In a recent interview with games™, Yu Suzuki has let slip that there are plans to bring Shenmue City to Western shores:
“There are plans but I cannot discuss them now.”
Shenmue City is a mobile phone (and eventually PC) game that basically amounts to statistic managing. It’s the first new Shenmue game since the X-Box release of Shenmue 2 in 2002. The game is a side-story that takes place in the first chapter of the original Shenmue game. You take control of a student at the Hazuki dojo.
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Toshihiro Nagoshi; the mastermind behind the Yakuza series has announced a new game for the Playstation 3 and X-Box 360 called Binary Domain.
The game is aimed at a global audience and takes place in Tokyo in the year 2080. The game is an online-based action title which sees players pilot robots from a third-person perspective.
There is currently no word on whether SEGA will publish the game or if it will make it to Western shores at this time. We’ll be keeping an eye on this one as it sounds a bit Virtual On-ish to me!
UPDATE ON 01/12/2010 SEGA of Europe and SEGA of America have confirmed they will be bringing Binary Domain to the West. There’s even a trailer featuring racial stereotypes:
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 at 1:18 pm and is filed under News & Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is the 2nd best selling game on the X-Box Live Arcade for October. The 1200 MS points-priced game sold 98,000 copies just behind Dead Rising 2: Case Zero at 104,000 priced at 400 points. However, this does mean that Sonic 4 was the most profitable XBLA game for October. Well done SEGA! It’s a much deserved win for you!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 at 10:11 pm and is filed under News & Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
The game allows you to fight other dragons as well as “nurture and learn to communicate” with the dragon you ride. Sounds remarkably familiar doesn’t it?
No release window or even a publisher have been announced at this time so SEGA might not even be involved. Keep your eyes on this one!
This entry was posted on Friday, November 19th, 2010 at 1:08 pm and is filed under News & Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
SEGAbits have spotted a rather interesting product listing at Gamestop.
A ‘Dreamcast Collection’ for the X-Box 360 has appeared with a retail price of $29.99. The product is currently listed with a release date of February 15th, 2011.
If this is a legit collection it seems like an odd thing to do as SEGA have been attempting to increase their digital market with the release of several Dreamcast games for X-Box Live Arcade and Playstation Network.
Will this collection simply contain Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Space Channel 5 Part 2 and SEGA Bass Fishing? We’ll be keeping an eye on this one as it’s certainly an oddity.
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Yu Suzuki, the SEGA legend that has been MIA for sometime now is gearing up to release Shenmue City, a new mobile phone game only available in Japan. No plans are currently underway to bring the game to the West but more importantly, what is happening with Shenmue 3?
When questioned Suzuki has responded with, “I want to make 3 with the same volume as in the past.”
“Shenmue has the image of grand scale, but making something of grand scale requires appropriate preparation. I want to make 3 with the same volume as in the past. There have actually been a lot of requests from fans for 3 as well. There were even petitions signed by tens of thousands of people. I wanted to carry out my obligations for the series.”
The Shenmue series is based on an 11 chapter script that Suzuki wrote prior to the original game’s development. Putting the remaining chapters into one game is something Suzuki will “have to consider” if Shenmue 3 goes into development.
“It would be possible to finish the entire story in a single game if we were to show just the highlights and skip over parts,” said Suzuki.
The future of the Shenmue series is currently in the hands of Shenmue City; if the game performs well SEGA will do “additional things” with the series. Could that mean the green light for Shenmue 3 or a Western release for Shenmue City? Or could it mean something different all-together? Shenmue: Forklift Racing anyone? Only time will tell…
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 9:58 pm and is filed under News & Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
According to information gathered by Nintendolife.com, development of House of the Dead Overkill 2 is well under way and is expected to be released “sometime early or mid-2011″.
“Details on the game are still undisclosed, but what we’ve been told is that a title codenamed House of the Dead: Overkill 2 is being worked on, which we assume is for Wii and potentially PSMove,” said the site.
Exciting times! The original House of the Dead Overkill is still one of our favourite Wii games and held the Guiness World Record for most f-bombs in a video game.
This entry was posted on Thursday, November 11th, 2010 at 12:34 pm and is filed under News & Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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