Monthly Archives: April 2024

SEGA’s TGS 2010 line-up confirmed

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SEGA has let their ‘official’ line up out of the bag, of course, they have a surprise or two they don’t want to reveal yet. This is their ‘expect to be there’ and playable games.

  • Vanquish (PS3/360)
  • Virtual On Force (360)
  • Sonic Colors (Wii/DS)
  • Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity (PSP)
  • Black Panther New Yakuza  Chapter (PSP)
  • Shining Hearts (PSP)
  • K-On After School Live (PSP)

Of course they will most likely have a new Phantasy Star related product (anniversary game?) and for sure the new Yakuza PS3 game.

[Source: Joystiq]

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Sonic Adventure Dated and Priced

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I have some good news and some good news: Sonic Adventure will be hitting XBLA (and presumably PSN) on September 15th for a mere 800 points or $10!

The low price, in my opinion, makes for a nice impulse or curiousity buy. While I bemoaned SEGA for lack of widescreen, at $10 I’ll be giving this a download just for an easier way to play the game. I hate having to walk to my game shelf to get the Dreamcast version, plug in the VGA box and skip past the screen telling me to set the time and date. Also, achievements would make for some nice replay value.

Let’s just hope they’ve ironed out the bugs.

[Source: Major Nelson’s Blog]

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Vanquish demo up on XBOX Live

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As of now the US Vanquish Demo is up on XBOX Live. Go download the demo and tell us what you think! Gold members only. The download clocks in at just under 500MB. The PS3 demo should be up later today whenever Sony decides to update PSN.

PSN usually updates in the afternoon, so don’t expect it up anytime soon.

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Download the Yakuza PSP demo now!

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4Gamer has the link to download the upcoming Black Panther: Yakuza New Chapter demo. The demo clocks in at 192mb and is obviously all in Japanese.

You don’t need a PSN account, just go here and scroll down till you see what you see above. Click that button, download and enjoy.

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Iizuka wants to do more NiGHTS

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In a recent interview with EuroGamer Takashi Iizuka of Sonic Team mentioned that he would like to make another game in the NiGHTS series.

This was translated on our forum from Portuguese as the English version of Eurogamer doesn’t have it up yet.

“Personally I’d really like to make a third NiGHTS game, but it all depends on SEGA.”
Said Iizuka.

Now, Mr. Iizuka… I’m all for another NiGHTS game but please take heed, there are strict guidelines that need following!

(After the Jump!)

Continue Reading ➜

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Vanquish features suicide and M rating

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ESRB has agreed and given Vanquish the M rating, for Mature audiences only. I was a bit shocked, since Mikami said he wanted to make the game about killing robots, if Halo is not rated M, why would this game?

I guess human soldiers can be killed, when they are killed or blown up, there is blood (and limbs). They also revealed that some cutscenes will have violence and one even has a random character committing suicide. As they say, assassinating himself.

[Via: Zombie Gamer]

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Yakuza Black Panther footage

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Somewhere deep in this Japanese madness is ingame footage of Yakuza Black Panther for the PSP.

One clip shows off a two player battle mode that looks a lot like a fighting game and another shows off one of the hostesses doing her thing. The graphics look really good for a PSP game, check it out!

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Ulala Dancer in Year 2000

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I saw this today and thought I would share it with you guys. 10 years ago Sega was promoting Space Channel 5 for the Dreamcast at Universal City Walk in California. I can’t think of a better way to promote a game about a hot dancing space babe… In fact I think all games should be promoted like this!

P.S, I guess it IS cold in space, if you know what I mean… Phwar!

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Yakuza 3 DLC coming to PSN for a fee

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Amazon has posted a list of downloadable PSN items coming this Tuesday. In that list, there was Yakuza 3 “Challenge Pack.” This is the DLC that was given away if you pre-ordered the game.

“This bonus Challenge Pack will allow you to enjoy 2-player mini games, competing against your friends at Pool, Bowling, Darts and Golf. You will also be able to customize the principle characters with four alternative costumes for Kazuma, Haruka and Rikiya. (A Completed game save file required to access some of this content.)“

Only issue? Its not free, they will be charging $3.99 for it. All this content was free for Japan, not so much (unless you pre-ordered) for us in the West. Feels good man.

[Source: Amazon]

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SoJ Renews Phantasy Star Online 2 Domain

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Seems Valkyria Chronicles 3 isn’t the only potential sequel SEGA has registered a domain for. According to PSO World, Sega of Japan has also registered PSO2.jp.

While this has only been recently reported, it seems this is actually old news. I past the domain’s whois entry by my good pal Kichigai, the girl who, along with her mother, helped translate NiGHTSintoDreams.com’s Yuji Naka interview. It seems the domain was first registered last year; meaning that this isn’t a simple renewal of a URL SEGA has had for years. With strong hints from SEGA that they are planning something for classic game’s tenth anniversary, might we be seeing a sequel announced at some point in the future?

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Border Break Air Burst ver.02 also announced

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OK, third and last update of a newly announced arcade title. I swear, don’t hit me. This one is for Border Break, everyone loves Border Break, right?

Below is the announcement trailer for the new game. Looks pretty sweet. Would make a great console game, right?

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Initial D Stage 6 announced (not shocked)

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Another Initial D game has been announced, this time its Initial D Stage 6. You guys keeping track?

I actually don’t know much information on this game, so I will say it will be an upgrade to part 5. Isn’t it great? I hope they have the real life size cars for it as a cabinet. Would rock.

[Thanks: Suzuki Yu]

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