For many years, Sega has been generally supportive of its fandom. In an era where many companies were sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) threats to shut down fangames, Sega seemingly turned a blind eye, causing the Sonic Fangames HQ to flourish over the last decade and a half. But every now and then, something happens that suggests maybe not everybody within Sega is as forgiving, such as today’s incident involving Youtube videos featuring… well, basically any game from the Shining Force franchise, it would seem.
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
This is a shameful and disgusting attack on the most loyal fans of this series.
It's also an attack against the integrity of YouTube itself.
Sega is dead and can't handle any old property properly . They are only good with some of their new ones , like Yakuza