No, this ain’t Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic games:
‘LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (May 31st, 2011) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. & SEGA® America, Inc., today announced London 2012™ – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games.
The officially licensed video game of the London 2012 Olympic Games will once again be published exclusively by SEGA in partnership with International Sports Multimedia (ISM), the exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
London 2012™ – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC, hitting stores in 2012.’
*’Retro gamers who use Android devices to play classics from old-school systems like Atari, Nintendo 64 and SEGA took a hit this week when emulator apps were removed from the Android Market.’ [full news story]
*’An Aliens pulse rifle has been sent to Official PlayStation Magazine Australia, presumably to build up hype ahead of E3 next week’ [full news story]
*The German branch of Amazon posted a boxshot of the European
(PlayStation 3) version of Captain America: Super soldier.
*The latest (and last) review scores of SEGA Rally Online Arcade:
-7/10 (Jeuxvideo)
-3.5/5 (GamePro)
-3.5/5 (PC Advisor)
-6/10 (GameZone)
-8/10 (SegaOnline)
A slight improvement for Virtua Tennis 4 and the return of Aliens vs Predator.
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#29](-) Football Manager 2011
[#34](+3) Virtua Tennis 4
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#15](-3) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#23](+2) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#27](+6) Sonic Classic Collection
[#30](-2) Vanquish
[#36](RE) Aliens vs Predator
TSSZ News reports: ‘Many of us have seen the Green Hill playthroughs from Sonic Generations dozens of times now. Yet, the latest demo preview, this time from German website GameOne, still surprises.
There’s nothing in either classic or modern levels that’s different from before. But take a look at the 7:52 mark, where time converts to score, and ultimately a grade. We see a pop-up box that then converts the score to points. Those points are seen next to a credit card like icon.[..]‘
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’till next week!
‘LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO (27 May, 2011) – SEGA® Europe Ltd.
and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announce that mutant massacring B-Movie Blood Fest, The House of the Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut is presented for the first time in spectacular High Definition with 3D support and Playstation® Move compatibility on the Playstation®3 computer entertainment system.
This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou County. With all seven stages of the original re-mastered and two brand new scenarios added, the baddest just got bigger!’
*SEGA Japan will be hosting a special exhibition to celebrate Sonic’s 20th anniversary. Various classic Sonic games and goods will be on display, merchandise will be sold and goodies given away. People can also apply for
an exclusive ’behind the scenes look’ at Sonic Generations, for which the entry will be limited to only 100 lucky individuals.
*SEGA will be publishing a new Aliens game called ‘Aliens Infestation’.
The game will be developed by Way Forward Technologies.
*SEGA Europe introduces the first downloadable content for Total War: Shogun 2, it’s the Ikko Ikki Clan Pack.
*Gamefront posted the latest Radiant Silvergun (XBLA) screenshots.
*SEGA USA posted the latest Spiral Knights achievements and deals.
*TSSZ News posted some details of Yuji Naka’s (Prope) Real Skijump HD.
*The latest SEGA Rally Online Arcade review scores:
-8/10 (Game Over Online)
-7/10 (Gamers Daily News)
-8/10 (ZTGameDomain)
-7.4/10 (Mygamer)
-7.5/10 (TeamXbox)
‘LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO – (May 26th, 2011) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced Shinobi™ exclusively for Nintendo 3DS™.
Developed by Griptonite Games, Shinobi is the long anticipated return of the fan favourite series and includes the classic side-scrolling action gameplay players have loved since the original.
Coming to stores in September 2011, Shinobi introduces several exciting new features such as StreetPass™ and a large assortment of achievements and challenges to unlock.’
*Sonic Free Riders is now available from the XBOX Live ‘Games on Demand’ service. It should cost you $49.99 / £29.99 / €49.99(?! - S.F)
*Is SEGA planning a return of the Shinobi franchise? One might think so.
*SEGA Europe posted another Anarchy Reigns character introducton: Leo.
*SEGA Japan posted a short new trailer of Shining Force: Cross Raid.
*The latest Radiant Silvergun (XBLA) details courtesy of Famitsu magazine:
- Price: 1200 MS Points
- ‘Saturn’ and ‘Arcade’ modes
- HD Graphics
- 2 Player COOP
- Online gameplay
- Release: TBA 2011
*’Conduit 2 developer High Voltage Software has apologised for asking its staff to review a book written by an author who awarded the Wii-exclusive shooter one star out of five.’ [full news story]
*If you were lucky enough to playtest Initial D Arcade Stage 6AA you might be interested in the latest soundtrack album entitled ‘oveRtaKerS SPIRIT - M.O.V.E’, complete with an equally bizarre cover design.
*Gametrailers posted two Sonic Generations ‘E3′ videos.
[Modern Style Walkthrough][Classic Style Walkthrough]
*SEGA Japan opened up a special Nicovideo (the Japanese Youtube equivalent) channel for the latest PuyoPuyo 20th anniversary videos.
*The soundtrack of Napoleon: Total War has won an Ivor Novello award.
*PlatinumGames posted the 8th part of their ‘Developer Commentary’.
*The latest SEGA Rally Online Arcade review scores:
-7/10 (GameSpot)
-7.7/10 (XXLGaming)
-5.5/10 (ImpulserGamer)
-B- (GameTrailers)
-B- (Gaming Age)
Another drop(shot) for Virtua Tennis 4. Hmm..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#29](-7) Football Manager 2011
[#37](-13) Virtua Tennis 4
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#12](+4) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#25](+5) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#28](+8) Vanquish
[#33](-) Sonic Classic Collection
TSSZ News reports: ‘We’ve known for some time that, while the core gameplay in Sonic Generations will be handled by just classic and modern Sonic, we would see a few in-game appearances from other characters in the Sonic universe. Today, we received our first guidance of who may have made the cut.’
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’till next week!
Our friends at SegaOnline posted a whopping (count ‘em) 21 new screenshots of PlatinumGames’s upcoming action adventure Anarchy Reigns.
[go check them out HERE]
SEGA USA is giving away some exclusive Yakuza 4 goodies. All you have to do is sign up for their new SEGA Pass Newsletter. [full details here]
*SEGA Japan has changed the Japanese release date for Max Anarchy (Anarchy Reigns) from ‘Autumn 2011′ to ‘January 2012′. (thanks: Gamefront)
*Eurogamer reviewed SEGA Rally Online Arcade. They also posted a ‘first
15 minutes’ video.
*US customers will be able to buy two MLB Manager Online updates at
50% of their original price.
‘Out now on Xbox Live Arcade — SEGA’s own championship-bred, hi-def off-road racing game, SEGA Rally Online Arcade!’
[More information and trailer]
A roundup of the latest SEGA-themed video’s from the net:
*Creative Assembly only just finished Total War: Shogun 2, but apparently they’re already working on another Total War game.
*SPOnG posted an interview with the people behind the various versions of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
*Gametrailers posted an exclusive new gameplay trailer of Renegade Ops.
*Sonic Generations will be one of SEGA’s upcoming Nintendo 3DS games.
*SEGA posted a list of the amount of games due for each platform between now and Q2 2012:
- Playstation 3 - 23 games
- Nintendo 3DS - 20 games
- XBOX 360 - 18 games
- Wii - 11 games
- Nintendo DS - 7 games
- PSP - 6 games
Computer and VideoGames posted a preview with the first screenshots of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (thanks: SegaOnline).
A consideral drop for Virtua Tennis 4. We hope its sales will pick up again coming week..
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#23](-2) Football Manager 2011
[#24](-12) Virtua Tennis 4
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#16](-2) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#30](+1) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#33](-8) Sonic Classic Collection
[#34](-12) Aliens vs Predator
[#36](-2) Vanquish
A roundup of the latest SEGA-themed video’s from the net:
Right then, ’till next week!