SEGA announced on Friday the Collector’s Edition for The House of the Dead: Overkill for release in PAL and North American territories. The premium edition of Overkill comes in an exclusive slipcase and includes an exclusive graphic novel, “Prelude to an Overkill”. It will only be available from selected retailers as a pre-order bonus. Exact retailers will be revealed at a later date.
“Prelude to an Overkill” tells the stories of Agent Washington and Varla Gunns, on the night before the violent events of the game. It will be illustrated by Steve Copter of punk band “Black Mekon”. The comic is exclusively available in The House of the Dead: Overkill Collector’s edition.
Pictures of the comic and Collector’s Edition inside!
SEGA has announced a worldwide partnership with High Voltage Software to publish the Wii exclusive game, The Conduit. The Conduit is a visually stunning game made to prove that the Wii can deliver strong visuals almost on par with other next-gen consoles. With its especially made ‘Quantum3′ graphics engine and highly customizable controls, it’s no wonder SEGA would want to publish it.
“The Conduit is one of the most talked-about Wii games this year and High Voltage Software has only scratched the surface of the game in terms of what they have shown so far,” says Simon Jeffery, President of SEGA of America, Inc. “They have proven that graphical and technological innovation can be exciting to the Wii market, and SEGA is thrilled to partner with a team that truly shares our belief in the Wii’s gaming potential beyond the casual market.”
The Conduit is schedlued to be released in Q1 of 2009.
SEGA Australia has today stated that, despite reports, it still intends on releasing Madworld here in Australia. This, of course, will still rely on the Australia Classification Board, but SEGA is going to try.
The company has said in a statement sent to us today that “We believe Madworld will be an asset to the industry and will do what we can to support its release in our territory.” So Aussie Wii owners, SEGA is still going to try and get the game here… but whether it will or will not be edited - and how extensive the censorship may be - is unknown at this point in time.
The latest issue of the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has revealed SEGA are developing an exclusive game for the Nintendo DS titled as, Phantasy Star Zero.
The information currently known about this upcoming title is the characters have been created by Toshiyuki Kubooka, and the scenario has been written by Teru Arai (mystery novel writer) and Tooru Shiwasu (former head of Phantasy Star Online Quest). It has also been revealed the game will feature online multiplayer, and the chat system will support stylus sketches.
Phantasy Star Zero for the Nintendo DS is currently scheduled for a winter release in Japan.
Sega mentioned they would announce a new game at Leipzig for Wii and have came through on that promise, releasing via YouTube a sneak peak of “the hardcore you’ve been waiting for”; and that is a new House of the Dead title called “House of the Dead Overkill”. In a trailer that seems almost aware of how B grade it is, plenty of gameplay is shown off along with all the blood, mutants, boobs, zombies, snakes, and violence one would expect from a zombie thriller. The game is due in 2009, and we’re sure we’ll see more of it in the upcoming days. Trailer, boxart and press release inside.
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Whilst Nintendo is yet to acknowledge the news “officially”, we are able to confirm through our usual ’sources’ (so we’re 99.9% sure) the release date for Super Smash Bros Brawl in Australia.
The release date is set for June 26th, one day before Europe. This means Brawl has finally gotten its release date 60 days after the launch of the game in the US, and by the time the game actually gets here, it will have been a 3 month, 18 day delay.
So some definitely awesome news for Nintendo fans Australia wide!
CHANGE: Nintendo Australia today (14/5/08) have officially announced the Aussie Brawl release date. Confirming our above information, Brawl will be released down under on the 26th of June. Of course, in the Press Release, no sign of any apology was apparent due to the delay, but at least they have set the date in stone.
Read the full Press Release and see the official Aussie packshot inside.
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Nintendo Australia have announced that there are now 200 games available in the Australian Virtual Console store. With today’s additions, (Wonder Boy and Fantasy Zone) it notches the total up to 201.
Also with today’s additions, the Aussie store now has games from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, SEGA Mega Drive, Turbografx, NEOGEO and SEGA Master System.
Nintendo have also informed us of the top ten games sold on the Aussie store.
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Today, direct from Sega HQ, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for DS has been announced for Australian release in January 2008. This news has arrived only a week out from the Wii version release on the 22nd November. Find the full press release including exclusive screenshots inside. Also, discuss this on our forums here.
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Sega has today announced Sega Superstar Tennis, a tennis game featuring 15 Sega characters from various Sega franchises. The game is being developed by Semo Digital, and will feature characters from classic Sega franchises such as Ulala of Space Channel 5, and Sonic the Hedgehog among many others.
Sega announced: “From its pick-up-and-play arcade action to its exciting roster of fan-favourite characters and settings, Sega Superstars Tennis has something for everyone.” Let’s hope the Wii version will have online play, but from reports, it seems unlikely. Sega Superstar Tennis is coming to the PS2, PS3, Wii, DS and X360 early next year.
In our previous article, the news of VC games from the Neo Geo was a possibilty.
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