Mark your calendars Vita and Project DIVA fans! SEGA has announced on their blog the release date for Project DIVA f to be sometime in March. Pricing is still to be announced, but hopefully it is fair enough to encourage newcomers to the game and for any double dippers among those who bought it for PS3 already. Mentioned on our Project Diva F 2nd page, show your support to convince …read more
In the wake of the PS4 and Xbox One’s dueling over graphical power and how that power is advertised, performance issues in games have arguably been given more attention outside of just the enthusiast circles that may be more inclined to pore over details and features. Yakuza: Ishin for the PS4 is reported to perform at 60 fps and at a higher resolution than the PS3 version. For those unaware, …read more
Project Diva F 2nd will be releasing with a separately-sold arcade gamepad for the PS3. The gamepad is made by HORI, who also produce arcade sticks for fighting games and also sponsor some professional fighting game players. Perhaps one of their more well known products is the wireless “fightstick” sold with Limited Edition copies of Namco Bandai’s Tekken 6. For those unfamiliar, this is actually not a new development, as …read more
We previously posted about #SegaPCPorts, a movement designed to bolster awareness of the opportunities for expanding Sega’s PC library. It’s worth noting what was initially being asked for through tweets are by and large Japanese Sega titles. Amidst an ongoing debate over title selection for the campaign, #SegaPCPorts has made its next move. Now, a petition has been launched on change.org to ask Sega to bring more games to the …read more
Gaming media contributor Kat Bailey recently published a list of her top ten JRPG stories through IGN. Among that esteemed group are a variety of titles, including: classics like Suikoden II and Chrono Trigger, the recently re-released for Vita social sim RPG Persona 4 (as Persona 4: Golden), and cult success The World Ends With You. Valkyria Chronicles also made the list. Here’s what Bailey had to say about the …read more
Owing perhaps to the franchise’s relative slumber, Sega’s Sakura Wars website was actually shut down for a brief period not too long ago. Dualshockers picked up on something interesting: were you to visit sakura-taisen.com on the 29th of December, you would have been greeted with this: The website remained expired for what appears to be at least a couple of days initially being taken down. Thankfully, since then the site …read more
With Operation Rainfall’s new article helping us reach more people, we’ve now passed the number of 200 signatures! No reason to stop there of course! Thanks to everyone that signed our petition so far, and for those that haven’t signed it yet, you can find the petition here.
Sony has unveiled their new streaming game service called Playstation Now at CES 2014, which will allow gamers to stream PSOne, PS2, and PS3 games to the PS4, PS3 and later PS Vita. However, it also intends to expand the service to non-Playstation devices, including their BRAVIA TV’s, tablets and smartphones. This is an excellent opportunity for the mainline Yakuza entries and the first Valkyria Chronicles among other games to …read more
Earlier today, NeoGAF member Grief.exe sent out a call to arms for Sega fans on PC. In recent years, Sega has built up their PC portfolio with the acquisition of Relic Entertainment and The Creative Assembly. Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed on PC received plenty of updates and sales discounts through Steam. However, with the exception of Phantasy Star Online 2 plenty of Sega offerings remain outside of PC, …read more
Dualshockers pointed out a rather interesting job opportunity from Relic Entertainment, the studio Sega acquired earlier this year: http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/12/…ne-2-incoming/ The job opportunity mentions they’re looking for someone to “ramp up and perform due diligence on an existing live MMO project in development in Japan, embedded with the live team”. The logical conclusion would be that the existing live MMO project is in fact PSO2. So far, Sega have always maintained …read more