Along with the announcement, SEGA also released a new trailer titled “The Trials of Trevor.”

“Set in Two Point County, an atypical world oozing with charisma, humour and character, budding administrators need to be creative and use every tool and trick at their disposal to navigate a diverse assortment of hospital management challenges,” the press release read. “Design your hospitals; train your staff and manage their wide-ranging personalities; discover diseases, research new treatments and develop your machinery; conduct marketing and spread your organisation like the most patient-friendly virus around; and, oh yes, cure patients with unusual illnesses.”

A 10-percent discount is currently available on pre-orders at Steam and other “SEGA approved digital retailers.”

See below for the full press release.

SEGA® Europe Ltd. and Two Point Studios are delighted to announce that Two Point Hospital will launch digitally for PC, Mac and Linux on 30 August 2018 with early adopters receiving a 10% discount on Steam and from SEGA approved digital retailers. To celebrate, the world’s sickest man, Trevor, has been given a trial treatment for the bizarre new affliction ‘Cubism’. Find out how he gets on in Two Point Hospital’s brand-new trailer: ‘The Trials and Tribulations of Trevor’.

Two Point Studios, featuring development talent from some of the greatest sim games ever made return to their spiritual home with Two Point Hospital. Players will take on the role of Hospital Administrator where a mantra of build, cure and improve will be necessary to take your career from humble beginnings to the heights of hospital management greatness.

Set in Two Point County, an atypical world oozing with charisma, humour and character, budding administrators need to be creative and use every tool and trick at their disposal to navigate a diverse assortment of hospital management challenges. Design your hospitals; train your staff and manage their wide-ranging personalities; discover diseases, research new treatments and develop your machinery; conduct marketing and spread your organisation like the most patient-friendly virus around; and, oh yes, cure patients with unusual illnesses.

Have you got what it takes to turn your organisation into an unstoppable healthcare juggernaut? Pre-order now on Steam now or from a SEGA approved digital retailer to find out.

Two Point Hospital launches on 30 August 2018. For more information about all things Two Point Hospital sign up for our Hospital Pass at www.twopointhospital.com where you will receive the coveted in-game item, the Golden Toilet. You can also follow the game’s progress on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

A bunch of screenshots were released at the original announcement, but now we have some actual gameplay footage. The gameplay is pretty similar to the original Theme Hospital, except with updated visuals and brand new cases. You can take a look at the gameplay in the video above.

Two Point Hospital is scheduled to be released later this year on Steam.

In this week’s show we discuss:

• What We’ve Been Playing:
  • Chris: Shenmue II, Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)
  • Graham: Speed Devils (Dreamcast)
  • Marcin: Dungeons & Dragons (Dork!)
• News Stand
  • New Releases: Mutant Football League (PS4, Xbox One)
  • Yuji Naka announces he’s joined Square Enix
  • JoshProd teases new titles for 2018
  • Limited Run Games is making replacement SEGA CD, Saturn jewel cases
  • SEGA announces Two Point Hospital
  • Shenmue HD remasters pushed back because of Shenmue III delay
  • New The House of the Dead is coming to arcades

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If you don’t know, Two Point Studios is made up of gaming veterans from Bullfrog, Muckyfoot and Lionhead – as Bullfrog has a rich heritage of sim games, including Theme Hospital, you can see a fair amount of influence from Bullfrog’s old franchise and it looks like it’s meant to be a spiritual successor, of sorts.

I have to admit, I assumed that whatever Two Point Studios’ first game with SEGA was, it would be a mobile game. So (as a non-mobile gamer) I’m pretty happy to see this is coming to PC, via Steam and the SEGA Store. I’m also excited to get my hands on a new sim game like this – I loved the old ‘Theme‘ franchise (Theme Park, Theme Hospital etc.) and this looks to be quite a similar affair.

For more information, check out the screenshots and press release, below:

Press Release

Two Point Hospital Announced Alongside Ground-Breaking Treatment for Light Headedness
SEGA Europe and Two Point Studios set to Light Up the World of Medicine in 2018

London, England – 16^th January 2018 – SEGA Europe Ltd. and Two Point Studios today announced a revolutionary new treatment for ‘Light-Headedness’ in their newly revealed game, Two Point Hospital, coming to Steam in late 2018. In what ‘experts’ are describing as a ‘light bulb moment for completely fictional medicine’, the Farnham based studio are drawing plaudits for their inception of the ‘De-Lux Clinic’, which is being rolled out across Two Point County to tackle the recent epidemic of this filamentally flummoxing affliction.

Light-Headedness was first experienced by patient zero, known only as Trevor. You can follow the illuminating story of Trevor and his battle with this rare disease by watching our enlightening infomercial about Two Point Hospital here: <trailer link>

Two Point Hospital, inspired by and from the creators of Theme Hospital, is set to be a return to one of gaming’s most loved sim genres. Two Point Hospital draws on the experience of some the gaming industry’s most experienced and successful sim developers, who between them, in addition to Theme Hospital, have worked on titles like Black and White, Theme Park and Fable at studios including Bullfrog, Lionhead and Mucky Foot. Two Point Hospital will deliver a compelling experience packed with the humour, charm and replayability fans of the genre have come to expect.

“We’re delighted to finally announce the fruits of our partnership with Two Point Studios and reveal Two Point Hospital to the world,” said John Clark, Executive Vice President of Publishing for SEGA Europe. “We’re committed to finding and working with the best new studios, ones that fit with SEGA’s ethos to deliver new IP with strong franchise potential. Two Point Studios’ vision for Two Point Hospital and their ambitions for it fit perfectly with that notion and we look forward to releasing their game later this year.”

“Gary and I have been talking about this project for a number of years and are really excited to be announcing Two Point Studios’ first game” said Mark Webley, Co-Founder of Two Points Studios. His fellow Co-Founder, Gary Carr added: “The amazing team we have managed to bring together, and our partnership with Sega, has really allowed this first part of our vision to finally come to fruition”

Two Point Hospital will launch for PC via Steam and the SEGA Store later this year. For more information about all things Two Point Hospital sign up for our Hospital Pass at www.twopointhospital.com. Hospital Pass will give fans of the game a chance to access exciting news concerning Two Point Hospital before anyone else as well as the gift of an exclusive in game item once the game launches. You can also follow the game’s progress on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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