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Shenmue III – The 1st Teaser

Shenmue 3 Receives Its First Teaser Trailer

Shenmue 3 has received its first teaser trailer, finally giving us a bit of a closer look at the state of development of the game. According to the official description, the first teaser of Shenmue III is built from a small slice of an in-development build of the game, and it delivers small peeks in new look of main characters, new characters, and feels of Shenmue world. You can view the video below!

What stands out is that a lot of the scenes in the video look far too dark to discern any detail, which is likely something done in post-processing of the video itself. Otherwise, it’s clear that the animations and faces still need some work. The environments on the other hand do look good, even if the video doesn’t always give us a good look at them. All things considered this first teaser seems to be in line of what we can expect from the game, given its low budget, and I’m looking forward to see more of the game as it progresses.

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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone DX Gets a New Promotional Trailer

SEGA of Japan has released a promotional trailer for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX, the physical version of the previously digital-only release of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone. The game is scheduled to be released in November 22 in Japan for the PlayStation 4, and contains all of the songs and modules that were included in the base game and all of its DLC. In addition, it also contains two new songs: “Ghost Rule” and “Suna no Wakusei” (“Dune”), and a new Hatsune Miku 10th anniversary commemoration module. This new module can also be seen in the new trailer. The new content will also be making its way to the digital version of the game as DLC in the US and EU in 2018 (although the song “Dune” hasn’t officially been confirmed for release in the West yet). You can view the promotional trailer below!

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Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX Adds “Dune” as 2nd New Song

UPDATE: Thanks to Atlus USA’s Sam Mullen for letting us know that the official English name for the song is “Dune”, and not “Sand Planet”, as I mistakenly wrote in the original version of the article.

Original article: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX will also be getting “Suna no Wakusei” (“Dune”), a 2nd new songs alongside the previously revealed “Ghost Rule”. The DX version of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is a physical version of the complete game with a few extras. It’s scheduled to be released on November 22 in Japan, From the screenshot included, it seems the game will be using the actual music video for “Suna no Wakusei” in-game as well, rather than a custom 3D music video made specifically for the game. This now brings the total number of songs included in Project DIVA Future Tone DX to 238. You can view the music video for the song below.

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Shenmue 3 Will Be Published by Deep Silver, and a First Look at the Updated Character Models

Ys Net posted a new update on their Shenmue 3 Kickstarter page, announcing that they have signed a global publishing contract with Deep Silver for their game. This means that Deep Silver will apparently be in charge of publishing Shenmue 3 worldwide. SEGA and Atlus fans in Europe already know Deep Silver, given that they’ve been handling publishing of their titles there for a while now.

At the same time, the new title screen that comes with the press release finally reveals what appear to be the updated character models of Ryo and Shenhua, Previously, Ys Net had in fact resorted to changing Ryo’s face through Photoshop, replacing it with the one from Shenmue 2. So far, it seems the new models are receiving a mixed response from fans. What’s curious is that the Shenmue 3 logo on the new title image is also different from the new logo that was revealed in their June update.

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Chain Chronicle Anime 2016

GoGame Is Asking Fans for Support to Bring Chain Chronicle Back to the West

A few years ago, SEGA and Gumi announced a partnership to bring SEGA’s mobile games to the West, beginning with SEGA’s biggest mobile hit in Japan: Chain Chronicle. Unfortunately, things apparently didn’t work out between the two companies, and Gumi ended up shutting down Chain Chronicle on Feburary 29th, 2016. A fan petition was created to try and save the game, but seemingly to no avail. At least until now, as the long abandoned official Facebook page for the game suddenly showed a sign of life with a new message from the game’s mascot, Pirika:

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SEGA Interactive Announces SEGA World Drivers Championship for the Arcades in Japan

SEGA Interactive have announced a new arcade racing game for Japan, titled SEGA World Drivers Championship feat. Super GT. The game uses the official license of the Super GT Series, a highly popular sports car racing championship in Japan. The game will be running on the Unreal Engine 4, which is proving to be increasingly popular among game developers in Japan. Nationwide online multiplayer will also be supported, and SEGA will be carrying out a test run of the game in the Sega Ikebukuro GiGO and Sega Akihabara 1 game centers from July 28 through 30. You can view the first trailer for the game below, although it doesn’t show any in-game footage. That said, we do get a look at the arcade cabinet in the newly released images. The official website for the game can be found here.

Source:, 4gamer.net

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PlayStation Store 2017 Big in Japan Sales

EU PlayStation Store “Big in Japan” Sales: An Overview of the Included SEGA and Atlus Games

PlayStation EU has launched their new “Big in Japan” sales, its counterpart to their PlayStation US Store’s “Golden Week” sales. It’s a very long list of games, but below you can find an overview of all of the discounted SEGA and Atlus games per system. We also included a few games from different publishers, but which have some connection to either SEGA or Atlus. Persona 5 is technically on sale as well, but in the EU the digital version has always been overpriced, and the 14% discount only brings it at the same price it was available on at launch in retail. The promotion runs until 19th July 2017.

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