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.

Source

Hyper Battle Blocrusher will be released in Japan on August 22 for 500 yen.

Via

Source

No details on the game yet, but Activision is apparently bringing “The Trash Pack” to the 3DS and DS. If GameFly’s listings are correct, both versions will be out on October 30.

Source

Project X Zone somehow manages to tie most of its characters together. Some of the known storylines are bizarre, but I suppose that’s to be expected given the nature of the title.

Here’s a summary of how some of the characters come together:

– Dante (Devil May Cry) and Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers) become “friends” when Demitri stops by Devil May Cry (the shop) late one night
– Valkyrie (The Legend of the Valkyrie games) first appears and asks Dante to use his toilet
– On the cruise ship Bermuda, the ICPO and San Francisco City police are working together
– Chun-Li (Street Fighter), Bruno (Dynamite Deka), and Rikiya Busujima (Zombie Revenge) meet here
– They meet Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) while investigating
– If Akira (Virtual Fighter) didn’t find Jin team Tekken wouldn’t be in Project X Zone
– Jin and Xiaoyu were attacked by a demon
– Akira shows up by chance.
– The player has to move Akira over to the weakened Tekken characters and rescue them

Source