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| Here we will supply you with the most up to date essential news on the Dreamcast. Past News Archives *Info about the limited edition release of Shikigami no Shiro II for the Dreamcast has been revealed. The extras will include a character voice "soundtrack", and a character cards, and will run for 7,800 yen. In other news Sega Direct has made one of the best promotions for the pre-order of a game ever. Sega Direct is offering a almost 28 inch wide Puyo Puyo beanbag with every preorder of Puyo Puyo Fever. There's also a cellphone screen cleaner included. This offer is available for all four systems too. Click Here for more info.1/3/03* *The last in our 3 part article series is now released. Click Here to see "Games that never saw the light (Part 3)". From ToeJam & Eral 3 to Shenmue II (US) find out the true reason these games were cancelled.1/2/04* *Dreamcast Magic wishes you a Happy New Year* *After weeks of rumors it has been confirmed that the arcade hit Shikigami no Shiro II by Alpha System is coming to the Dreamcast. To make it more shocking it has been reported that one of Sega's of Japans development teams is doing the port. After 2 games (This and Puyo Puyo Fever) it appears Sega of Japan might be back to making Dreamcast games in some kind of regular fashion. It is planned to be released March 25 2004 but no word from Sega on just when it will be released.12/28/03* *Dreamcast Magic wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year* *Visual Concepts, a Sega development team famous for its retired 2K sports series. Is considering changing its name just like it did with its game line (from 2k to ESPN Sports). The name they are considering at the moment is ESPN Videogames. In other news, Tetsuya Mizuguchi famed creator of both Space Channel 5 and Rez has announced his departure with Sega. He has said he plans to freelance until he sets up his own yet to be named video game company. Here is what he had to say "I never felt confident enough to be independent until now, but I had the time and opportunity to think about it and I felt, yes, this is the time". Many speculate this is due to Sega's development team restructuring in where United Game Artists was disbanded and absorbed into other Sega development teams.12/18/03* *As reported earlier this week, Japan's Sammy Corp paid 45 billion yen ($418 million) to acquire a 22.4 percent stake in Sega from CSK last Monday. Sammy and Sega were in merger talks earlier this year but negotiations broke down due to disagreements over management style and other terms of the integration. Sammy released a statement saying they may eventually make the game publisher a subsidiary, which would require a controlling stake of over 50 percent of the stock in the company.12/17/03* *Developer Success has opened the official site for the Dreamcast version of Psyvariar II, Click Here to go to it.12/13/03* *Sammy now as Sega's biggest shareholder now is giving advise to Sega. Sammy's president Hajime Satomi will urge Sega to focus its operations on the arcade game business. Satomi stresses that the profitability of Sega's home console sector falls far below that of its arcade business. Some numbers we saw were quite bad, Sega's performance from the last full six-month period, in which Sega posted a loss of 2.5 billion yen in the home console sector while posting a profit of 5.6 billion yen its arcade activities. This means some of the odd ball games that the Dreamcast and now the next gen consoles saw might not be ported over from the arcade or made at all which is truly sad.12/12/03* *Dreamcast Magic is proud to announce that DCM is now accessible from www.dreamcastmagic.cjb.net , in addition a new message board and guestbook has been linked on our main page.12/11/03* *Isao.net has announced the following in-game websites are going to be taken offline on today (All of these are the Japanese games) Giga Wing, Giga Wing 2, Mars Matrix, Gun Spike and Gunbird 2.12/10/03* *Sega of America has filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts and a division of Fox Entertainment, find out the whole story in our article, Click Here.12/7/03* *Shokora: Maid Cafe Curio has been delayed from 12/11/03 to 12/25/03. No word from Alchemist on why.12/4/03* *Release List has been updated, also Psyvariar 2: The Will to Fabricate has been confirmed and is set to be released on February 26 2004. Also Sega of Japan as finally set a date for Puyo Puyo Fever to be released, it will be released on February 22 2004.12/1/03* |
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