For the next 24 hours, Streets of Rage 2 will be free in the App Store as part of AllAppStar‘s Champion Week! Click here to download from the App Store for iPhone and iPod.

Special tip of the hat to AllAppStar for including Streets of Rage 2 and Super Monkey Ball 2 in Champion Week! To stay up to date on the latest daily deals in the App Store, download the AppAllStar App.

Today, we’re revealing an exciting new partnership with Arkedo Studio, best known for Nervous Brickdown and Big Bang Mini for Nintendo DS, as well as the Indie “Arkedo Series” on Xbox LIVE Indie Games and PlayStation Network. Arkedo is currently working on “Project Hell Yeah!” which has been in development at the Paris-based studio for nine months.

“See, SEGA? We spent the last five years telling you repeatedly that someday, somehow, you would publish one of our games,” said Camille Guermonprez, Studio Chef at Arkedo Studio. “This day has come. Hell Yeah! Now let’s go back to work and finish the damn thing.”

“We are absolutely delighted to have signed Arkedo,” said Mike Hayes, CEO for SEGA of Europe and SEGA of America. “Arkedo have proved to be at the forefront of innovative design and “Project Hell Yeah!” is sure to continue this trend.”

Starting today, the Arkedo blog will be updated regularly with interesting information about the game’s development, amusing stories from the studio and their soon-to-be famous “Arkedo Recipes for better food.”

To celebrate the release of Football Manager 2012, this weeks Free Stuff Friday will be a Football Manager themed giveaway! These prizes will sit nicely next to your copy of the game at home.

Whats on Offer?

1. Football Manager – Suit – T-Shirt

2. Football Manager – Red Kit – T-Shirt

3. Football Manager – Hacky sack x2

4. Football Manager – Mouse mat/Finger Football

How it Works

1. You must be following us on Twitter to be eligible. (If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can create one by going to http://www.twitter.com and click the green “get started — join!” button in the center of the page.)

2. At random times on Friday, we will announce the prize we are giving away, a word or phrase, and what number of response you need to be to win. Send us a direct message (DM) via Twitter and be that number to win the prize. (@ replies do not count as entries!)

Example:

We tweet “GIVEAWAY: Sonic T-shirt, size L. Be the 15th person to DM “Sonic Adventure” to win!”

You see this, and want to win it, so you send us a direct message that says “Sonic Adventure”. If you are the 15th person to do so, you are the winner!

Quotation marks do not matter, capitalization does not matter, but spelling does matter!

3. All followers are eligible to win all prizes, unless a restriction is noted. Restrictions are usually due to the prize being region-locked. For example, US games that won’t work on UK gaming systems. There may also be age restrictions due to the rating of the game.

4. We will announce the winner on our Twitter feed once eligibility is confirmed.

How to Send Direct Messages on Twitter

Due to a change in our account status with Twitter, you should be able to send us direct messages without us following you.

There are a few ways to send us a Direct Message on Twitter. The easiest way is to go to our Twitter page and select “message” under the “Actions” heading in the side bar. If you do not see “message”, this means that we are not following you. Please send a message to @sega to let us know, and we will follow you. When you click “message” you will be taken to a window where you can type a message and press send.

You may also select the “direct messages” tab from your Twitter homepage, and select SEGA from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. Again, if you don’t see our name there, it’s probably because we’re not following you. Let us know, and we’ll follow you.

There are also many Twitter clients that you can use instead of using the website. These include TweetDeck, Twitteriffic, Tweetie, and Twhirl. Each of these programs works differently, so you’ll want to figure out how to send a direct message on the program you use. If you want to send us a test message, we’ll let you know if we received it.