Shenmue fans have been suffering due to the lack of any news of a return of the Shenmue series, and something new has just happened. The trademark for “Shenmue” has been canceled in the US because of lack of use by Sega.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
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."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
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.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
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.
Nooooooo!!!!!! Quick someone buy it! Call the paramedics I'm suffering from a heart attack and I am to die here.
Death Rattle.............
LOL, typical Sega mishaps.
Say it isn't so....crying
Is this the series that Sony was talking about that they were going to announce next month. I hope so. I've never played a Shenmue game but if Sony picked this up, I'd buy it. Even better if they release an HD collection before 3.
Now MS buys the trademark and makes a game...
This would be an absolute nightmare.