Sega Nerds

Your chance to make Sonic history

Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, News, Nintendo DS, Sonic. Tagged with Fan Sites, Fan Stuff, Giveaways, Handheld.

Sega has just announced that they shall be holding a contest which will allow you to name one of the new enemy races in the upcoming Sonic Chronicles game, for the DS!

Between March 3^rd and March 14^th fans will be able to visit the Sonic City website (http://www.sonic-city.com/) to cast their vote in naming the new race.  After the votes have been counted the winner will be announced on March 15^th and then appear in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood when the game launches in Autumn 2008.

Imagine that, playing a game where you have chosen the name for the enemy that you, and every other gamer will fight?!

If the Sonic Chronicles really takes off too, I would expect to see the winning race to feature in more games, you will (potentially) be influencing  future Sonic games.

Full details of the contest are yet to be revealed, but I think any true Sega Nerd, or Sonic fan will be jumping at the chance to get their ideas across.

Stay tuned for more!

[Source: Sega Europe]

New Years Nerdaway - Winners!

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Nintendo DS, PC, Retro, Sonic, Sony PSP. Tagged with Condemned, Crazy Taxi, Crush, Exclusive, Fan Stuff, Giveaways, Handheld, House of the Dead, Medieval Total War, Nerdaway, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Saturn, Sonic Rush, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Tennis.

Its been like 2 weeks since the contest finished - and I’m the douche who forgot to post up the results sooner.  I hold my hands up - Im sorry.

But fret no more, here are the winners of the great prizes!

New Years Nerdaway - 1 Day Remaining!

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News. Tagged with Exclusive, Fan Stuff, Giveaways, Nerdaway.

So you fancy winning some Sega goodies do you?

Well you have only 1 day remaining before the end of our New Years contest.  Any entries made after January 31st will not be counted!

So if you haven’t entered, now is pretty much your last chance to try and win some Xbox 360 games, a signed NiGHTS JoD poster, or the much coveted, and truly outstanding, Panzer Dragoon Saga.

The time is now people.

For full details on the contest and great prizes, follow this here link.

New Years Nerdaway - 1 week remaining!

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Nintendo DS, PC, Retro, Sonic, Sony PSP. Tagged with Condemned, Crazy Taxi, Downloads, Emulation, Exclusive, Fan Stuff, Giveaways, Handheld, House of the Dead, Imports, Nerdaway, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Saturn, Sonic Rush, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Tennis.

Just over a week ago, we announced the New Years Nerdaway, our special giveaway for the start of 2008.  Featuring 4 great bundles of gaming goodness.

So far we have been inundated with scores of entries, but the contest is not yet over. No sir!

The closing date for the contest is on January 31st 2008.  Which, at the time of posting this article, leaves anyone who has not yet entered, with exactly 1 week (7 days) left, to try and win these fantastic prizes.

For full details, follow this link.

Sega Europe reveal The Club achievements

Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, Microsoft Xbox 360, News. Tagged with Fan Stuff, Giveaways, The Club.

Sega Europe has recently posted the achievement points, that can be earned on the Xbox 360 version of The Club.

If you’re going to be picking up a copy of The Club on the Xbox 360 when it’s released next month and you’re wondering about the achievements, then wonder no more as we’ve got them all listed here for you. While I feel comfortable being able to unlock the “Sharp Steel” achievement, I’m not so sure about “No, Seriously”.

The list will be coming in a moment, but after I tell you that Sega Europe are also going to be giving away a goodie bag, to the first person to send them a photograph of their achievement screen, showing that they have unlocked the “No, Seriously” acheivement.

It’s not going to be easy, and you’ll see why.  Check the full (extensive) list after the jump, “No Seriously” is at the very bottom…

Finally! The New Years Nerdaway!

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Nintendo DS, PC, Retro, Sonic, Sony PSP. Tagged with Condemned, Crazy Taxi, Crush, Giveaways, Handheld, House of the Dead, Imports, Medieval Total War, Nerdaway, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Peripheral, Saturn, Sega Genesis Collection, Sonic Rush, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Tennis.

Finally it is here! Apologies we had planned to hold it sooner, but… well I won’t fob you off with any excuses, it was held off, it’s here now.  That is what matters!

Previously we had teased you with the outline of prizes we had on offer, and now I give you the rules, regulations and (most importantly) the questions, with which you will need to win.

Rules:  We have 4 seperate bundles of prizes to give away.  Each bundle has a question to go with it.  All you need do is choose which of the prizes bundles you would like to try and win, and answer the corresponding question, and then send your answer(s) to us (contact info coming up).

You can enter to win as many of the bundles you want to, however, we will pick the winners for each bundle in order (starting with 4, ending with 1), and should your name be chosen for Bundle 4, you will not be eligeble for any of the other bundles.

So if you really want to win Bundle 1, it could be wise not to enter for all 4 bundles, in case you ‘accidentally’ win a different bundle.  But, then again, if you just want to win some Sega gaming goodies, then go ahead and enter for all the bundles!

The full list of prizes and questions coming up after the jump.

Sega Nerds New Years nerdaway

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Nintendo DS, PC, Retro, Sonic, Sony PSP. Tagged with Condemned, Crazy Taxi, Crush, Exclusive, Fan Stuff, Full Auto, Giveaways, Handheld, House of the Dead, Imports, Medieval Total War, Nerdaway, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Peripheral, Saturn, Sega Genesis Collection, Sega Nerds, Sonic Rush, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Tennis.

That’s right my fine nerdians, we here at Sega Nerds, want you to kick start your new year with a bang!

Which is why we are going to be giving away a butt load of Sega games, for your enjoyment.

Our New Years contest will see 4 lucky winners, walking away with a bundle of goodies, plus 2 runners-up prizes to be had.  That’s 6 winners overall!

What you see in the picture above, is the entire goodie bag, but those prizes will be split down into 4 seperate (but very good) prize bundles, which go as follows;

• Bundle 4: Hand-held - a selection of DS and PSP games.
• Bundle 3: Sega PC games.
• Bundle 2: Xbox 360 games.
• Bundle 1: Saturn games, plus a signed (by Iizuka-san) NiGHTs Journey of Dreams poster.

We shall be starting the contest very soon, when we shall give you the full details of how to win these prizes!

Happy New Year everyone!

Pre-order NiGHTS: JoD to get a limited edition DVD

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with Fan Stuff, Giveaways, Limited Edition, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.

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Not only are all you American gamers lucky enough to receive NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams about a month before us poor Europeans, but Sega is also giving away special limited edition ‘Making Of’ DVDs to people who pre-order the game.

The deal appears to be exclusive to GameStop, so one would need to pre-order their copy from there to receive such a fine gift.

The DVD features an exclusive interview with the game’s creator, Iizuka-san, who we interviewed not so long ago (I’m sure you all remember), plus you can find out how the franchise was originally conceived and see how Journey of Dreams was made.

But stock is limited, so hurry!

The game is due out in the US on December 18th, and should be out (hopefully) in Europe on January 18th.

For more information, check out the official (US) NiGHTS page.

Dreamcast-Scene to celebrate Dreamcasts 9th birthday in style

Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G. Tagged with Dreamcast, Fan Sites, Fan Stuff, Giveaways.

 

Yes, it’s the 9th year of the Dreamcasts life, as we ALL know, the Dreamcast is not dead… Shhh! You. Quiet at the back!

Well, we could argue whether or not it’s ‘alive’ till the cows come home, but that won’t be very productive, now would it?

The point being, it was some 9 years ago, on November 27th 1998, when the Dreamcast was first born to the Japanese gaming market.  To celebrate this great date, Dreamcast-Scene have managed to setup quite an interesting sweepstake;

Dreamcast Scene presents - in cooperation with Sega Germany, redspotgames and Van Basilco - a sweepstake that haven’t been there in this form. Good Dreamcast knowledge is required and the prizes grow from day to day.

Rules

• The sweepstake starts on November 27th 2007 and ends on December 9th 2007.
• Within this peroid we present a new “gift” (prizes, annoucements) every day.
• The quiz starts on November 28th 2007 and lasts until December 7th 2007. A new question will be added on every of these days.
• To participate to this sweepstake you have to answer all quiz question and send those answers to “sweepstake_at_dreamcast-scene.com“.
• You have to be 18 years or above to enter this sweepstake. If you are under 18 years you have to send a signed agreement from a legal guardian.

Sounds pretty interesting, eh?

As the above states, the questions will not be put up, until November 28th… which happens to be tomorrow!  So be sure to check out Dreamcast-Scene in the next 24 hours, to get ahead of the game.

Also, as the Sega-Germany are also involved with this contest, there is a German translation, right here.  Fantastic.

[Special Thanks: Cube_b3 Via The Forums]

Win a laptop, football shirts and copies of Football Manager 2008 - with Sky Sports

Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, News, PC, Video. Tagged with Football Manager, Giveaways, Mac.

UK-based sports channel, Sky Sports have teamed up with Sega and Sports Interactive, to give away a great prize for one lucky winner, plus a copy of Football Manager 2008, for five runners up.

“To celebrate the release of FOOTBALL MANAGER 2008â„¢ for PC and Apple Macintosh, we have teamed up with SEGA and Sports Interactive to give away a fantastic Laptop, five exclusive Toffs ‘custom-made’ Football Manager shirts for 5-a-side team and a copy of Football Manager 2008. We also have five games for runners up. “

Football Manager 2008 is the next installment in the award-winning series, from Sports Interactive, and is heading to PC and Mac formats, on October 19th.

For you’re chance to win the goods, all you need do is answer a very simple question…. I’ll give you a clue, the answer is in the last paragraph you just read, and the title image…

Also, from reading the terms and conditions, the contest isn’t limited to the UK.  So you US types, who obviously love ‘Soccer,’ can also enter!  Chances are Football Manager 2008 won’t be released state-side, or will be later than in Europe, so you could be the first American holding a copy of the game… plus getting a laptop.

For full details and to enter the contest, follow the link, here.

For now, here is the official trailer for you to enjoy:

[Source: SkySports.com]