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Sega finds new friends - Happy Tree Friends

Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Microsoft Xbox 360. Tagged with Happy Tree Friends, Sega Gamer's Day.

If there was any doubt that Sega would ever support Xbox Live Arcade after yesterday, well, those doubts can now be calmed as the publisher/developer has announced the ultra cute/violent Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm for XBLA and PC.

Once again, Sega isn’t actually developing the title, instead, Stainless Studios is handling the job, and it should be released this fall.

According to Sega’s press release, the game “enables players to control one of three characters; Flippy, the emotionally tattered war-torn bear; Lumpy, the dim-witted blue moose; and Handy, an amputee beaver carpenter always eager to lend a helping limb.”

Players will have highly explosive and lethal resources at their disposal like gasoline, nitroglycerin and concrete “to augment the dynamic 3D environments.” Whatever that means. In total, players will travel through 10 levels including mine shafts, a museum and candy factories.

“We are excited to be partnering with Mondo Media to bring the irreverent comedy of the Happy Tree Friends to gamers worldwide,” said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, Sega of America, Inc. “The dark humor and twisted characters of Happy Tree Friends will act as a great foundation for creating a fun and entertaining universe for gamers and fans of the show alike.”

Happy Tree Friends is a wildly popular Internet phenomenon that debuted as a television series on G4 TV in the U.S. and on MTV in key markets overseas. Selling over one million DVD copies worldwide, Happy Tree Friends continues to thrill audiences online and maintains its position as a top 10 most downloaded podcast on iTunes.