Draikin's News Entries

Video Game Music Online Interviews Saori Kobayashi

Video Game Music Online Interviews Saori Kobayashi

By Draikin |

Video Games Music Online have posted a new interview with Saori Kobayashi, which we of course know for her work on the soundtrack for the Panzer Dragoon and Crimson Dragon games. The interview discusses the various projects Saori worked on,...

Panzer Dragoon Orta Pre-Release Screenshots

Panzer Dragoon Orta Pre-Release Screenshots

By Draikin |

As we’re closing down Lagi’s The Art of Panzer Dragoon subsite, we’ve moved the pre-release screenshots for Panzer Dragoon Orta to the main website. You can find them by following this link (screenshots 68-129 were moved): Panzer Dragoon...

Crimson Dragon Discounted on Xbox Live

Crimson Dragon Discounted on Xbox Live

By Draikin |

Major Nelson reports that, among other games, Crimson Dragon is getting a 20-25% discount (depending on the territory) starting from now through February 3rd 2014. The game recently received a free update enabling multiplayer. Unfortunately,...

Panzer Dragoon Revival Reaches 1000 Signatures!

Panzer Dragoon Revival Reaches 1000 Signatures!

By Draikin |

Hey everyone, It took us a while, but our Panzer Dragoon Revival petition has reached 1000 signatures! Certainly a worthy effort for a series that hasn’t seen a new release in the past ten years. I’ll be looking into the best way of sending the...

First Crimson Dragon Reviews

First Crimson Dragon Reviews

By Draikin |

With the Xbox One release only a few days away, the first reviews of the launch games are being released. Among those are of course reviews for Crimson Dragon, and so far they’ve been… mixed. Polygon gave the game a 4/10, and while they...

Fifth Twitch.tv Crimson Dragon Live Stream Recording

Fifth Twitch.tv Crimson Dragon Live Stream Recording

By Draikin |

Another recording of the Crimson Dragon live stream is available on Twitch.tv. This time they featured a new build of the game, and graphically there seems to be a few improvements (the lighting in particular) to give the game a softer look. ...

Second Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough on Twitch.tv

Second Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough on Twitch.tv

By Draikin |

A few days ago, PlayXBLA had a second livestream of the Crimson Dragon demo on Twitch.tv. This time around they showed an exclusive mission that was only shown behind closed doors at Tokyo Game Show. They also mentioned they will be playing...

Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough on Twitch.tv

Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough on Twitch.tv

By Draikin |

Microsoft had a livestream of the Crimson Dragon TGS 2013 demo on Twitch.tv, where Rukari Austin (XBLA Community Coordinator) and Christopher Rubyor (lead game designer of Crimson Dragon at the Microsoft side) each play through the two playable...

F4F Polls Sega Community About Character Statues

F4F Polls Sega Community About Character Statues

By Draikin |

First 4 Figures recently released a statue of Ryo from Shenmue, and because it was very well received they posted a poll on their forums where people can vote for other Sega characters they’d like to see a statue for. The NiGHTS and Shenmue...

Eurogamer Interview With Yukio Futatsugi

Eurogamer Interview With Yukio Futatsugi

By Draikin |

Eurogamer posted a new interview with Yukio Futatsugi where they discuss his career in the games industry. Among other things, he mentions the difficulty they had in creating Panzer Dragoon Saga and the various companies he worked at after leaving...

Panzer Dragoon Figure at Wonfes 2013

Panzer Dragoon Figure at Wonfes 2013

By Draikin |

A small update today to show you what must be the best Panzer Dragoon figure I’ve ever seen. The Panzer Dragoon “garage kit” (referring to how these sculptures are often made by hobbyists using their garages as a workshop) shows the Blue Dragon...

Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough

Crimson Dragon Demo Playthrough

By Draikin |

First of all, a happy new year to all the Panzer Dragoon and Crimson Dragon fans out there! As luck may have it, we have some interesting news to share with you at this start of the new year. It appears the Crimson Dragon demo was mistakenly made...

Panzer Dragoon Orta's 10th Anniversary

Panzer Dragoon Orta's 10th Anniversary

By Draikin |

Time does go fast. Today, exactly ten years ago, Sega released Panzer Dragoon Orta, the fourth and to this day final installment of the Panzer Dragoon franchise, for the Xbox in Japan. At the time Team Andromeda, the team behind the original...

Microsoft Comments on the Status of Crimson Dragon

Microsoft Comments on the Status of Crimson Dragon

By Draikin |

Eurogamer has recently released an article explaining why the Xbox failed in Japan. The article also contains some information regarding to the status of Crimson Dragon. Microsoft answered Eurogamer’s enquiry about the status of the game and made...

A Playthrough of Dragon Canyon

A Playthrough of Dragon Canyon

By Draikin |

I’ve made a video showing a playthrough of Dragon Canyon in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on the Xbox 360: There’s also a YouTube version available. Released two days ago in Europe, the game is now also available in North...

Spanish Translation for Panzer Dragoon Revival

By Draikin |

I’m happy to announce that a Spanish translation was added to Panzer Dragoon Revival! A big thanks goes to Solo Wing’s sister Linda for providing this new translation. At the same time, Panzer Dragoon Revival has reached 550 signatures, a number...

German Translation of Panzer Dragoon Revival

By Draikin |

Yet another translation was added for Panzer Dragoon Revival! This time it’s Senor Kaffee who was kind enough to provide the German translation, bringing the total supported languages up to six. A big thanks goes out to him for the help! At the...

Panzer Dragoon Revival Portuguese Translation

By Draikin |

Thanks to forum member Windrider our Panzer Dragoon Revival petition now has a Portuguese translation! The number of signatures is also slowly climbing to 500, so we hope people continue to sign it to get us to that number.

French Version of Panzer Dragoon Revival

By Draikin |

Thanks to forum member PXL our Panzer Dragoon Revival website now has a French translation. This means the petition is now available in four different languages. It has also slowly but surely passed the 400 signatures mark at this point. While...

New Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Trailer

New Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Trailer

By Draikin |

Sega has released a new trailer for Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and it’s a must see for Panzer Dragoon fans. You can watch the video by following this link or directly below: To see the Basic Wing, the Blue Dragon and even an...

G4TV Top 100 Video Games of All Time

By Draikin |

Panzer Dragoon Saga took the 22nd spot in G4TV’s recent list of their top 100 videogames of all time: Top 100 Video Games of All Time #22 - Panzer Dragoon It’s good to see that, even after all those years, the game is still being regarded as...

Panzer Dragoon Saga Guide Translations - Part 2

By Draikin |

Some time ago we posted the first batch of translations from the Panzer Dragoon Saga guidebooks. Today we can add another two translated pages to the collection. This article gives us more insight in the nature of the humanoid lifeforms called...

Cameos in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Cameos in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

By Draikin |

We were pleasantly surprised to see that Sega and Sumo Digital’s recently announced Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed contains a race track called “Dragon Canyon” dedicated entirely to the Panzer Dragoon series. In the recent videos they’ve...

Panzer Dragoon Saga Guide Translations

Panzer Dragoon Saga Guide Translations

By Draikin |

For its release in Japan, Panzer Dragoon Saga had been accompanied by a total of three different guide books. However, none of those made it to the Western market and the details they contained about the game’s storyline were never translated....

Crimson Dragon

By Draikin |

Andriasang has released a new article with more details about Crimson Dragon (formerly known as Project Draco). The (Kinect-only) game is widely regarded as a spiritual successor to the Panzer Dragoon railshooters, and it’s easy to see why....