Holiday apps sales are abound with Christmas just days away. Yesterday we covered the sales for Square Enix games, now it is Sega’s turn.

Sega’s promotion is called “Very Mega Holiday Sale” and sees both iOS and Android titles on sale from now until January 3rd. Besides mobile platforms, PSN and Xbox Live Arcade is also seeing discounts as well.

Some of the promotions include Sonic CD and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on sale for just $.99. There are also titles like Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio being discounted down to $1.99.

This is just a very small taste of the many games that are on sale from Sega. If you are a Sega fan, you will want to check out the source link for a full list of games covered in this promotion. See any you like, which do you plan to buy?

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There’s a lesson to be learned in the video game industry these days. Nostalgia is lucrative. Just take what was once a successful formula, jazz it up with some prettier graphics, retain the classic style gameplay, and you’ve got yourself a winner. Street Fighter did it. Mario Kart did it. And so did Sonic.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 has been pretty big for Sega, but they skipped out on the Android love for that title. That’s changing for the next chapter, as Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II is being launched on Android some time this year. They’re saying that the game will be made available to Tegra 3 devices, allowing gamers to take full advantage of the “improved architecture” of the new chip, getting more graphically-intense action for the speedy blue devil.

For now, the only officially announced Android device with NVIDIA Tegra 3 is the Asus Transformer Prime tablet, but I’m sure a huge slate of Tegra 3 devices will be unveiled next week at CES. I imagine a slightly less graphically intense version of S4:EII will be available for the rest of us Android folk too, plus the versions for iOS and home consoles. I’m just waiting for a graphically-intense version of Columns.

Here’s the teaser trailer.

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