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Hello, and welcome to Issue 2 of Weekly Games Mag - a new magazine, written by its readers. We're building the videogames magazine you want to see, and we're doing it by listening to you! To get in touch, turn to our Community Zone page (p15). 03 [ Welcome to our World. Our United World. The latest news, and a few pages later, your thoughts on E3 and the new games unveiled. For those that missed it too, a reprint of the Super Hamlet 64 feature. Enjoy. ] News @ Bullet Point: Sega Forever For All Furore NeoGAF forum There seems Nonetheless, the lack of leak of Switch to have been a bit of optimisation has resulted in some gamers development furore, over Sega's new experiencing stuttering and skips that Sega Forever project - an hinder the playability of the titles. documents, shows effort to bring games from text claiming every console generation of Sonic the Hedgehog isn't emulated, Nintendo are Sega's history to Android and iOS and instead remains the popular mobile port by phones and tablets. planning "a Christian Whitehead, and so suffers the least performance problems. Nonetheless, users feature to The service launched on upgrading from the previous paid version, were transfer Wednesday the 21st of June with five unable to disable adverts, until Sega issued a apps - Sonic The Hedgehog, further update to address the issue. account Phantasy Star II, Altered Beast, Comix Zone save data and Kid Chameleon, and was billed as classic Cloud saves have also caused problems, among Sega games, for free, on mobile, with with some users experiencing saved games features such as leaderboards, cloud saves, deleting themselves, saved games reverting to offline play, and controller support. The free previous saves from an hour ago, and some games are ad-supported however, and require a users have even experienced not being able to payment of £1.99 in the UK (or $1.99 in the US) save in-game progress at all. to disable adverts. Sega are listening to users, and hope Sonic The Hedgehog, Phantasy Star II, to fix issues going forwards. Nonetheless, if and Altered Beast had already been available on you have older versions of Sonic, Phantasy the app store for purchase before the free Sega Star II and Altered Beast - you're best Forever initiative was introduced, and users that avoiding upgrading to the Sega Forever had already paid for these games were annoyed versions. For everyone else, the apps are to discover upgrading their app, introduced free to download and try on Android and adverts, and, in Phantasy Star II and Altered iOS (with titles on the latter coming with Beast, problems with performance. free iMessage sticker packs), so you can see how well they perform for The performance hit is said to be due you. Sega are planning to release multiple to poor emulation, that lacks optimisation for new games every two weeks, native iOS or Android, and is instead running with forever.sega.com currently consoles" and on Unity, which is in turn, running on iOS or showing an icon of what looks are also Android. This was done to increase Sega's a lot like Virtua Tennis flexibility if later expanding Sega Forever to next to the words "considering a desktop computers, Facebook, Apple TV, "Coming Soon". feature in the and even potentially Nintendo Switch. future (tentative name: Guest Login) to...for Crash on Xbox One...? example, make it A Hungarian possible to upload e-commerce site (with a character you have headquarters in Slovakia) raised as online data recently listed Crash and then use that data Bandicoot: Nsane Trilogy as coming to Xbox One on 8th on a friend's NX December. This has not yet been (without creating a confirmed by any other source, so user account)." These could have been an error - and the Crash Bandicoot: Nsane retailer has since removed the are documents from last Trilogy is published by year, and may not reflect product page for the Xbox One version from their website. When it Activision who have coded Nintendo's current plans. was visible however, along with the remastered versions of PSOne Source: www.neogaf.com/ 8th December release date, it also titles Crash Bandicoot, Crash forum/showthread.php?t= featured official Xbox One box art Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot: 1398765 for the title, leading many to believe Nsane Trilogy could merely Warped, that all take be a six month timed exclusive for advantage of current-gen Sony, and could be out on Xbox hardware. It's out now for PlayStation 4. 04 One in time for Christmas. Gold & Silver PS4 Consoles Out Now! Triumph - who developed Overlord and Age of Wonders, has been acquired by Paradox. Battlegrounds' Executive Producer open to other formats in future, despite the game being billed at E3 as Xbox Above: Limited Edition Gold and Silver versions of the PlayStation Slim are out now, exclusive.... having launched June 29th. There are currently no Gold or Silver PlayStation Pros. The game Rust has had Classic Mini SNES announced! 329k refunds Nintendo has announced Originally, some of these titles were known it will launch the Classic Mini Super by different names in the UK. Contra III: The Alien on Steam - Nintendo Entertainment System Wars was originally released as Super Probotector: amounting (SNES) - a mini version of its classic Alien Rebels, StarFox was released as Starwing, and SNES console, compatible with modern HD Kirby Super Star was known as Kirby's Fun Pak. The to over televisions - on September 29th of this year. names included in our list on this page are what they $4m are expected to be called when the Classic Mini SNES dollars. The system comes with 21 games launches. Games such as Super Mario RPG, pre-installed (including Star Fox 2 - never before Final Fantasy III (the western title for Final Fantasy VI), Gary released), two controllers, a HDMI cable, and a and Earthbound (the western title for Mother 2) never Newman USB cable for use in powering the device. had official UK releases during the SNES' lifetime, so are In Europe, including the UK, it will not come with also noteworthy for their inclusion. none-the an AC adapter for the USB power cable. The US -less version, released to the US market, will include an AC Retailers begun taking pre-orders for the adapter. The controller cables are said to be system on the 27th June, with prices ranging between claims 5 foot long (152cm). An improvement on the £69.99 and £79.99, and many selling out of their the Classic Mini NES' 3 foot controller cable (77cm). initial allocations within 30 minutes. Further allocations appeared at more retailers on the 29th of refund Of the 21 games pre-installed, the most June, again selling out in circa 30 minutes. system note-worthy is StarFox 2, due to it having never been "probably released in any territory despite being a finished / In the US, Nintendo told Kotaku they intend to complete game (it was shelved as focus shifted from the "produce significantly more units" than they did gained SNES to the N64, and development of StarFox 64). An with the Classic Mini NES, and also stated us more early alpha version of the title had been leaked online in it "...is currently planned to ship from Sept. 29 2008 - it was unfinished, in Japanese, and contained until the end of calendar year 2017. At this sales numerous bugs. Nintendo's release of the Classic Mini time, we have nothing to announce than SNES will be the first time the final finished game has regarding any possible shipments beyond been made publicly available. Nintendo's website this year,". This has set UK expectations it lost states that the game is unlocked on the Classic Mini for improved supply, albeit limited to us". SNES after completing the first level of the original just this year. Virgin Star Fox. All other games are able to be selected immediately. Media customers can win access to a Destiny 2 multiplayer beta playtest event 17th & Above From Left to Right: The UK/Europe's Classic Mini SNES, the US' SNES Classic Edition, Japan's Classic Mini Super Famicom (showing that a flap comes down to allow controllers to be plugged in), and the StarFox 2 title 18th July in screen (taken from a leaked development version, which may not reflect what the finished version looks like).