Including a 5% Jump Today
For a moment, it did not appear that investors were taking Sega’s $26.6 million acquisition of Relic Entertainment well. The day after the move was made official, SGAMY on the pink sheets dipped to $4.16 a share, an almost three percent decline on the previous day’s close.
But that was short lived, and after a recovery, Sega Sammy stock shot up nearly five and a half percent today, closing at $4.46 a share. Since the acquisition, the stock has been up abut 7.2 percent.
Sega announced in a press release last week their plans to utilize the RTS developer and the IP that goes with the acquisition to “further reinforce PC game development capabilities.” It appears the studio, based in Canada, will stay open. We’ll keep tabs and let you know if anything changes.
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Seems like a nice move for SEGA!
Countdown to SEGA forcing Relic to waste enormous time and resources adapting their next RTS to a console controller though I guess the smaller almost action RPG scale of Dawn of War 2 has a better chance at working then well pretty much every RTS put onto consoles
Just please get Company of Heroes 2 out.
THEN focus on a goddang awesome Eggman RTS.
@SonicBOOM XS Good idea, it could be released for tablets and smartphones too
*I was talking about the eggman game
It’s actually not my idea, Sonic Stadium had this huge conversation about it XD
It’s a reference to that. Friggin awesome though.
@SonicBOOM XS: Do you mean this?
I already thought of the idea of a Sonic the Hedgehog RTS model years and years ago. It did not settle too well with me then since I could only see it going wrong with SEGA at the helm. But these guys have RTSs under their belt like no other and I place my full confidence in them, believing that they can revolutionize the RTS market just as SUMO digital revolutionized racing. If properly executed, the Sonic the Hedgehog IP could make its name well-known and admired among titles like the Age of Empires, StarCraft and Warcraft. Just imagine all of the expansion packs or DLC which could be made to just tantalize your gaming palettes: Stories: Sonic 1-Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Adventure, Shadow the Hedgehog, the Archie comics, Sonic the Comic; Civilizations: Overlanders, GUN, Chao, Dark Chao, Babylon Rogues, Mobians, Southislanders, Black Arms; Hero Units: Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Eggman, Metal Sonic, ; Special Items: Chaos Emeralds, Rings. (Some of these may be incorrect, but are to, again, give a mere sampling of what we could see if something like this took place.)
I’m pretty sure it’s that one or something in that conversation.
Never mind. Here it is:
Stephen says:
January 27, 2013 at 10:36 pm
I thought about a RTS Eggman style game once, with hero units acting like commandos from the C&C style games.
I imagine the Sonic community would be in uproar though…
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For the record, I am an avid fan of the original Command and Conquer series!
And this:
the dark hero says:
January 28, 2013 at 10:30 pm
It would be better there were 3 teams from the field. Army of Sonic and friends, G.U.N and Eggman with a few defective characters that would join any side in the middle of the field like knuckles you can or shadow the hedgehog or even Omega or Rouge and power up for each. sonic gets Wisps, G.U.N gets Big foots and airships. And a man gets Metal Sonic and Metal clones and the Egg carrier. Chaos over spread all around the field whoever brings all 7 back to base will get something special. Sonic will turn into supersonic because he is the leader at base. Egg man will enter battle in a chaos powered n***** (inflammatory) suit. And the gun commander will enter battle with his suit from Shadow the Hedgehog. And it will only last for a short amount of time. And why is sonic fighting gun because he wants the emeralds back but gun is being stubborn and will not hand them over with out a fight.
Yep, it’s those ones.