Browsing Tag

segabits

SEGA Sunday Roundup – Project Anime Edition

So SEGA has been announcing a lot of games lately, and last week they decided to announce one more. And if you’re wondering just how anime it is:

Miracle-Girls-Fest_Fami-shot_03-18-15_004

It’s pretty goddamn anime. This anime game is called Miracle Girls Festival, and it features various anime characters from anime like YuruYuri, Wake Up, Girls!, Vividred Operation, and a bunch of other anime that my friends who are into anime will probably try to get me to watch. And as you can see by the UI, this game is gonna be a lot like the Project Diva games except will less vocaloids and more anime schoolgirls.
Featured SEGA Retro Articles of the Week

Look, a new thing that I added to the list! Here I’ll link to an article from SEGA Retro that’s pretty neat or possibly needs more work. First off, to keep up with the anime theme of this week’s article [Astro Boy]
Also, that Astro Boy game kinda sucks so here’s an article about a good one [Astro Boy: Omega Factor]

SEGAbits Features

The often forgotten Panzer Dragoon spin-offs, and why they are forgotten [One reason: nobody remembers the stuff that Tiger Electronics made]
SEGA Tunes: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed remixes Panzer Dragoon’s ‘Flight’ [By the one and only Richard Jacques]
SEGA in the Charts: MediaCreate charts for Mar 9 – Mar 15 2015 [Not enough by Kazuma Kiryu’s standards]

SEGA News

Miracle Girls Festival, new SEGA rhythm game announced for Playstation Vita [Yup, it’s anime]
Nintendo 3DS gets SEGA Dreamcast and SG-1000 themes in Japan [Dear SEGA please for the love of god release these in the west already]
SEGA’s mobile division on track for record setting revenue [There’s your reason for why SEGA is doing so much more mobile stuff now]
Persona 4: Dancing All Night – Yosuke trailer released [I’m disappointed, one of his costumes isn’t a trash can]
First 4 Figures teases their upcoming NiGHTS figure [They also tease empty wallets]
SEGA returns to MomoCon showcasing Project Mirai DX, Tembo, 3D Classics & more! [And by more we of course mean anime]

March 22, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Game News, Miscellaneous

SEGAbits Sunday News Roundup – Badass Elephant Edition

This was a pretty good week when it comes to SEGA stuff, with them revealing new games and releasing 3D OutRun, a fantastic re-release of the original game with new features. And among the games they revealed was Tembo the Badass Elephant, an action sidescroller by Game Freak that’s coming to PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. It was playable at EGX Rezzed earlier this week, and the first impressions from the couple of our forum members who were there are pretty positive. It’s always nice to see a new quirky sidescroller, so we’ll be looking forward to this one.
Featured SEGAbits Article of the Week

The SEGAbits review of 3D OutRun for the Nintendo 3DS [Not to be confused with OutRun 3D]

SEGAbits Features

Celebrating 20 years of the amazing world of Panzer Dragoon [I should probably play these games at some point]
Classic SEGA Magazine Corner: Xbox Nation’s “Chasing the Dragon”, an inside look at Panzer Dragoon Orta [I really, really should]
A couple of announcements about the Sonic & SEGA Fan Jam 2015 [Website launch and donations]
Sonic Talk #31: “We’re gonna need a bigger podcast” [No you don’t, you’ve had longer episodes]

SEGA News

Tembo the Badass Elephant was revealed [Trailer | Gameplay video]
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight, a remake of the first game’s sequel, is coming to the North America [As always with Atlus games, sorry Europe]
Atlus is also localizing Lost Dimension for PlayStation 3 and Vita [Coming this Summer in the US]
SEGA is publishing a SRPG for the Nintendo 3DS called Stella Glow [Announcement | Gameplay]
Compile Heart announced Hyperdimension War Neptunia VS Sega Hard Girls: Dream Fusion Special for the PlayStation Vita [Girls who are consoles meet other girls who are consoles]
Our chibi Vocaloid needs are met with this new Hatsune Miku Project Mirai DX trailer [Also the first Puyo Puyo game to be released in the west since forever]

March 15, 2015 by Barry the Nomad

Game News, Interview, Miscellaneous

SEGAbits Sunday News Roundup – ToeJammin’ Edition

1424896145-toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove

Okay so the SEGAbits gods thought that no longer linking SEGAbits and general SEGA stuff in Monday Links wasn’t such a great idea. But you know what’s a good idea? Still not linking them on Monday Links and instead doing a separate feature with just SEGA stuff and without the Sonic. So here’s a new feature that’s a recap of SEGAbits and SEGA stuff.
Featured SEGAbits Article of the Week

This week’s Swingin’ Report Show has an interview with Greg Johnson, the co-creator of ToeJam & Earl who right now is doing a Kickstarter so he can make a new sequel [Cool details about stuff that happened to the development of the other ToeJam & Earl sequels included]

SEGAbits Features

This month we take a look at the stuff Team Andromeda did [You know, those people who made Panzer Dragoon]
SEGA Tunes: Panzer Dragoon’s OST is a beautiful masterpiece [Just listen to these tunes]
Nope, SEGA’s not leaving the console marker [Don’t trust articles by writers who didn’t pay enough attention, kids]
2-Man Scramble put the dynamic duo to the test in Batman Forever: The Arcade Game for the SEGA Saturn [Yes, Jim Carrey Riddler is in the game]
Unboxing a brand new SEGA Menacer from 1992 [Unboxings are cool when they’re of old SEGA stuff, right?]

SEGA News

Game Freak (Pokémon, Pulseman) and SEGA are working together on a new game that’ll be revealed this Wednesday [Please don’t be mobile-only please don’t be mobile-only]
Valkyria Chronicles sold over 200,000 copies on Steam last year [This means we’ll get more PC ports, right? Right?]
Yakuza Zero has a pretty sweet soundtrack filled with Japanese 80’s songs [Possible contender for best game soundtrack of the year?]
Turns out Alien: Isolation was going to be a third person game at some point [Here’s some footage of when it was that]
It looks like 3D OutRun will be released on March 12th [More OutRun is never a bad thing]
This Persona 4: Dancing All Night trailer shows off the new character Kanami Mashita [Awkward fanservice included]

March 8, 2015 by Barry the Nomad

Opinion, Sega Retro

Hit Reset: Why Sonic 3D Blast deserves another chance

Everyone tends to think that Sonic has been dead for an undisclosed amount of time, and generally seem to miss out on or dismiss a lot of interesting games along the way. One of the first games to start the march of “Sonic hasn’t been good since…” was Sonic 3D Blast. So, on this episode of Hit Reset, will take a look at why this game was not the beginning of all our problems, and why you may actually be missing out on something pretty cool.
Like this video? Subscribe to the SEGAbits YouTube channel.

February 25, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Fan Works, Game News, Hacking, Miscellaneous, Music

Monday Links: Schrodinger’s Edition

Nobody knows if Monday Links is alive or not. Sometimes is just kinda pops up again, while at other times it just kinda seems to have died into obscurity. Some wonder if Monday Links was ever truly alive for the past year or so, as it only sometimes kinda popped up and then disappeared again for who knows how long. Others just don’t care cause really why would you you probably normally don’t even look at the front page and just go straight to the wiki or forums you jerk. >:(
Anyway, these Monday Links articles usually takes quite a bit of time to make so I’m gonna trim them up a bit from now on. From now on it’ll focus more on Sonic and less on SEGA in general. If you want to see the latest SEGA news and cool SEGA features, you should go visit SEGAbits. Those guys do a pretty damn good job covering all things SEGA and really I’m just wasting time linking all the stuff they put up there when you can just visit their site.
Also I’ll probably use more Space Dandy gifs.
Sonic Retro stuff

Ell678 put together a trailer and a couple of new screenshots for his snazzy looking 2.5D fangame Sonic Incursion. [I guess people really like to use Tenderoni for Sonic trailers]
The people working on Sonic 2 HD now put up a time lapse video of the new end level pose animation. [Cause who doesn’t like a cool end level pose?]
Andrew75 is still updating his impressive Sonic X-treme inspired fangame Project AXSX. [Go take a look]
S0LV0 has started a development blog on the stuff she’s doing for the Sonic Generations Unleashed Project mod. [Yup, work is still being done on that]
SonLVL now has support for Chaotix object layouts. [Admittedly I’ve never used it before but it sounds like a neat addition]

Sonic stuff

Here’s our first look at the Sonic X-treme OpenGL port [Holy shit you guys it’s Sonic X-treme]
A Sonic remix album called Spindash is out now for ten bucks on various digital platforms. [Officially licensed by SEGA]
No, Sonic’s not going to be mobile and PC only. SEGA of America is gonna have a huge re-structure but that’s not gonna affect any Sonic games Sonic Team or whatever has in production. SEGA is gonna push mobile and PC games harder (which they’ve already been doing), but they’re not gonna stop making console games. It’s still bad news of course, but not as bad as some make it out to be. [Not really Sonic related but it’s a rumor that needs to be cleared up]
This anime fighting game called Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax that has a Green Hill Zone stage will be getting a western release. [So it’s still Sonic related I guess]
We thought that we’d get to see what Sonic Runners looks like last month but we didn’t. [😐]

February 2, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Podcasts

SEGAbits interviews Mat Kraemer of Sanzaru Games, developer of Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

This week on the Swingin’ Report Show podcast Barry and George are joined by Mat Kraemer, Lead Designer at Sanzaru Games, developer of Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the Nintendo 3DS. Topics covered include the development process of the handheld title, how Sanzaru interacted with various teams including the TV show crew and the team at Big Red Button, what Sonic games Sanzaru looked to for inspiration, and Mat’s favorite classic SEGA games and consoles.
There has been a lot of talk about the Sonic Boom franchise this past week, so it was great to sit down with Mat to learn more about how the 3DS game came to be. Hey! Why are you still reading this when you should be listening?
[Download] [RSS] [iTunes] [Archive]

November 18, 2014 by Barry the Nomad

Animation, Podcasts

SEGA Cinema Halloween Special: Sonic the Hedgehog Double Feature

SEGA Cinema has risen from the dead with a spooktacular boogielicious Halloween Special! Okay, so it’s actually not scary at all. Like our Christmas Special, Sonic Retro and SEGAbits writers team up to tackle classic Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons. Barry and George are joined by Sonic Retro’s David the Lurker to watch two episodes featuring clowns, ghouls, sea monsters, and a half-man half-sponge who lives in the sea. No, it isn’t Spongebob.
First up is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog‘s “Boogey-Mania”, which plays out like a cross between NiGHTS into Dreams and A Nightmare on Elm Street. And then, interrupting the Sonic cartoons are a compilation of cutscenes from the SEGA Saturn’s Deep Fear and Mr. Bones. Ending the special is the scariest thing of them all, an episode of Sonic Underground titled “The Deepest Fear” in which Sonic faces his fear of water. Don’t worry, he doesn’t drown and the story ends with an awful song. Enjoy the special, and Happy Halloween!
Like this video? Subscribe to the SEGAbits YouTube channel!

October 27, 2014 by Scarred Sun

Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Faster Than a Subway (or Metro) Edition

Remember that time some guy with a Sonic hat on just ran alongside a subway? Cause some guy somewhere did that, and there’s a video of it that I can’t find right now. There’s this gif though which pretty much shows all you need to know about it anyway, that being that some guy with a Sonic hat ran alongside a subway. Or it’s a metro, but who can tell the difference really?
By the way, I recently started watching this anime I barely ever see mentioned called Dennou Coil and it’s super good and all of you should watch it. Just thought that I should put that out there. Anyway have some links:
Retro News

Josh has finished his Classic Sonic retrospective for the Mega Drive-Saturn era [Go watch all of it here]
Forum member doc eggfan found a Sonic Labyrinth proto [Gotta preserve as much of that one game where Sonic lost his shoes]

SEGAbits News

In this week’s Round Table SEGAbits and Sonic Retro writers speak about what they think Sonic Adventure 3 should have been like [My answer: “Just rename Sonic Unleashed to Sonic Adventure 3” didn’t make the cut]
Barry talks about the Power Stone 2 box-art in his new SEGA by Design feature [He just loves the US one]
Ben has a few words to say about what Japanese RPGs could learn from Skies of Arcadia [For one thing they need more pirates]
This new edition of Sonic Talk is all about those Sonic Adventure games people liked so much [I thought incredibly long names were exclusive to Street Fighter games]
My Life with SEGA busts some ghosts in this new episode about [Ghostbusters]

Sonic/SEGA News

New gameplay of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal was shown at Tokyo Game Show [It looks about as good as it did at E3]
Also Rise of Lyric‘s release date has been pushed up to November 11th, a week earlier than the original release date [No change for Europe though]
Yakuza Zero looks far too awesome for something that’s probably only gonna be released in Japan [I’m not gonna shut up about that until we get it!]
As if that trailer wasn’t enough reason to want Yakuza Zero, it will also feature various classic arcade games by AM2 [Just let me have this game please]
Wait, China is getting Yakuza Zero but we’re not? [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH]
SEGA will be publishing Persona 4 Arena Ultimax in Europe this November [Still a big improvement over the way previous Persona games were handled]
Alien: Isolation will have a survival mode, which will just have one map. It will also have DLC just three weeks after release with more maps. [Hmmmm…]

September 22, 2014 by Scarred Sun

Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Back Due To No Demand Edition

Yup, after half a year it’s been decided to make Monday Links a thing again. Many board meetings at the Sonic Retro HQ were held to discuss the return of this beloved (?) weekly (???) feature, and we finally decided that it’s probably not worth our time. Then we realized that handling a Sonic news fansite in this day and age isn’t really worth our time either, and that there really hasn’t been any point to anything we’ve put up on this front page for years now. So with that taken into consideration, Monday Links has returned after all, cause really it’s not any less pointless than anything else on the front page.
Retro News

Josh released the first part of his retrospective video series about Sonic spin-offs [Sonic Jam Spinball: Flickies’ Island]
Matwek is doing the art for this neat looking game called Poncho on Kickstarter [An open-world puzzle platformer]

SEGAbits News

Barry is doing a 9 hour Dreamcast marathon tomorrow for the 15th anniversary of the Dreamcast [The Dreamroom Dreamcast Marathon returns]
SEGAbits is holding an event on November 22nd called the Sonic & SEGA Fan Jam [All of the info about it can be found here]
Nuckles87 shares his impressions of the Japan-exclusive game Cool Cool Toon for Dreamcast [SEGA Import Guide]
It’s time for another one of these round tables [What Dreamcast game defined the console?]
My Life with SEGA takes a look at the SEGA CD games made by Digital Pictures [The magic of FMV games]

Sonic/SEGA News

Sonic XG still exists and looks awesome [Giant Crabmeat!]
A new album called Passion & Pride with songs from Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 is being released, containing instrumental versions and a new remix of It Doesn’t Matter [Coming September 10th]
This new Persona 5 trailer reveals the game’s protagonist and that the game is coming to the Playstation 4 as well as Playstation 3 [I want it I want it I want it]
The first trailer of Yakuza Zero, which will be coming to Playstation 3 and Playstation 4, was released [*Put Zero chance of coming out of Japan joke here*]
The latest Nintendo Direct has half an hour of Bayonetta 2 goodness to make you excited about the game [Controls that meld with your mind]
It looks like Persona 4 Arena Ultimax will be published by SEGA in Europe [Maybe we won’t have to wait forever for it to be released here]
SEGA points fingers at Gearbox for the Aliens: Colonial Marines marketing mess [As if Randy Pitchford didn’t look bad enough already]
Hi Score Girl gets copyright complaints from SEGA [Remember kids: using SEGA properties in commercial stuff will probably get you in legal trouble]
Dawn of War II now uses dedicated servers instead of Games for Windows Live [Because Games for Windows Live is terrible and also almost dead]
Super Monkey Ball Bounce is now out on iOS and Google Play [Also known as Not Peggle]
Sadly there will probably never be a cure for liking Sonic the Hedgehog [Guess we’ll just have to continue living with our condition]

September 8, 2014 by Scarred Sun

Podcasts

SEGAbits Interviews Roger Craig Smith, Voice of Sonic the Hedgehog

This week on the SEGAbits Swingin’ Report Show, hosts Barry and George welcome a guest who has helped shape the sound of SEGA’s speedy mascot – Roger Craig Smith, voice actor of Sonic the Hedgehog! Roger is also well known for voicing Batman, Captain America, Chris Redfield, Ezio Auditore, and more. Recent projects include Batman: Arkham Origins which features the recently released “Cold, Cold Heart” DLC pack and SEGA’s Sonic Boom which spans video games and a television show which release later this year.
Join us as we talk with Roger about voicing Gotham’s Dark Knight and Green Hill’s Blue Blur. Roger also provides details on how he got into the business, and has some great advice for aspiring voice actors. Yes, we even asked him about his work on Valkyria Chronicles and his earliest work as Sonic at Alton Towers.
[Download] [RSS] [iTunes] [Archive]

July 8, 2014 by Barry the Nomad

Older Posts

Newer Posts