Sega is currently in talks with the North American publisher Electronic Arts to develope a "sales alliance" to help boost their sagging North American sales.
Source: *Reuters*
Sega is currently in talks with the North American publisher Electronic Arts to develope a "sales alliance" to help boost their sagging North American sales.
Source: *Reuters*
The CD Single of Sonic Drive is now available at
CDJapan. Details are here.
Source : CDJapan
New Japanese Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut and Sonic Pinball Party movies can be found at the Sega of Japan website (Click here and here).
Sonic Adventure: DX
The SADX page appears to suggest that the name 'Adventure Field' has been abbreviated to 'ADV. Field', while 'Action Stage' has been abbreviated to 'ACT Stage' (Could the ACT be a reference to the MD games? Maybe/Maybe not - I'm not sure! ^_^).
Sonic Pinball Party
After watching the SPP movie, I am more excited about the game. It appears to have lots of minor references to elements of the old Sonic games (such as Classic Sonic music) and should be a real treat for Sonic Team fans.
Source: Sega of Japan
Ken Penders reccently announced the following auction on his message board. The auction is for the original cover art for the upcoming tenth anniversary issue of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog #125.
This particular auction is unique in that the original pencil art by Patrick Spaziante, the inked version by Nelson Ribiero, and a colorred version also by Patrick Spaziante are all being sold together. According to Penders, this is the only piece of pencilled cover art for the Sonic comic in existence, since the inker usually inks write over the pencils and then then erases them.
The starting price of the auction is $1,000.
From Kikizo Games:
An update to our earlier story - Sega confirms that the 'new Sega console' talk with Yuji Naka was down to translation issues.
Following our earlier news from E3, which pondered over comments regarding 'new Sega hardware' made by Yuji Naka in our interview - Sega has clarified that the comments were inaccurately translated, and categorically stated there is no such hardware in development.
The story, which took extracts from the forthcoming interview, featured Naka-san's words as spoken through his Japanese interpreter. While there's no deniying the arousing nature of the comments on the surface, Sega have contacted us to clarify that these were purely inaccurate in translation. Sega states that Naka was clearly speaking hypothetically about "working hard to realise" new Sega hardware.
Thinking logically it is fairly obvious that there could be no new home entertainment hardware from Sega, for a variety of reasons - but it would still be uber-cool if there was. And before Naka's comments were clarified by Sega today, we feel we were justified in reporting exactly what was said, specifically stressing the likelihood of the translation's wider meaning being inaccurate.
Look forward to the rest of the interview in our post-E3 coverage, which has tonnes of new info on Sonic Heroes and Billy Hatcher.
Adam Doree
Editorial Director
Source: Kikizo Games
Fox Box has released the new Schedule for the '03- '04 season, which includes Sonic X in their lineup.
Kikizo Games has also posted a Hands-On article for Sonic Battle. No new screens are shown, but it explains the game from an E3 show experience. The article can be seen here.
Source: Kikizo Games
The Megaman EXE TV sow is now being aired on Kids' WB.
Kikizo Games has posted an interview with Sonic creator Yuji Naka that was conducted during the recent E3 exhibition.
One of the things mentioned in the interview was how Naka misses developing for a sole SEGA console and that he is attempting to encourage SEGA executives to make another foray into the hardware business.
Source: *Kikizo Games*