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Two Point Studios are back with a 3rd entry in their Two Point management series that also includes Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus.
The next entry in the series is called Two Point Museum and let’s you run a museum to the surprise of many. You can check out the announcement trailer via the embed below:
As you can see in the trailer, the usual Two Point humour is back for Two Point Museum. The press release for the game promises the ability to create and design your own museum, go on expeditions to discover new exhibits, as well has have complete creative freedom over item colours and interior design. You can also provide guest tours whilst micro-managing the various item prices and areas for staff. We are also promised the opportunity to provide guests entertainment alongside exhibit information, as well as managing the chaos of the exhibits themselves, which can contain carnivorous plants. There’s also the threat of thievery to deal with.
While there is no firm release date at the time of writing, Two Point Museum is scheduled to release “soon” for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Parking Garage Rally Circuit is a brand new arcade time attack racing game developed by Walaber Entertainment that will be releasing on PC later in 2024. We’ve been given early access to the beta build of the game to show you, so please enjoy our hands-on impressions in this video!
If you would like to see more previews of Parking Garage Rally Circuit then it is currently being showcased at the Tiny Teams festival until August 15th 2024. You can wishlist the game on Steam now by clicking here.
A large selection of Sonic the Hedgehog-themed merchandise has been added to our website’s various merchandise sub sections. See below for a complete list of every new addition to the website, alongside direct links to each new entry:
The first look at Amazon Prime’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV series has arrived. You can watch the brand new teaser trailer for yourself via the embed below:
Like a Dragon: Yakuza will be co-directed by Take Masaharu and Takimoto Kengo. Kiryu Kazama will be played by Takeuchi Ryoma. The series will premiere in 2 batches of 3 episodes, with the first going live on October 24th, while the 2nd batch will premiere on November 1st.
Developed by RheoGamer, a brand new port of Real Bout Fatal Fury for the Mega Drive is now available to download. Now titled Real Bout Fatal Fury Genesis, you can click here to be taken to the direct download link, but the amount of traffic this link is currently receiving is making it difficult to access the page at the time of writing.
Real Bout Fatal Fury is the 5th entry in SNK’s Fatal Fury series, originally released in arcades in 1995. It has only received ports to the Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Saturn and PlayStation prior to this homebrew port. You can check out the reveal trailer via the embed below. The video description for the trailer will also be the easiest way to access the official download link for the game if it gets updated with a more stable link:
A new Sonic X Shadow Generations trailer has dropped and it showcases 3 of the game’s new Shadow stages by comparing them to their original incarnations.
The trailer gives us a fresh look at Final Rush from SA2, Bullet Station from Sonic Heroes and Kingdom Valley from Sonic 06 and shows off the game’s impressive visuals by directly comparing them to the original versions of these stages. It makes for a fun watch which you see via the embed below:
Sonic X Shadow Generations launches on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Switch and PC on October 25th 2024. The game is a full remake of Sonic Generations with a new Shadow campaign bolted on.
Indie Mega Drive shoot-em-up ZPF is aiming to launch in February 2025 through Mega Cat Studios and if you want to secure a physical copy then you can now contribute to the game’s Kickstarter.
This impressive-looking shooter features artwork by Gryzor who previously worked on Gunlord and Neo XYX for Dreamcast. Coding is being handled by Mikael Tillander who also programmed Mega Drive indie game Tänzer. You can check out a trailer for the game here:
A playable demo of ZPF was released last October and is still available to download by clicking here.
If you’re unfamiliar with developer Mega Cat Studios, the team have released multiple independent Mega Drive games like Coffee Crisis, Arkagis Revolution and Little Medusa.
Previously revealed back in October 2023, Compile Heart’s latest entry in the Madō Monogatari series now has a name: Madō Monogatari: Fia and the Mysterious School. What’s even more exciting is that it’s actually releasing very soon – November 28th 2024 to be exact.
This fourth entry in the Madō Monogatari series is currently scheduled for a Japan-only release on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5. Compile Heart are publishing the game while the game is being co-developed by Sting and D4 Enterprise.
The Madō Monogatari series has been long associated with SEGA as the original 3 games plus the spin off A-R-S were remade for the Game Gear while a remake of the first 3 games also appeared on the Mega Drive. A standard alone Madō Monogatari game is also available for the SEGA Saturn. Lots of characters from the Madō Monogatari games would later find fame in the Puyo Puyo series.
A new 3 episode animated series will premiere alongside the release of Sonic X Shadow Generations called Sonic X Shadow: Dark Beginnings. This will be a short animated prologue to the game and each episode will go live in Autumn 2024 on SEGA’s YouTube channel. Along with this announcement we have our first look at the series via a quick teaser that you can watch in the embed below:
Animated shorts and new Sonic games have gone hand-in-hand since Sonic Mania Adventures premiered alongside Sonic Mania Plus in 2018. It looks like this will become a bit of a tradition as Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings follows Team Sonic Racing Overdrive, Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps, Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence and Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble.
Sonic X Shadow Generations is an upcoming re-release of Sonic Generations with a newly added Shadow campaign. The game will release on PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S on October 25th 2024.
Lead by editor Craig Dunsford, a new SEGA fanzine has launched called SEGA Superstars: Next Generation. Following a similar structure to Sonic the Comic that would have multiple comics based on different SEGA franchises, SEGA Superstars features comics based on Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe, alongside previews for future comics based on Kid Chameleon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crazy Taxi and Decap Attack.
Contributors to this first issue of SEGA Superstars: Next Generation include Dave Bulmer of Sonic the Comic the Podcast, Leeann Hamilton and Stuart Gipp of Retronauts, and many more. The fanzine also features news and reviews making for a hearty 29 pages.
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