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Saturday, June 7 2003 |
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| Phantasy Star: Images, art work and information on Sonic Team's involvement
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Posted by
big_smile
at 4:56 AM CT
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Sega of Japan have launched a web page for the 3D Ages version of Phantasy Star. The game, which will be released on Playstation 2 is a remark of the original Mark III title and features enhanced graphics and sound. Sonic Team will be supervising the character editorial and package illustrations.
   
Two versions of the game will be released: a standard version and a special edition that includes a 3D Ages binder.
The page can be accessed here
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Friday, June 6 2003 |
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| New Sonic Chocolates Press Release
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Posted by
big_smile
at 1:21 PM CT
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House of Brussels, the makers of the Sonic the Hedgehog chocolates (see GHZ News April 16) have released this Press Release on their website
House of Brussels Chocolates Provides Follow-Up to Introduction of Sonic The Hedgehog Line at All Candy Expo
Friday June 6, 9:13 am ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2003--House of Brussels Chocolates ("HBSL") (OTCBB: - ) is pleased to announce that the official launch of Sonic The Hedgehog® chocolate treats at the 2003 All Candy Expo in Chicago as announced on May 13th appears to be a major success. Thanks to the strong marketing support of our partners, SEGA® of America and Prima Games, coupled with a highly recognizable brand name, our sales and marketing team at the show was inundated by retailers both large and small to get a "taste" of our new Sonic the Hedgehog chocolate line.
Over three days, HBSL received several hundred leads, with more than 30 coming from major chain retailers. At the request of several retailers, we are currently registering the Sonic line with several regional and nationwide food distributors, which is a necessary step to initiate our product roll out.
HBSL anticipates the signing of several significant contracts in the near future and will release this information to the public as appropriate.
"In the 20-year history of Brussels Chocolates, we have never had a more exciting product to present to buyers and anticipate high buyer and retail acceptance," said Grant Petersen, Managing Director of Brussels.
About House of Brussels Chocolates, Inc. ()
Since 1983, House of Brussels Chocolates has been an established manufacturer of gourmet quality chocolate products distributing gourmet Belgian chocolates through its licensed retail outlets and through a wholesale network in Canada, the United States and overseas. House of Brussels Chocolate's signature product is its "hedgehog" chocolate -- a molded chocolate design that blends the aesthetics of the traditional Belgian symbol of good luck with taste for a strong customer appeal. House of Brussels Chocolates also offers an assortment of fine truffles, maple chocolates made with genuine Canadian maple syrup, ice wine truffles made with Canadian ice wine as well as fine quality chocolate bars made in several distinct flavors. Most recently, Brussels developed a new hedgehog treat - the Sonic The Hedgehog(TM) chocolate bar -- that is just being released to the marketplace.
About SEGA
SEGA® of America, Inc. is the American arm of Tokyo, Japan-based SEGA Corporation, a $3.5 billion corporation by market capitalization, recognized as a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SEGA of America's Web site is located at .
Source
House of Brussels - Press Releases
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| New Sonic Adventure DX Shots
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Posted by
ProjectBlueGale
at 12:05 AM CT
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IGN
Has posted some brand new SADX shots. The game releases later this month.
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Thursday, June 5 2003 |
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| Sonic Adventure DX Directors Cut Commentary with Takashi Iizuka
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Posted by
big_smile
at 4:35 AM CT
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Sega have released a DVD style Director's commentary for Sonic Adventure DX
You can find it here
Thanks to Tails2K/GCA for the link
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Wednesday, June 4 2003 |
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| PSO Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution Beta Test
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Posted by
big_smile
at 5:38 AM CT
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Beta Testing on PSO Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution will start in Japan on July 24th.
Source:
Games are Fun
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Sunday, June 1 2003 |
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| Sonic X DVD Box art
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Posted by
big_smile
at 11:39 AM CT
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Japanese e-commerce site, Disc Station recently released box art of the High Spec and Standard versions of the Sonic X DVD: Vol. 1
High Spec
Standard
The DVD will be released in Japan shortly by Universal Music/Sega.
Source:
Disc Station
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Friday, May 30 2003 |
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| New Yuji Naka interviews
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Posted by
big_smile
at 10:45 AM CT
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The Official Japanese Nintendo Magazine has recently published a two page interview with Yuji Naka, where he talks about Billy Hatcher and 2003 - the year of Sonic.
Thanks to Sonickles a scan of the interview can be accessed here:
page 1
page 2
(Note to Dial up users: Each scan is over 1 MB)
UK gaming Teletext magazine, Game Central (better known by its earlier incarnation as Digitiser) has also published a Yuji Naka interview. The two paragraph interview can be found on page 176 (subpages 6 & 7) of Channel 4 Teletext. In the interview Yuji Naka talks about his views on multi platform games. [Due to copyright reasons a transcript can not be posted on the newsboard for a few more days].
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| Xbox PSO users get new content
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Posted by
big_smile
at 10:44 AM CT
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At long last, Sega announced they will be making the PSO online quests (currently only accessible to Gamecube users) available on the X-Box, including a way to trade the Photon drops that are collected in the game.
You can find full details of the quests in this Games are Fun article.
As of yet, it hasn't been confirmed if US gamers will be able to access these Xbox updates.
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Thursday, May 29 2003 |
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| Phantasy Star gets the Sega Ages treatment
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Posted by
big_smile
at 10:38 AM CT
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Phantasy Star will be one of the first games to get the Sega Ages treatment. Sega Ages is a new label available for PS2, which re-releases classic Sega games with all new 3D graphics that were not in the originals.
Other games in the label (which is not to be confused with the series for Sega Saturn that was also called Sega Ages) include Monaco GP and Fantasy Zone.
The games will be released in Japan on the 28th of August
Source:
The Magic Box
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| E3 Report with Mc Donald's Happy Meal Toys
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Posted by
big_smile
at 9:06 AM CT
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Sega of Japan have posted another E3 report. Similar to their previous report (see GHZ news 24 May) it offers very little new game-related news or pictures, but does give information on the new Happy Meal Toys.
There will be four new LCD games, 3 Sonic and one Monkey Ball, which each have a unique colour and theme.
Sonic Speedway
Colour: Blue
Genre: Racing
Knuckles' Soccer
Colour: Red
Genre: Soccer
Shadow Grinder
Colour: Black
Genre: Destructive game
AiAi Banana catch
Colour: Yellow
Genre: Catching
The report, which features movies of E3, can be accessed here
Thanks to Mr Hari Hari for the description of the Happy Meal toys.
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