Sega of Japan have just announced a new Project Morpheus demo called “SEGA feat. HATSUNE MIKU Project: VR Tech Demo”. The demo apparently allows people to watch a Hatsune Miku concert in VR. Details are scarce at the moment, but it appears the tech demo might be featured at SCEA’s booth at E3. For now it doesn’t seem like this is meant to become an actual game, but nonetheless, it’s …read more
Yu Suzuki has announced a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 at E3 2015! You can find the link here, although Kickstarter is having trouble at the moment handling the requests: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3 The official website for the game: http://shenmue.link/ The goal is $2,000,000. The game is being built on the Unreal 4 engine for PC and PS4. That should be an easy target to reach for Shenmue fans! At the moment, it …read more
In the newest PSO Live Stream event, Sega announced new collaboration content with the Guilty Gear and Blazblue franchises, prominent fighting game IPs that belong to Arc System Works. Of course, Sega is no stranger to collaborating with franchises that aren’t in-house as far as Phantasy Star Online 2 is concerned. However, a fun fact: Guilty Gear was owned by Sega for a couple of years following the merger of …read more
TojoHQ, a Yakuza fansite, recently noticed the return of the official English Sega webpage for the Yakuza franchise. After proceeding past the age-gate, visitors can check out the profile pages for the Yakuza games that have been released in the West or are going to be released in the West. Do so by visiting the Games category at the top of the site. Among those games is the game that …read more
Congratulations to Sega! Yakuza series will be ten years old this year (original Japanese release was on December 10th) and the franchise has sold 7.5 million in total global sales, according to Gematsu and Games Talk. This is a good milestone considering those of us outside of Japan have missed a few entries and are now catching up with Yakuza 5. It’s a strong property for Sega in Japan overall. …read more
Atlus have announced that they will bring FuRyu’s 3DS RPG The Legend of Legacy to North America and South America sometime in Fall 2015. The game will be available for retail and eShop. Atlus has offered their own detailed summary of the game, which you can view at this link. Legend of Legacy is a turn-based RPG set on the island of Avalon where seven adventures explore for personal reasons, …read more
Not long after the announcement of an expanded release and new characters for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, Sega announced another new team that will be coming to the crossover fighter. Quenser Barbotage (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) from Heavy Object will be a playable character, with Froleytia Capistrano (voiced by Shizuka Ito) serving as an assist character. Quenser will be able to summon other characters from his series as part of …read more
It’s been more than a year since Blade Arcus from Shining hit Japanese arcades. With this new year we have the arrival of an expansion of this fighting game and it will be titled: Blade Arcus from Shining Version 2.0. The updated game is coming to Japanese arcades during this summer. This is the poster art from the game, found at this sega-mag article. The article also contains a handful …read more
AtlusUSA recently unveiled their DLC plans for Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knight, set to come out on August 4. Starting on the week of the game’s release, and every week after that (for three weeks, with the last pieces being added on the last week of August) a couple pieces of DLC will be made available during the month of August every Tuesday. Some DLC will be available …read more
Sam Mullen, localization producer at Sega, recently had a panel at Momocon (a fan convention in Atlanta), where he talked about Japanese to English game localization. The presentation starts from the perspective of a fictional company that wants to release an (also fictional) game. From there, Sam starts by looking at the various roles that are typically found in a localization team, and the tasks assigned to them. Then, the …read more