunny to deliver some fiiiine SEGA music tracks:
- CLUB SEGA - Top Skater (Tall Paul Remix)
- Panzer Dragoon - Opening ~Invasion of the Empire Army (by D-RAM)
- SEGA Touring Car Championship - Rising High (Yuki Kubo)
The most exciting news since yonks! Go check out the first footage HERE.
‘PuyoPuyo! 20th Anniversary is scheduled to release in Japan on July 14th. The game will come in both regular (5,040 yen) and anniversary box (8,379 yen) editions’ (thanks: Siloconera).
Andriasang posted the lastest screenshots.
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’till next week!
Good thing that ghastly-coloured Mario & Sonic logo is now removed from the top of the page (it will back, though). Anyway, the latest bits of SEGA News:
*TSSZ News posted two more screenshots of Sonic Generations.
*SEGA Japan opened up their official Sonic Generations website.
*Now up for auction in SEGA’s Play for Japan campaign; a Dreamcast pack.
*Golden Axe 2 and Streets of Rage 2: now available from iPhone App Store.
*Official Nintendo magazine UK reviewed Conduit 2 and awarded it an 8/10.
‘TOKYO (April 21, 2011) – SEGA® Corporation and Nintendo Co., Ltd. today announced that the record breaking partnership of Mario™ and Sonic™ will once again join forces on the Wii™ home video game system and, for the first time ever, on the Nintendo 3DS™ .
Over 19 million people worldwide have bought video games from the Mario and Sonic series, and now the much loved duo are heading to London to participate in the officially licensed Olympic-themed video game, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games™’ [full press release] [officiale website]
*Sonic Generations:
-Gamespot posted the latest screenshots.
-A ‘rough’ Japanese release date. Famitsu magazine says ’Winter 2011′.
-TSSZ News reports that the game’s already available for pre-order.
-If you’re able to read French, Jeuxvideo did a decent preview.
-Also check the game’s official boards (forums).
*The playable Virtua Tennis 4 ‘World Tour’ demo is now available to all PSN users (instead of just the PlayStation Plus users).
*It seems some Japanese gamers figured the old ‘quick pull-out’ trick (by simply pulling out the IC card when a game is lost) was a good way to keep their online Border Break rankings up. SEGA Japan have now warned them that a penalty system will be in place soon. Cheaters never prosper..
*SEGA USA posted another one of those Anarchy Reigns ’character trailers’. Meet Nikolai Dmitri Bulygin the 32-year-old Cyborg.
*Would you believe SEGA is having yet another sale? Well, you better.
*‘VAR ADA Technology Services has completed a specialist project for gaming giant Sega Europe, upgrading its entire server infrastructure over a 48-hour period.’ [full news story]
*‘SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that Conduit 2, the latest collaboration with High Voltage Software, Inc., is available now on retail shelves for the Wii™ system from Nintendo.’ [full news story]
*Several sites already reviewed Conduit 2, a short overview:
-7.5/10 (Nintendo Power)
-6/10 (Game Informer)
-7.9/10 (GameTrailers)
-7.5/10 (IGN)
*Only ‘officially’ announced yesterday but today we can already offer TWO Sonic Generations gameplay trailers.
*‘During SEGA’s recent Marvel superhero showcase event in New York City, Liquid Entertainment’s Andrew Rubino confirmed to PSU that PlayStation 3 was the lead development platform for Thor: God of Thunder.’ [full news story]
*Remember the ‘SEGA sale’ story from last week? Well, SEGA expanded it
to ALL XBLA titles. Grab some bargains!
*Japan’s favorite PlayStation 3 game from 2010? A SEGA game!
*GameSwag updates us on the upcoming Sonic Adventure soundtrack CD.
‘SEGA America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd., today announced details of Sonic Generations, the highly anticipated video game title in development to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th Anniversary.
Delivering the definitive gaming experience for Sonic fans old and new, Sonic Generations sees Sonic the Hedgehog playable as both the much loved classic 1991 character, and the modern day video game hero he has become in this exciting new fast paced adventure.
Sonic Generations will speed into stores for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation3 computer entertainment system for Holiday 2011.’
‘Saint Seiya?’ you might say (as did we). Apparently, it’s an ancient Japanese Manga series. Now for the news:
‘Recently, there are rumors that a 3D Saint Seiya MMO is being made by Perfect World Beijing and SEGA. Claimed by anonymous source, the Saint Seiya MMO has been co-developed secretly for one year by Perfect World Beijing and SEGA.’ [full news story]
Just a single game in the Full price Top 40..it’s marketing-time, SEGA!
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#26](+1) Football Manager 2011
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#15](-3) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#18](+1) Aliens vs Predator
[#22](+6) Vanquish
[#28](RE) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
Total War: Shogun 2 will soon receive a DirectX 11 patch. It is scheduled for the first week in May. ‘The update had initially been promised within two to four weeks of the game’s 15th March launch, but as explained in a forum post on the game’s official site, that was a little over-ambitious’. [full news story]
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’till next week!
*iPhone owners will now able to download their of version of Streets of Rage 2. It’s available from the App Store and will cost €2.39/£1.79.
*Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity remains in the Japanese all-format chart top 10 by selling another 8.822 copies (grand total as of now: 321.241).
*The Virtua Tennis 4 World Tour demo is now live and available exclusively on PSN to PlayStation Plus users for a week, then available to all PlayStation users a week later. Remember the full game is released on the 29th April. (thanks: SEGA Europe)
*SEGA USA celebrates the launch of MLB Manager, and to help usher in the Springtime and the many new features being added to the game, they are offering special bonuses and awards.
*SB*Nation is doing a feature in which they simulate all eight of the first-round NBA Playoffs series by ’using the worst 1990s basketball video games we can find’. Their first round (SEGA) picks:
-Blazers vs Mavericks as predicted by NBA Hangtime ‘95 (SEGA-CD).
-Magic vs Hawks as predicted by Jammit (Genesis)
-Celtics vs Knicks as predicted by Pat Riley Basketball (Genesis)
Joystiq reports:
‘Users on the Sonic Stadium forums have captured what appears to be leaked (and temporary) box art for two upcoming SEGA games, one of which features a logo for the new, recently teased Sonic game.
[..]A second leaked cover also indicates that SEGA is working on
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games for Wii. No surprise there, as the first Mario and Sonic sold over five million copies and its winter-based sequel did another six and a half million. We’ve contacted Sega for comment.’
*The first piece of DLC for Yakuza 4 is now available on PSN. And it’s FREE!
‘It gives you the opportunity to increase your character’s strength and stamina upgrade level even further than possible in the main game and build your relationship with Haruka to an even higher level! As a bonus, also included are 2 new and unique karaoke songs!’
*XBOX360 owners will soon be able to take advantage of a special XBOX Live ‘SEGA Sale’. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 -episode I, OutRun Online Arcade (didn’t they stop selling this!? - S.F) and Crazy Taxi will be available at 50% of their original price.
*Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing was added to the XBOX Live ‘Games on Demand’ service. (Price: $29.99 / £14.99 / €19,99)
*Starting now, SEGA USA will donate all proceeds from special Sega Play! Baseball items to disaster relief (Japan).
*SEGA made a statement concerning their issues with Streets of Rage remake (following last week’s download removal order).
*Eurogamer did a quick review of the Windows 7 phone version of Super Monkey Ball. ‘The fact that Sega has merely ported the show wholesale to WP7 without taking the opportunity to fix what was so obviously broken is disappointing, if a little predictable.’ Hmm..
*SEGA will bring SEGA Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5 part 2 to XBLA and PSN this summer. We presume a price point of 800 MS points / $10.
*SEGA USA posted a trailer of the XBOX360 (Kinect enhanced) version of Virtua Tennis 4.’Tennis has never been better’, apparently.
*SEGA USA also updated us on the new Sonic game (Sonic Generations?).
*The soundtrack of Total War: Shogun 2 was added to iTunes. Price: $9.99
*Jeuxvideo came up with a tasty rumour; SEGA’s Kinect-enhanced horror adventure Rise of Nightmares might arrive as early as June.
*For those of you still hoping for an HD (XBOX360 / PlayStation 3) version of Sonic Colours; sorry, but it’s not going to happen.
*Several new features were added to SEGA’s facebook game Sega Play! Baseball. Go check it out, if you haven’t done so already.
*Just in case you missed them; a trailer of the Wii version of Thor: God of Thunder, a ‘behind the scenes’ with Thor’s developer and a new trailer of the Wii version of Captain America: Super Soldier.