Sega Announces Its E3 2009 Game Slate

This is supposed to be the year E3 puts itself back on the map, and Sega has announced a slate of video game titles it plans to showcase at the expo.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is set to kick off at the beginning of June in Los Angeles, and this is supposed to be the year the show puts itself back on the map after a couple years of less-than-successful scaled-back efforts. Game publishers are already looking to jump on the E3 hype machine, and Sega is out the door early, announcing a slate of titles it plans to showcase at the show…and, of course, the company plans to get many of them into consumers’ hands in time for the end-of-year holiday season.

Sega’s announcements cover six gaming platforms with established franchises and new licensed properties…including 2010 Olympics tie-ins: Vancouver 2010 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Mario and Sonic will hit the Wii (with Balance Board support) and Nintendo DS while the official game will ship for PS2, Xbox 360, and Windows PCs and feature real Olympic events and venues, along with multiplayer online competition.

Titles tying in with movies will include Planet 51 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS), Aliens vs. Predator (Xbox 360, PS3, Windows), while new franchises will include the spy ROG Alpha Protocol (Xbox 360, PS3, Windows), adventure/combat game Bayonetta (Xbox 360, PS3), and alien-conspiracy game The Conduit (Wii)—which features support for up to 12 simultaneous players.

Vancouver 2010 and AvP are due to ship in early 2010; most of the rest of Sega’s lineup is due in late 2009, with the exception of The Conduit would should hit the streets in June.