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The unlikely return of retro classic Daytona to arcades has been seen in motion for the first time. Daytona Championship USA 3 is available to play for attendees of SEGA’s booth at today’s IAAPA Attractions Expo 2016. The developer has deliberately given it a vector retro look that’s wonderfully reminiscent …
Read More »Wargaming launches Alliance publishing label, teams up with Sega to release Total War Arena
Wargaming has started a new publishing label called Wargaming Alliance. This a third party publishing label that plays to Wargaming’s strengths, aiming to give developers the tools and resources to get into free-to-play gaming. Today, in addition to announced the newly created publishing label, they’re announcing their partnership with Sega …
Read More »Wargaming launches Wargaming Alliance publishing label with Total War: Arena as first release
Label aiming to help third party developers with the move to free-to-play
Read More »The Mega Drive is being re-released in Brazil
Did you know that the Sega Mega Drive still, to this day, sells around 150,000 units every year in Brazil? No, nor did we. To put this into context, this is around as many units as the PS4 sells in the region. Not bad for a quarter century old bit …
Read More »Sonic Mania Collector’s Edition is coming to the UK
UK and European gamers who feared they might miss out on the retro-tastic Collector’s Edition of Sonic Mania are in for some good news. Sega has confirmed a release for the SKU in the UK, France, Germany and Spain in spring 2017. It will be an Amazon exclusive and costs …
Read More »Sonic is getting his own art exhibition
Sounds kind of unlikely, doesn’t it? But thanks to a partnership between Sega and art publisher Washington Green, retro games icon Sonic is indeed to star in his own art exhibition. The works are said to be diverse in style and come from critically acclaimed artists. Expect fine art, sculpture …
Read More »European boss Jurgen Post on Sega’s return
Stormrise, Viking: Battle of Asgard, Condemned, Planet 51, The Golden Compass, Iron Man, Let’s Tap, The Incredible Hulk… There was a period in Sega’s recent history where it released a seemingly endless number of (often not very good) games. Financially, the strategy worked for a while, specifically during the Wii …
Read More »Sega Europe boss concerned by Brexit result
Brexit has ‘definitely caused issues’, says Sega’s European boss Jurgen Post. Sega is a major investor in Britain. It owns three UK studios and its European operations are based here. Post says the major concern is with its high number of European staff, and whether it will be able to …
Read More »Space Channel 5 is coming to VR
Rez isn’t the only Sega classic in line for the virtual reality treatment. Polygon reports that Sega and mobile games company KDDI have announced plans to showcase Space Channel 5 VR at the Tokyo Game Show. Sadly, this doesn’t appear to be a full port of the 1999 cult classic. …
Read More »Sega Europe: ‘Shenmue 1 and 2 remakes have our full attention’
Remakes of Shenmue 1 and 2 are still being actively discussed within Sega. The publisher told fans in May that it was trying to find a way to return the classic Dreamcast RPGs, which were first released in 2000 and 2001. European boss Jurgen Post told MCV this week that …
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