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Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category

September 24th, 2007

Interview with Simon Jeffey

MCVUK recently had an in-depth interview with president and COO of Sega of America Simon Jeffrey. He told MCVUK about the good relationship between Sega of America and Sega of Europe, calling them a “happy family.” He also talked about Sega’s western line-up and plans for the future among other interesting things. I recommend giving […]

By Ryan -- 3 comments

September 11th, 2007

Sega West talks

 
DevelopeMag have an interesting interview with the three new studios of Sega West.  Mike Simpson and Geroge Fidler of Creative Assembly, known for the Total War series, Miles Jacobson from Sports Interactive know for their Football Manager series and Jeremy Gordon from Secret Level, Sega of America’s new development team.
Some interesting parts of the interview […]

By Ryan -- 0 comments

September 6th, 2007

Silicon Knights’ horror game not shown this year

A recent interview with Denis Dyack revealed that Silicon Knights isn’t planning on revealing their upcoming horror masterpiece (rumoured title: The Box) just yet.
“Ah, that’s a good question. I don’t know. I don’t know. When the time is right. There are other things on game one that you’ll see before game two as well. We’ve […]

By George -- 0 comments

August 31st, 2007

Sega boss: Wii games will be more ‘original’ than other consoles

In a recent talk with MCV, Sega’s North American president, Simon Jeffrey, gave a (very) broad prediction of things to come with the current generation of games.
Simon suggests that due to the Wii’s cheaper development costs and innovative control system, that the console will be more likely to encourage developers to manufacture original content.
“There is […]

By Graham -- 14 comments

August 16th, 2007

Simon Jeffrey: Wait! Sonic is still cool

Well it seems yet another employee of Sega is having to retract a statement, that has caused some controversy.  Originally it was Scott Steinberg, who made a comment, that sounded almost like Sega was not in favour of the Wii, which was almost immediately taken back.
Now it is Simon Jeffrey’s turn.  Just the other day, it was […]

By Graham -- 15 comments

August 8th, 2007

Scriptwriter: Condemned 2 movie still in the works

After our interview with Condemned 2 Producer David Hasle turned up very little details about The Unforgettable, the Condemned 2 movie tie-in, I went straight to the horse’s mouth - Kurt Sutter, the scriptwriter for the movie.
With little to no news about the movie after the initial article in Variety, I have to say we […]

By Chris -- 4 comments

August 8th, 2007

Sega Nerds interview: David Hasle, Condemned 2 producer

Two dozen calls, a break-in, a failed kidnapping and a restraining order later, we now present you with my interview with Condemned 2 Producer, David Hasle. See where a little persistence can get ya?
Condemned: Bloodshot is currently in development for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 by Monolith Productions, the same excellent crew that brought […]

By Chris -- 5 comments

July 31st, 2007

Steinberg explains some things… plus new Shadow?

Sega of America Vice President of marketing, Scott Steinberg, recently spoke to NextGen.biz, about a few topics of conversation many Sega Nerds, and (indeed) gamers, have on their mind.
Scott, spoke about some his ‘controversial’ commentsregarding Nintendo’s, highly successful, Wii.  He did try to explain his comments a day or two after his first set of […]

By Graham -- 13 comments

July 28th, 2007

Iron Man interview at Comic-Con 07

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When I think Comic-Con, I think hot chicks cosplaying and companies pushing their comic book related junk on the public. Well that’s just what Sega did this year with Iron Man and Bleach.
The interview in the video gives us some information about Iron Man. Apparently, Iron Man will be the only playable character […]

By George -- 4 comments

July 10th, 2007

Simon Jeffrey talks about everything a Sega Nerd could want to know

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Wow, I’m really starting to like this Simon Jeffrey character. In an interview with Gamespot, the Sega of America COO talked about everything from how development is going with Golden Axe, why Sega seems to have shifted focus away from its Japanese development teams and he even talked about the changes in this […]

By Chris -- 8 comments