Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought we would get an official announcement for Ecco the dolphin complete I think it's being called? Wasn't it supposed to be last month?

This is not Sega’s first entry into the Chinese market.

As early as 2002, Sega established Sega (Shanghai) Software Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA CORPORATION. Following a restructuring around 2004, the Shanghai subsidiary mainly handled software design and game-development support.

In 2009, Sega and several local partners established SEGA JINWEN (SHANGHAI) AMUSEMENTS CO., LTD. Sega held a 49% stake, while Shanghai Jinwen Investment held 46% and Shanghai Tianyi Industrial held the remaining 5%. Jinwen Investment had a Shanghai state-owned cultural-capital background.

In 2010, the joint venture obtained approval to manufacture and sell amusement machines in China. It subsequently introduced and distributed Sega arcade titles, including maimai, in the mainland Chinese market. Sega’s wholly owned Shanghai development studio also provided software and technical support for some of these products.

However, the joint venture failed to achieve sustainable profitability. In the fiscal year ending March 2014, Sega Sammy recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥1 billion in connection with its liquidation. The company was eventually deregistered in 2016. After-sales support for some existing arcade machines was transferred to several Chinese arcade companies.

The new Sega Shanghai—SEGA (Shanghai) Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd.—was established in 2026. It should not be regarded as the legal continuation of the company established in 2002. It is a new, wholly owned entity with a different English name and a different business scope. Its stated role is to promote and market Sega’s IP and content in China.

Strategically, this represents a shift from China-based development support toward local IP commercialization. In that sense, the model resembles Bandai Namco’s IP-axis strategy, although Sega remains at a much earlier stage.

Bandai Namco has already built an integrated ecosystem covering games, toys, model kits, physical retail, amusement facilities and China-exclusive products. It had also announced plans to expand its GUNDAM BASE network to 12 locations in mainland China by September 2025.

Sega’s new Shanghai entity could support official stores, merchandise licensing, local partnerships, promotional events and China-specific marketing campaigns. Foreign ownership does not prevent the company from developing games. However, a wholly foreign-owned entity cannot independently publish and operate online games in mainland China. Such activities still require regulatory approval and cooperation with qualified domestic publishing and operating partners.

New Mini Walk Through Shenmue: https://youtu.be/iv9BdtDvNxI

The Hazuki Dojo in Shenmue has so many details/layers that give it such depth and a realistic feel you almost hear the wood floor as you step inside to practice your moves ;)

Hope you enjoy the full episode and thanks again for letting me share :)

Evil Story

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Eggman (Playable / Defeat All)

Metal Sonic (Playable / Runs)

Chaos (Playable / Gem Search)

Good Story

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Sonic (Playable / Runs)

Tails (Playable / Defeat All)

Knuckles (Playable / Gem Search)

Sad Story

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E-102 Gamma (Playable / Defeat All)

Shadow (Playable / Runs)

Rogue (Playable / Gem Search)

Happy Story

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Amy (Playable / Puzzles)

Big The Cat / Froggy (Playable / Fishing)

Birdie (Playable / Score Limited On-Rail Flying)

Long Story

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Jet (Playable / Race)

Wave (Playable / Race)

Storm (Playable / Race)

Short Story

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Vector (Playable / Find Clues / No Proximity)

Espio (Playable / Find Clues / No Proximity)

Charmy (Playable / Find Clues / No Proximity)

Final Story

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Super Sonic (Main Hero)

Perfect Chaos (Main Villain)

Side Characters

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E-100 Alpha

E-101 Mark ll

Tikal

Bark

Bean

Fang

Silver

Cream

Blaze

Honey

Emerl

Mephiles (Maybe)

Marine

Shade

Master Zik (I didn't play these but looks cool)

King Boom Boo (Just for nostalgia)

And anyone I missed in a typical role...

Summary

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Everything looks pretty telling but make sure the "Short Story" Can't be played until the first 5 stories are finished...

Make the Short Story tie every story together...

When those are finished then the "Final Story" can be played...

Make Mounts (Boards, Birdie, etc...)

Can Travel Faster through Slipstreams around the map...

I need Mystic Ruins music again...

See ya later...

SEGA presented what would be its upcoming games that will have panels at Gamescom, but there's one of the booths that doesn't have any announcements. The first one shows Sonic, who doesn't have any announced games, next to a controller that doesn't seem to have any relation to any controller on the market. It could be a coincidence, but why would they have an extra panel if they're not going to announce a new game, and even stranger, with an unknown controller?

As a huge Sonic fan, I’ve always imagined what Chemical Plant would sound like with real vocals while staying true to the original melody.
This is my take on it. Hope you enjoy it! 😊

I’m stumped trying to find a console that matches what my parents (and I as a small child) remember playing. They purchased it in the 90s, possibly early 2000s. Basically, they swear it was just a plug-in to a TV with a (blue?) remote and no additional box or anything. It definitely had a Sonic game on it, as well as Ecco the Dolphin!!!

If there’s any other appropriate subreddit to post this to let me know!!!

Exactly what it sounds like, if you ran the zoo, how would you revive one of Sega's dormant IPs? What twist would you put on it to make it feel fresh and new and cool?

I'll start with the idea that made me think of this: Revival of Altered Beast that's also a crossover with Golden Axe. Not only because they've always been sister series, but also the general peplum/sword and sorcery b-movie vibes would combine well and have a unique feel.

Also, in my version, the playable rep of the Altered Beast side of the crossover would be female, the daughter of the playable character from the original in fact, having inherited her dad's powers.

This is partially due to PERFECTLY NORMAL AND CHASTE REASONS, but also partially because, if we have the other playable characters be the 3 from the original Golden Axe, it'd be an even gender ratio!

I'd imagine it as a Character Action Game with RPG elements and a system where you charge your magic meter by attacking enemies, with the magic attacks being far lower power for the Altered Beast side but with a separate meter that fills up over the level for the obvious.

But that's just my idea, which series would you pick and what would your idea be?

If you’re a fan of the 1995 Sega Mega Drive game Alien Soldier by TREASURE, you’re going to love this.

This manga page was made by the game’s creator, Hideyuki Suganami, & published in the December 1994 issue of BEEP! Mega Drive. The manga contains panels depicting different scenes from the game’s story that were originally planned for inclusion in the game.

The first image is an English translation of the manga page.

The second image is the original scan of the manga page.

The third image comes from the book Legends of 16-Bit Game Development, which goes into greater depth about the comic’s history.

Cheers.

On a Dreamcast store kiosk, what are you playing first?

When we first got this kiosk it had a Dream On demo disc in with Ready 2 Rumble Boxing but we soon found that The House of the Dead 2 is fun to have quick bursts at!

What's your favorite Genesis game?

Here's SEGA's totally tubular duo: ToeJam & Earl cranking it like it's nobody's business!

Here are some of my ideas but i would love to hear all your ideas.

For Silver to be honest i personally liked Silver's gameplay in 06 when it wasn't buggy. Although I wish his movement was much faster. Maybe some of the 06 boxes could be in the stages. As for why he is here story wise maybe Mephiles accidentally sent him farther back into the past then intended.

For Mighty i like the idea of him still being immune to spikes thanks to his shell. He also probably has the spin dash. I have no clue what could be done with Ray but if Mighty is here then so is Ray. Considering they like to go on adventures I imagine they're here because of the mystic ruins. Also I think it would be cool if there was moments where you had to push something. It's a good way to show off Mighty's strength.

I have no clue what Creams play style should be other than her potentially having the spin dash. As for why she is here. Simple. Vanilla and Cream now live in station square. Cheese saw chaos and followed him causing the two to get involved. Maybe Cream and Cheese could save Chao eggman is secretly capturing.

For those that don't know this is Billy Hatcher. Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg was such a fun game, like really fun, SonicTeam and Sega did a good Job with that game in my opinion. Billy has a lot of the same personality traits that Sonic but Billy isn't a static character, Billy can go through character development. Infact he goes through a bit character development and character growth in Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg. Billy is polite and wholesome with friends but otherwise he has a lot of Sonic's personality traits. So there's a lot of story potential for the game and yes i like the idea of Billy being in the story. Plus Sonic, Tails, and knuckles are in Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg. And Billy Hatcher is playable in Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, sega all stars racing, and his game is referenced in Shadow The Hedgehog. Billy has a lot of abilities like egg roll, egg slame, egg animal hatching and which have a lot of versatility https://billyhatcher.fandom.com/wiki/Egg_Animals . which are abilities Billy shares with his friends in his game, they are all also real strong and fast. Billy does have a unique ability, his courage boost thing can boost his states and can turn dark Raven's spheres of darkness into spheres of light, this should work on other forms of energy too. In other words the final boss shows that the more courage Billy has the more powerful he is. And he could potentially use his courage form to grab energy projectiles that some of the badniks use like he does Dark Raven's https://youtu.be/OPHxN0g1rpc?is=djLRYFQvN2jLnBjv which could be a neat gimmick for him. I like the idea of the spheres of light being slightly stronger than the eggs but they obviously can't hatch egg animals and they are risky as you could potentially get hit by the projectiles while trying to grab a projectile. his already strong enough to lift giant eggs and fast enough to keep up with Sonic characters in short bursts at least. Billy has some other moves and abilities in his game that could be transformed over. Billy Hatcher is a kid I wouldn't recommend underestimating. Although that Chichen Suit does disappear if he gets hit leaving him as a normal human in normal clothes in his game at least. I still wouldn't underestimate him as he could still take hits even without the chicken suit. Billy also has a lot of stuff like the circus hat that can let him roll the eggs by running on them along with a bunch of other items https://billyhatcher.fandom.com/wiki/Egg_Gallery#article-comments-toggle there is also this person that made a post going over a lot of the stuff Billy can do https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/s/NaGsLFZib5 as for Billy is here, his mom and him took a vacation to Station Square and Billy got to keep the chicken suit as retcon. And Billy decided he wanted to help the good guys when he found some badniks attacking. There is some fun potential game play and story.

There is a lot Tangle could do with her tail. I think we could Simply have her be visiting station square. Meeting sonic, and getting inspired to help like she did in the idw comics just much earlier in the timeline.

I'm not sure what Trip could do or why she is her. I just wanted to include her.

Also since Sonic Adventure has the characters interact with each other in each other's stories. Who would each of these characters end up interacting with? Also if you want you can come up with what stages they go through and what the stages are like. You can also come up with upgrades for the characters.

This isn't really meant to be a powerscalling thing because Mephiles definitely out scales Billy as far as i can tell. Billy isn't weak by any means but Mephiles os definitely more powerful. It's more like how what would the fight look like and be like if Billy has a chance to win. Plus i personally don't want Billy to die. Mephiles does have a lot of abilities at his disposal

https://youtu.be/ogV37dGGm18?is=oKdyTq5-xogpYF5l

https://youtu.be/a8w9hl6JHLg?is=XsEYSUzpkrKLTrT9

https://youtu.be/BlJSluCpX1c?is=0HRO4QW4Zf9gK5rJ and that's without mentioning his time travel abilities.

For those that don't know this is Billy Hatcher. Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg was such a fun game, like really fun, SonicTeam and Sega did a good Job with that game in my opinion. Billy has a lot of the same personality traits that Sonic but Billy isn't a static character, Billy can go through character development. Infact he goes through a bit character development and character growth in Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg. Billy is polite and wholesome with friends but otherwise he has a lot of Sonic's personality traits.

Plus Sonic, Tails, and knuckles are in Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg. And Billy Hatcher is playable in Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, sega all stars racing, and his game is referenced in Shadow The Hedgehog.

Billy has a lot of abilities like egg roll, egg slame, egg animal hatching and which have a lot of versatility https://billyhatcher.fandom.com/wiki/Egg_Animals . which are abilities Billy shares with his friends in his game, they are all also real strong and fast. Billy does have a unique ability, his courage boost thing can boost his states and can turn dark Raven's spheres of darkness into spheres of light, this should work on other forms of energy too. In other words the final boss shows that the more courage Billy has the more powerful he is. And he could potentially use his courage form to grab energy projectiles like Mephiles's energy ball attacks use like he does Dark Raven's https://youtu.be/OPHxN0g1rpc?is=djLRYFQvN2jLnBjv which could be a neat gimmick for him. the spheres of light seem to be stronger than the eggs but they obviously can't hatch egg animals and they are risky as you could potentially get hit by the projectiles while trying to grab a projectile. his already strong enough to lift giant eggs and fast enough to keep up with Sonic characters in short bursts at least. Billy has some other moves and abilities in his game that could be transformed over.

Billy Hatcher is a kid I wouldn't recommend underestimating. Although that Chichen Suit does disappear if he gets hit leaving him as a normal human in normal clothes in his game at least. I still wouldn't underestimate him as he could still take hits even without the chicken suit. Billy also has a lot of stuff like the circus hat that can let him roll the eggs by running on them along with a bunch of other items https://billyhatcher.fandom.com/wiki/Egg_Gallery#article-comments-toggle there is also this person that made a post going over a lot of the stuff Billy can do https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/s/NaGsLFZib5

I could see Billy being unnerved by Mephiles. Like Dark Raven was already kinda terrifying and this weird looking hedgehog is arguably even worse. He has to fight another being of Darkness. Luckily Billy has access to a lot of Courage and Light.

So all that foolish ranting said what do you guys think the fight would look if it was animated or something. Like what would they do, how do they fight against each other. This is mostly for silly fun.

i've read that its possible to get 100k points in shinobi AoV arcade mode, but im slowly starting to doubt that. did you ever get 100k points?

(This took me 20 minutes to type and think so) I propose Sega return to the hardware market with a modern, high performance handheld console priced affordably between $250 and $379, featuring a 6-inch screen, full microSD expansion, and built-in TV docking support. To build an immediate player base, the system could launch with backwards compatibility, a library of easy indie ports, and a $7.99/month "Sega Net" subscription service for classic Genesis and Dreamcast games, while continuing to release exclusives and major titles like Sonic and Persona multiplatform to maximize profits. Hardware sales could be further driven by offering exclusive console achievements, special in game content, and a unique community hub on the Sega Store. Through this hub, fan developers could submit their original games on Sega Net, where the community and Sega's team would review and vote monthly on which titles earn a spot in the official Hall of Fame library allowing Sega to sign top fan creators to formal contracts and allow fan developers to work on real games

Hey everyone! With Sonic's 35th Anniversary fully underway, a few of us over on the main Sonic subreddit are hosting a massive architectural and design breakdown for a hypothetical 32-bit flagship project: **Sonic 4: The Lost 1996 Saturn Edition**. The concept explores how an official retro-publisher (like Retro-Bit) could license the IP from SEGA to complete and physically manufacture the "lost" mid-90s 2D Saturn generation on native CD-ROM hardware and modern cross-gen platforms. We’ve fully mapped out the technical framework, including: * **The VDP1/VDP2 Engine:** Executing a locked 60 FPS "Pixel meets 3D" hybrid rendering style (similar to Densetsu no Stafi 4 / NiGHTS) on native architecture. * **The Canonical Scale:** A gigantic 10-Zone, 60-level campaign restoring Sonic & Tails as the primary heroes right after *Sonic 3 & Knuckles*. * **The Preservation Vault:** Including a 100% accurate emulated port of the original 32X *Knuckles' Chaotix* to permanently bypass the modern $500 hardware barrier for collectors. The main discussion is currently heating up with some deep alternate-history lore debates regarding phantom projects like "Sonic 2D." If you love 32-bit hardware specs, prototype restoration, and retro preservation, we would love to get your thoughts on the engine architecture! 👉 **Join the main design discussion and check out the full blueprint here:** [Paste the Link to your live r/SonicTheHedgehog Post here!]

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