Sega launches free gaming site

Posted on 9 Dec 2008 at 11:47

Sega has launched a new free gaming website, where users can play titles including Brain Assist, originally released for the Nintendo DS, and Sonic at the Olympic Games.

The games developer has also created new titles exclusively for the website, such as Ice Shuffle, Hollywood Adventure Quiz and Aquatic Word Burst.

Users can post their scores on a leaderboard and the website users can earn PlaySega Rings; the game's currency.

Users can use the rings to customise their own profile page, or Escape Areas, which can take the form of a New York apartment, Swiss chalet, Caribbean villa or a haunted house.

You can use your rings to buy luxury items to decorate your Escape Areas. with items including furniture, TVs, lights and flooring.

Sega will also launch a PlaySEGA VIP (Very Important Player) area of the site, where users can pay to play dozens more PlaySega web games, along with favorites from the Mega Drive years, such as Sonic The Hedgehog and Super Monkey Ball Tip n' Tilt.

"What started off as a small project within the Sega Network Group has now caught the imagination of the entire company," explained Nick Pili, director at Sega Europe. "I have suggestions for new games filling up my in-box, from the CEO, to staff I've never even met over in our Japanese, European and US offices."

"SEGA fans and new gamers alike can now come together in one place and enjoy some of our most exciting vintage and new titles. There was a story out there recently that we have a locked vault full of retro SEGA classics in Japan. Well, it's true - and we've been given full access to a lot of the properties in it."

Author: Dawinderpal Sahota

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