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Sega knows a thing or two about succeeding with the biggest digital distributor in the world. And it shared some of that insight last night. In a talk at the London Games Conference, the firm’s digital distribution VP John Clark ran through the ways Sega is using Steam to sell …
Read More »London Games Conference – follow live updates on Develop today
Microsoft's Phil Harrison, EA's Sean Decker, Google, Twitter and Sega all set to speak at key industry event
Read More »More Sega Saturn games on the way to XBLA and PSN
A trio of Sega’s AM2 titles are to receive digital re-releases on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Sega’s AM2 system became an arcade standard in the ‘90s and also served as the basis for the company’s brilliant but ill-fated Saturn console. Virtua Fighter 2 and spin-off Fighting Vipers …
Read More »Serious Games International boosts team with new appointments
New hires have worked with Sega, Codemasters and Eidos
Read More »SI: Preventing piracy enabled us to hire 17 devs
New security measures enabled Football Manager dev to stop illegal file sharing for two weeks
Read More »Phil Harrison to give first public address as Xbox exec at LGC
Xbox exec joins speakers from Twitter, Google, EA, Sega and Disney attending next month's conference
Read More »Anarchy Reigns finally gets UK release date
Sega has finally announced a European release date for Platinum Games’ Anargy Reigns. It will be released on January 11th in the UK. That game’s road to market has been a troubled one. As long ago as May 2011 the game was pushed back to 2012, with a July 2012 …
Read More »Crazy Taxi confirmed for iOS
Sega’s classic arcade and Dreamcast hit Crazy Taxi is screeching its way onto iOS. Interestingly, the port will also include some of the original game’s soundtrack including The Offspring, which – much to fans’ dislike – was missing from the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network versions of the game. …
Read More »Mike Hayes helps launch Serious Games studio
A new UK corporate games studio has emerged, and is being launched with the help of former Sega West boss Mike Hayes. Serious Games International is a new UK-based firm that wants to produce game-like applications for corporate firms, such as training programmes. The idea being that games is a …
Read More »Former Codemasters execs heading up Sega Hardlight
Solihull-based developer to focus on digital titles for iOS, Android and Windows
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