SEGA’s upcoming mobile action-RPG for iOS and Android, Liberation of the Blue Sky, has now received a release date in Japan. The game will be available starting May 19, and SEGA have posted a new trailer for the game on their Youtube channel. As we talked about earlier, a free character based on the violinist Ayasa will be given to anyone who preregistered for the game. You can find the trailer below. The game’s main theme that’s featured in the trailer, called “Overnight Revolution”, was done by AKINO with bless4.
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Persona 5 Website Updated With Character Profiles for Makoto, Futaba and Haru
In a recent blog update on the official Persona 5 website, a PR manager for Atlus points out the website has been updated with character profiles for the three new female characters that were recently revealed. While the information in the profile for the characters is the same as the one we’ve already talked about earlier, we do get a few screenshots of the characters and their Personas, which we’ve included below.
Persona 5 will be released on September 15, 2016 in Japan. While the game is confirmed to be heading to the West, a specific release date hasn’t been announced yet.
Sakura Wars X Granblue Fantasy: Artwork, Videos and Possible Upcoming English Translation
The Sakura Wars X Granblue Fantasy collaboration event has already launched in Japan and is causing quite a stir. Even though cross-over events like this aren’t unusual, Granblue Fantasy is a rather popular mobile game in Japan, and Sakura Wars fans of course want to see more of their beloved franchise. This event also sees the return of Shinjiro, the protagonist of Sakura Wars 5, who wasn’t included in either of the Project X Zone games. The event is due to close on the 23rd of May in Japan.
7th Dragon III: Code VFD Gets New Trailer, Detailing the Game’s Battle System
In an e-mail sent to Atlus mailing list subscribers (who are nicknamed the “Atlus Faithful”), they point out that their friends at SEGA of America are working on the dungeon crawler RPG 7th Dragon III: Code VFD, and that the game may be of interest to the fans of dungeon RPGs from Atlus such as the Etrian Odyssey series. Interestingly, one of the trailers included actually appears to be new, offering the Atlus Faithful a first look at the game’s battle system.
New Valkyria: Azure Revolution Blog Update Includes Jutland Kingdom Screenshots
The latest entry in the Valkyria: Azure Revolution blog once again features childhood friends Helena Andersen and Blum Thomasson. Their conversation doesn’t hold a lot of new information about the actual game, but it does feature new screenshots of Jutland Kingdom.
SEGA Sammy Holding’s Fiscal Year 2016 Results Reveal Lower Sales but Higher Profit
SEGA-Sammy have revealed their financial results for the full fiscal year, ending March 2016. Compared to the previous fiscal year, sales for each of the three main business segments of the SEGA Sammy Holding are down, but profits are slightly up. In total, the net sales amounted to ¥347,981 million ($3.2 billion), while the total operating income was ¥17,617 million ($162.18 million), a minor 0.7% increase over the operating income of the year before.
As such, it’s Immediately obvious that overall, SEGA-Sammy have managed to increase their profitability, which was their main goal following their restructure in 2015. Nonetheless, if you look at the chart I included below, the results for the different segments of SEGA Sammy continue to show the same trend that we’ve seen from the holding company for a while now. The Entertainment Contents Division (which includes everything related to their video games business) achieved the highest amount of net sales, but barely manages to bring in a profit. In comparison, the Pachinko/Pachislot business remains more efficient.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Gets Two New Videos: “Reincarnation” and “Feel”
Nintendo has released two new trailers for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, the crossover JRPG for the Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei series, showing the music videos for Kiria’s song “Reincarnation”, and Tsubasa’s song “Feel”. Both songs feature English subtitles. You can view them below! However, the Reincarnation trailer that Nintendo provided has audio that is out of sync. We corrected the problem in the version posted below.
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Gets PSN Avatars in the US + Unboxing for the Europa Edition
More news for Valkyria Chronicles Remastered, as it’s nearing its release on May 17 in the Americas and the EU! First of all, SEGA of America have just released a new set of Valkyria Chronicles avatars for the EU! You can find them on the US PlayStation store here. The individual avatars cost $0.49, while the “Full Avatar Pack” containing all twelve avatars costs $3.99.
Nintendo Reveals Details on Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE’s Day One DLC
Nintendo has issued a new press release, detailing the DLC that will be available for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE on the game’s launch day. Altogether, five sets of DLC will be released for the game in the West, available in the Nintendo eShop. The contents of the DLC is as follows (taken from the press release);
SEGA 3D Classics Collection Confirmed for a European Release
During the latest SEGA Central, SEGA Europe community manager Dan Sheridan, aside from talking about Shenmue 1 & 2 HD, also confirmed that the SEGA 3D Classics Collection is coming to Europe. In particular, Dan had this to say:
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