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Monday, March 21st, 2016
A Sonic the Hedgehog 25th anniversary event has been revealed. The event will take place at the San Diego House of Blues on the 22nd of July. Tickets are available now and can be bought by clicking here.
The event was announced at a recent Sonic the Hedgehog retrospective panel at SXSW. Sonic the Hedgehog social media guru Aaron Webber also hinted at another Sonic game reveal for the event but wouldn’t commit to a definite, “there will be a new Sonic game announcement at this event” so take those comments with a pinch of salt.
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Tags: 25th anniversary, convention, event, house of blues, san diego, sega america, sonic the hedgehog
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
SEGA Europe have revealed a ‘Europa Edition’ for Valkyria Chronicles Remastered.
The European special edition will come with an A3 poster of the game’s cast and an exclusive ‘The Art of Valkyria Chronicles’ art book. On top of that, you also get all the previously released DLC with the game as standard. That’s a pretty nifty package if I do say so myself.
Pricing hasn’t been revealed yet but Valkyria Chronicles Remastered launches in Europe on the 17th of May for PS4.
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Tags: art book, bonus, europa edition, poster, rpg, sega europe, special edition, strategy, valkyria chronicles remastered
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
SEGA are now running a new survey which you can get involved in by clicking here.
The company are specifically looking for fan feedback in order to, “make their games better”. There’s a whole host of questions in this survey that ask what your favourite SEGA franchises are (both old and new) as well as your involvement with things like mobile gaming. They’ve also hilariously listed House of the Dead and The House of the Dead as separate entries. Oh SEGA.
This survey is certainly an interesting development that fans of the publisher will want to get involved in. As we have previously mentioned in the past in our Yakuza 0 and the Disparity Between SEGA America and Europe article, SEGA’s Western divisions don’t seem to communicate with consumers very well and an opportunity to give feedback in this survey may help improve matters in the future.
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Tags: feedback, sega america, sega europe, survey
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
The Dreamcast and SEGA Saturn console themes for 3DS are finally coming to Europe this Friday the 19th of February. Each theme will set you back £1.59 and come complete with sampled audio relevant to each console.
The European localisation has been especially impressive for previous SEGA console themes with the Mega Drive and Master System themes using sound and imagery relevant to the console’s release in the PAL regions. The same seems to have been applied to the Dreamcast theme which actually uses the blue swirl as opposed to the orange swirl used in America and Japan.
[Source: Videogamer]
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Tags: 3ds, dreamcast, eshop, release date, sega saturn, theme
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Thursday, February 11th, 2016
We’ve finally got a screen of SEGASonic Bros. that shows the multi-coloured Sonics that appear on the title screen, but actually in action.
While we’ve previously seen screens of different coloured balls on the game’s play-field (see below), the multi-coloured Sonics that appear on the title screen hadn’t previously been shown in game. From the above screenshot we can see the multi-coloured Sonics are actually used in play. We can only assume that turn into balls when placed or scored.
[Source: ShouTime]
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Tags: arcade, sega japan, segasonic bros, shoutime, sonic the hedgehog, unreleased
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
All pre-orders and first print editions of the upcoming SEGA 3D Classics Collection on 3DS will come with a free SEGA consoles decal sheet.
Got some spare faceplates that you no longer use for your New 3DS? Well why not sticker them up and make them well SEGAry mate! Stick em on your notebooks and sketchpads! Or you can do what I do and never use them, safeguarding their resale value!
You can see the decal sheet in the image below:
SEGA 3D Classics Collection launches in the Americas on the 26th of April. There is still no announcement regarding a European release which SUCKS
[Source: Nintendo Everything]
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Tags: 3D Power Drift, 3D Puyo Puyo 2, 3d sonic the hedgehog, 3d thunder blade, 3ds, SEGA 3D Classics Collection, sega america
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
Fancy a couple of independet Dreamcast adventure games for a low price? Hucast are currently selling a double-pack of Elansar & Philia for only 10 euros. You can click here to go to the listing on their online shop.
The two adventure games are first person puzzle affairs in a similar vein to PC classic Myst. Support for the Dreamcast mouse is also included.
All games in the Hucast online store are currently reduced so if you’ve been waiting to grab a certain something then now is the time to visit. Why not grab the best version of DUX (1.5) or vertical shmup Ghost Blade for EUR 29.66?
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Tags: adventure game, dreamcast, dux 1.5, elansar, ghost blade, hucast, indie, myst, philia, sale
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
The official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account has uploaded a mysterious image with an encrypted message.
The accompanying text says, “The key lies with @madeon. Good luck.” Madeon is a French electronic music producer who uses a similar encrypted style of text on his music’s artwork.
While a Madeon collaboration linked to Sonic the Hedgehog seems inevitable, fans on Reddit have quickly worked to decipher the message in hopes it leads to information about the heavily rumoured 25th anniversary Sonic title.
It’s all a bit exciting, don’t you think?
[Source: Official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter]
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Tags: anniversary, madeon, music, sonic the hedgehog, teaser
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
ShouTime is back once again with another screenshot from the unreleased SEGASonic Bros. puzzle arcade game.
As you can see above, we now have a look at the game’s difficulty settings which are remarkably similar to Columns’:
ShouTime has also uploaded an image of a Sonic the Hedgehog rucksack which is tagged with ‘SEGASonic Bros’. It’s not confirmed but this could be a piece of merchandise that was tied into the release of the game, but it doesn’t explicitly state this on the actual rucksack.
[Source: ShouTime]
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Tags: arcade, sega japan, segasonic bros, shoutime, sonic the hedgehog, unreleased
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