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March 28th, 2008

Financial fallout: Plans for Yokohama amusement park canceled

Despite things looking on the up and up for Sega Sammy in recent weeks, the impact from the nearly 16 billion yen loss detailed in the somewhat recent financial earnings report is still lingering. Sega Sammy has just announced that it has canceled plans to open a new amusement center in Yokohama, Japan.
While the plans […]

By Chris -- 4 comments

February 8th, 2008

Sega-Sammy loses money, lays people off

It doesn’t matter how successful Sega is in the software division, they have Sammy to hold them down. However, the joint company expects to lose about $26 billion yen ($242 million dollars) because of slow pachinko machine sales.
Apparently, the pachinko machine industry has been dented by the Wii console. Due to this, Sega had to […]

By George -- 6 comments

August 2nd, 2007

Sega chooses some guy for VP position at Secret Level

Right about now you might be wondering “what the hell is Secret Level?” Well, it’s a smallish Sega-owned developer that’s responsible for the new Iron Man and Golden Axe titles now in development.
And who, then, is responsible for Secret Level? Why, newly named vice president Darrin Stubbington of course! 1up.com reports that newcomer Stubbington […]

By Hudson -- 7 comments

May 25th, 2007

Gameworks: Sega, food and 3 new games

 
Sega has announced that in some 14 of it’s casual dining outlets, GameWorks, that it shall be installing 3 new arcade features.
For anybody that doesn’t know (and to be honest I didn’t until a few minutes ago - but hey, I’m British) GameWorks is a casual dining/entertainment outlet, which basically means burgers and gaming all under […]

By Graham -- 2 comments

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