Sega will be launching a new game onto mobile devices in Japan next month called Monster Gear. This is a sort of Monster Hunter style of game with four-player co-op gameplay where groups of people, or the strong solo type, go out and hunt down rather large monsters.
Back during this year’s GDC conference Sega announced a new addition to their Total War franchise for mobile gamers called Total War Battles: Kingdom. This, however, isn’t just for mobile gamers but for PC gamers as well since there is cross-platform multiplayer functionality that will be coming with Total War Battles: Kingdom.
Owners of high-end Android tablets who happen to also play Sega’s Football Manager Classic 2015 have received some extra love from Sega today with the ability to control and guide your favorite teams to victory but with 3D rendered visuals. This is due to the addition of the 3D match engine for high-end tablet owners so you can now follow all the action in a much more realistic manner.
SEGA announced a new Total War Battle game that would be coming to Android called Total War Battles: Kingdom during GDC 2015. According to SEGA, Total War Battles is now one of the longest running game franchises spanning 15 years on continuous title releases. Not too shabby.
Today SEGA has pushed out a little update for their Crazy Taxi: City Rush game which adds a particularly cool car to the game. This update is sort of a team effort with SEGA joining forces with Mattel to bring the Hot Wheels Bone Shaker care to Crazy Taxi: City Rush.
In our first part we explored how Sega overtook Nintendo in the early 90’s to become the biggest video game company in the world. It was through attitude, marketing, and most importantly defining themselves as better than Nintendo. Despite the Super Nintendo’s better graphics card and superior sound board, the Genesis took an early lead in the console wars. It wasn’t to last however, as Sega’s odd obsession with the Genesis forged the beginning of its downfall.
A few weeks ago we posted an article about the fall of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sega in general. Needless to say there is still a decent amount of discussion going on over in the comments section for that article and we haven’t even posted part 2 yet. So when we were tipped off about a petition for a remastered version of Sonic 3 to be released onto Android, it was something we obviously had to check out.
Young readers might wonder why the internet is filled with so much lament over the fallen blue hero. Sonic The Hedgehog has become the mascot equivalent of Val Kilmer, depressing us with his bloated antics. Dozens of failed games, countless reboots, and now the Sonic Boom atrocity have all but killed this once great franchise. Sega has even announced they’ll no longer be making console games and be focusing only on mobile and PC markets.
Back in December 2014 we reported on Sonic Runners coming to mobile this year which is being developed by the Sonic Team instead of SEGA actually doing it. Unfortunately, when we reported on the game, there were very little details available at that time. In fact there basically wasn’t any at all. Today we have a bit more to go on including an actual trailer.
Sega is offering 300 employees “voluntary retirement” and in the process moving focus away from console games and on to Mobile and Online PC games. Sega of America is expected to lose 120 employees as part of Sega’s downsize, and will be moving its offices from San Francisco to Southern California.
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