Archive for the ‘News’ CategorySEGA of Japan Announce Demon TribeWednesday, October 24th, 2012SEGA of Japan have revealed a new online RPG for Wii-U, PS Vita and PSP called Demon Tribe (information on formats discovered on Wikipedia). There isn’t much information available on the title outside the official website and the following announcement trailer: As per usual there is no word on a Western release at this time. [Source: SEGAShiro]  Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda 8 Bit Sonic 2 Coming to Japanese 3DS eShopWednesday, October 24th, 2012
More Game Gear classics appear to be on their way to the 3DS eShop! Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will become available for Japanese 3DS owners on the 31st of October for 300 yen. There is currently no word on a Western release at this time. [Source: Sonic Wrecks] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Under Defeat HD Deluxe Edition Coming to UK 9th of NovemberTuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Dreamcast helicopter-em-up Under Defeat is being re-released by Rising Star Games on November 9th for X-Box 360 and PS3. The original title (released by the mighty shmup developer G.Rev) was released for the Dreamcast in 2006 as a Japanese exclusive. As a later Dreamcast release it is now highly collectable. Check out some HD gameplay below: [Source: Rising Star Games Twitter] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Yakuza 1&2 HD Edition to Feature Additional Easy ModesTuesday, October 23rd, 2012According to Siliconera, the upcoming Yakuza 1 & 2 HD collection will include an “Easy + Heat Up Mode”. This mode makes the enemies easier to defeat and also helps you fill your heat gauge faster. Apparently the games’ original easy modes weren’t easy enough. Yakuza 1&2 HD Edition comes out in Japan on November 15th. There is still no word on a Western release at this time. [Source: SEGABits] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Kickstarter Project Aims to Create Book About the History of SEGATuesday, October 23rd, 2012Our good friends at SEGA News.net have made me aware of this Kickstarter project that aims to create an extended ‘History of SEGA’ book based Sam Pettus’ original online history of SEGA article. The aims of the project are listed below: 1) Update all the information in the book to be as accurate as can be. 2) Add more sources, quotes, and original text to help tell the story through the eyes of the people who experienced it. 3) Add more pictures to help tell the story. 4) Hire a real (expensive) editor to correct all mistakes and to enhance the readers experience. This will take almost 60% of the budget. 5) Get professionally done artwork on the cover to make this book as appealing outside as it is inside. This will take roughly 10% of the budget. On top of that you can even pledge for hard copies of the book in many different styles (paperback, hardback, black and white, colour etc). It’s certainly an interesting little project and for those who like a good video-game inspired read it’ll certainly be well worth a pledge. Click here to be taken to the project’s Kickstarter page. [Source: SEGA News.net] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Anarchy Reigns Coming to the West in January 2013Friday, October 19th, 2012Platinum Games have revealed that the long delayed Western release of Anarchy Reigns on X-Box 360 and PS3 is finally happening in January 2013. The Americans get it on January 8th for $29.99 while the UK and Europe get it on January 11th for £19.99/€24.99. That’s right; we get a budget priced version! Anarchy Reigns has been out in Japan since July 5th under the title Max Anarchy. The game had infamously gone gold complete with English language versions for the July 5th release date but SEGA decided against a summer launch and delayed it for unknown reasons. [Source: Platinum Games’ Twitter] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda 1UP Reveal 20th Anniversary Mega-CD ArticleThursday, October 18th, 20121UP have released a special article to mark the 20th anniversary of the North American release of the Mega-CD (known as the SEGA-CD in that territory). It’s a cool little read and they name a handful of their favourite games, some of which are US exclusive. You can read the article by clicking this link to be taken to 1UP. Subscribers to our YouTube channel will know I’m a big fan of the Mega-CD and love collecting for it. It’s a home to my favourite Sonic game ever and there’s a certain allure to collecting for it as the games are usually quite experimental in nature. Happy 20th Birthday Mega-CD! Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Model 2 Collection Announced for Japanese PSN/XBLAThursday, October 18th, 2012SEGA of Japan are releasing Virtua Fighter 2, Sonic the Fighters, Virtua Striker, Fighting vipers and Cyber Troopers: Virtual-On for the Japanese XBLA and PSN services. Sonic the Fighters, Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers will be bundled together as a $15 3 game pack on PSN all with online versus modes. This pack will come out during Autumn 2012 while the others are due “winter 2013” but we think this might be a typo and it’s actually 2012. More interestingly is the fact that Sonic the Fighters is an expanded version that makes Metal Sonic and Eggman playable as well as the dumped character Honey the Cat. Now that was unexpected! Unfortunately there is no word on a Western release at this time. [Source: SEGABits] Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda Yakuza 3 Reviewed by Actual YakuzaWednesday, October 17th, 2012Now excuse me if this is a little old but I just discovered it and found it a fascinating read. Jake Adelstein author of Tokyo Vice has asked several yakuza to play Yakuza 3 for their opinion on how accurate it is. Highlights include: “I like the fact that you power up by eating real food. Shio ramen gives you a lot of power – CC Lemon, not as much. It all makes sense.” “No yakuza is going to run around getting into fistfights like that. Especially not an executive type. He’ll wind up in jail or in the hospital or dead, maybe even whacked by his own people for being a troublemaker.” On Kazuma’s red shirt: “He’s supposed to be a former boss of the Inagawakai and he dresses like a chinpira (low level yakuza punk). He’s a yakuza, not a host.” Regarding the cuts made in the Western version: “I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.” One of the yakuza using the pseudonym Kuroishi knew a yakuza who ran an orphanage like Kazuma. “Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing, you know.” Read the full article at Boing Boing by clicking here. Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Bluesky @sonicyoda |
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