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Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Prepare for Battle Theme

Digital Done Right: SEGA Europe’s Digital Editions of Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the view of Segalization as a whole.

It’s fair to say that SEGA Europe has been a lot more active on social media over the past year, especially with the arrival of Dan Sheridan as their new community manager. But while the renewed SEGA of America has been hard at work on bringing SEGA games from Japan to the Americas, things didn’t go as smoothly in Europe. Whenever SEGA of America announced a new game, SEGA Europe didn’t immediately follow suit. The release of Yakuza 0 in Europe was initially in doubt, and it took a while for it to finally be confirmed. The SEGA 3D Classics Collection for the Nintendo 3DS was eventually confirmed for a European release, but we’re still without a release date even though the game is already available in the US. Similarly, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X was only recently confirmed for a European release. Unfortunately it comes with the caveat that the title won’t receive a physical release, even on PS4.

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Blade Arcus from Shining EX Announced for the West on PC via Steam

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This is certainly a rather surprising announcement. Gematsu has just posted an article revealing that SEGA’s 2D fighter Blade Arcus from Shining EX, a crossover game featuring characters from Shining Blade and Shining Hearts, will be released on Steam as Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena. The game is scheduled to be released on July 29, and its Steam page can be found here. Apparently Degica Games is responsible for bringing the game to PC, although they’re not listed as the publisher on the Steam page. At the time of writing, there’s also a live stream going on for the game at AnimEVO 2016. Below you can find the info posted on the Steam page, as well as the launch trailer posted on the Steam page! Interestingly, this PC version of the game will in fact support online play, something that was surprisingly absent from the console version of the game in Japan.

While the game was released on PS3 and PS4 last year in Japan, there’s no announcement regarding those versions heading to the West. In recent times, none of the main Shining RPG games have been localized for the West, making it all the more surprising to see this game released. But judging from the lack of announcement from SEGA, it doesn’t seem that they’re really involved with this PC version of the game, as it appears to be handled by Studio Saizensen and Degica Games.

Degica Games is currently running a giveway where you can win various prizes, which include preorder bonus items, such as a swimsuit calendar, the Doujinshi “Shining Heroines Works”  and a soundtrack OST, that were included with the limited “Tony’s Premium Fan Box” Japanese PS4/PS3 release.

Thanks goes to Gematsu for their article on this announcement.

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Toshihiro Nagoshi SEGA Nama Featuring Hideo Kojima Archived on YouTube

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Missed the recent SEGANAMA broadcast with Toshihiro Nagoshi and Hideo Kojima? The archived footage was uploaded to SEGA of Japan’s YouTube account. Check it out below. It runs for a little under two hours, and Hideo Kojima, the guest of honor himself, shows up at around the 38:00 mark, with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone being demoed before then. After Kojima departs from the show, The World End Eclipse is then promoted.

Hideo Kojima shows off the trailer for “Death Stranding”, the inaugural Kojima Productions title as an entity separate from Konami. The three speakers basically hang out for an hour.

Do remember that there are no English subtitles at this time. Anyway…

Cheers!

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SEGA & ATLUS Announce Their E3 2016 Line-Up, Including Yakuza 0, Persona 5, 7th Dragon III and Project DIVA X (UPDATED)

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SEGA and Atlus have issued a new press release announcing their lineup of the games for this year’s E3.  For the first time at this event, SEGA and ATLUS will be sharing a stand on the shown floor, located at West Hall Booth #4810. The only actual SEGA Europe title being shown at the stand is Yakuza 0, which will be playable. While Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice is also playable, the title will be published by Nintendo in Europe.  SEGA of America on the other hand will also be showing 7th Dragon III Code: VFD, which sadly hasn’t been confirmed for a European release yet. SEGA’s upcoming Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X will apparently not be shown.

UPDATE: Sam Mullen pointed out on Twitter that Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X will be present at E3, despite not being mentioned in the press release below! He also confirmed that the game will be playable, as a three song demo of the PS4 version will be present at the stage.

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Game Symphony Japan Concert Series Announces: SEGA Special 2016

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As part of the 17th entry into the Game Symphony Japan Concert Series, GSJ has announced a new and familiar performance concept – the SEGA Special 2016! Set for July 17th of this year, it features many songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog, NiGHTS into Dreams…, Puyo Puyo, Sakura Wars, and Space Channel 5 franchises. This event continues Game Syphony Japan’s performances of SEGA-themed music.

Seating tickets are separated into three classes. S class seating costs ¥8,500, A class seating costs ¥7,500, and B class seating costs ¥6,500. Special musical guests include Tomoya Ohtani, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, and Jun Senoue. The venue will be the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

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Atlus USA Booth Plans for E3 2016 Include Yakuza 0

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Towards the end of February, it had been noticed that two different branches of SEGA would be representing the company at E3 2016 – Atlus USA and SEGA Europe. While at first this may have raised questions about the whereabouts of SEGA of America in particular and what plans there would be for any upcoming English-localized SEGA titles from Japan, we now have our answer courtesy of an update to the Atlus USA profile on the official E3 2016 website. Quoted below:

ATLUS U.S.A., Inc. is known for high-quality, deeply immersive, uniquely Japanese and indie video game experiences. Our award-winning catalog continues to grow across a variety of genres and platforms. Visit our booth featuring highly anticipated titles from ATLUS and SEGA, including Persona 5, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, and Yakuza 0.

Interestingly, there’s a wide swath of genres listed in this Atlus profile page, including Fighting/Wrestling, Indie, Music/Dance, Role-Playing, Strategy, Action, Adventure, and Localization. These cover virtually all modern active gaming platforms. So we can probably expect more than what’s listed at the description, at the very least. With yet-to-be-released titles such as Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (releasing later this month!) and Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, this is to be expected. Nevertheless it must be said that this doesn’t guarantee that these two titles in particular will be present, though we would hope to see a generous offering of titles on display.

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SEGA Survey

SEGA Needs Your Feedback to Help Improve Their Games!

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Today, SEGA has launched a survey and are asking fans to fill it out in order to help them improve their games. At Segalization, we can only applaud the initiative, as it’s always a good idea to stay in touch with your core fanbase! I’ve completed the survey before writing this article, and I can say that there’s definitely a good opportunity here to let SEGA know how you feel about them. Depending on how many favorite games you have, this may take a while to complete (I’d estimate somewhere between five minutes to half an hour), but you don’t often get an opportunity like this to send your feedback to SEGA!

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E3 2016: Featuring Atlus and Sega Europe

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The Entertainment Software Association, the U.S.-based organization that owns E3 2016 and represents game publishing companies, announced earlier today the current exhibitor list for E3 2016. The full list was published to the official E3 2016 website; from the main site, you can browse the full list of participants by attempting a search. Most relevant to us, as Sega and Atlus fans, are these two attendees:

  • ATLUS
  • SEGA Europe

Atlus? No surprise there, we’ve been expecting them. Hopefully we may see something related to Persona 5. Sega Europe, by name, is an interesting listing, though. It’s hard to speculate on an explanation for why Sega is listed as such and why it would be Sega Europe specifically, but it was deliberate.

Want to see something interesting? If you go to the bottom of the E3 website while browsing, eventually a scrolling banner of participating companies’ logos will show up at the bottom. You can accelerate the scrolling of logos by moving your mouse on to the right arrow. Go click on Sega’s logo. Once you click on a company’s logo, it links to a site that represents the company. This one just so happens to take you to Atlus USA’s main website. I wonder how that happened?

E3 2016 is set for June 14-16 of this year.

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Gunstar Heroes, Renegade Ops and Viking: Battle for Asgard Now Free on Steam

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The “Make War Not Love” event from SEGA has ended, and the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War community has won the competition. This also means another batch of free Steam games for everyone! As of today, Gunstar Heroes, Renegade Ops and Viking: Battle for Asgard are made available for free. To get them, you’ll need to head to the official website, click “Redeem prize” and enter your e-mail address. You’ll then receive an e-mail to confirm your subscription, after which you’ll receive your Steam code to redeem the prizes (note that it may take up to 14 days to receive your prize).

Yakuza Kiwami Valentine

Yakuza Kiwami Valentine’s Day Promotion Brings Love to the Street

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Sega and Sony recently ran an interesting surprise Valentine’s Day promotional activity for Yakuza Kiwami. Here’s the setup: actors dressed as yakuza thugs menacingly approach an unsuspecting traveler going about on some business at Shinjuku Station and direct them to a carpet walkway. Or maybe they are real yakuza…? Anyway, the bewildered citizen then traverses the carpet, congratulated with shouts of “thanks for your work!” and a reverential bow, as he or she ultimately makes it forward to a woman at the top who hands them a mysterious gift.

There’s love for everybody – young men weren’t the only recipients of the gift, but women (and an older woman) and a young boy, too. That particular poor young yakuza-in-training might’ve had a rough go of it, it seems. I’m just happy to see the bewildered expressions of the people who were approached, but it’s equally fun to see the approached people who really got into the whole stunt too.

These antics were also covered by 4Gamer and Famitsu.

Check out the videos that were uploaded to PlayStation Japan’s YouTube account below. Doesn’t this make your heart flutter? And want to play Yakuza games?

『龍が如く 極』「コワモテの花道」バレンタインイベントレポート

 

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Yakuza Kiwami is already out in Japan; the current major Yakuza project for Asia in development is Yakuza 6.