Green Man Gaming is running a considerable discount on several of Sega’s PC games right now, with the PC version of Valkyria Chronicles receiving a 66% discount. On top of the regular discounts, you can get an additional 21% discount by using the coupon code DEALSP-AWN21O-FFGMGE. This brings Valkyria Chronicles down to only $5.37 / €5.37. Other discounted Sega titles include Binary Domain, the Typing of the Dead: Overkill, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis 4, Alpha Protocol and more. You can get an overview of the Sega titles by following this link.

Ars Technica has posted a list of the sales of the top 400 games on Steam in 2014 and it contains various Sega games, including Valkyria Chronicles which sold a total of 210,299 copies. To put this into perspective, when the game was released on PS3 in the US in 2008, it only sold 33,000 copies in its first month. While the PC version was sold at a lower price, it’s still a very strong performance for PC conversion of a six year old game. In fact, it’s not that far removed from the sales of Alien: Isolation, which sold 329,649 copies. Football Manager 2015 was the top selling game for Sega on Steam with 854,383 copies sold.

These three games were the only Sega games in the top 400, but worth noting is that Space Channel 5: Part 2 and Crazy Taxi (both released in 2012 on Steam) got a huge increase in sales (by a multiplier of 19 and 18 respectively). This probably has something to do with the update that Sega released in September last year, increasing the supported resolutions and adding anti-aliasing support. Hopefully all this means we’ll get to see more Sega games converted to PC (which doesn’t seem too unlikely, given that the company is moving focus towards mobile and digital PC games).

Sega has released a patch for the PC version of Valkyria Chronicles, fixing several issues that people have reported since the release of the game. Here’s the list of fixes included in the patch:

• Fixed issues with tank movement at high frame rates.
• Increased mouse sensitivity.
• Fixed issues with audio balance in stereo/5.1.
• Fixed rare crashes relating to memory allocation (e.g. when viewing unit stats in battle and exiting the HQ in book mode).

The issue with the tank movement is one that had been reported by people playing at a framerate higher than 60 frames per second. It appears this had an impact on the physics of the game, in particular for tanks which couldn’t drive up certain slopes. The mouse sensitivity is something I also noted in my first impressions article, and it’s great to see they have increased the sensitivity based on user feedback. Valkyria Chronicles on PC was already a solid PC conversion, but this patch has only made the game even better.

We already knew the pre-orders sales for Valkyria Chronicles had been going strong, and the sales of the game only increased during the game’s launch yesterday, driving it to the top of the Steam Top Seller chart. Sega have now issued a press release to celebrate the successful launch of the game, which you can read here:

VALKYRIA CHRONICLES SMASHES ALL EXPECTATIONS TO REACH NUMBER ONE ON STEAM!

Yesterday, Valkyria Chronicles™ released for PC via digital download, and during its first 24 hours on sale blew all forecasts and predictions out of the water. The award-winning Strategy RPG, originally released in 2008 for PlayStation®3, forced its way to the top of the Steam download charts, beating a host of brand new games to reach number one.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the fans for their support in the phenomenal success of this launch,” said John Clark, Senior Vice President of Commercial Publishing for SEGA Europe, “We’re also delighted at the response from the Steam community which indicates that newcomers to the series are finding it as enchanting and engaging as those who have played it before.”

To see what the critics are saying about Valkyria Chronicles for PC, have a look at PC Gamer’s in-depth analysis of the port here: http://www.pcgamer.com/valkyria-chronicles-pc-port-analysis-durantes-verdict

For more information on Valkyria Chronicles, log on to http://store.steampowered.com/app/294860/.

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The PC version of Valkyria Chronicles has been unlocked on Steam today, allowing the fans (and hopefully many newcomers) to finally experience one of Sega’s best PS3 games on the PC. I’ve played through the first few missions of the game, which is just about enough to give my first impressions on the PC port. You can click on any of the images in this article to see the originals in a 1080P resolution (downsampled from 4k).

One of the first things to note about the PC version is that the loading times have been greatly reduced compared to the original game on PS3. Loading and saving also happen pretty much instantaneously. The graphics options are limited, but they provide most of the essentials. Support for various resolutions is there along with an unlocked framerate. The lack of anti-aliasing setting is somewhat surprising. This can, however, be largely overcome by using downsampling (Durante already added a Valkyria Chronicles profile to his GeDoSaTo downsampling tool) or by forcing AA in your video card settings. I personally used GeDoSaTo to downsample the game from 4k to 1080P, which provided excellent results. Some people have pointed out that there’s no borderless windowed option, but there are third-party tools available that can add that functionality.

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