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Nintendo reveals E3 game demo Best Buy plans and SEGA Sonic exclusive

, May 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Nintendo is aiming to democratize E3 2013 next week, partnering with Best Buy in the US and Canada to give access to unreleased games to those who can't attend the annual gaming event. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed the plans at the tail-end of a Nintendo Direct presentation; "this year," Fils-Aime said of E3, "it's all about the games." That will include an exclusive title with SEGA from the Sonic series. Read The Full Story

Sega and Gearbox hit with lawsuit over false advertisement

, May 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Aliens: Colonial Marines popped up in the news a few times last year, perhaps most notably last summer when word had it the game wouldn't have any female characters, a rumor that was squashed a couple months later. Now that the game has finally released, gamers have discovered a different area that has proved disappointing: the differences between the game demos and the game itself, which is different enough to be false advertisement, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Read The Full Story

Namco Bandai confirms Project X Zone release date for North America

, Apr 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Namco Bandai has confirmed that Project X Zone, its strategy RPG-game featuring over 50 characters from Namco Bandai, SEGA, and Capcom's games, will be making its way to North American and PAL regions over the summer. The official release date for North America is set for June 25th, 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS. European countries, however, are looking at a vague "Summer 2013" release date. Read The Full Story

Sega announces Company of Heroes 2 closed beta

, Mar 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

There are a number of military-themed shooters on the market today with some of the big ones being the Battlefield franchise and Call of Duty. A lot of gamers are also big fans of the Company of Heroes franchise and Sega has offered up some new news for the second game in the franchise. Sega will be running an exclusive early access beta phase that will launch on April 2 for Company of Heroes 2. Read The Full Story

Video game sales dropped 25-percent in US last month

, Mar 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

According to NPD Group, video game sales dropped 25-percent in February, with sales declining across the board: games, hardware, and accessories. This is despite two games that were launched last month by Sega and EA, and is representative of consumers' shift from traditional gaming to mobile gaming via tablets and smartphones. Read The Full Story

Company of Heroes movie set for DVD and Blu-ray February 26

, Feb 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

THQ may no longer be amongst us, but its Relic Entertainment-developed game Company of Heroes is still in the all clear with its movie adaptation. The straight-to-DVD movie is set for release next week on February 26 in North America, with a European release roughly a month later on March 25. Read The Full Story

THQ assets auctioned off, employees say farewell

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

A letter sent out to THQ employees today from the company's CEO Brian Farrell and president Jason Rubin spell out everything that has happened with the game studio after its bankruptcy filing a while back. Essentially, THQ's multiple studios have been broken apart, and its games have been sold off to various other publishers. Read The Full Story

The Cave launches January 22

, Jan 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

One of the more interesting games for fans of adventure titles that turned up at E3 2012 was called The Cave. The game is from Sega of America in partnership with Double Fine Productions. The game was created by legendary designer Ron Gilbert. Read The Full Story

SEGA and Creative Assembly to work on Warhammer games

, Dec 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

SEGA and Games Workshop have inked a deal to bring Warhammer games to market, with studio Creative Assembly responsible for developing multiple titles in 2013 and beyond. Creative Assembly is currently working on Total War: Rome II as well as an Alien-based title, and has said it will bring a new team to bear on the Warhammer project. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA TegraZone grabs Dreamcast classic shooter “Expendable Rearmed”

, Nov 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

It’s time to jump back down the time hole to 1999 with a game that was originally released on the PC and Sega Dreamcast – Expendable Rearmed – here on Android for the first time courtesy of NVIDIA. The developers of this game, Retrobomb, have worked with NVIDIA to create a vision that stays true to the original while bringing enhancements only the TegraZone team could bust out – make great with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor to back them all up. This beast is a game that’s made to not only entertain your brain with massive amounts of strategy and quick reflexes on the machine gun, but your eyes as well with candy galore.

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Bayonetta 2 to be a Wii U exclusive

, Sep 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nintendo made a lot of big announcements during its Wii U event earlier today, but perhaps one of the biggest reveals was that Bayonetta 2 is coming to the console. Not only that, but Sega has opted to make it a Wii U exclusive, something that will likely come as a shock to fans. There wasn't any talk of Bayonetta 2 being a timed exclusive, and since Nintendo is publishing the game, the chances of it coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 seem pretty slim. Read The Full Story

ToeJam & Earl reportedly coming to PS3

, Jul 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

It is perhaps one of the greatest cult classics ever released on the Sega Genesis, and one of the most heralded titles that never spawned a successful spinoff or even franchise continuation. We're talking about ToeJam & Earl, and it looks like it will be re-released for the first time ever on the PS3, as a downloadable promotion along with other vintage Sega games. Read The Full Story
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