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Sega’s PC version of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles has ‘blown all predictions out of the water’, the publisher has claimed. The game release on Steam yesterday and was at one stage apparently the most downloaded game on the platform. Currently it sits in third place behind fellow Sega title Football …
Read More »UPDATE: Sega confirms Valkyria Chronicles PC port in development
2008 PlayStation 3 strategy-RPG release Valkyria Chronicles is heading to Windows PC, publisher Sega has announced. Gallia, to arms! Return to the original battle on PC. More info coming soon…,” the company posted on its Twitter account earlier this week. Though no details on a release window were provided by …
Read More »Alien: Isolation DLC Corporate Lockdown hits next week
Sega has announced the first of five upcoming add-ons for Alien: Isolation will arrive before the end of the month. Dubbed Corporate Lockdown, the new DLC has players assuming the role of a new playable character forced to escape from a station they had originally planned to extract data from …
Read More »Here’s your Football Manager 2015 release date
Sega and Sports Interactive have announced the UK release date for Football Manager 2015. The game will be released on November 7th complete with the traditional extensive new feature list, with the focus this time being on personalisation and customisation opinions. Also included are a new UI and improved Match …
Read More »VIDEO: Alien: Isolation TV ad is suitably horrifying
There’s something stalking us, something that doesn’t belong here.” Sega has released its official TV for upcoming horror outing Alien: Isolation. The short focuses mainly on the iconic xenomorph itself and ramps up the tension by emphasizing the player’s relative helplessness in the face of such an overwhelming foe. A …
Read More »Total War: Attila heading to PC in 2015
There’s a new entry coming to Creative Assembly’s Total War series early next year. As the name suggests, Total War: Attila sees Attila the Hun taking it to the fading Roman Empire. Features such as family and skill tress have been re-introduced to expand upon the established real-time turn-based strategy …
Read More »Sega accuses Gearbox as Aliens: Colonial Marine lawsuit gets ugly
Sega of America has filed documents defending itself against false advertising allegations for Aliens: Colonial Marines, pointing to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford as a major issue throughout the game’s development. Polygon reports on the newly surfaced documents, which reveal emails that reference Pitchford’s habit of taking things into his own …
Read More »Sega promotes John Clark to SVP of commercial publishing
Sega has promoted John Clark to senior vice president for commercial publishing, a new division within Sega Europe that combines boxed and digital games. Clark has worked at Sega for almost eight years, having worked as UK managing director. Since 2012, he has worked as VP for digital distribution. Sega’s …
Read More »Yakuza 0 coming to PS4 and PS3
A prequel to the Yakuza series has been announced for PS4 and PS3. Gematsu reports that Yakuza O is set in December 1988 and depicts events that are directly related to the original game. Development is said to be 65 per cent complete, with a release date yet to be …
Read More »MCV @ GAMESCOM PREVIEW: Alien Isolation
In a perfect world it would go without saying that a game based on the Alien IP would be utterly terrifying. But after 2013’s Colonial Marines, you would be forgiven for nassuming this take on the series would also be a shooter – more ‘Aliens’ than ‘Alien’. When it comes …
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