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SEGA have sold their stake in Humankind developer Amplitude Studios as a part of a management buyout. The studio has now become an independent and will thankfully continue to exist.
SEGA have made considerable lay-offs to staff internally as well as staff working at The Creative Assembly and SEGA Hardlight across 2024 as a part of their corporate restructure. It’s all a bit cold and uncaring for an industry that is reportedly one of the most successful entertainment mediums around nowadays.
Under SEGA, Amplitude developed Humankind, Endless Dungeon and Endless Space 2. The studio mainly specialised in strategy titles for a PC audience.
SEGADriven would like to wish everyone at Amplitude Studios our very best and hope the studio manage to continue their work and success as an independent.
Justin Scarpone, the current transmedia boss at SEGA, has casually dropped the news that SEGA are developing a new Virtua Fighter game in an interview with VGC.
When questioned about the challenge of reviving old franchises for modern audiences, Scarpone says the following:
“So we have a suite of titles in development right now that fall into that legacy bucket, which we announced last year at The Game Awards; Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, and we have another Virtua Fighter being developed.”
While we have seen some in-game footage of the new Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio games, this is the first time SEGA have mentioned anything about a new Virtua Fighter game.
The last Virtua Fighter title to be released was the digital-only Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown for PS4 back in 2021. This was an expanded port of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown that was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios using their Dragon Engine. The game was released for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers and amassed a very large playerbase as a result.
There is currently no further information about this new Virtua Fighter game at the time of writing. Fingers crossed we don’t have to wait too long to see the game formally announced with a trailer alongside some more information like what platforms it is heading to.
SEGA are going to be delisting a bunch of digital games on December 6th 2024 with the headline release being the SEGA Mega Drive Classics compilation on Switch, PC, PS4 and Xbox One. On Steam this title has a dedicated launcher called the SEGA Mega Drive Hub, but each game in the collection is available to buy seperately. The full collection was only made available as one big compilation on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One.
Alongside the delisting of SEGA Mega Drive Classics, a bunch of other titles are being delisted like the HD ports of Jet Set Radio, Nights into dreams…, SEGA Bass Fishing, Crazy Taxi and Sonic the Fighters. For the full list of titles affected click the “read more” link below:
A new trailer for Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has premiered as a part of the Xbox Partners Showcase, and with it comes the announcement that the game’s release date has been brought forward to February 21st 2025. Check out the new trailer via the embed below:
This latest trailer for Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii mainly focuses on naval combat and ship customisation, but it also shares some brand new information like the return of Taiga Saejima. We also get the name of Samoa Joe’s character who is called Raymond Law – a self-proclaimed Pirate King.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will release on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PS4 and PS5 on February 21st 2025. The game is being developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios.
The Creative Assembly have taken to social media to announce that a follow-up to Alien Isolation is in the early stages of development. SEGA will once again handle publishing duties.
The original Alien Isolation released 10 years ago for PC, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4. The game is a first person horror title where you are play as Amanda Ripley, the daughter Ellen Ripley as you try to investigate your mother’s disapperance on the space station Sevastopol. While you’re doing this you are being constantly stalked by a xenomorph and have to carefully explore using stealth so you don’t alert the xenomorph.
There is currently no word on which platforms are being targeted for Alien Isolation 2 or when we can expect the game to release. As this initial announcement from The Creative Assembly is just to reveal the game is in early development, I can imagine we’ll be waiting a while before we get to see something some substantial for this title.
The holy grail of lost Mega Drive media has been discovered and was even playable at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024. A build of 1995’s Garfield: Caught in the Act – The Lost Levels has finally been unearthed after 29 years.
Garfield: The Lost Levels was a SEGA Channel exclusive version of Garfield: Caught in the Act that features 2 exclusive stages called Bonehead the Barbarian and Slobbin’ Hood. It is further enhanced with the Alien Landscape stage which was only made available via the SEGA PC release of Garfield: Caught in the Act that released in 1996.
An attendee at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024 called PZTunleaded has recorded 43 minutes of off-screen footage of the recently discovered build of Garfield: The Lost Levels and shared it on their YouTube channel. You can watch this footage via the embed below:
While PZTunleaded is not the owner of the build, the video description does mention that the general public will be able to play this build “sooner or later” which suggests the owner is going to release the ROM dump soon.
SEGA are continuing to expand their gaming portfolio into the cinematic arena with an animated movie based on mobile rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage. Entitled Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing; this upcoming animated feature will be directed by Hiroyuki Hata of Recently, My Sister is Unusual and Girls und Panzer fame.
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing sees Miku trying to reach out to people in need, but something is holding her back. It’s up to Ichika Hoshino and her bandmates to spread the good word of Miku to their audience. You can watch the first trailer for the movie with English subtitles via the embed below:
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing will release in Japan on January 17th 2024. A wider global release will then follow, but we currently only have a release date of “coming soon” at the time of writing.
A new combat gameplay trailer has dropped for Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. This new footage features some hand-to-hand combat that showcases Majima using some shadow clones. We also get to se some sword-based combat with Pirate Majima.
There’s a surprisingly large amount of enemies in the battles featured in this video which brings games like Dynasty Warriors to mind. Check it out for yourself via the embed below:
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii launches on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S on February 28th 2025. The game is being developed by RGG Studio.
Promoted as a prelude series to the Sonic X Shadow Generations video game, Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings has finally arrived with the very first episode entitled Shadow and Maria. In this episode Shadow battles with visions of his past.
You can watch the episode on YouTube via the embed below, but viewers who suffer from photosensitive epilepsy may want to steer clear as there’s a lot of flashing imagery included:
A further 2 episodes of Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings will premiere on October 3rd and October 10th 2024. Sonic X Shadow Generations the video game will launch on October 25th 2024 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC. Development is being handled by Sonic Team.
2 of the SEGA Saturn’s most beloved RPGs are returning in a newly remastered format for PS4, PS5, PC, Switch and Xbox One. The Lunar Remastered Collection bundles Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue together, and features the original pixel art but now with upscaled cutscenes and some fancy depth-of-field effects.
Originally developed by Game Arts and released for the Mega CD, both games would later come to the Saturn and then the PlayStation. The PlayStation versions are what is being used as the basis for this new collection. These new remasters are being developed and published by GungHo Online Entertainment who are responsible for games in the Puzzle & Dragons, Ninjala and Let It Die franchises. They also handled the Grandia HD Collection released back in 2019.
You can watch the reveal trailer for Lunar Remastered Collection via the embed below:
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