From the PlanetXbox360 feature list:
"Shoot’em-ups (better known as Shmups) have seeming always existed in one incarnation or another and will no doubt continue to do so until people stop playing video games for the next best thing. Not because gamers enjoy a challenge or are secretly masochists yearning for a game to continuously beat them down until they curl up on their couch in the fetal position, a psychologically broken mess. But because at our most very basic instincts – we want to just destroy every single damn thing on the screen with any conceivable weapon we can. Thanks to the difficult learning curve in some titles as well as the preposterous time investment required by some, shmups will forever be more of a cult-genre. But, whether or not you love shmups or just looking to broaden your horizons to the inclusion of some heavy firepower – you should go ahead and give these titles a glance."
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.
Been itching to try out Deathsmiles - this seems like a good reason!