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Football Manager, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed each exceed 1m in sales
Read More »Sega suffers sales and operating income dip although Sonic and Aliens pass 1m units sold
Japanese publisher Sega Sammy has reported an 18.7 per cent drop in net sales for the year ending March 31st 2013. In total the numbers fell from 395,502m to 321,407m. Operating income dropped 67.3 per cent to 19,073m. However, a number of factors including sales of investment securities, employee pension …
Read More »Release date set for Total War: Rome II
Sega’s Total War: Rome II has a firm Q3 release date. The Creative Assembly developed title will be released worldwide on PC both digitally and physically on September 3rd. Pre-orderers will get the game’s first DLC, the Greek States Culture Pack, for free on the same day. A Collector’s Edition …
Read More »THQ’s Rooke joins Creative Assembly
Former THQ marketing boss Jon Rooke has crossed over to the development sector as brand director at Creative Assembly. Sega has been building dedicated PR and brand teams around its key studios, and Creative Assembly already has a growing team that includes global PR manager Rebecca Attard and communications manager …
Read More »Gearbox calls Aliens lawsuit ‘beyond meritless’
And Sega says case is 'without merit'
Read More »Sega says Aliens lawsuit is "without merit"; Gearbox ups ante saying it’s "beyond meritless"
Both publisher Sega and developer Gearbox have rubbished a lawsuit filed against the pair regarding Aliens: Colonial Marines. On Wednesday MCV reported that a Californian lawsuit is taking both companies to task over the disparity between pre-release demos and marketing materials and the final release of Aliens: Colonial Marines. Sega …
Read More »Launch day Aliens: Colonial Marines buyers could receive a refund
A consumer is taking Sega and Gearbox to court over claims that the pair mislead the buying public. Of course, Sega has previously admitted that trailers for the game did not accurately reflect the final content” of the release after being taken to task by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. …
Read More »Lawsuit filed against Colonial Marines dev
Sega, Gearbox accused of false advertising in class action case
Read More »Castle of Illusion update unveiled, digital launch planned for summer
An HD ‘reimagining’ of the 1993 Sega Genesis release Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse has been announced for PSN, XBLA, and Steam. Sega revealed on its blog that the publisher is collaborating with Disney Interactive on the multi-platform title, with development being handled by Sega’s Aussie studio. In a …
Read More »Sega names Tim Heaton interim GM for Relic
But there are currently no plans to tie the studio with The Creative Assembly
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