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Street Fighter coming to Fist of The North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE

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SEGA has announced that characters from Capcom’s iconic Street Fighter franchise are heading to Fist of The North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE next week for a special collaboration event.The Street Fighter x Fist of The North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE event is set to get underway on April 30th, with Sakura appearing as a Super Rare (SR) character […]

Knuckles spotted on the set of Sonic the Hedgehog 2

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Sonic the Hedgehog overcame a redesign and the start of a pandemic to gross $319 million at the global box-office. Now that the world is slowly emerging from lockdown at a speed on the opposite end of the scale to SEGA’s iconic blue erinaceinae, filming has begun on the sequel, and it has given us […]

Netflix announces Sonic Prime animated series coming in 2022

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Netflix, SEGA and WildBrain have announced a new animated series featuring everyone’s favourite blue hedgehog Sonic is winging its way to Netflix in 2022.  Sonic Prime will be a 24 episode long series that takes Sonic to a strange new multiverse and it won’t just be about the running, the official waffle describes it as […]

Sega is developing a live-action movie adaptation of Yakuza

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Sega is officially developing a live-action movie adaptation of its bestselling Yakuza video game franchise with production companies 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content.According to Variety, Erik Barmack, Roberto Grande and Joshua Long will produce the live-action adaptation of the video game series, but no writers or director have been attached to the project as of yet.The first […]

Crunchyroll and Adult Swim team for anime adaptation of SEGA’s Shenmue

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Crunchyroll has announced that it is partnering with Adult Swim for an anime series based upon the beloved SEGA video game franchise Shenmue.“The first Shenmue video game was released more than twenty years ago and we’re so excited to be working again with Adult Swim to bring this franchise to life through anime,” said Sarah […]

Fist of The North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE x Virtua Fighter collaboration event starts this week

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SEGA will be releasing a new collaboration event for Fist of The North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE that sees two characters from the iconic fighting game Virtua Fighter join the lineup.  A new trailer can be seen below showing these classic characters in action.With this collaboration event the martial art styles of Hokuto Shinken and Hakkyoku-Ken […]

Shinobi and Fantasy Zone coming to SEGA AGES on Nintendo Switch this January

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Shinobi and Fantasy Zone were two very popular arcade games back in those heady neon days of the 1980s and these are the latest two games coming to SEGA AGES on the Nintendo Switch on 23rd January.  These latest two titles join a growing list of all time classic SEGA games available on the Switch, including Space […]

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD now available

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SEGA has today announced the launch of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch.  Originally released on the Wii back in 2006, Super Monkey Ball will provide players with plenty of single player levels, multiplayer fun, self-aware monkeys and, for the first time ever, Sonic the Hedgehog as a speedy […]

Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 coming to mobile devices

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Sonic the Hedgehog and pals are getting ready for Tokyo 2020, with SEGA releasing the first trailer for the upcoming video game Sonic at the Olympic Games, which will hit mobile devices next year to coincide with the iconic sporting event. Watch the gameplay trailer here…Sonic at the Olympic Games – Tokyo 2020 will be released […]