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Easily one of the best characters – both in terms of her abilities to fight for justice and bake delicious bread – Alicia from the first Valkyria Chronicles is now  available for pre-order in PVC form.

Alicia has been known to steal a few sighs from me – I’m still looking for my real life Alicia…I thought I met her once – but this PVC figure is downright classy compared to a lot of other ones out there. Lot of great details though it does seem to pull more from the anime than the game.

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I have no words…but there it is…what the hell is wrong with that camel?! I guess this is how the money is made. BIG RED BALL GET!

_{[Source: SEGA of Japan]}

If you are a regular reader of SEGASHIRO, you might remember that I said I was contacting Hori USA to see if I could somehow get a set of Virtual On Twin Sticks pre-ordered and shipped over.

Why? Because it is hard to play Virtual On any other way and because well, I thought it would be fun to try. The team at Hori USA (who are all based out of Japan it seems) went above and beyond to help me out.

No, they didn’t get me a unit nor did they make ordering one any easier but they sent me a hilarious yet informative email: Read the rest of this entry »

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited by High Moon’s upcoming Transformer title. I love that it is unattached to any sort of movie and takes place before film continuity.

This clip above had me laughing…female versions of Decepticons dancing with Pom-Poms? I dunno it just works.

The Knuckles Hat at the SEGASHIRO bunker has randomly chosen a winner for the promo and PAL copy of SEGA ALLSTARS RACING. Congratulations to Dan Capon for scoring the game with a haiku to Earthworm Jim. Your copy will be in the mail shortly.

As it turns out many Shenmue fans like to write as that series was the most popular SEGA IP to get poems.  The poems do their best to stick to the  haiku format – I hope the authors don’t mind that I placed their words over pictures.

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