TSSZ News posted nineteen new screenshots of the Chemical Plant Zone.
All of the shots are either brand new and show off new areas of the plant.
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Join us again in August! (alright, ’till next week!)
Escapist magazine reports: ‘The now infamous ad campaign for the SEGA Megadrive (or Genesis, for you scruffy colonists) once proudly proclaimed that “SEGA does what Nintendon’t.”
What SEGA does that Nintendo does not, for the past few years at least, is lose vast stacks of money. While Nintendo has been having a fairly miserable time of it these past few months its age-old, and sadly mostly vanquished, rival SEGA has been faring even worse.
Despite releasing several high-profile titles, including the latest installment in the critically acclaimed Shogun series, SEGA has managed to lose a whopping $50 million dollars in the past three months [..]’
*The Nintendo DS version of Puyo Puyo!! (20th Anniversary) sold 14,877 copies last week, ranking 11th in the Japanese all-format chart (thanks: Andriasang).
*American PlayStation 3 owners will now be able to download Golden Axe (Arcade version) from the PlayStation Store. It will cost them $4.99.
*SEGA have a 48-hour sale on the App Store for titles on iPhone®, iPod® touch and iPad.
*Gamefront posted two Sonic Generations videos from the Comic Con.
SEGA USA added 4 new screenshots and the Wii packshot (in yellow?!) of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games to their Flickr account.
The (European) Wii version arrives in stores on 18th November, while the 3DS version is due February 2012.
*Dengeki PS reviewed J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 7 Euro Plus (quite a mouthful) and awarded it ratings of 85/80/85/70 (thanks: Gamefront).
*MCV reports: ‘UK games charity GamesAid has joined forces with publisher SEGA to host the second annual Cricket Challenge Cup.’ [full news story]
*A copy of the incredibly rare Denpa Shounen Teki Game 2 (Sega Saturn) recently sold for rougly 60,000 Yen (~$600). Quite an amount for a retail game!
*SEGA Japan posted a new trailer of Phantasy Star Online 2. Could be good..
*TSSZ News posted 13 new screens of the 3DS version of Sonic Generations.
*It’s not due out untill next year, but THIS could be the boxart for CRUSH 3D.
*The latest (and last) Captain America: Super Soldier ratings:
-6.5/10 (GameSpot, XBOX 360/PlayStation 3 versions)
-7/10 (VideoGamer, XBOX 360/PlayStation 3 versions)
-7/10 (Worth Playing, XBOX 360/PlayStation 3 versions)
-6/10 (Official Nintendo Magazine UK, Wii version)
-5.5/10 (IGN, Wii version)
-6/10 (Console Obsession)
‘LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (25 July, 2011) SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. are excited to announce that you can now pre order RENEGADE OPS™ from digital partners for £9.99/€12.99.
To celebrate the highly anticipated game created by Avalanche Studios, an explosive pre-order offer is now available. Players can experience the action packed four player multiplayer with friends just by purchasing two copies of RENEGADE OPS from digital partners and gaining two copies to gift for free.’
[full press release][Gameplay modes trailer]
Sadly, Captain America failed to make the UK top 40.
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#31](+5) Football Manager 2011
[#37](-17) Virtua Tennis 4
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#18](+1) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#27](-4) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#37](+1) Sonic Classic Collection
GamePro interviewed actors Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan and actress Hayley Atwell. Evans played Captain America in both the movie and the game, while Stan played his sidekick ‘Bucky Barnes’.
More interestingly, Atwell ‘grew up in London playing SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog games on the Mega Drive and Ecco the Dolphin on Game Gear’.
Sorry Chris and Sebastian, but it seems like Hayley wins the day..
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Right, ’till next week!
*The official SEGA Amusements (the Arcade/coin-operated branch of SEGA) website makes a comeback. It now -thankfully- sports a fresh new site design (shame about that jagged Sonic image though). SEGA Golden Gun, anyone?
*Gamespot reports: ‘From the GameSpot stage show at Comic-Con 2011
we show off Aliens: Infestation on the Nintendo DS.’
*Seems we missed an intestering story last week (can you believe it? us?!) ‘Second coming for SEGA Racing Studio’.
*SEGA Japan posted a story trailer of Max Anarchy (Anarchy Reigns).
*Gamefront posted sixteen new screenshots of Binary Domain.
SEGA USA posted various new Comic Con trailers:
*House of the Dead: OVERKILL -Extended Cut
*Sonic Anniversary - Through the Ages
*Captain America: Super Soldier (Next Gen versions)
*Captain America: Super Soldier (Wii version)
*Captain America: Super Soldier (Nintendo DS version)
Shacknews reports:
‘Though it was leaked a few days ago, SEGA has now officially confirmed Aliens: Infestation. The announcement confirms that the game is being developed by WayForward in collaboration with Gearbox Software, and it’s set to release on the Nintendo DS this September.’
[full news story and first screenshots]
SEGA USA added new Sonic Generations media to their Flickr account.
Included are screenshots of the Chemical Plant Zone and Metal Sonic boss battle as well as the boxart of the Nintendo 3DS version. Nice one, chaps!
SMS Power! reports:
‘Now to make up with this we have a none other than an unreleased game demo to offer you! Dr. Franken [Demo] for the Game Gear.
Originally developed by Motivetime Ltd., released on the Game B*y among other systems, here we’ve got an early demo build of what could have been a full fledged gloriously colored version of the game!
The lovely pitch here (courtesy of our friends at Lost Levels) is that you play
Dr Franken in pajama in a quest to -quoting- FIND THE SCATTERED REMAINS OF YOUR DEAD GIRLFRIEND.
Unfortunately the demo is rather short and has no audio so the scattered remains will have to wait some more. We can hazard that the demo was created as a pitch to get the full game development approved.’
We created a list of the reviews so far:
- 5/10 (Eurogamer)
- 5/10 (IGN)
- 3/5 (Giant Bomb)
- 7.5/10 (Game Informer)
- 6.5/10 (Planet Xbox 360)
- 7.4/10 (Digital Chumps)
- 2.5/5 (GamePro)
- B- (Game Revolution)
- C- (1UP)
- 6.5/10 (Destructoid)
*Siliconera reports: ‘Shinobi For 3DS Originated From An Assassin’s
Creed Game’ [full news story]
*CRUSH3D, the Nintendo 3DS version of CRUSH, gets a date. The game
will hit European stores on the 17th of February 2012.
*Bradygames offers a Captain America: Super Soldier E-Guide for $12.99.
*Yuji Naka reveals unreleased Prope Wii game called ‘Haunted Tower’.
Another slow week. Will Captain America make the cut next week?
This week’s entries in the Full price Top 40:
[#20](-14)Virtua Tennis 4
[#36](-4) Football Manager 2011
This week’s entries in the Budget price Top 40:
[#19](-6) Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
[#23](+3) SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
[#34](RE) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
[#38](-1) Sonic Classic Collection
TSSZ News reports:
‘Despite Summer of Sonic being over for a little while now, content is still coming out from the event. Most recently, two interviews with Takashi Iizuka and Yuji Naka have surfaced from French website Planète Sonic who were invited by SEGA France to go to the event.
Plenty of topics are discussed, as you would expect, given the nature of the event, though pay attention particularly when the interviewer asks about gameplay problems that ‘Modern Sonic’ has been associated with in the past and the responses that were given by Iizuka-san and Naka-san.’
[full news story with the video interviews]
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’till next week!
*Eurogamer reports: ‘SEGA made more money from software in Japan last month than any other publisher, beating perennial kingpin and ancient rival Nintendo into second place.’ [full news story]
*It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen anything new on Phantasy Star Online 2. Well rejoice, as SEGA Japan released some new screenshots!
*More Phantasy Star news; Japanese players of Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity will now be able to buy various items inspired by SEGA’s Arcade hit Border Break. For a mere 200 yen you’ll be to buy some fancy Border Break weaponry while 300 yen buys you some Border Break-themed armour.
*The first screenshots of Sonic Generations‘ Chemical Plant Zone have emerged. They came from the latest issue of Famitsu magazine.
*SEGA Europe posted an ‘announcement’ trailer for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS Shinobi game by Griptonite Games.
*It seems more and more likely that Sonic Generations will hit also the PC. [DSOGaming reports]
*SEGA USA updates us on Twitter: ‘It’s official! SEGA is at San Diego
Comic-con 2011 - Details and info here‘.
*Aliens: Infestation (Nintendo DS) will be a side-scrolling platform game.
- SEGA Europe posted the launch trailer
- Daily BLAM! posted a feature: Dossier Highlights Movie/Game Parallels
- Xbox360Achievements.org posted the game’s achievements
- PS3Trophies posted the game’s trophies
- Gamespot posted some new screenshots
- Eurogamer reviewed the game
- Techdigest also posted a review (site doesn’t work in IE8, try Firefox)
SEGA released various new screenshots and the pack front for their upcoming shooter. You can find them on the PlayStation blog.
The House of the Dead: Overkill -Extended Cut will be released exclusively on PlayStation 3, and will be available in stores across North America on October 25. European customers can expect the game October 28.