SEGA have just revealed a new official web-series called SEGA Central which aims to give you insider news, behind-the-scenes previews, interviews and footage of SEGA’s upcoming releases. In addition SEGA have promised retrospectives that deal with classic SEGA games like Sonic Adventure 2 and Jet Set Radio.
The series is going to be exclusive to the SEGA Europe YouTube Channel so if you’re a YouTube user you can subscribe for future episodes.
If you’re not aware of SEGA’s Japanese media franchise Sakura Wars then we might need to explain before move on: the Sakura Wars series mainly consists of a series of video games based around tactical warfare and keeping character relationships positive through a dating simulation element. The series has largely stayed Japan exclusive but has also strayed into other media like film, television, novels, manga and stage shows.
The stage show aspect is where today’s news comes from as SEGA have released an adaptation of the most recent stage show on DVD. You can see a trailer for the release below (WARNING: there is a lot of singing and overly cute voices):
UPDATE
A big thanks to Patrick Gardner on our Facebook page who has explained that this show is the first to showcase the Paris and New York Divisions of the series. The show follows the events of Sakura Wars 3 and features 3 new characters.
The Creative Assembly are going through pain-staking efforts to bring the cast of Alien Isolation to life and instead of creating virtual characters and simply hiring voice actors to voice them, they have employed a real cast of actors whose likenesses are being scanned into the game and their acting is also being motion captured. You can see a glimpse of these efforts in a new behind-the-scenes video available below:
Strange observation: all the in game characters seem to be very sweaty and I’m not really sure why.
Alien Isolation comes out on the 7th of October 2014 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax is only 6 days away for Japanese arcade gamers and SEGA have released the opening cinematic from the game on their YouTube channel.
What’s interesting is one of the characters appears in a Dreamcast-themed outfit. You can skip to 0:36 to see the outfit in question:
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax is a Japanese arcade exclusive title. A home console/Western release has not been confirmed at this time.
Along with yesterday’s announcement that Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will be getting a Japanese release in May, we now have the first official Japanese trailer! Check it out:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed releases on May 15th for PS3 and Wii U in Japan.
Alien: Isolation has finally been confirmed and Eurogamer have the scoop on the announcement trailer. Check it out below:
Accompanying the trailer is a lengthy preview article and video also by Eurogamer. You can read the article by clicking here and viewing the preview by looking below:
Alien: Isolation will be a cross-generational game which means it will launch on PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 and it’s due sometime this year.
A new trailer has been revealed for Japan exclusive PS Vita rhythm game Song Builder 575. Song Builder 575 has music powered by the Vocaloid music software and the trick with this title is to fill in the empty lines with lyrics while also tapping the screen in time with the songs. Check out the new trailer below:
Song Builder 575 is due to release in Japan on the 23rd of January 2014.
One of SEGA’s latest arcade endeavors is the on-rails shooter Transformers: Human Alliance which was directed by Mr. Oga-Shi who is also responsible for such light-gun classics as Gunblade, Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Let’s Go Jungle & Island.
That last part is important because like those games there’s an awful lot of campy humour present in Transformers: Human Alliance as with the aforementioned games. Check out the new trailer to see what I’m on about:
The first gameplay footage of SEGA Amusement’s Transformers Human Alliance has gone live and I’ll be damned; it looks like awesome-SEGA-arcade-light-gun-fun-times. What’s interesting is it reminds us of SEGA arcade classics Gunblade and LA Machineguns and it even includes that brilliantly cheesy dialogue that SEGA are so famous for (see games like House of the Dead for instance). Check out the trailer below:
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