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Yakuza Zero, King of Fighters XIV Playable at Sony’s E3 2016 Booth

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E3 2016 is next week: June 14-16th. The hype train and rumor mill for all sorts of games are already active. Some fans might even get lucky with the leaks that are coming out recently (anyone here like Dead Rising?)

Meanwhile, Gematsu has recently published an article detailing a partial list of games confirmed to be playable at Sony’s E3 2016 booth. King of Fighters XIV (listed as being published by Atlus) and Yakuza Zero (listed as being published by SEGA), both of which will be available for the Playstation 4. These are great opportunities for both games. King of Fighters XIV is making the rounds at conventions and fighting games tournaments, and added exposure will only help the game. Meanwhile, Yakuza Zero will surely receive much attention and has a bit of a history with Sony due to the #buildingthelist campaign.

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Atlus USA Booth Plans for E3 2016 Include Yakuza 0

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Towards the end of February, it had been noticed that two different branches of SEGA would be representing the company at E3 2016 – Atlus USA and SEGA Europe. While at first this may have raised questions about the whereabouts of SEGA of America in particular and what plans there would be for any upcoming English-localized SEGA titles from Japan, we now have our answer courtesy of an update to the Atlus USA profile on the official E3 2016 website. Quoted below:

ATLUS U.S.A., Inc. is known for high-quality, deeply immersive, uniquely Japanese and indie video game experiences. Our award-winning catalog continues to grow across a variety of genres and platforms. Visit our booth featuring highly anticipated titles from ATLUS and SEGA, including Persona 5, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, and Yakuza 0.

Interestingly, there’s a wide swath of genres listed in this Atlus profile page, including Fighting/Wrestling, Indie, Music/Dance, Role-Playing, Strategy, Action, Adventure, and Localization. These cover virtually all modern active gaming platforms. So we can probably expect more than what’s listed at the description, at the very least. With yet-to-be-released titles such as Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (releasing later this month!) and Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, this is to be expected. Nevertheless it must be said that this doesn’t guarantee that these two titles in particular will be present, though we would hope to see a generous offering of titles on display.

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E3 2016: Featuring Atlus and Sega Europe

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The Entertainment Software Association, the U.S.-based organization that owns E3 2016 and represents game publishing companies, announced earlier today the current exhibitor list for E3 2016. The full list was published to the official E3 2016 website; from the main site, you can browse the full list of participants by attempting a search. Most relevant to us, as Sega and Atlus fans, are these two attendees:

  • ATLUS
  • SEGA Europe

Atlus? No surprise there, we’ve been expecting them. Hopefully we may see something related to Persona 5. Sega Europe, by name, is an interesting listing, though. It’s hard to speculate on an explanation for why Sega is listed as such and why it would be Sega Europe specifically, but it was deliberate.

Want to see something interesting? If you go to the bottom of the E3 website while browsing, eventually a scrolling banner of participating companies’ logos will show up at the bottom. You can accelerate the scrolling of logos by moving your mouse on to the right arrow. Go click on Sega’s logo. Once you click on a company’s logo, it links to a site that represents the company. This one just so happens to take you to Atlus USA’s main website. I wonder how that happened?

E3 2016 is set for June 14-16 of this year.