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SEGA’s plans for Gamescom sure have changed over the past few months. Originally, the company was expected to miss out on the show. Last month though, SEGA confirmed that it would be making an appearance.

Now we’re hearing that in addition to its Gamescom appearance, SEGA will be holding a press conference at the show.

Strangely, there aren’t many outlets talking about the media event. Nothing is listed on the official conference sheet either.

In any case, if this does go down, it’ll be happening on August 17 at 11:30 AM. We’ll have any news that comes in on both sites.

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Hirokazu Tanaka is the president of Creatures, Inc. Others may know him for his musical work on the likes of Balloon Fight Metroid, and EarthBound.

1UP had a chance to interview Tanaka at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, and the discussion has now been published online. The outlet quizzed him on a bunch of different topics, including EarthBound and his job with Creatures, along with more off-beat topics such as starting out with Nintendo and working with Shigeru Miyamoto.

Check out the Q&A below.

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On this week’s episode: New Super Mario Bros. 2, Heroes of Ruin, Month of Mario, and LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.

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SEGA will have nine games display at PAX Prime this year. Included in the lineup is an unannounced digital title that will apparently be announced at the show.

Here’s the lineup in full:

· Aliens: Colonial Marines
· The Cave
· Hell Yeah!- Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
· Jet Set Radio
· NiGHTS into dreams…
· Phantasy Star Online 2
· Sonic Adventure 2
· Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
· Unannounced digital title

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A surprise Club Nintendo reward has hit the North American Club Nintendo site today.

Nintendo has added in a gold-colored nunchuck to the lineup of prizes. For 900 coins, it can be yours.

If you want the reward, you should probably order it now – you can do so here. Nintendo cautions that there are limited quantities available.

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A new reward has been added to the Japanese Club Nintendo site.

Members can choose from six new cloths that feature the Mario, Animal Crossing, and Rhythm Heaven franchises. Each costs 300 coins.

Thanks to 4Him for the tip.

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Former Acclaim/Iguana Entertainment staffer Ryan Tracy recently opened up about the Turok games in a new interview, and also discussed his thoughts on Nintendo releasing the N64 games on the Virtual Console.

You can add Tracy to the long list of people who’d like to see them head to the platform.

He said:

“It would be great to see the games available on that platform if there was enough interest. I’m not sure who owns Turok as of now since Acclaim is no longer around.”

Like Tracy noted, Acclaim was shut down several years ago. That does make things complicated. At this point, Disney may own the Turok IP. Touchstone Games published the last Turok game in 2008, but that company is actually a subsidiary of Disney Interactive Studios.

Thanks to Fred S. for the tip.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi’s last big game was The Last Story for Wii. He has since moved on to iOS and just recently released his first title for the platform, Party Wave.

It’s unknown what Sakaguchi (and his Mistwalker studio) plan on doing next, but it doesn’t sound like he’ll be tackling any large-scale projects anytime soon.

Sakaguchi has expressed an interest in making “games with a small production team” and would like to “build up a good and solid team.” At the moment, Mistwalker isn’t working on any “big RPG projects.”

“Currently we don’t have any big RPG projects. At this time I would like to create games with a small production team and build up a good and solid team. I don’t know what will happen down the road. But that unknown is the life’s enjoyment, I think.”

This doesn’t necessarily mean that Sakaguchi has ruled out another big RPG for the future. Maybe Nintendo will call on him to make a game for Wii U some day!

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Famitsu chatted with another handful of Japanese developers this week. The magazine once again asked a number of directors and producers to talk about their future plans.

Some of the participants include Katsura Hashino, Kenichiro Takaki, and Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi. There’s a lot of vague talk about upcoming projects, but the comments are very much interesting. Hashino, for instance, revealed that he’s working on a surprise collaboration while Takaki has already confirmed that another Rune Factory game will be made.

Check out a summary of the developer remarks below.

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