Play any House of the Dead game in the arcades and you’ll probably have to buy extra credits to continue. Arcade games are designed that way, but no House of the Dead game will eat as many quarters as The House of the Dead EX.

Another Aliens game from Sega leaked out care of Australia’s Classification’s Board. They rated Aliens Infestation and Shantae creator WayForward is tied to it listed as the author.

Here’s a look at Sega’s platform plans for the year ahead.

Games on Sega’s plate include Binary Domain, Sonic Generations, Crush 3D, and perhaps a few localized PSP RPGs. Oh, and maybe Samurai Bloodshow: Les Vagues Blanches, Les Nuages Rouges.

Captain America: Super Soldier, has what Sega say is free-flowing combat, based on performing combos and fighting off multiple enemies.

Race Mode is the third mode in Super Monkey Ball 3D for the Nintendo 3DS.

The Black Baron has received a bit of a makeover since his MadWorld days for Anarchy Reigns.

Due to the disaster in Japan, Capcom decided to delay distribution of the two bonus characters.

Once again, Sega have turned to Japanese magazines for additional weapon designs for Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity.

“In terms of resources, it was basically about the same level [as Yakuza 3]. But, the duration was a little bit longer getting the translation stuff done. Including the hostess system in Yakuza 4 that increased the amount of text about 30%.”

While it has more buttons, Hori’s Project Diva controller is built like an arcade controller. The buttons are the same size and they flash.

Intergalactic best friends Sega and Pizza Hut have another crossover collaboration. Order a pizza online in Japan and your receipt will have a product code for, we kid you not, a Pizza Hut Gourmet Pizza weapon.

Japanese sales tracker, Media-Create, believe Infinity is off to a bit of a slow start.

Earlier this week, I met up with Sega to see the US version of Yakuza 4 and I think fans will be happy to know only two parts were changed.