Tag archive: Sega

The Stop Online Piracy Act is on everyone's mind lately, including gamers concerned about their favorite companies' perceived support of the legislation. Gaming site HotBloodedGaming recently encouraged readers to contact companies about SOPA, and among the responses they received was a message from Sega that, well… didn't really address the issue. In response to a form letter from reader DanGlozier66 explaining his… Read More

Sega's Shinobi revival for the Nintendo 3DS is here, and there's one vitally important fact about it that you should understand before you take the plunge: this game hates you and it wants you to die. It will, in fact, go to great lengths to ensure that you do so. Repeatedly. It's an old-school mindset for a current-gen game to embrace, but it's also an entirely fitting one for a series with a reputation like… Read More

Sega's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog, is enjoying a big 20th anniversary year thanks to the release of the time-jumping series retrospective-wrapped-in-a-new-game, Sonic Generations. The console version of the game has been out for a few weeks now, but tomorrow fans will finally get to take the speedy, blue hedgehog on the road when the 3DS take on Generations arrives. Which brings us to the question of the day: Does the portable release… Read More

Once upon a time, Daytona USA was a beautiful game, and in many ways it still is, featuring Sega’s Model 2 arcade graphics board, spectacular drifting mechanics and thrilling racing mayhem – it was the arcade racer to beat, and to this day it goes down in history as one of the highest grossing arcade games of all time. Alas, that was 1993; the years haven’t exactly been kind to Daytona USA. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to say Daytona USA… Read More

House of the Dead: Overkill, from Sega, continues to be one of the best gaming experiences one can find on Nintendo's Wii. The new House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut doesn't really fill the same role in its new PlayStation 3 release, but that doesn't really matter. Shooting zombies for points is still ridiculously entertaining, and the experience is further enhanced by some of the funniest writing that video games have… Read More

Yakuza Studio's Binary Domain taps into the increasingly common robot-ruled dystopian narrative we've been seeing more and more of in recent years as cyberpunk fiction has come back into vogue. The February 2012 game from Sega is set in a future Earth that has been torn apart by a robot uprising. Many of them look and act human, but all are possessed with enough self-awareness to realize that they are inherently better than their… Read More

The Yakuza series has always been an odd one, blending the lengthy cutscenes you see in Japan-spawned games like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear with a Grand Theft Auto-like open world (minus the cars). And with a deep melee combat system, not so dissimilar from a 3D fighting game. And with so many random and bizarre minigames that it's possible to sink in many tens of hours and still not see them all. Yakuza is a strange series. It got… Read More

SEGA has come up with a novel way to announce the identity of an upcoming franchise set to make its return on the Playstation 3. Announced yesterday on the SEGA blog, the “Name That Game” contest simply requires that you watch — or more specifically, listen — to a video they've created (embedded below) which contains an audio clue to the project's identity. Sure, it might seem like an easy call for most fans,… Read More

Sega's beloved blue mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog, may have hit some bumps in the road in recent years, but his upcoming time-twisting adventure in Sonic Generations is looking like a running spin-jump back in the right direction. We knew the game would be coming this holiday season, and now a release date has been confirmed: November 1. The whole idea behind the timeplay in Generations' story is to give players a sort of series… Read More

This weekend's PAX event featured a number of interesting announcements, but one in particular should have Sonic the Hedgehog fans — and Android users — pretty excited. During the show, Sega announced plans to bring the much-revered but hard-to-find Sonic CD to Android devices by the end of the year, with other platform releases to follow. According to Sega, the new version of Sonic CD will feature music from its original Japanese… Read More

I'm not mad at Captain America: Super Soldier, I’m just disappointed. It isn’t like I expect all that much of video game adaptations of movies — I did play Thor: God of Thunder after all — but with Captain America you can see the frameworks of a good game there, but it just never comes together. Captain America: Super Soldier isn’t a terrible game. You won’t wander aimlessly through generic caves (looking at you, Thor), nor will you be… Read More

When it comes to video games, sometimes simple is best. In Sega’s upcoming Binary Domain, you won’t face moral dilemmas about the ethics of killing enemies, you won’t be called to search for clues at a crime scene, nor will you have to overcome psychological horrors as you make your way to the evil entity waiting for you. In Binary Domain your enemies are mechanical constructs of varying size, speed and anger, and your goal is to mow them down… Read More

Amidst all the bling and pomp of the biggest titles at this year's E3, one that flew under many a' radar was Sega’s upcoming Binary Domain. Amongst all the other titles at E3, the game suffered from one series setback that potentially crippled it when it came to standing out on the show floor—it was not part of a franchise, nor was it a sequel. There was no number “3” on it, and there was nary a semicolon in the title. That in no… Read More

UPDATE: Lulz Security sent out a tweet on Friday which suggests that it had nothing to do with the Sega attack. The tweet reads: “@Sega – contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.” Thanks to BBC for the heads-up. While hacker group Lulz Security claims that it is acting in all of our best interests with its recent actions, the rash of high-profile… Read More

Though Nintendo has been deliberately vague about the release window for the Wii U, one of its publishing partners is getting more specific. In an interview with GameSpot, Sega's Alan Pritchard, executive vice president of marketing, revealed that the console may be coming in spring/summer of 2012. When asked if Sonic Generations will be released for the Wii U, he explained why it won't be coming to Wii U. “The timing just… Read More