Russ writes, Demon's Souls… on clearance? Dr. Pepper and… Mass Effect 2? Strange days, man. Many discounted RPGs this week.
VideoGamer.com writes: Have you ever wondered why Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim? No, neither had we - but that didn't stop us from stumbling across the answer during a brief-yet-bizarre interview with Yuji Naka.
SEGA have launched a new interactive website for the DS title.
Sega has unveiled their upcoming line-up through the first quarter of 2009. The biggest thing to mention here is a release date for Sonic the Hedgehog's next grand adventure, Sonic Unleashed. It'll be shipped to stores this November on the PS3, 360, Wii and PS2. Sonic Chronicles, the DS-only RPG being developed at BioWare, will arrive two months earlier in September. Other big names include Golden Axe Riders for the PS3/360 and a follow-up to 2005's Yakuza for the PS2, both due in September. Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines, a game we've seen nothing of since its announcement in February, will be out in the first quarter of next year.
Sega has released a trailer for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, and it's almost got us believing the blue hedgehog is on the edge of a comeback.
We say almost, because the music sounds like it was ripped straight out of Baldur's Gate. That worries us in the same way it would hearing that the Spice Girls were going to score the new Batman movie.
Aside from that minor - and fanboyish - complaint, it's looking like the
Sega has slipped 70 screen shots of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood onto the net and we're bringing you the 11 shots that were actually new.
Of note and on display is the combat system - if you click on the next button really quickly, you can see how combat will play out, if the combat had a frame rate of about two frames per second. For more details on the combat system, the menu screens and the storyline
It wasn't so long ago that Kombo brought you word of BioWare's fan-based effort to name the new alien race which resides within their upcoming Nintendo DS RPG effort, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Now, it seems the names have been submitted, the votes have been cast, the results tallied, and the name chosen. Such as the process would have been expected to proceed, one might imagine.
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