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Rumours That Aliens: Colonial Marines for Wii-U Has Been Cancelled “Not True”

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Eurogamer have reached out to SEGA for a comment regarding internet rumours that Aliens: Colonial Marines has been cancelled for Wii-U.

Their response? “It’s not true. We haven’t announced the release date for it yet but that’s it.”

Rumours began last night when Kotaku writer Jason Schreier left a comment saying, “We heard from a tipster about a month ago that the Wii U version had been ‘postponed indefinitely’. We reached out to Sega, and they denied it. I’ll let you guys fill in the blanks there. :)”

SEGA had previously announced that the game was due out in the “launch window” for the Wii-U which lasts up to March. Fingers crossed this is still the case.

NeoGAF users have also noticed that the game’s Amazon listing has also disappeared.

Permanent Price Drop on Select SEGA PSP Titles on PSN

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

SEGA have permanently reduced the prices to a select number of PSP titles that are available to download from the Playstation Network. This is a North American deal only. The prices are below:

Alien Syndrome: $9.99………$4.99
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars: $9.99………$4.99
Crush: $9.99………$6.99
Sonic Rivals: $9.99………$6.99
Sonic Rivals 2: $9.99………$6.99
Super Monkey Ball Adventure: $9.99………$4.99
Valkyria Chronicles II: $19.99………$9.99

If you haven’t played it yet we recommend Crush as it’s one of the most interesting and unique puzzle games ever created.

[Source: SEGA Blog]

Anarchy Reigns Coming to PSN Today

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Anarchy Reigns is making its’ way to the Playstation Network today. The Platinum Games-developed brawler can be bought and downloaded to your PS3 hard-drive for £19.99.

[Source: Spong]

Aliens: Colonial Marines Patched to Correct Numerous Bugs

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Aliens: Colonial Marines has receieved patches across all 3 platforms to correct the many issues reported by users and critics. You can access a full list of patch notes for all 3 platforms via the links below:

PC update information
Xbox 360 update information
PS3 update information

[Source: Gearbox Software]

Toshihiro Nagoshi Teases Information About Yakuza 6

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Toshihiro Nagoshi has revealed some details about the next Yakuza title in an interview with Dengeki PlayStation.

According to the big boss there will be significant improvements to the battle system with the overall feel of the game becoming more of a “physical experience”.

It has also been revealed that Yakuza 5 was the last title to be released on PS3. This means the series could now be coming to next generation consoles.

[Source: Spong]

Aliens: Colonial Marines Development Was Outsourced to TimeGate Studios

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

An ex-Gearbox employee has revealed that the majority of Aliens: Colonial Marines was not developed by Gearbox Software.

The un-named employee has said:

“Hate to say it, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high for Colonial Marines. I used to work at Gearbox, and the development of that game has been a total train wreck, going on what, six years now? Gearbox isn’t even making the game, except for the multiplayer. Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past.”

TimeGate Studios are known for the game Section 8: Prejudice and various DLC packs for FEAR.

[Source: Eurogamer]

Microsoft Considered a SEGA Buyout

Friday, February 8th, 2013

Ex Microsoft executive Joachim Kempin has revealed that at one point Microsoft considered buying out SEGA before licensing out Windows CE for use in SEGA’s Dreamcast:

“There was always talk maybe we buy Sega or something like that. That never materialised, but we were actually able to license them what they call Windows CE, the younger brother of Windows, to run on their system and make that their platform.”

Ultimately, Bill Gates pushed to launch a console of his own and the original X-Box was born:

“For Bill this wasn’t enough, he didn’t think that Sega had enough muscle to eventually stop Sony so we did our own Xbox thing. There were some talks but it never materialised because Sega was a very different bird. It was always Sony and Nintendo, right? And Nintendo had some financial trouble at that point in time, so Sony came out with the PlayStation and bang! They took off, and everyone else was left behind.”

[Source: Eurogamer]

New SEGA Title is Chaos Online; a Korean MMORPG

Friday, February 8th, 2013

The SEGA title that SEGA of Japan teased yesterday with the date of February 12th appears to be a Korean MMORPG called Chaos Online. An official website for the title can also be found by clicking here. I somewhat doubt this one will be making it West. What do you think?

[Source: NeoGAF and Titanscreed]

After Burner Climax Now Available on iOS App Store

Friday, February 8th, 2013

After Burner Climax is now available for iOS. The SEGA AM2 game costs £1.99.

SEGA have also revealed that an Android release is “just around the corner”. Check out the launch trailer below:

[Source: SEGA Blog]

SEGA of Japan Teasing Potential New Game; Announcement 12th of February

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

Famitsu have discovered a teaser website containing 3 images connected to SEGA showing fantasy landscape artwork with the date 02.12 plastered over them.

You can access the website by clicking here and see the images below:

Could SEGA be announcing a new game? The artwork doesn’t appear to be reminiscent of any current SEGA IP so this could be a completely brand new IP as well.

[Source: Famitsu]

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