The Creative Assembly’s Total War franchise is now 15 years old and to celebrate the studio have released a lovely little video that looks back at everything from Shogun: Total War to Total War: Attila.
Keep an eye out for a cheeky little nod to the upcoming Warhammer game that the studio are developing but still haven’t officially announced (come on guys, we all know it’s happening):
Sumo Digital have put together a gallery of unused concepts for the original Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing.
As you can see above, Gillius was due to appear in the first game riding the Chicken Leg creature from the first Golden Axe. Sonic is also seen running around without a vehicle and Tails can also be seen a biplane similar to the original red Tornado design.
A fan called Darkon360 has created the first mod for Sonic CD Remastered.
This mod makes Metal Sonic completely playable in the game. It’s a fun little addition that takes the place of Sonic as the main playable character. There’s an interesting addition in the Stardust Speedway boss stage in that Darkon360 has added Metal Sonic 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2 as the new rival for Metal Sonic. This was obviously done to avoid having Metal Sonic race himself, but it’s a fun little touch all the same.
Valkyria Chronicles’ upcoming PC release was recently announced but now we have the full details as to what this version of the game will include and how it’s priced.
The game is available to pre-order digitally for £14.99 which is considerably cheaper than a boxed PS3 copy. It will release on the 11th of November and pre-ordering will also get you 10% off the price.
The game will also include all the DLC that was released for the PS3 version as standard. This includes Hard EX Mode, Edy’s “Enter the Edy Detachment” mission, Selveria’s “Behind Her Blue Flame” mission and an additional six challenge missions.
The cult-classic, 3rd person strategy game will be re-released on PC courtesy of SEGA but sadly that’s all we know at this time. We’d speculate that Hardlight Studio are behind the port as they previously ported The Creative Assembly’s Viking: Battle for Asgard to PC back in 2012.
SEGA have promised more information soon but other than that it’s pretty exciting to see that one of the PS3′s underrated gems is now getting a wider release.
The first episode of SEGA Central is now live and it’s brought to you from the floor of this year’s Rezzed. The episode gives you a look at Alien Isolation, Total War: Rome II for iOS and the SEGA sponsored Leftfield Collection booth at Rezzed. Check it out below:
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.
We don’t normally talk figures on SEGADriven because it can be a bit dull, but SEGA have published their financial results for the year ending March 31st 2014 and it does make for some interesting reading.
Here’s SEGA’s top sellers from the past year:
1) Total War: Rome 2 – 1.13 million copies sold
2) Football Manager 2014 – 790,000 copies sold
3) Sonic Lost World – 710,000 copies sold
4) Company of Heroes 2 – 680,000 copies sold
5) Ryu ga gotoku Ishin! – 390,000 copies sold
SEGA’s profit was 30.7 billion yen (178 million pounds) for the financial year. This profit was down 8.2% on last year.
SEGA have also confirmed a continued focus on digital with further support for Phantasy Star Online 2 (get on that Western release guys!) as well as casual gaming for mobile devices.
The Japanese mixed pair figure skating duo of Cathy Reed and Chris Reed competed in the Ice Dancing event at the 2014 Winter Olympics to the tune of ‘Shogun II’ from the Total War: Shogun II soundtrack. There basically isn’t anything I can add to this! Just look at that picture!
Now here’s an interesting little development (even if it is only slightly related to SEGA)!
Key developers behind Mega-CD and Saturn game ‘Snatcher’ have joined forces to create a new Japanese adventure game called Blakemore. The game is set in a steampunk, alternate universe version of London.
The game is being directed by Jeremy Blaustein, the man responsible for the English-language version of Snatcher on Mega-CD (this has been the only time the game was ever available in English). Art is being handled by Satoshi Yoshioka who worked as the character designer on the original Snatcher and music is being handled by Motoaki Furukawa who did the soundtrack for the original Snatcher.
Snatcher is famous for being Hideo Kojima’s second ever game and features some small references to Metal Gear. Curiously, David Hayter is being brought on board for Blakemore (famous for voicing Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid) to voice one of the characters.
If you’re interested in helping the development of Blakemore you can back the game on Kickstarter. The game is due for release on PC and MAC in early 2015. Click here to go straight to the Kickstarter page.
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