New screens for Rush Rush Rally Racing
Posted by George. Filed under Europe, George, Retro. Tagged with Beats of Rage, Dreamcast, Homebrew, Rush Rush Rally Racing, Senile Team.
[This makes me miss the VMU, even if it was a bit gimmicky]
For those of you who don’t keep up with Dreamcast news, Rush Rush Rally Racing is being developed by Senile Team, the developers of Beats of Rage. The boys over at SegaOnline have gotten an interview with the team and some new screens of the game.
If you examined the screens you’d be able to tell that this title is a top-down racing game, you clever detective! The game has no release date as of yet, but the team does say it is almost finished.
[Check out more screens here]
[Thanks: Robert]
[Source: SegaOnline]
Check out the Sega Museum in video format
Posted by George. Filed under Europe, George, Retro. Tagged with Anime Expo, Manly, Paris, Sega Museum, Segata Sanshiro, Women next to Sega signs.
Did you go to Japan Expo in Paris this year? I didn’t either. But Romain from JV247 did and even filmed it for us to enjoy. It is like we where there, only that we skipped all the anime stuff and went straight for what we wanted, the Sega Museum.
They where even nice enough to put the Segata Sanshiro theme music in the video, makes me shed a tear, a manly tear. In the video, there is a girl next to a Sega sign, I’m sure UK:R would love that.
[Thanks: Romain]
[Source: JV247]
Sega Toys brings Indoor fireworks to your mom’s basement
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan. Tagged with Bringing her home, Indoor Fireworks, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sega Toys.
When I was a kid, I always thought that fireworks indoors would be so much better than outdoors. That was not such a great idea. Though now Sega Toys has sort of fixed that.
Their new toy is a projector that lets you put your own firework show indoors. It has realistic movement and sound, so more work went into it than just putting videos of fireworks on your walls.
This could be a great device to bring that date home, I mean this is much more impressive than showing them your Sega collection. I doubt females care that you got the brand new copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga and if she does, marry her.
The device will be available on August 1 for $168 bucks.
[Source: SlipperyBrick]
Alpha Protocol dev diary 4 and box art
Posted by George. Filed under George, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, North America, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Video. Tagged with Alpha Protocol, Box art, Dev Dairy, Release Dates.
Above is the fourth dev diary, this one has some new gameplay footage and shows you how character relationships work. Sounds groovy. Below is the official box art for Alpha Protocol.
The game ships in American retailers on October 6th. You will be able to pick your poison on either Xbox 360, Playstation 3 or a Windows powered PC.
[Source: Sega PR]
Download Columns Deluxe for free this weekend
Posted by George. Filed under George, News, North America. Tagged with Columns Deluxe, Free, iPhone, iPod Touch, Puyo Pop, Puyo Puyo.
You will be able to download Columns Deluxe for iPhone/iPod Touch for free this weekend. This is Sega’s way of telling you guys to have a good 4th of July weekend and keep your thumbs attached for more gaming.
The game comes packed with Puyo Pop for free, so you get two games for the price of none. Free stuff is awesome. iTunes link is right here.
[Source: Sega Blog]
Nintendo fans play more Sonic than Wii Music
Posted by George. Filed under George. Tagged with Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Play Time, Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic and the Secret of the Rings, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Sonic Unleashed.
Did you know that Nintendo records the average play time of titles you and your family plays? I didn’t know that, but they do. They where even nice enough to give out the playtime of various titles, including all the Sonic games and Samba De Amigo (and other music games).
Hit the jump to check out the chart.
Infinite Space animated video promises Spring 2010 release
Posted by George. Filed under George, News, Nintendo DS, North America, Video. Tagged with Anime, Infinite Space, Promotion, Release Date, Shorts.
We already know that Infinite Space launched in Japan, but what about the rest of the world? Sega of America has been kind enough to translate (and release) one of the short anime web episodes (or webisodes if you are hip), they even have English voices!
OK, so maybe the voice acting isn’t great, but it is better than not understanding what is going on. Sega teases us by telling us this is just part one of four videos to be released, so get ready. In the end of the video they promise a Spring 2010 release date.
Seems that everything on DS gets an anime, what about us console folks?
[Source: Sega PR]
FUNimation to publish Sands of Destruction anime
Posted by George. Filed under George, News, Nintendo DS, North America. Tagged with Anime, FUNimation, Sands of Destruction, World Destruction.
FUNimation has just announced that they will be publishing the anime for the upcoming RPG Sands of Destruction (World Destruction in Japan).
“FUNimation acquires the 1st season of the anime Sands of Destruction from Sega of America. The fantasy series is based on the Sega game .”
The anime was animated by Production I.G. Production I.G. is known for their high quality work, they worked on Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor.
[Source: FUNimation Twitter]
How much did the Sonic brand make in 2008?
Posted by George. Filed under George, Multi-platform, News, Nintendo Wii, North America, Sonic. Tagged with $, Sonic, Sonic and Mario, Sonic Unleashed.
So how much did the Sonic brand make in 2008? According to Wedbush Morgan Securities’ industry report it made $163 million dollars. A even better fact, this only accounts for United States, not Europe, where Sonic is more popular.
Sonic came in at number 11 on their top 30 list of most profitable game brands. This means that it made more money than the Gears of War , The Sims and Tom Clancy brands.
The majority of sales came from Mario and Sonic, a game that has been charting since it was released in 2007 (Wii version) and the release of Sonic Unleashed in late 2008. I’m sure Sonic would have cracked the top ten if they released Sonic Unleashed around spring 2008, instead of in the fall. Another Sonic game that was released in 2008 was Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
Hit the jump to see the full list.
Twin Sticks EX going into production
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Retro. Tagged with 300 dollars, Twin Sticks EX, Virtual On, XBLA.
Sega has confirmed that Twin Sticks EX are going into production. Last week Sega said that the pre-orderes where going well. It seems they went so well that they got those 1,500 pre-orders before the deadline. The last day to pre-order is on July 2nd.
In other Virtual On news, Sega has launched a page to show off the new update that is coming on July 1st (tomorrow!). This update will add support for online match viewing, let players waiting in lobby watch the match going on, adds a special “Graphic Arrange” feature to the settings menu, brings some slight changes to the light and shadow effects, makes changes to controls, and most importantly fixes bugs that where found in the game.
To get the new update, simply boot the game up. I’m assuming the update will be world wide, but I guess we will find out on July 1st.
[Source: VOOT Blog via AndriaSang]
