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Ah, Magical Sound Shower. Could there be a better soundtrack for driving around a two-dimensional landscape in an expensive car with a sexy lady beside you? More »
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I've not played any of Sega's upcoming sci-fi shooter Binary Domain, so it could be the best game ever created by human humans for all I know. I'm having an incredibly difficult time mustering any excitement at all for the title, and this new multiplayer trailer isn't helping at all. More »
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Publisher Sega will release a sequel to Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing this holiday season, Kotaku has learned. More »
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Hey there, alien, why so blue? Is it because you've already ingested that squad of marines and have nothing else to play with? You know what'll cheer you up? A little Eiffel 65. More »
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Me and You, by Nero, is kinda famous right now as it's been used as the jingle for the Beats by Dr. Dre line of gear at Best Buy. More »
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Sega is an old brand. There's heritage in that, but also baggage. So French design firm SYN decided to take a swing at sprucing the company's image up a little! More »
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All around good guy Patrick Macias, voice actress Yuu Asakawa, and the Otaku Verse Zero crew visited Sega to check out Toylet—you know that Sega game you can tinkle on. More »
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Cosplay is a way for people to escape. It's a way for people to take on another personality and be something that they are not, whether that 's a game character, an anime character, or in Kumiko Hayakawa's case, a ring girl in a boxing match. More »
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And who doesn't? Kidding! (I love you Sega. I think.) Back in Dec. 2010, Kotaku broke the news that Sega was working on a urine-powered game system for Japanese toilets. More »
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Westerners notice it. The clothes run slightly smaller, and a medium in Japan would be a small—or even a petite—back home. Barring the exception here or there, Japanese people tend to have smaller frames. People are, generally speaking, thin. More »
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You might not know Toshihiro Nagoshi. But once you see his face, you'll never forget it. More »
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When Sega pulled out of the hardware race over a decade ago, it meant the poor little Dreamcast never got the successor it deserved. Well, aside from the Xbox. More »
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No. But the world is getting it. To mark the 20th anniversary of puzzle game Puyo Puyo, Sega is releasing Puyo Puyo meat buns in Japan. More »
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SEGA's new trailer for the zombie-ridden Yakuza: Dead Souls skips the foreplay of human connection and solidarity. The shambling hordes come first, picking their way through Tokyo's red light district with a hunger for human flesh… and bone marrow, and organs, and brains. More »
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While North America got home-grown popstar got Justin Bieber for Google Chrome commercials, Japan got a homegrown star of its own for Google Chrome ads. Make that, a virtual homegrown star. More »
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I'm not trying to be mean here. There is good art. And there is bad art. The art for Samurai & Dragons is, well, yeah. More »
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From what I've seen of Binary Domain, it looks rather vanilla, but it could be interesting. These live action promo spots? They're incredible. More »
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A reader of site HotBloodedGaming decided to email Sega and ask what the company's stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act was. Sega was nice enough to reply. Well, as nice as an automatic mailing system that's completely useless is capable of being, anyway. More »
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Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, has gamers upset. DanGlozier66 over at HotBloodedGaming sent out a mass of emails to a whole host of companies. More »
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My favourite piece of gaming hardware released around the turn of the millennium was not the Sega Dreamcast, or the PlayStation 2, or the Xbox, or the GameCube. It's not even the awesome Panasonic Q. More »
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Developed by the same team that's made Sega's open-world Yakuza games, Binary Domain's a futureshock shooter that imagines the robot servants of the future rebelling against their human masters. You know, basic Skynet stuff. More »
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The Frenchmen at Gamekyo have posted images of what looks like a very big, very fancy collectors edition for Aliens Colonial Marines. More »
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Nothing lasts forever. Not you, not me, and certainly not game companies. Just ask Midway, Pandemic, and Acclaim. They're gone. More »
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Sega announced this morning that both House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead 4 will be coming to the PS3 as downloadable titles on the PlayStation Network. Both will include Move support. More »
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Comiket, aka Comic Market, isn't only about comics. It's also about cosplay. Oh, and plastic figures. More »
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After a decidedly lukewarm reception to the first instalment in its planned episodic series, Sega is already wheeling out the changes for Sonic 4: Episode 2. More »
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Now, we should be the last people on Earth to get on a high horse over typos and associated spelling errors. But the fact this screenshot comes from the Japanese version of Virtua Tennis 4 on the Vita makes it too good to pass up. More »
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In the pouring rain on April 11, 1993, Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna raced into history with one of the greatest performances of his career. In treacherous conditions, he held off a spirited challenge from arch-rival Alain Prost to take a famous victory, one of the last he would savour before his tragic death a year later. More »
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Celebrating 20 years of Sega's blurry blue mascot, this Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas tree from 8BitFix's Beatboxtaun stands as both a monument to video game culture and a reminder of those who won't be with us this holiday season. More »
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Total War: Shogun 2 may look and sound for all the world like the latest in a long line of reasonably bland strategy strategy games. As most grand strategy games are. Removing the player from the action to such an abstract level tends to rob the genre of its potential to truly immerse you in the spirit of the war, time or place. More »
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Seeing as how the original version of Crush on the PlayStation Portable was all about shifting perspective from 2D to 3D and back, it's fitting that Sega's liked-but-ignored platformer gets a second chance at life on the 3DS. More »
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This year, Sega mascot Sonic the Hedgehog turns 20. To honour the occassion, those classy Frenchmen at Amusement magazine put together a very classy tribute. More »
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There's been a story kicking around for a few years now that Peter Moore, formerly of Sega and Microsoft, was the man who killed the Dreamcast. Turns out he actually didn't. More »
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Today's Shigeru Miyamoto news shows that not even the biggest names in development are around forever. One man, though, plans on sticking around forever. One very brown man. More »
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The "Casino Night Pinball" minigame that console gamers got for preordering the game will be available to PC gamers via Steam on Dec. 26. It'll only run you $1.59 in the U.S. (Overseas, it's £0.99, €1.59, $2.99 in Australia). More »
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For once, you have to admire the restraint of the creative folks at Next Media Animation. Never ones to pass up low-hanging jokefruit, they don't make a Wii joke in the report that covers the westward march of urinal games. NMA does offer their visions of permutations of pee-based games for women and kids, though, and there's a few chuckles—or other reactions, depending on your proclivities—to be had while watching. More »
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Sure looks like it! This new Nendoroid figure, from Japan's Good Smile Company, will be out next year. Pre-orders are already kicking off, though, and you can get one for around USD$35. More »
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Earlier this year The Creative Assembly took Total War: Shogun 2 players into the past with the Rise of the Samurai downloadable content. In March the company heads in the opposite direction with the standalone Fall of the Samurai expansion pack. More »
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First, they put advertisements in front of men's urinals, figuring dudes who have to answer nature's call are a built-in audience. Now, men's latrines are becoming interactive as the urinal consoles that have been in place in Japan begin their march westward. More »
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