SEGA Europe Hints at Valkyria Chronicles Remaster Release for the West, More Info Next Week

SEGA Europe’s latest episode of SEGA Central, where they announce the latest news on SEGA games,  showed us a bit of the Japanese Valkyria Chronicles Remaster trailer, and Dan Sheridan told viewers to tune in next week if they wanted to know if the game will be localized. While not an outright confirmation, it strongly implies that SEGA will soon be announcing that the PS4 version will indeed be released …read more

Valkyria Azure Revolution – New Character, Battle System/Demo

This week’s Famitsu arrives with a substantive feature on Valkyria: Azure Revolution. First, the reveal of new character Maxim. His outfit prominently features teal and he sports white hair. Maxim is an antagonist character. The Valkyria series has had a propensity for creating a squad of sub-antagonists under one main antagonist (as the Drei Stern were to Maximilian), perhaps Brynhildr and Maxim might fulfill that same role in Azure Revolution. …read more

New Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X Songs, Modules (January 20 2016)

The newest issue of Famitsu revealed another round of songs and modules for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X. Songs: The Name of the Sin – ryo Ai Dee – MichieP Akahitoha – KurousaP Hajimete no Oto – mato COOL element medley Unhappy Refrain – wowaka Mairisudame – RaibuP Tengaku – YuuyuP Palette – Yuyoyuppe This Messed-Up Wonderful World Exists For Me – n.k Modules: Kantatorisu – Yuu Anode Electronica, Cathode …read more

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More Sakura Wars Cycling Gear! Featuring Maria Tachibana

After creating cycling gear pieces for Sakura Shinguji and Sumire Kanzaki, it appears Sega and Momoclover are continuing to memorialize other Imperial Assault Force members. Momoclover recently announced the production of Maria Tachibana-themed cycling gear. Maria Tachibana directly commanded the Imperial Assault Force prior to the arrival of Ichiro Ohgami. The latter would eventually succeed her as the group’s leader, but not without some initial skepticism from the battle-hardened and …read more

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Phantasy Star Online 2’s (PS4) Release Date, Closed Beta Info

Phantasy Star Online 2’s Playstation 4 version is set to release on April 20 of this year, according to Sega. Leading up to the release of the game, Sega will be running a closed beta. 50,000 people will be selected through submitting an application to the Japanese Playstation Store. Applications will be accepted through from January 25 to February 15. The beta itself will run from February 25 to March …read more

Yakuza 10th Anniversary Stage Event (January 31) for Taipei Game Show 2016 Planned

Taipei Game Show 2016 conference plans for Sony-associated properties (featuring first and third party developers) have been announced, and one of the events include a Yakuza series 10th Anniversary Stage Event on January 31st (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM UTC +8:00,) attended by the premier Yakuza man himself: Toshihiro Nagoshi. Many of us may be more familiar with Tokyo Game Show, but Taipei Game Show is also a highly prominent …read more

Project X Zone 2 North America Demo Coming January 26

Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced that the demo for Project X Zone 2 is scheduled to be made available to the public for downloading on January 26 for North America. A demo release date for Europe (January 21) was announced at the end of this past year. As far as Sega characters go, Kiryu and Majima will be a playable team unit. The demo made available to Japanese players featured …read more

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Atlus Moving Forward on EU Localizations? Odin Sphere Leifthrasir – Q2 2016, EFIGS

Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka made some interesting comments regarding business plans for Atlus’s products moving forward – more specifically regarding release of Atlus products outside of Japan. This by way of Gematsu‘s translation of a Japanese Playstation Blog post featuring a reprinting of Hiraoka’s comments to a recent issue of Dengeki Playstation. By the way, if you didn’t already know, the Japanese Playstation Blog has been host to quite a …read more

SEGA Releases Valkyria Chronicles Remaster Story Trailer

SEGA of Japan have released a story trailer for Valkyria Chronicles Remaster, the PS4 port of the original Valkyria Chronicles on PS3. The video doesn’t show any gameplay, and the noticeable aliasing on the characters suggests that, like the PC version, the PS4 version won’t feature remade cutscenes. I explained the reason for that in an earlier article. With that said, you can watch the trailer below! Fair warning for …read more

New Trailer for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X Features Four More Songs

The SEGA feat. HATSUNE MIKU Project team has released another song trailer for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, which shows the following songs from the game’s PS Vita version: “Calc”, by JimmyThumbP “Babylon”, by Tohma “Streaming Heart”, by Deco27 Umiyuri Kaiteitan” (Sea Lily Deep Sea Tale), by N-Buna For more information and images for these and other songs, check out our past articles on the game! You can watch the …read more