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SEGA is continuing to make drastic moves within the company following significant financial losses.

It’s been revealed that nearly all of SEGA’s European and Australian offices will be shut down in the very near future.

Although SEGA UK will still act as the main European HQ, Koch Media will handle distribution of most European retail titles going forward. Level03 Distribution is being brought on to take care of products in Benelux. 5 Star will distribute future titles in Australia.

COO of Sega Europe Jurgen Post said in a statement:

“SEGA is entering a new and exciting phase that will position the company as a content led organisation maximising sales with strong and balanced IP such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, Football Manager and the Aliens franchise. The company will benefit from a clear focus and realigned strategy for our digital business and packaged goods and we are confident that this will lead to a successful future.”

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Nintendo is getting serious about its online business. The company has announced that its hired Duncan Orrell-Jones as a new senior vice president of Network Business.

According to Nintendo, Jones “will take on the newly created position and spearhead the development and evolution of Nintendo of America’s digital strategy for the company’s Nintendo 3DS and Wii U video game systems.”

Jones will begin his new role on July 1.

Head past the break for the official announcement.

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The latest Famitsu scans cover the 3DS XL, Assassin’s Creed 3, Nintendo at E3 (Pikmin 3), and Culdcept 3DS.

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Wii U is the first console from Nintendo to implement extensive social and online elements. Miiverse will allow gamers all over the world to connect with each other simply by booting up the console. You’ll be able to communicate with players through text messages, voice chat, and more.

So how did this ambitious program come about? According to Shigeru Miyamoto, it all started with Wii Fit.

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Some backstory first: CEDEC, the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference, is a yearly conference to be held on August 20th that has cool people talk about cool things to less-cool people who wanna learn about cool things.

Sort of. I may be misinterpreting a bit.

Anyway, this year’s CEDEC will be ‘headlined’ by Smash Bros., Kid Icarus, and Kirby developer Masahiro Sakurai, who’s going to be doing a good chunk of the talking alongside Yuichiro Anzai, chairman of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Yuusei Uesugi, senior artist at Industrial Light & Magic. Good times to be had by all!

Via Andriasang

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“Like I said, I know there’s going to be pressure on us to do another Castlevania game, but I don’t want to rise to that pressure. I want to do something else. I love Contra. I’d love to do Contra. At Mercury Steam we’ve got an original idea that I think is really awesome. We’d love to bring that idea to market and I’m hoping that the success of Lords of Shadow 2 will allow us to do that.” – Dave Cox, MercurySteam Entertainment

I honestly really appreciate when artists- musicians, game developers, whatever- do this. To turn down financial profit in favor of making games you love and not trapping yourself in a creative box is really respectable, and it shows that they’ll probably do a great job with Contra, should they ever have the chance to work on it.

Via VG247

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Kuju Entertainment has appointed Dominic Wheatley as the company’s new CEO and Gary Bracey as the new Commercial Director.

This news is significant for one important reason. Headstrong Games, one of Kuju’s subsidiaries, has created titles such as Battalion Wars, The House of the Dead: Overkill, and Art Academy.

The official announcement has been posted below.

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The official Tokyo Game Show 2012 site has seen a grand opening today. You can access the English page here.

For a list of exhibitors attending TGS 2012, head past the break. Capcom and Konami are just a couple of companies attending the show.

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To celebrate the start of Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, Nintendo has released a special Mario Tennis Open infographic which showcases the great history of Mario Tennis titles released since the first game in 1995.

Nintendo has delivered action-packed tennis fun since Mario’s Tennis first appeared on the Virtual Boy handheld in 1995. Each new game across the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Colour, GameCube and Game Boy Advance brings more excitement and features, increasing the number of playable characters, mini-games, multiplayer modes and colourful graphics.

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When the opportunity arises, I have no choice but to post anything Okami-related that I find interesting. So here are some photos of an impressive Okami carpet made by one loyal fan.

The carpet comes in at 53cm x 119 cm. Based on what I can gather from the original Polish source, an embroidery stitch was used and 155,078 stitches were created in total.

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