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"I remember watching the announcement going out on the net, was a real big day for us, and was I think the point where people started to really get excited about the game!"
— Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Executive Producer Steve Lycett on the announcement of Ryo Hazuki as a playable character.

Video game announcements, particularly sequel or casting announcements, can cause a positive uproar among the fans.

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  • 7/12/23: Limited Run Games had a digital showcase conference of more upcoming limited physical releases, however, what some didn't expect was the announcement of enhanced ports and compilations of older classic titles that are also coming to current 8th and 9th generation consoles as well as PC, which includes the following: Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection, Gex Trilogy, Tomba!, and for the first time ever, an official localized re-release of Clock Tower (1995) on modern platforms, and Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution seeing the light of day on the Game Boy Advance 22 years later since its cancelation!
  • 7/12/23: Seemingly out of nowhere, Sting Entertainment are bringing back two installments from their Dept. Heaven series back to the modern generation: an enhanced port of Yggdra Union for Switch and PC (with the latter being made available through Early Access on Steam) and the announcement of an HD remaster of Riviera: The Promised Land!
  • 1/30/24: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of it's original release, Fate/stay night gets an HD Remaster for the Switch and Steam...and in defiance of No Export for You, it'll get an official translation into English (and Chinese)!

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  • Dissidia Final Fantasy is just going to be another crappy Final Fantasy spinoff with Cloud and Sephiroth stealing the lime— Ooo! Kefka! With Shantotto, you'd think we'd get a secret FF12 rep too... Judge Grabanth!
    • Repeated when footage of the game was released in English, this time not with the characters but their voice actors. Christopher Sabat as Garland? Yes please!
    • Even more rejoicing when it turns out that there will be a sequel called Dissidia Duodecim, which features Lightning, fan-favorite Kain Highwind, Tifa, Yuna, Vaan and the unexpected appearance of Laguna Loire! And for those who deride the new characters, you can play as the Man in Black.
    • The new content of Duodecim itself should NOT be overlooked. The HP cap is now broken to the sixth digit, there's an assist system, world map (no Random Encounters!), at least one character's fighting style has been reconstructed (Firion) and Destiny Odysseys for the Chaos characters. Did I forget to mention the Old Save Bonus feature from Dissidia and the 13th Cycle of Dissidia is going to be replayable?! Big Honkin' Game doesn't even begin to cover this.
    • Early June 2010, the DLC made its way to European shores, too.note  And there's a DLC costume for Sephiroth, too. That One Bossnote  just got Promoted To Available For Purchase. Oh yeah.
    • Last but not least, the game has a make-your-own-story mode. That's right: you can write your own fanfiction in the game, program battles to happen in it and share it with your friends!
  • For Philadelphia-based Zelda fans, the announcement that the Symphony of the Goddesses concert would come to the City of Brotherly Love made them squee with delight, as they were almost certain that the concert would not come to the East Coast.
  • Hokuto Musou's announcement was met with either unconditional devotion due to it being Fist of the North Star, or cynical derision due to it being a Warriors/Musou game... plus, the Warriors games had never so much as shown blood, due to KOEI wanting to keep the franchise's consistent rating under the CERO system (equivalent to a "T" rating in the American/Canadian ESRB system). Then the first footage showed what happened to the first mooks unfortunate enough to face Kenshirou... then a KOEI rep stated that the Western releases would "probably" be more violent (if not gore-y)... then it turned out that the story wasn't Flanderized with Woobies-all-over like Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors and in fact held pretty solidly to the original anime... then American players posted that it wasn't a complete retread of the previous Warriors games...
  • Even though Midway Games is gone, their spirit lives on with three announcements in 2010.
    • First up, EA Sports announced that they were bringing back NBA Jam for the Wii, with original series co-creator Mark Turmell advising the devteam, and Tim Kitzrow is back to do the Announcer Chatter that made the original so memorable.
    • Then, Microsoft announced Hydro Thunder Hurricane for Xbox Live Arcade, which keeps the insane action of the original boat racer while giving it a new, shiny, hi-definition makeover.
    • And finally, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which bought most of the Midway back catalog (except for the two above examples and the Cruis'n trilogy, whose rights are with Nintendo), announced a new Mortal Kombat game which has the extreme blood and gore that the DC Universe crossover lacked, takes the Street Fighter IV route of gameplay with 3D graphics on a 2D gameplay plane, brings back Dan "Toasty!" Forden to do the music, and adds a 2-on-2 tag team mode. People were happy.
  • Okay, new Telltale game? Lesse what it is...Woah, wait up...Is that Tycho, Max, the Heavy, and Strong Bad? All together? This is gonna be GOOD.
  • Basketball games over the years try and pull this by including a certain Michael Jeffery Jordan. Ten years ago EA pulled it off in NBA Live 2000. Now Sega not only have Jordan in NBA 2K11, but a type of story mode where fans can play through his greatest matches. For any fan of basketball during his era this would have good reason to rejoice, not just for Jordan and the Bulls, but for Celtics fans with the 86 team, Pistons fans for the 88 team, Lakers fans...now we just need to know if the Dream Team will be included.
  • Part One, because one bullet isn't enough to explain it all: In December 2007, Jagex learned the hard way that sometimes you just shouldn't trifle with the Unpleasable Fanbase. In an attempt to curtail issues with real world trading, which allegedly was putting the game's economy through the ringer, Jagex removed Wilderness PvP and unrestricted trade from RuneScape, replacing player-killers with nigh-invulnerable Demonic Spiders that often traveled in packs. Even though efforts made to offer alternatives for the PvP players enjoyed some amount of success, the numbers still stood at 60,000 canceled membership subscriptions in the weeks immediately following the changes. (Although since real world traders often used stolen credit to pay for all transactions - including membership subscriptions - just how many were legitimate subscriptions in the first place is unknown.)
    • Part Two: In November of 2010, a guaranteed content poll opened up asking if players wanted Wilderness PvP and unrestricted trade back. Four options were presented, as usual, and by far the most voted up option was bringing them back as long as workarounds were set down to keep RWT out of it all. Longtime players had come to better understand and respect Jagex's reasons even though they didn't think the end justified the means. That poll was soon closed, and in December a referendum was opened for any player to vote in on the matter. 91% of 1.2 million votes cast were in favor of bringing back Wilderness PvP and free trade as long as the RWT problems that started the whole mess were neutralized as best as possible, and in February of 2011 everything agreed upon was implemented as promised.
    • The September 2012 Behind the Scenes update earned many cries of joy; after several months of pitiful updates (and many, many updates to the Squeal of Fortune and Solomon's General Store), a bevy of new content was announced; a graphical update and two new quests for Al Kharid, an update for the God Wars Dungeon, and the long awaited (and desperately needed) bot nuke. Best of all? Only the barest mention of Solomon and the Squeal, which up until then had been making headlines every month.
  • In 2003, Uru would have been a MMO of Myst, but it wasn't until 2007 that GameTap hosted it. Now it's known as MO:ULagain, plus it's free and since 2010 open source!
    • Even better. In early 2013 (Tentative), Phantasy Star Online 2 will have an American and European release.
  • Wowzers, I bet Nintendo is gonna repackage four old games that I probably downloaded from Virtual Console and a subpar soundtrack CD for the Zelda 25th Anniversary, just like they did Super Mario Bros. Shame on you, Ninten- Wait what's this? Special soundtrack discs? Skyward Sword having a Holiday 2011 release? Link's Awakening DX on the eShop right now? Limited Edition Gold Wiimote? The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords on DSiWare?note  Live orchestrated concerts happening worldwide this Fall?!!! Nintendo, you can have my wallet!
    • Let's not forget the Romance trailer. A true dream come true for the thousands of Link X Zelda shippers all around the world. Their Squee will be heard in the wind for the years to come.
    • Oh, about that Four Swords... it's NOT a direct port. It has actual new content, including new levels and an actual single-player mode. And yes, it's still free!
  • Okay, Nitro Plus. Demonbane is a good Visual Novel and all, but you should start getting serious about America...Wait, WHAT!! Saya no Uta!!! SUMAGA!!! KIKOKUGAI - THE CYBER SLAYER!!! WHO NEEDS BASIC NECESSITIES!! TAKE MY MONEY NOW!!!
  • C'mon, Activision. Why did you cancel True Crime: Hong Kong? Especially when it was so close to being finished? Do you really need to focus on online games, as you claimed? *Cut to seven months later* SQUARE ENIX BOUGHT OUT THE PUBLISHING RIGHTS?! IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY? It's most likely going to be called something else, because they did not purchase the rights to the name? I DON'T CARE. SQUENIX, I LOVE YOU!!
  • Atari has lost the exclusive rights to D&D video games much, much, earlier than the 2015 wait-out? After the lack of refinement in Neverwinter Nights 2 and the borderline Shovelware Dagggerdale, HELL YEAH!
    • And in another sign of things moving upward, Cryptic, who are developing Neverwinter, was bought by Perfect World from Atari. Perfect World saw how low Atari's standards were and realised how shoddy the game would be if it were released on time and decided to delay it.
  • Score yet another one for Nintendo: after a long list of diagrams (as usual for Nintendo), the bottom of this page mentions there's gonna be a new side-scroller Mario for the Nintendo 3DS! Just after the wait for Super Mario 3D Land was finally over, now the hype's gonna grow once again! Of course, it's still a mere announcement by now, but if we're getting a "New Super Mario World", then it's definitely gonna be Worth It.
  • Project Mirai looks like fun, but it's just a chibified version of Project Diva...wait...is that Daughter and Servant of Evil? Gumi's gonna be a player character!? THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST VOCALOID GAME EVER!
  • Egosoft lifted the information blackout and posted some X: Rebirth development videos on their YouTube channel!
    • For even more rejoicing, X Rebirth finally has an actual release date!
  • After spending many years as the "Wandering Protagonist", Asagi's days of wandering may finally be over. After a successful Makai Wars concert and gathering 10,000 people to join her fan club in a promotion that would determine whether she will get her own game, Nippon Ichi has confirmed that her game is now in the planning stages. The fans are rejoicing just as much as Asagi is.
  • Xbox One: Backwards compatibility? Oh, HELL yes!
  • It's a pity, Zoo Tycoon is no longer being made with the partnership... A NEW ONE IN 2013!? On the Xbox 360 (and Xbox One), RELEASED IN THE FALL OF THIS YEAR! AND YOU CAN FEED THEM WITH THE KINECT!
    • The game looks nice, but what happens if it ends up Kinectimals 2... SECOND TRAILER! OH BOY! THAT IS NO KINECTIMALS! OVER 100 ANIMALS! That's more than Zoo Tycoon 2 and several packs together!
  • ACTIVISION IS REOPENING SIERRA ENTERTAINMENT?!?!?!??!?!!!
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Within twenty-four hours of the game's announcement, the preorder was the #2 bestseller on Steam. Now that's a fandom willing to shell out for some elder vitae.
  • For many years, Victoria was the Red-Headed Stepchild of Paradox Interactive's grand strategy games. While some fans clamored for a third installment, many believed that the franchise had been abandoned... until PDXCON Remixed in 2021, when Victoria 3 was formally announced.

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