据Total Telecom报道，主流游戏发行商世嘉日前向Facebook平台推出棒球游戏《Sega Play! Baseball》，正式进军美国社交游戏领域。

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游戏邦获悉，尽管世嘉之前也曾推出《Yakuza》等社交游戏，但这一次的动作才是该公司真正开始与Zynga等社交游戏开发商同台竞技的标志。这款棒球游戏还没有经过充分的本土化处理，仍然充满不少日本元素，所以暂时难以判断它的未来前景如何。据游戏邦了解，这款已向美国用户开放服务的游戏，还将在3月份登陆Hi5平台。

这款游戏采用的是典型的免费体验，付费买道具和加速进程的模式，但人们希望它能展现出“非典型”的游戏设置，提供与众不同的用户体验。据称世嘉目前已有向海外扩张的打算，看来Zynga等社交游戏开发商该留神了。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Sega goes social with Facebook games coming this month

The publisher behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega, is getting into the US social games business. While the company has worked on Japanese social games before like a Yakuza game, this marks the first time Sega will be going toe-to-toe with Zynga and Bitter Enemies Friends. Not to mention Sega was already on the lookout for American talent. Its line of Facebook and Hi5 games, Sega Play!, will begin by the end of Feb. with a localization of Sega Play! Baseball, Total Telecom reports.

In fact, the game is available now on Facebook, but it hasn’t exactly been localized completely. Much of the game is still in Japanese, so we’ll refrain from judgment … for now. When it finally is ready for American audiences it will be one of the first baseball Facebook games released by a major publisher. In March, the company will launch Sega Play! Football on Hi5.

Of course, the games will be free to play, but will charge for premium items and boosts. In other words, standard Facebook game fare. But let’s hope the gameplay is anything but standard. Sega already has plans for global expansion, according to Total Telecom, so watch out, Zynga.（source:games.com）