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Leipziger Messe's announced its official awards today for last week's Games Convention in Leipzig. LittleBigPlanet, Mirror's Edge and Spore took the top awards. EA seems to have been the big winner this year as well, taking four of the nine awards. Hopefull...



A date of arrival has been quoted for Valkyria Chronicles, for the PS3, for those over at the Western shores: November 11th. Shortly after a slip-up by Sony (showing the game among clips of playable games back in the E3 press conference), Sega was quick to clarify that the g...



Sega has just announced its Leipzig Games Convention line-up, confirming in the process the world premiere of an as of yet announced title the show. Shenmue 3? Panzer Dragoon 5? We can only hope. Here's the full line-up! * "A world premiere"...



If your a Phantasy Star fan then you should have heard about the new Phantasy Star Portable game coming to PSP. If you don't keep up with Japanese releases then maybe you haven't heard. Either way SEGA is bringing the next chapter of the Phantasy Star Universe seri...



This is all according to the september issue of Nintendo Power. The game is called Sonic & The Black Knight and will feature Sonic for the first time wielding a sword. As you may have guessed this is going to be a Wii exclusive just like 2007's Sonic and the Secret ...



Simon Jeffery, the Sega Of America President has shot down fans of the Shenmue series by saying "There are no plans right now." Jeffery told Kotaku at an interview at E3 He didn't mention anything about there not being a Shenmue III ever, at all, so fans ca...



Instead of just giving us a simple "no", Sega have issued a "no comment" on recent rumours that Shenmue III will make an appearance at this year's E3 event.



Sega announced today the identities of the two mystery characters that appeared in the AOU Amusement Expo trailer for Virtua Fighter 5 R earlier this year. And the two fighters are... Jean Kujo and Taka-Arashi!



Can you say "a little late off the ball"? With the PS3 bound Yakuza 3 already in production, released the PS2 instalment of SEGA's popular GTA-in-Japan seems more than a tad late.



I know. It is ALREADY out and available for purchase so a review based on the demo is a bit stale at this point. However, you can consider this a basic review of the gameplay and mechanics involved in this new 3rd person shooter.



A brand new recreation of the cult-classic shooter created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, "Rez HD" launches on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360™ this week. In addition to "Rez HD," chess fans and newcomers alike will enjoy checkmating friends with "Chessmast...



Virtua Fighter 5 is already a perfectly oiled machine of grace and beauty, but Sega have seen fit to release a patch anyway. Considering the perfection of the gameplay, most of the patch changes involve changes and fixes to the front end system, with game mechanics being left just the way they are... as they should be.



Jeux-France has reported in Nintendo Power's newest issue details regarding the SEGA / BioWare joint effort in the Sonic RPG.



The Sega Saturn's most successful game, NiGHTs Into Dreams, has created a lot of anticipation for its sequel scheduled for this winter on the Wii. In addition to the variety of interesting features announced so far for the upcoming NiGHTs: Journey of Dreams, such as ...



Sega’s notorious blue hedgehog has been stirring up a lot of gossip recently: Last year, Shigero Miyamoto (father of Mario, LoZ, Star Fox, and other Nintendo games) mentioned in a Tips & Tricks magazine interview that he’d love to see Sonic the Hedgehog added to the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl, if he recieved Sega’s approval, but it wasn't unveiled until this week that Sonic will, in fact, make it into the roster!



Sonic Riders and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 are set to feature on both consoles. The Sonic Riders title will return in February 2008 as a hoverboard-racing spin-off called Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. While Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 will hit the stores October this year.



After months of rumour and speculation Nights on the Wii has finally been announced by Sega through Maxi Consolas, a Portuguese gaming magazine. Details about the game are still pretty scarce due to translation difficulties, but so far it looks like that it is indeed a sequel to its Saturn predecessor



Rumours of a sequel to the legendary Saturn game 'NiGHTS into Dreams' are nothing new. But if all the signs are to be believed, the thought no longer sits in the realm of speculation, and the gaming equivalent of the 2nd Coming will soon be upon us, as the purple harlequin glides his/her way into our dreams once more.



Despite some desperately poor US sales for SEGA's recent offerings on the PSP - Sonic Rivals and Sega Genesis Collection sold a measly 26,000 and 8,000 units respectively - the company is going to try it's hand with another old franchise; Crazy Taxi.



Though its first home will (hopefully) always lie in the arcade, SEGA's home release of the next Virtua Fighter game, VF5 will pioneer on not just one home console (which has been the case for nearly a decade), but two.



SEGA has never been known to randomly snatch up movie licenses, so it came as something of a surprise when the company announced it had acquired the rights to create games based on New Line's upcoming His Dark Materials movie trilogy

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