SEGA AM2 will be adding five new Kanmusu (“ship girls”) to their popular arcade game Kancolle Arcade on May 26. You can view the trailer below. The Kanmusu is question are:
Atlus have revealed the Japanese box art for their upcoming 3DS RPG Etrian Odyssey V. The box art features five of the game’s characters, each of a different class, namely Fencer, Dragoon, Masurao, Warlock, and Herbalist. At the same time they also represent the four different races included in the game: Earthrun, Lunaria, Therian and Bronie. The box art and characters were designed by Yuji Himukai. You can view a clean version of the boxart below.
The latest UK All Formats video game sales charts courtesy of Chart-track shows Valkyria Chronicles Remastered debuting at #6, just behind Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. In the PS4 specific sales chart, it entered at #4. While the game is being sold at a budget price, the game appears to be getting a much better reception this time around than its original release on PS3. Back in 2008, the PS3 version of the game failed to enter the top 40 in the All Formats chart, and only debuted in the PS3 list at #18.
In a recent interview with MVC, Sega Europe’s SVP of commercial publishing John Clarck talked about SEGA’s PC business and how it shaped the company’s future. Interestingly, he also commented on their desire to deliver Japanese content from the entire group within SEGA.
Nintendo has released a new trailer for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, which details the game’s combat system. The video is narrated by a certain “DJ MasterSeal”, who will apparently be talking about Mirages in more detail in a future video. In the current one, he talks about the concepts of Mirage Masters, their creative potential called “Performa”, the game’s Action Bar, Session Attacks and more. You can find the video below!
We’ve been keeping an eye out on the Sakura Wars X Granblue Fantasy crossover event since its launch, given that an English translation had been announced for the event. As we mentioned in a previous article, the game’s Japanese version actually has an English language option, and as such events like this one also end up getting an official translation. With a few days left in the campaign (it’s ending May 23), the English translation finally appears to have been finished. We’ve included a few screenshots below from the prologue, and we’re also planning to make a video of all of the story sequences before the event ends.
While the story of the event isn’t anything amazing, it’s more Sakura Wars, so we’re not complaining! Although playing these Sakura Wars crossovers, one can’t help but wish that SEGA would bring back these characters in an actual new Sakura Wars game. After all, what better way would there be to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary this year?
During the latest SEGA Central, SEGA Europe Community Manager Dan Sheridan answered another batch of #AskSEGA questions from the fans. When asked by Suketodara whether or not they’re planning to bring 7th Dragon III Code: VFD to Europe, Dan answered:
Right now there are no plans to bring 7th Dragon to Europe. However, we know that there are European SEGA fans who are keen to see a release. There’s nothing we can confirm today, but we are looking if it’s something we can make happen.
Over at the official Sony PlayStation blog, Atlus U.S.A./SEGA of America PR manager John Hardin commented on the possibility of seeing remastered versions of Valkyria Chronicles 2 & 3, and a possible localization for Valkyria: Azure Revolution. We thought it might be worth sharing the information here, as our readers are no doubt interested in this as well. Read on for a few quotes from Hardin, taken from the comments section on the blog.
SEGA of America and Europe have both released Valkyria Chronicles Remastered today in their respective territories. Four static themes will be made available (for the EU they already are) on the PlayStation Store for $1.99/€1.99, you can see previews of these below. These appear to be the same themes released for Asia, although at the moment we only have 4 out of the 16 that were made available there. These four themes join the 12 avatars that were already made available earlier in the US. For the EU, you can find these on the PlayStation Store by following this link. For the US, these don’t appear to be available yet at this time.
SEGA Europe have announced that SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics has proven to be a huge success, as they have sold 350,000 units on Steam since launching just over two weeks ago. SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Hub’s support for the Steam Workshop has made it possible for fans to upload custom ROMS for the games, and since the hub’s launch hundreds of custom ROMS have already been uploaded by the community. Read on for the official statement from SEGA Europe, and a comment from their Director of Digital Distribution.