Big news from the SEGA Blogs today as both Summer of Sonic and Sonic Boom are confirmed to return this summer.
Summer of Sonic will be a collaborative Sonic convention between SEGA and fans (as per usual) and will happen in the “London area” (UK) on Saturday the 7th of July. The venue has not been confirmed at this time and the official website www.summerofsonic.com will go live on Monday the 6th of February.
Sonic Boom has also been confirmed in San Diego (US) during the week of the San Diego Comic Con which runs from the 12th to the 15th of July. Once again, the venue has not been announced yet so there’s still more news to come regarding both events.
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Reader ‘mtwinny’ has kindly notified us that Sonic Boom is being held at the San Diego House of Blues. I’m glad someone reads these things! Thanks man!
SEGA’s official Aliens: Colonial Marines page is now listing the game’s release date as ‘Autumn 2012’ which means the game has been delayed. The game was due for a ‘Spring 2012’ launch but the lack of noise in the Gearbox camp should probably have made this delay a little more obvious.
The official London 2012 video game is now… well official! Lots of info on this one so we’ll shut up and let SEGA do the talking.
First up, Fly Through Olympic Stadium Trailer:
Secondly, the first trailer for the game:
And finally the full press release below:
“LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (January 17th, 2012) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. & SEGA® of America, Inc., are excited to announce further details for the upcoming London 2012™ – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games. Favourite Olympic events make a welcome return in 2012, with the addition of new Olympic disciplines, improved modes of play and motion control support for PlayStation®Move and Kinect™ for Xbox 360®. Available for PC, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, London 2012™ will be in stores for June 2012.
For the first time in an officially licensed Olympic video game, London 2012™ will support motion control in a number of different Olympic events. Budding sports heroes will have an enhanced and realistic way of competing in a number of events that are compatible with PlayStation®Move and Kinect™ including 110m Hurdles, Beach Volleyball (Kinect only) and 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Move only). Over 30 Olympic events have been authentically recreated in their official Olympic arenas with a host of new disciplines making their debut for London 2012™. Keirin (Cycling) at the Velodrome, 10m Synchronised Platform (Diving) at the Aquatics Centre and Trampoline at North Greenwich Arena are just some of the new events in which you can compete for that coveted gold medal.
In another first for this iteration of the video game, London 2012™ will take the world’s biggest sporting event online in the form of global leaderboards. The leaderboards will track personal medals gained whilst playing online, with each personal medal won added to that nation’s medal table. Every medal won will help to improve a nation’s standing in the leaderboards, creating even more moments of sporting glory and fame across the globe. London 2012™ will contain a number of game modes including single player Olympic Games mode, online and offline multiplayer and party play.
“London 2012™ sees the successful relationship between SEGA, ISM and the IOC become even more exciting in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games”, commented Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing at SEGA Europe and SEGA of America who decided to work with local marketing services to reach more people. “With all new Olympic events and returning favorite sports brought to life with the very latest video gaming technology, everyone can truly compete in the greatest sporting event on earth”.
For more information about the game, please visit: www.olympicvideogames.com/london2012”
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The previously announced Super Monkey Ball game for Playstation Vita has received a new name; Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz. The game has a tentative ‘2012’ release date. A new trailer for the game is featured below:
By hitting the ‘Third Party Reviews’ link on our menu, you can now select the ‘Eighth Generation of Gaming’ which will take you to a list of the most up-to-date SEGA releases on any eighth generation platform (which currently stands as 3DS and PS Vita).
You can go directly to the page via this link: CLICK HERE
If there’s anything we’ve missed then please let us know!
House of the Dead 3 & 4 are going to be re-released in HD for the Playstation Network in 2012! While House of the Dead 3 has been released for every console under the sun, this will be the first time House of the Dead 4 has been released on a home console; no more arcade exclusivity! You can read the full press release below:
“SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – January 5, 2012 – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that legendary horror arcade shooter The House of the Dead 3™ will be coming exclusively to PlayStation®Network on February 7, followed by the arcade shooter The House of the Dead 4™ this spring. Both titles have been updated with HD graphics, trophies, and complete PlayStation®Move support to give players the full arcade The House of the Dead™ experience in their living room.
“The House of the Dead has always been one of SEGA’s most popular series, and over the years we have worked hard to bring that full arcade experience to console owners,” said Haruki Satomi, Senior Vice President of Digital Business at SEGA of America. “The abilities of the PlayStation 3, as well as PlayStation Move, have let us get closer than ever before. The only thing these titles are missing is a need for quarters.”
Originally released in 2002, The House of the Dead 3 introduced a number of new elements to the series, including “rescue events,” a shot ranking and grading system that challenges players to shoot both quickly and accurately, and a Boss “cancel” bar that players must fill to fend off devastating attacks. Featuring unique-to-console gameplay mechanics, The House of the Dead 3 can be played using a PlayStation Move controller or a standard PlayStation controller.
The House of the Dead 4 arrived in arcades in 2005, and its upcoming release on PlayStation®Network will be the first time this extremely rare title has ever appeared on a home console. In addition to the run-and-gun-down-creatures gameplay players had come to know and love, this title introduced hidden “treasure rooms” that contain score-boosting items, as well as interactive sequences that force players to push away grabby enemies. Watch out for the biters!”
Yu Suzuki is tugging at our heart-strings again. The man responsible for cult favourite RPG series Shenmue has announced through an interview at Shenmue Master that “Shenmue’s license is an IP that belongs to SEGA” and that “We can obtain the license from SEGA.”
Suzuki is clearly not going to rest until his series is complete. He even went on to reveal a major plot point that will be central to Shenmue III if it ever appears. Referring to an image that has been circulating the internet for some time that features the silhouette of an unknown charatcer, Suzuki said “This is the person who has trained with Iwao [Hazuki] in the olden days in China. Then, in the story that will take place after Shenmue II, he will become a “key” character!”
Fingers crossed that Suzuki is successful in his endevours!
Hyperdimension Neptunia MK-II is getting a North American and European release through NIC America and the ESRB have stuck an M for Mature rating on it. Why? Let the ESRB tell you:
“A variety of scenes depict a supernatural villain who harasses female characters and makes sexually suggestive comments (e.g., “Come, come and sit on daddy’s lap. We’ll have fun exploring each other,” “You can be a cunning linguist, my dear,” “I’m dying to leer at her longingly,” and “Mmmm, the height of ecstasy, licking a nubile maiden’s wounds!”/“No, hey stop . . . I said stop it!”)—accompanying licking sounds can be hea”rd off screen.”
Ooooo matron!
For those not in the know, Hyperdimension Neptunia is published by SEGA in Japan and features many tongue-in-cheek references to the games industry. MK-II is the sequel to the original game and will release in both North America and Europe in February 2012.
Premier Sonic site Sonic Wrecks and one of our faithful affiliates have awarded us ‘Most Underrated SEGA/Sonic Website 2011’ in their year end awards. They had this to say:
“It’s somewhat a testament to its author Lewis “Sonic Yoda” Clark that the site is still going. Now a TSSNET site, I’m a big fan of SEGA Driven’s review and reporting style as well as their deep passion for SEGA past and present. Oft overlooked, in fact it’s original guise as Sonic Yoda won this award in the 2007 SWAs.
Do yourself a favour some time and check the site out, especially the reviews section.”
I am incredibly humbled to have the site acknowledged in this way and would like to thank both Sonic Wrecks for the kind words and The Sonic Stadium for being such a brilliant host.
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