Sega Fanatic

Resonance of Fate (or End of Eternity in Japan) is tri-Ace’ upcoming project that will be published for PS3/360 and is as of now 65% complete. Expect it quarter 4 in Japan and 2010 in North America.

Remember Nomad? 1995? Bad battery life? Well Innex Inc. is planning to release a new portable Genesis/Mega Drive licensed by SEGA, A.K.A. a new Nomad. The new handheld is called the Retro-Gen

While there have been a few of these cheap SEGA handhelds/consoles, what separates this one is quite major. This one will play actual SEGA carts, and in the future will have a cartridge that will support SD Cards for promised downloadable titles. The download service, called “Fire Box”, will feature classics to download to the SD and eventually Brand new games for the Genesis.

The Retro-Gen will retail at $49.99 and will featureh a longer battery life than the Nomad, be Region Free, alongside the aforementioned downloadable classics and new Genesis games.

For the purists out there who have always wanted a Nomad but couldn’t afford one this may drop some eBay price tags for you.

Source - GameSetWatch

Pre-order - VGC

Why?

On June 18th I reported that Platinum games and Nude Makers’ joint production, Infinite Space, was number one on Japanese charts.

Well somethings changed dramatically. Last week the game sold through most of it’s initial shipment of roughly 45,000 units, but this week it fell from 1st to 18th place. Maybe SEGA has forgotten to restock shelves?

This Conduit trailer released by SOE is supposedly the games final trailer, the game is on American shelves already and can be found on European shelves starting July 10th.

Good news for gamers (to the 2 of you) with a spare $300 lying around, those twin sticks that only work with one game (Virtual-On) and cost more than a Xbox 360 itself are closer to production. The twin sticks EX are for sold on a pre-order basis only, so 2 years down the road expect exorbitant eBay prices. Hori has stated they will only release such a product if it meets pre-order numbers of 1,500 units.

According to the most recent post on the Virtual-On Blog that features a interview with Mr. Okami from Hori the sticks design is not final, and could be redesigned, and the unit should weigh aroung 4 KG

A new trailer of upcoming downloadable content for SEGA’s PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles. Set for release two days from now (the 26th of June) at a price of 300 JPY

The NDS pretty much ruled the Japanese charts this week, but number 1 is the one that’s important to us. It marks the first PlatinumGames title to be released in the region. The space-based RPG took first despite only being on shelves for two days, though the second day sales look to be low considering the first day it was reported that it had sold 30,000 copies.

For the full list of bestselling titles in Japan for the week of June 8th to the 14th, read on. Bold is new.

01. Infinite Space (DS) - 38,000 / NEW
02. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS) - 28,000 / 429,000
03. Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari (DS) - 26,000 / 128,000
04. Gyakuten Kenji (DS) - 18,000 / 233,000
05. Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Empires (PS3) - 14,000 / 117,000
06. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP) - 13,000 / 735,000
07. Wii de Asobu Chibi Robo! (Wii) - 11,000 / NEW
08. Wii Fit (Wii) - 10,000 / 3,454,000
09. Evangelion: Jo (PSP) - 8,000 / 23,000
10. Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii) - 8,000 / 34,000

Source - Kotaku

Hit the jump for the entire list.

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Just yesterday, when I reported the new “Battle Challenge” DLC for Valkyria Chronicles, little was known. Well details have emerged. The DLC will consist of of six unique challenges and be focused around the character Edy Nelson, asking you to either kill enemies or save allies. The challenges announced include:

• Sniper Challenge
• Scout Challenge
• Engineer Challenge
  Lancer Challenge
  Shocktrooper Challenge
  Engineer Challenge
  Edelweiss Challenge

The DLC is slated for a price of 300 Yen and a release date of sometime next week. No news of a western release yet, details as they come.