For those of you in the Illinois/Schaumburg area groupon.com has a deal for you: $60 GameWorks passes for only $30. As I live only a couple hours away from Schaumburg I’m a huge supporter of keeping one of the only decent arcades in the area alive. After Sega closed over…
It’s not often I get to say this but right now it seems like a good time to be a PSP owner. With Valkyria Chronicles 2’s release a couple of weeks ago and now Phantasy Star Portable 2 this week, Sega has put a little life back into the system….
Hatsune Miku is kind of a big deal, with the VOCALOID sensation in general permeating into Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and her own personalised leeks cropping up in Phantasy Star Portable 2. She is also this Saturday having her debut US concert in the Japantown area of San Francisco,…
Remember game cheats where you’d enter a code and get something kooky and neat? I miss those. However I am pleased to say that there are actually codes in the PSP game Valkyria Chronicles 2! In fact they even unlock better things then you would usually get. That’s right you…
An important part of advertising is the mascot. If you associate your product with a colorful cartoon character with his own catchphrase it will be burned into people’s minds. But sometimes the mascot isn’t enough. When this is the case, ad companies will take an already established character or TV…
As part of the pre-release hype to Sega’s main RTS franchise, the makers of Shogun 2 have begun releasing ‘Battle Reports’ similar to what Blizzard created for Starcraft 2. Instead of commentating on a Multiplayer match-up though these are simply walkthroughs of skirmishes between the creators and the AI, demonstrating…
So once again a game is revealed before Sega can even make an announcement. Lovely. However this wasn’t revealed by some guy at the ESRB. It was from the Sega website itself! You see on Sega’s TGS site they had an image that displayed the games they were going to…