The greatest Japanese online RPG ever? SEGA bring PSO2 to the West
Phantasy Star Online 2 sports a highly customisable character generation system and will be free to play on Xbox One.
8 real life retro-game playing Gunters
In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One the name given to gamers who specialise in 80s arcade games/retro-games are Gunters. The Gunters are searching for the famous Easter Egg that will give who ever finds it control of the Oasis.…
Sega offers apology for calling a Sonic character “Boob”
Sega’s Sonic Runners mobile game has a character called “Boob”. Oops.
Sega has explained the Halloween update was supposed to introduce a character called Boo. The name “Boob” is a mistake.…
The gorgeous sci-fi art of Kenichiro Tomiyasu
Kenichiro Tomiyasu is a freelance concept artist and designer at INEI, Inc. He’s worked for the likes of Square Enix, Sega and Capcom. I’d describe his work as bold that makes careful use of colour.…
Bored at work? Check out Ebuyer’s Odyssey
Ever need to buy, browse or research computer parts, software and business equipment while at work? Yes? Then you might need to visit Ebuyer.com. As it happens, Ebuyer happens to be running an interactive tour through the history of gaming consoles.…
Short movie: Sonic the Hedgehog
This fan film, produced by Blue Core Studios, is clearly a not-for-profit spec film. There’s no ads on the video. There’s no need for Sega to do anything other than sit back and enjoy.…
Sega find a new business stream – urinal game consoles
Did you imagine Sega would return to the hardware business and start building consoles again?
Okay. Perhaps you did… for the sake of argument let’s say you did. Did you imagine Sega would start to build $2,000 urinals though?…
Phantasy Star Online 2 opening movie
Sega have released the opening movie to Phantasy Star Online 2. Phantasy Star is a Japanese computer RPG with a proud history and fan base to match. That doesn’t mean the success of the online version is a sure-in, though.…
My Megadrive
Did you know that the Mega Drive was called the Genesis in North America? Er, also, did you know the Genesis was called the Mega Drive outside of North America? I had no idea.…
Sega give away free Rise of Nightmares comic
Back in June we published a rather weird video from Sega called Rise of Nightmares. It’s a horror survival game with plenty of WTF.
In order to promote the game they teamed up author Al Ewing and artist Marc Olivent to put together a free comic for it.…
