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Around 300 staff are to be offered early retirement following plans to completely restructure Sega’s business. Local organisations managing packaged game software in Western markets will be streamlined”, the company has said, with its San Francisco already confirmed for closure. Sega intends to alter operations to focus on mobile and …
Read More »Sega Europe’s Amanda Farr joins Xbox UK
Sega’s European marketing director Amanda Farr is moving to Xbox UK. Farr will be serving as head of Xbox content and services in the UK from March 2nd, and will be reporting to Xbox UK director of marketing Harvey Eagle. In this role she will be overseeing the management of …
Read More »Alien: Isolation sales pass 1m units
Creative Assembly and Sega’s sci-fi survival horror title Alien: Isolation has now sold over 1m copies. The game was released in October last year to much critical acclaim. It should be noted, however, that Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines – which was critically panned – sold 1.31m units in just under …
Read More »Art book reveals Total War: Warhammer
A Total War game set in the Warhammer universe is apparently in production at Creative Assembly. An art book due to ship to customers at the end of the month has already been sent out to a lucky few. One owner noticed the following passage contained within written by creative …
Read More »Devolver Digital wants to make a new Seaman
Sega curio Seaman could be in line for a resurrection from indie publisher Devolver Digital. Devolver CEO Fork Parker took to Twitter to tell Sega that it wanted to make a new game in the series before directly approaching its creator Yoot Saito. Saito replied to ask about formats, suggesting …
Read More »Sega hires veteran TV producer
Sega has hired veteran television executive Evan Cholfin to lead its joint venture Stories International in development of the publisher’s IP portfolio. Variety reports Cholfin has been appointed the venture’s head of development and production, following a three-year stint as an executive at Break Media. "With his impeccable taste and …
Read More »Sega pulls PS4 Alien: Isolation patch
A patch designed to fix stuttering cutscene issues has instead caused significant problems for Alien: Isolation players on PS4. Soon after its release users began to complain about game crashes and, in some cases, broken game saves. All of which has led to Sega removing the PS4 1.2 patch entirely …
Read More »Persona of interest: Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka’s first European interview
CEO Naoto Hiraoka speaks exclusively to MCV about bringing Japanese sensibility to the West, pairing with Sega, sticking with Vita and remaining unpredictable Best known in the West for the role-playing franchise Megami Tensei, which spawned the highly popular Shin Megami Tensei: Persona subseries, and surgical-simulation visual novel series Trauma …
Read More »Six year old RPG Valkyria Chronicles tops Steam sellers list
Sega’s PC version of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles has ‘blown all predictions out of the water’, the publisher has claimed. The game release on Steam yesterday and was at one stage apparently the most downloaded game on the platform. Currently it sits in third place behind fellow Sega title Football …
Read More »UPDATE: Sega confirms Valkyria Chronicles PC port in development
2008 PlayStation 3 strategy-RPG release Valkyria Chronicles is heading to Windows PC, publisher Sega has announced. Gallia, to arms! Return to the original battle on PC. More info coming soon…,” the company posted on its Twitter account earlier this week. Though no details on a release window were provided by …
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