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GamesBeat: Hell Yeah! is like Metroid with a chainsaw jetpack-riding demon bunny

GamesBeat's Mike Minotti: Video games are often ridiculous, but I’ve never seen one with a plot as bizarre and twisted as Hell Yeah!’s. I’m not even sure if I can do it justice, but here I go. Hell Yeah! tells the story of Ash, the prince of Hell…and also a bunny skeleton. He also loves his rubber ducky, but one day someone takes a picture of him…um, “playing” with his squeaky companion and uploads it to the underworld’s equivalent of the Internet, where it’s viewed by a hundred demons.

Ash is understandably embarrassed, so he goes on a quest to violently murder every single demon who saw the compromising pictures. Well, every hero needs motivation. Sure, it’s not saving a princess or defeating an alien invasion, but who are we to judge?

This outlandish premise alone should be enough to get your attention, but I found out that Hell Yeah! actually backs up this humorous plot with some solid gameplay when I played the title at publisher Sega’s Electronic Entertainment Expo booth.

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SEGA announces Fearless: Year of Shadow

SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.

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Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios

GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.

The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."

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-Foxtrot20d ago

Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.

just_looken20d ago

It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.

gold_drake20d ago

I hope they find new jobs in the industry soon.

Jingsing20d ago

Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol

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SEGA’s Switch Predecessor: What Happened to the Nomad?

Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.

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