Despite the theme, the games shown after the short presentation were distinctly, movie-themed free featuring, two both the upcoming RPG and traditional Sonic titles, Samba De Amigo, Golden Axe: Beast Rider, Valkyria Chronicles and Empire Total War.

While they didn't show it, Sega of America unveiled a brand new IP, a "spy-action" role-playing game for next-generation consoles called Alpha Protocol. The game, a modern day RPG is being developed by Obsidian for Feb. 2009.

The show wrapped up with a quick teaser video showing off what appeared to be a very slick, high-resolution glimpse of Aliens: Colonial Marines.

In the incredibly short video a camera pans away from a clutch of Alien eggs as a voice, obviously the voice of a Marine talks in the background.

One of the eggs breaks open unleashing a young Alien and you can hear the marine say:

"Wait a minute there's movement, looks to be some kind of bug or something..."

Sega promised to have the game at their booth during this year's E3.

Being developed in conjunction with the movie for six different platforms, The Golden Compass certainly has a lot of obstacles to overcome straight out of the gate.

Sega's announcement at their event in San Francisco yesterday seemed more about the movie than the impending game. Sure, they talked about the platforms it's coming (all of them) and the fact that they have full access to the movie's props and lots of images of the actors, but the game just wasn't grabbing my atetntion.

In it you play through 11 levels, two of which are unique to the book and the game, as the movie's leading girl, a shapeshifting manimal and a gi-normous polar bear.

All but the DS version is being developed by Shiny Entertainment, with the DS version being made by Artificial Mind and Movement.

Despite the fact the fact that the people showing the game to the press used the phrase "very excited" at least three times during the very short presentation, I couldn't help but be most decidedly not very excited about its prospects. Brian Crecente

SEGA is hosting a little Gamers Day today at their headquarters. I don't know exactly what they will be showing, but they company says they will be "unveiling several thrilling new projects."

The unveiling should be happening around 10 a.m. Pacific, followed by a half day of game demos for titles on the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, DS and PC. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. Brian Crecente