Atlus have revealed a new entry in the Soul Hackers sub-series of Shin Megami Tensei JRPGs is releasing on August 26th 2022 for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. This will be the first new Soul Hackers title since the Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers 3DS remake back in 2012. Check out the reveal trailer below:
Soul Hackers 2 is actually the 3rd entry in the Devil Summoner sub-series of Shin Megami Tensei titles. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner originally released on the SEGA Saturn back in December 1995, and its sequel Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers also released on the SEGA Saturn in November 1997. Soul Hackers 2 will launch worldwide on August 26th 2022. Interestingly, Japan has yet to reveal a release date for this title.
The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie isn’t even out yet, but Paramount Pictures are obviously very happy with the performance of the first Sonic movie because they’ve just revealed that a 3rd Sonic movie is now in development alongside a Knuckles spin-off TV series that will air in 2023 on Paramount Plus. Idris Elba is also set to return to voice our favourite echidna in this upcoming TV series.
The first Sonic the Hedgehog movie was a huge success for Paramount, grossing $319.7 million against a budget of $90 million. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 releases on April 8th 2022 and sees the return of Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog and introduces Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna and Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Miles “Tails” Prower. Jeff Fowler returns to direct.
CyberConnect2’s Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 10th 2022. This arena fighting game is based on the long-running Demon Slayer manga and originally released back in October 2021 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. This new port was revealed during tonight’s Nintendo Direct. See the embed below and skip to 1:04:13 to see it briefly in action:
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles launches on Nintendo Switch on June 10th 2022.
The Western SEGA Amusements arcade division have revealed they will be producing a licensed Jumanji game for up to 4 players. The game will feature 12 mini games which are controlled with a unique rotating dial and button combination.
The game will feature the likenesses of Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan alongside genuine audio from the movies. You can check out a trailer for the game below:
There is currently no firm release date for the SEGA Amusements Jumanji arcade game, but arcade operators can make enquiries via the official entry on the SEGA Amusements website.
Hot on the heels of the recent news that SEGA Japan was selling all its Japanese arcade venues to Genda Inc, SEGA Japan have committed to a new Joypolis venue that will open in March 2022 in Sendai, North Japan. The Joypolis chain of in-door theme parks continues to be owned and operated by SEGA Japan and this new venue will be entirely sports focused and called Joypolis Sports.
The aim of the Joypolis Sports venue is to offer far more physical amusements to play and the venue is promising patrons access to ping pong tables, basketball courts, climbing walls, trampolines and much, much more.
The Joypolis Sports venue is located at the 1st floor of the Aeon Sendai Nakayama Store, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture 981-3213 and will open in March 2022. Sendai is located 3+ hours away from Tokyo by train.
SEGA Japan have sold their remaining stocks in their Japanese arcade locations to Genda Inc and will stop operating arcades themselves going forward. While the company will continue to produce arcade games, these will simply be sold to any Japanese arcade operators and all SEGA-branded arcade locations will now be rebranded as GiGO arcades. SEGA had already sold the vast majority of their operations to Genda Inc back in November 2020 with the remaining stocks being sold only amounting to 15% of their total arcade business.
It’s another big loss to SEGA Japan’s arcade business which has been one of the country’s strongest up until the COVID-19 pandemic forced arcade operators to close their doors and limit indoor capacity. Back in September 2021, SEGA Japan closed its flagship Ikebukuro arcade which ran for an impressive 28 years.
It’s been a long old time since we last heard about Two Point Campus. Originally announced back in June 2021, this sequel to Two Point Hospital moves the action from healthcare to higher education and puts you in the hot seat as the designer of your very own university. A firm release date has now been set for May 17th 2022. Check out the new trailer by clicking the embed below:
Two Point Campus is releasing on a huge array of systems on May 17th 2022. The game will launch on PC via Steam, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The game is being developed by Two Point (who could have guessed!?).
The kings of prototype game preservation Hidden Palace have returned with another massive update of unreleased and prototype game dumps. Among the extensive update are a few unreleased SEGA titles with the most interesting being a 32X port of Spot Goes to Hollywood – the isometric sequel to Cool Spot. Check out some in-game footage below which also showcases a deleted stage based on the Aliens franchise:
In addition to the 32X Spot Goes to Hollywood discovery, we also have an interesting Time Warner 32X CMD Download Cartridge dump – a piece of software used to download programs onto a flash cart for testing on real 32X hardware.
On the Mega Drive side of things we have a dump of RBI Baseball 95 which was eventually cancelled. We also have a prototype version of Race Drivin’ that would see release on the system in March 1993. This prototype appears to be quite late in the game’s development.
A new version of the Astro City Mini has been revealed by SEGA Japan’s SEGA Toys division. Called the Astro City Mini V, this new version of the mini console features a vertically-orientated screen made for games that play in TATE mode. As a result, the system’s games library is specifically focused on TATE games, with a large amount being vertically-scrolling shoot-em-ups. Check out the reveal trailer below:
The Astro City Mini V will launch in Japan in 2022. There is no firm release date available at the time of writing. See below for a full list of included software:
A handful of SEGA Xbox and 360 games have been added to the Xbox Series X|S backwards compatibility list. The main highlight comes in the form of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s 3rd person shooter Binary Domain which also gets a 60 FPS boost with its arrival. See below for the full list of SEGA/Atlus additions:
– Binary Domain (with FPS boost)
– Gunvalkyrie
– Otogi: Myth of Demons
– Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
– Rock of Ages (with FPS boost)
An additional handful of Sonic games that were already backwards compatible have also received a 60 FPS boost. The most interesting of these is Sonic Unleashed which has only ever been playable in 30 FPS. The full list of FPS boosted titles now follows:
– Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed FPS boost
– Sonic Generations FPS boost
– Sonic Unleashed FPS boost
All of these updates are available to Xbox Series X|S owners now. Series S owners will need to own the games digitally in order to play them.
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