joystiq.com - 7/23/2009
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We loved the mother[expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] out of Sega's recent mature pair of Wii titles, House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld -- unfortunately, the same can't be said for the game purchasing population of the world. The two games' sales were far from stellar , but ...
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Sega: It's not game over for mature Wii titles
gamesindustry.biz 6/30/2009 —
Sega's recent targeting of a mature audience on the Nintendo Wii has been successful in the long-term, with the publisher telling GamesIndustry.biz it has more budget for similar adult content on the format.
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MadWorld Sells 66K In The U.S., Sega Seems Pleased [Sega]
kotaku.com 4/18/2009 — NPD sales numbers procured by Gamasutra reveal that Sega's M-rated tongue-in-cheek blood bath MadWorld sold 66,000 copies in the U.S. following its March launch, and the publisher feels encouraged. Despite a respectable Metacritic score of 82 ...
MadWorld sells 66K in March, Sega oddly pleased
joystiq.com 4/27/2009 —
Call us crazy, but we always thought that the idea behind making games was to sell tons of copies . Not so for Sega, as it seems weirdly satisfied with MadWorld 's lackluster sales, based on comments to Gamasutra . Debuting early in March, ...
Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, "Sega-ness" [Sega]
kotaku.com 8/12/2009 — Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega's American and European divisions yesterday to get an update on everything from Aliens to Yakuza. Only on his new job for about two and a half weeks, Mike Hayes is the man who now oversees Sega West, the ...
How Sega Has Described Itself From '89 To '09 [Sega]
kotaku.com 7/16/2009 — Nintendo is not the only company that has had to explain , in press releases, what in the world it does. For at least 20 years, so has Sega. That description has never been much fun, sadly. But it has changed. 1989 Press release announcing executive ...
Sega Opens Mature Gates on Wii
gameinsano.com 6/30/2009 — MadWorld: The most violent game ever?
Risk, schmisk! Sega, the former hardware manufacturer of the Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast and known for risk taking in both hardware and software development, is rolling the dice again. With House of the Dead 4, then Mad World, The Conduit, and now ...
Sega sticks by mature Wii releases | Gaming Industry
mcvuk.com 9/2/2009 — Sega has vowed to plough on with its strategy of creating adult games for Wii despite the commercial failure of MadWorld earlier this year. The Platinum Games-developed title did not make an impact on the UK and US charts, but won critical praise and ...
Despite MadWorld Flop, Sega Plans More Hard-Core Wii Games
wired.com 8/12/2009 —
NEW YORK — Despite disappointing sales of hard-core Wii titles like MadWorld and The Conduit , Sega remains committed to creating mature titles for the casual console.
“You’ll see more games in that genre coming from us,” said ...
Another disaster for Sega
bruceongames.com 8/3/2009 —
We get used to reading these . Sega software sales drop by 60.5% for their Q1 ‘09 . And they lost $108 million in the three months. What does this tell us?:
Sega released less skus than the comparable quarter in ‘08. The AAA boxed part of our industry is reliant on revenue ...
SEGA’s Must-Do List For ‘MadWorld’ Players
multiplayerblog.mtv.com 3/13/2009 — The first title from Platinum Games has arrived. A producer gave us the things we've got to try in the ultra-violent action game exclusive to the Wii.
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SEGA's Must-Do List For Players of
"MadWorld"
(Wii, March 2009)
As written by SEGA's senior ...
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Computer And Video Games 7/23/2009
Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Detana Twin Bee is last of the import titles.
This is the last week of the Virtual Console Hanabi Festival, finishing off with Kirby's Dream Land 3 and sweet side-scrolling shooter Detana Twin Bee. Click here to read the ...
Publishers Not Excited About DS-Only Titles —
Kombo.com 7/23/2009
It's hard to think that getting a game made for the Nintendo DS or DSi wouldn't be easy. Looking at the sales of the original Nintendo DS, Nintendo had so much success with the original DS that they made two additional versions of the hardware, the ...
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