Posts Tagged ‘Sega’

5 minutes with Platinum Games’ Vanquish was all it took to convince us it’s one of the games of 2010.

A game that draws influence from Gears Of War without just cutting and pasting its most copy-able feature, Vanquish takes everything great about Epic’s cover-shooting blockbuster and addresses what’s wrong with it too.

There are still areas in which Japan remains a world leader. Here’s five of them…

Read an exclusive bunch of games industry predictions, direct from the mouth/typing fingers of the legendary Michael Pachter (and definitely not just made up for our amusement, oh no siree…)

What do we think Kazuma and co. could have done better?

In yet another new feature here on the Play Blog, we take a look at games on other formats and talk about why we think they should make the jump to PS3. And we’re not even fanboy-baiting. What are the odds?

Does Sega think its games suck? Find out after the jump

Charm is a dangerous thing

In honour of Sony’s potentially catastrophic failure to put a fully functioning clock inside early models of the PS3, I’ve decided to put together this Top 5 of the worst console faults of all time, just to put things in perspective. At the time of writing it’s unclear whether the PS3mageddon bug has been fixed by Sony or has simply righted itself. Either way, the panic is over and we can all laugh about it now.

As a sneak image and trailer got yanked from 1up.com we also got the news through that Sega’s Sonic Team is not responsible for the Blue Hedgehog’s left to right return. Development duties are instead being taken up by a studio called Dimps on Osaka. That name may not be familiar to you, but the team there recently worked with Capcom in developing Street Fighter IV and made the Sonic Rush and Sonic Advance games for Nintendo DS and GBA respectively.

Sega has announced the latest Sonic The Hedgehog game, this time making the bold move of sticking a 4 at the end of the name, making this the official sequel to Sonic 3 after a 16-year gap

Some of  you in the world may have felt a little let down by the PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta

Sega has announced a little something extra for the upcoming PSP sequel

Update: Turns out this doesn’t apply to Europe, and might not even apply to the US