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Esteemed Japanese games designer Yu Suzuki has retired from his role as R&D creative officer at publisher Sega to assume a position at the company’s AM Plus division. Suzuki has produced many of Sega’s most loved titles, with a portfolio including the likes of Space Harrier, Out Run, Virtua Fighter, …
Read More »Yu Suzuki leaves key Sega post
Legendary designer retires from role of R&D creative officer though he will remain at the publisher
Read More »House of the Dead breaks swearing world record
House of the Dead: Overkill has won itself the prestigious honour of being officially crowned the most swear word filled game ever released, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The game contains the word ‘f*ck’ a total of 189 times – in fact, the F word accounts for …
Read More »Stormrise to capitalise on Total War success
Creative Assembly is set to follow-up t he success of Empire: Total War, with futuristic console RTS, Stormrise. 2009 has already been a big year for the RTS genre, with Dawn of War II, Halo Wars and Empire: Total War performing well in the All Formats Top Ten. And Creative …
Read More »Sega confirms Vancouver 2010 game
Publisher Sega has announced that Vancouver 2010 – the Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games, will arrive on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next winter. The announcement follows Sega’s agreement with the International Sports Multimedia, the official licensee of the Winter Olympics, and will be developed by Beijing …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Campaign Of The Week
Sonic And The Secret Rings was a commercial hit for Sega, and the publisher hopes to repeat this success with the next in its Wii exclusive series, Sonic And The Black Knight, which arrives on shelves this week . TVSega is running a three-week TV campaign across terrestrial and satellite …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Empire Total War smashes series records
The triumph of Sega’s Empire: Total War at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 yesterday marks the most successful debut in the history of the Total War series. Week one sales of the title were nearly double those of both Rome: Total War and Medieval II: …
Read More »Sega ‘frustrated’ by Change4Life ad
Sega has become the first major publisher to publicly criticise the Government’s new Change4Life print ad. The offending campaign – which shows a young gamer holding a PlayStation controller under the words ‘Risk an early death, just do nothing’ – appeared in the national press this weekend. It was first …
Read More »Alpha Protocol enjoying the benefits of Unreal Engine 3
Obsidian Entertainment on using Epic's popular engine
Read More »JAPAN: Yakuza 3 sells 300,000
The lead developer of Sega’s underground gangster romp Yakuza 3 has stated that since its Japanese release on February 26th the game has sold 300,000 copies. Kotaku reports that the number already makes the game one of the PS3’s all-time Top Ten best sellers, though it still lags behind the …
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