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Football Manager 2016 shifted 110,000 digital and physical units in its first week on sale in the UK. This means the game could have been No.3 in the Chart-Track All Formats charts had digital sales been included. 82 per cent of the game’s sales were made digitally. Based on just …
Read More »Valkyria Chronicles IV and remaster headed to PS4
Sega’s cult hit RPG Valkyria Chronicles is getting a brand new instalment on PS4 – as well as a remake of the first game in the series. Valkyria Chronicles IV: Valkyria of the Blue Revolution will be the first new instalment in the popular tactical role-playing series since 2011’s Valkyria …
Read More »Sega hires Joseph Kim to lead Western mobile push
Former FunPlus exec joins publisher as VP of Product
Read More »Sega fails to meet reduced financial forecast
But publisher back in profit
Read More »Sega financials fall short of reduced forecast
Sega has revealed that it did not do as well financially as it expected – even with a a reduced fiscal predictions. The firm announced it made 154.3bn in net sales (827m) which is down 1.1 per cent on the firm’s previous reduced expectations for the six months ending September …
Read More »Shenmue 1 & 2 re-release could be on the cards
Sega has said that it is currently pondering how to go about re-releasing cult RPGS Shenmue and Shenmue 2. Despite the fact that fans have been clamouring for more Shenmue for years, it was the recent success of the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter that finally gave Sega the nudge it needed. …
Read More »Sega apologises for calling a Sonic character ‘Boob’
Whoops. Sega has had to apologise after an update to mobile title Sonic Runners introduced a character with a rude name. The Halloween update was supposed to include ‘Boo’. Y’know, as in ‘ghost’. Instead, it actually offered a character called ‘Boob’. Y’know, as in ‘breast’. An in-game pop-up currently reads: …
Read More »Sega teams up with Motorsport Manager dev PlaySport
Sega has announced a publishing partnership with the developers of mobiel racing title, Motorsport Manager. The studio is based in Guildford and was co-founded by Christian West in January 2014. Their first release, Motorsport Manager, went straight to the top of the iOS charts in ten regions when it debuted …
Read More »Mario Maker down to second in Japanese charts as FIFA vanishes from Top Ten
RPG 7th Dragon III Code: VFD has shot to the top of the Japanese software charts in its first week. Sega’s new title outsold Super Mario Maker by almost four times last week, as Nintendo’s DIY game for the Wii U slipped to second. Meanwhile, former third place title FIFA …
Read More »UPDATE: Sega confirms Yakuza 5 western release for next month
Yakuza 5 will launch in the west next month, Sega has confirmed Ablog posttitled Top 5 Movies to Get Hyped for Yakuza 5” buries the lede of the PS3 title’s planned mid-November release for western territories. The new window is the result of a delay caused by "a few weird …
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