{"id":156820,"date":"2025-08-18T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156820\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:24:14","slug":"shinobi-art-of-vengeance-to-get-classic-sega-villains-stage-dlc-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156820\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance To Get Classic SEGA Villains Stage DLC Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Sega Villains DLC\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df172553e588a\/shinobi-art-of-vengeance-sega-villains-dlc.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shinobi-art-of-vengeance-sega-villains-dlc.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Sega Villains DLC\"\/><\/a>Image: SEGA<\/p>\n<p>Joe Musashi has fought countless demons, strange lifeforms, and ninja clans across the Shinobi series&#8217; vast history. But in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/shinobi_art_of_vengeance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance<\/a> \u2014 which launches on Switch at the end of August \u2014 his greatest threat awaits in some DLC.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in early 2026, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEGA\/status\/1957457668689260742\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sega has announced<\/a> the <strong>SEGA Villains Stage<\/strong>, and first up for our daring ninja is the blue blur&#8217;s rival himself, Dr. Eggman. Joe Musashi and Eggman have actually met before in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/sonic_and_all-stars_racing_transformed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonic &amp; All-Stars Racing Transformed<\/a>, but this time, we imagine things won&#8217;t be settled in a kart race here. Oh no.<\/p>\n<p>In the promotional image, you can also see two more sets of eyes lurking in the shadows either side of Dr. Eggman. No idea who those will be yet! Any guesses? Maybe a <strong>Like A Dragon<\/strong> villain? Mr. X? Dr. Curien?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Who\u2019s that lurking in the shadows? Prepare to unleash the power of the Shinobi and face off against legendary bosses in SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance\u2019s SEGA Villains Stage! <\/p>\n<p>First up, Joe Musashi confronts the evil genius from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Dr. Eggman<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tlh5yay0mW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Tlh5yay0mW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SEGA (@SEGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEGA\/status\/1957457668689260742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun concept, and we&#8217;re excited to see some of Sega&#8217;s rogue&#8217;s gallery in lovely painterly form. Lizardcube&#8217;s new entry in the Shinobi series already looks fantastic, so this is a fun little cherry on top.<\/p>\n<p>Shinobi: Art of Vengeance slices onto Switch on 31st August 2025. What do you think of this DLC? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/SEGA\/status\/1957457668689260742\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEGA\/status\/1957457668689260742\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751661789_90_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alana Hagues\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: SEGA Joe Musashi has fought countless demons, strange lifeforms, and ninja clans across the Shinobi series&#8217; vast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6794,36062,158,67,132,5803,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-sega","9":"tag-switch-eshop","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-upcoming-releases","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115052115700224643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}