While we are still waiting for Yakuza 3 to hit the US and Europe next month, the lucky Japanese get to glimpse the future with a new, long-ass trailer for Yakuza 4 - which is due for release on the PS3 in Japan next month too.

Weirdly though, I swear I've seen this trailer before.  Or maybe SEGA is just making all the Yakuza trailers very similar now.  It shows plenty of action from all four main playable characters (still not sure 4 characters is a good idea.) Plus there's info all the fun side activities, like bowling, baseball, fishing and checking out the hot ladies in the clubs.

Hopefully Western PS3 owners will be happily getting their Yakuza fix when Yakuza 3 hits.  But no doubt we will have to wait another 3 years before we see Yakuza 4.  Still it's

Ok so here's SEGA's first gameplay trailer for the DS version of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and it looks good.  The voice-over, however is not.

I know the advert is going to be aimed at kids, but there is just something about the scripting on these kinds of adverts that just really winds me up - same goes for a lot of movies.  Actually puts me off wanting the game.  But I'm a big boy now - so I should remember to ignore all forms of advertising and make up my own mind when I play the final game.

Anyway in other Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing news the demo for the PS3 version of the game is now available.[nextpage]

Well it's definitely available in Europe (according to SoE), but I'm not sure about the US version - so any US guys, please give us an update

Well, well, well.  It was bound to happen, someone has managed to get their hands (and camcorder) on an early build of Sonic the Hedghog 4 and released it for the whole Internet to see. 

I'm sure SEGA fans everywhere have been dying to see if the company can indeed redeem some of the lost respect that Sonic has seen with more recent titles.  And that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is going to bring the speedy hedgehog back to his roots.

Well, what we see here is an Alpha build of the game, so it's definitely not finished.  The good news is that the level design looks to be like the originals; bright, colourful with multiple routes to take. 

So far the bad news seems to be down to the animation; Sonic just looks... weird.  His jumping

I'm sure a lot of you are still eager to hear about SEGA Nerds' trip to Alton Towers at the weekend, where we got to ride on the new Sonic Spinball rollercoaster and play some more Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (including getting hands on a special character).

Well I haven't forgotten, just having trouble trying to sift through the tons of crappy/good photos taken at the event and get my video footage edited and uploaded (apparently Windows Vista has given up on trying to play videos from my camera entirely now).

So in the meantime, here is something Sonic related we were just shown - gameplay footage of the DS version of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing.[nextpage]  Now, you are never going to get the DS looking anywhere close to the big console counterparts, but from

There's nothing quite like getting excited for an upcoming game than watching a badass trailer.  And thankfully SEGA has done just the job with a new Aliens vs Predator gameplay trailer, showing off the various multiplayer modes ahead of this weeks launch.

I've got nothing more to say on this matter really, other than I can't wait to get my hands on the final version and expect a full review very soon.

AvP will be hitting stores this week with a US release of February 16th and European release February 19th.

[Source: SEGA PR]

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Ok so you might have played the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo and either thought; "Damn this is badass!" or "WTF is this?" Well AvP may have the same priniples as any other multiplayer title: kill or be killed, but it has a more subtle style of gameplay that players will need to adopt if they want to be top in the intergalactic-race war.

Rather than going all Quake or Unreal - running around using as much ammo as possible on your enemies until everything stops moving - you are going to need to learn how to use close combat techniques.  AvP might not give you a true Jackie Chan fist-fight experience, but the melee combat is a tad more advanced than most FPS titles out there.

Especially with the Alien (who doesn't have any proper long range attacks) you will need to understand

Yeah, you Americans and Japanese might be thinking: "Wait a minute, this game has been out for ages now."  Well for us poor people living in the PAL lands, we haven't been able to get our hands on Bleach: The 3rd Phantom yet, (well unless we bought it from the US or Japan).

But now the time is finally upon us! Come February 12th (this Friday) Bleach: The 3rd Phantom will be released, for the DS, across Europe and we can finally take on the role of our favourite Shinigami and some new additions to the franchise (not seen in the manga or cartoons) in this Strategy RPG.

But if you are from Europe and don't know much about the game, then perhaps you should take a look at our review first.  It's a bit weird that it's taken so damn long to come out over here - especially

~In case you haven't seen it; the new Marines trailer~

In case you haven't checked, the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo should now be available from a download service of your choice; XBL, PSN and Steam.  The demo was (supposedly) released last Friday 5th Feb, but I didn't see it appear on my XBL service until last night, maybe I'm living in a black hole or something.

The demo allows you to play with some friends and/or play a quick match against some randoms online.  There is only one level to play, "The Refinery," but you can play as all three species; Alien, Marine or Predator.

Anyway, it seems that PC and PS3 users of the demo over the weekend were plagued with some issues, which Rebellion has now apologised for; while the Xbox 360 version was unaffected.

Yes that's right, SEGA has now confirmed that Project Needlemouse is in fact Sonic the Hedgehog 4.  This is the first title in the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" series since 1994's Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - all other additions to the Sonic franchise have taken our blue friend on different paths, trying out new things such as isometric 2D, full 3D, adding new enemies and playable characters.  Some things worked, plenty didn't.

But SEGA is looking to bring the series back to its roots, but with plush new HD visuals, keeping the same old-school gameplay, level design, baddies and of course, Robotnik.  The only difference is that this game willl be coming in a number of episodic downloads.

However, don't let that worry you, previous information leaks have led us