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In today's blue and blurry edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid suggests that Sonic the Hedgehog worked much better as a console mascot than a multiplatform star. More »
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Sony's fictional executive Kevin Butler has won himself a legion of fans. Which is great! Kevin Butler, though, ain't got shit on Segata Sanshiro. More »
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Sega announced earlier today that it would bring Sega Saturn great Guardian Heroes to Xbox Live Arcade. Awesome, right? Everyone loves a Treasure game! Not awesome? First screen shots of the XBLA port of Guardian Heroes. More »
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum revealed the winners of its public vote to decide what games will be featured in their exhibit, The Art of Video Games, today. The exhibit creates a visual history of the evolution of gaming from its humble beginnings through the present. The vote, which took place between February and April, helped to pick the majority of the exhibit, with only a few iconic selections guaranteed entry. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5799017&view=rss&microfeed=true Sega is bringing an enhanced version of Treasure's Saturn beat-em-up Guardian Heroes to Xbox Live Arcade this fall, complete with enhanced HD graphics, online cooperative play, and an online versus mode supporting up to 12 players at once. Rejoice! More »
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This Thursday NASA is holding a press conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will "impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life". Have we discovered alien life within our own solar system? More »
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Why? It's the inspiration for Saturn classic NiGHTS Into Dreams, according to the game's creator Yuji Naka, who tells you everything you've ever wanted to know about the cult Sega hit in a new interview. More »
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Sega is bringing back its beloved Dreamcast this fall—or at least two of its more memorable games, in downloadable form—but what of its predecessor, the sometimes spectacular but relatively unsuccessful Sega Saturn? Sega has not forgotten it. More »
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Alpha Protocol is a spy game that SEGA is publishing. Know what I spy? More »
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Segata Sanshiro was SEGA's mascot character for the ill-fated SEGA Saturn. The character was a parody of Sanshiro Sugata, the character from the Akira Kurosawa film. More »
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Segata Sanshiro was the judo master used to promote the SEGA Saturn in Japan and a parody of Akira Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata. The character has found a new life on America late night TV. More »
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Nintendo is not the only company that has had to explain, in press releases, what in the world it does. For at least 20 years, so has Sega. That description has never been much fun, sadly. But it has changed. More »
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The Panzer Dragoon series is one of Sega's most successful yet most under-utilized, and in a way I am glad. While Sega's flagship sonic the Hedgehog series has been nearly beaten to death by their own hands, Panzer Dragoon remains pristine and pure. From its early days on the Saturn to the Xbox masterpiece Panzer Dragoon Orta, the series has been handled with great care, and while part of me desperately wishes for a remake of the excellent Panzer Dragoon Saga, another part of me appreciates the fact that the fond memories I have of the original remain unsullied by what could very well wind up a sub-par revisitation, especially after what they did with NiGHTs. No, I am perfectly happy to reminisce about the series with articles like Gamasutra's latest, The History of Panzer Dragoon, a excellent overview of the series from start to possible final end. More »
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The remake of NiGHTS Into Dreams for the PlayStation 2 is, so far, still currently a Japan-only release. However, that will surely change based on demand for the Saturn classic, now that Sega of Japan has confirmed that the limited Christmas NiGHTS edition of the original game will be included in the PS2 port as a "Christmas Dream", unlocked by completing the standard edition of the game. More »
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There still seems to be a bit of gender confusion surrounding what's exactly tucked away in the denim short shorts of Capcom's mysterious female fighter Poison, fan art notwithstanding. She first appeared in the 1989 arcade game Final Fight but was removed from the Super Nintendo conversion, as someone seemingly disapproved of the piledriving of women in tank tops. Rumors swirled that Capcom attempted to justify her inclusion in the game by revealing that she was actually a he, citing the kosher nature of man on man violence. But we never got a clear answer. More »
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With NiGHTS into Dreams finally getting a Wii-bound sequel and a surprise remake for the PlayStation 2, what else does Sonic Team have planned? Gearbox Software is already hard at work on a Samba de Amigo follow up and no one actually cares if that furry Billy Hatcher ever shows his face again. But what about Burning Rangers, one of the Saturn's finest technical achievements? More »
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Don't worry, we're still getting updated graphics with our PlayStation 2 port of Sega's Saturn era hit NiGHTS Into Dreams. However, Sega looks to have stayed true to the 1996 original, including the game's original presentation in the remake. It's probably designed to make you appreciate the new coat of paint. More »
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In that wasteland that is Xbox Live Japan, 360 owners have at least one thing to be excited about. Bullet hell Trigger Heart Exelica is coming to Xbox Live Arcade! The shmup is from developer Warashi, the team behind scrolling side SEGA Saturn shooter Shienryu (too many S's). The vertical shooter got an arcade release last year and was even ported to the Dreamcast this past February! Not much info on the game in the Arcadia mag blurb (above) about whether it'll be available outside Japan or when it will hit XBL. It will, and that's all we know! And hey, if Warashi hasn't given up on the DC, like hell it'll call it a day for the Xbox 360 in Japan. More »
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SEGAROCKS is a SEGA tribute band made up of old dudes singing Saturn-era SEGA songs. They sound like hair metal, and their live performance even has heavy guitar noodling! There are a couple songs from their 2004 Tokyo live performance. The clips came on a DVD that was included with a SEGAROCKS CD. Yes, they actually made a proper studio album! Just check out the track listing. While watching the clips and listening to the guitar solos, keep in mind that these guys are serious. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=271543&view=rss&microfeed=true Right before it all ended for Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro, he was given his own game (Segata Sanshiro Shinkenyugi) for the Saturn, a console that was phased out by the Dreamcast. That console was later killed off by Sega so they could focus on more important things. Things like Love and Berry and Mushi King. Pretty sad! Though, he did get a groovy music video out of the whole deal. Game site Siliconera has a look back at the mascot, who was based on judo pioneer Sugata Sanshiro. The character was in a bunch of zany commercials, which we've posted after the jump. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Sega Saturn will be hitting Turner's GameTap PC service this Easter as a little Easter Egg, get it? More »
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Is this how the Sega console business *finally* ends? Not with a bang, but a whimper? Guess so! While Sega pulled the plug on console production back in 2001 (DC, R.I.P.), games continued to appear on the Dreamcast. Earlier this year saw not one, but two new DC releases in Japan. Sadly, Sega also stopped producing the official format for that game machine earlier this year. That means the only option to get games now is through the homebrew/underground scene. More »
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We dutifully passed on word in September that Project RS3 (for Radiant Silvergun 3, in which Project RS2 became Dreamcast shooter Ikaruga) was headed to the Xbox 360. Well, we passed on an assumption from Play that Treasure's "original shooting game" was rumored to be a trilogy-ending vertical shooter in the vein of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga, but so far we've seen nothing concrete from Treasure or Microsoft. The only thing we know Treasure is officially working on is a sequel to their Nintendo DS fighter Bleach. More »
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1999: GT Interactive releases Unreal Tournament for PC in the US. The game is incredible, receiving deserved praise for strong AI, a variety of game modes and a strong online community of gamers even if some prefer Quake III Arena. More »
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1998: Sega announces that Sega Channel is shutting down due to a poor subscriber base (only 150,000 subscribers out of 20 million homes available by the end of its lifespan). Sega Channel was a great idea that was implemented well. But I guess it just came out a little too late for people to still be excited about playing unlimited Genesis games. More »
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2004: South Korea's Media Board bans the sale of Ghost Recon 2, saying the plotline goes "way too far". Maybe South Korea disliked the highly unrealistic storyline in which a North Korean dictator redirects humanitarian aid to war programs, and then threatens to blow South Korea up. More »
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1994: Sega releases the Saturn in Japan. 10 million units sold worldwide - roughly a third of what the Genesis sold. This from the wiki: "The Saturn was a powerful machine for the time, but its design, with two CPUs and 6 other processors, made harnessing its power extremely difficult." Sound familiar to anyone? If only TDIG were around to warn Sony earlier! More »
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Destructoid's readers (and contributors) are a tawdry, villainous bunch. As are scoundrels over at The Age blogs, where Destructoid got the idea for compiling a list of gaming sins in the first place. More »
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For your Thursday lunchtime perusal, Next Generation's Eric-Jon Rossel Waugh has posted a decent read for whilst you're otherwise employeed stuffing a sandwich into your craw: "How the Console 'Losers' Really Won." More »
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Sega Saturn NiGHTS could be getting that long-over-due sequel gossips Famitsu. The game's creator Yuji Naka has publically stated he's against NiGHTS 2, TWO NiGHTS, Another NiGHT, NiTE NiGHT or whatever they're gonna call it. He told the a British Dreamcast mag in 2000: ""I know a lot of people love it and want us to make a sequel, but for us it's a really important game. Like the way Spielberg likes E.T. so much he won't remake it, I don't want to make another NiGHTS." Then, how about E.T. 2? More »
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Sega's getting back into the handheld market says French gaming site Inpact Virtuel. The leaked info says the former console maker is planning a portable that would be able to play games from the Master System, the Genesis, the Saturn and the Dreamcast. More »
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How do you know you are too obsessed with one of the crappiest games of all time? When you design a custom made, six-foot-tall light gun controller for Death Crimson, a game that scored only 1.0909 out of 10 stars when it was released for the Sega Saturn. More »
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GameSetWatch points to a scanned a map of North America from the Sega Saturn RPG Tengai Makyou: Daishi no Mokushiroku. Japan-based game translator Andrew Vestal, who explains, "This map is basically what would happen if you got a bunch of Japanese guys in a room, got them drunk and then asked them to draw what they could remember about America on a bar napkin." Hey, that's how I explain what I remember about America. Looking at the map, I see Dallas and *gasp* Detroit, but where's Denver? A million crocodile tears for Crecente. More »
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This cool little blog about making the best of living or visiting Japan has posted up a How To for buying retro games in Japan. The site walks you through the process including where to look for the best deals and what sorts of arcane gaming products you can expect to pick up where. More »
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