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Yesterday marked 25 years since the North American launch of the Dreamcast, and Limited Run Games has joined the celebrations with a Dreamcast Trading Card game. The series contains "over 200 premium trading cards featuring art from the system's most iconic games and franchises", which will be...

Retro Fighters is launching a new Dreamcast controller inspired by the best fighting game pad of yesteryear. Produced by ASCII, the Pad FT had a brilliant rolling D-pad and six face buttons, making it perfect for the many amazing fighting games on the console. Now, Retro Fighters is...

The Dreamcast is now 25 years old – it launched in Japan at the end of 1998, and recently celebrated a quarter-century since its North American release. The first home console to come with internet connectivity out of the box, Sega's final domestic gaming system will have given many players...

The Sega Dreamcast has started to gain some love by their homebrew community this year, with games like Doom 64 and Sonic Mania receiving unofficial ports to the last main Sega console. Today, another beloved classic title has joined the ranks of games being ported unofficially to the console...

We try to keep politics out of our reporting here at GameParadise, mainly because it seems to cause nothing but trouble 99.9% of the time, but we couldn't resist this one – yes, someone has added the Democrat Vice President nominee Tim Walz to Crazy Taxi. If you're wondering why this has...

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast, offering an array of improvements. The work has been carried out by a modder called Ivan Guber, and includes improved game performance, reworked controls and even the ability to hook up a house and keyboard. To be more specific, the port...

Nape Games, a small Spanish studio, has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for Restless Anima: Engine Room — a brand-new psychological horror game coming to the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Dreamcast (as spotted by SegaGuru!) The game features a setting that is loosely inspired by...

The Dreamcast oddity Birdcage of Horrors (otherwise known as Grauen no Torikago) has just received a brand new fan translation, courtesy of the modder Derek Pascarella and a group of translators/transcribers including Anonymous, T_Chan, and Walnut. Birdcage of Horrors is a pretty obscure title...

There are plenty of ways of connecting your Dreamcast to a TV set or monitor, including SCART, composite, VGA and – thanks to the wonders of modern technology – even HDMI. Many people continue to swear by component cables, mainly because they can be twinned with upscalers like the RetroTink 4K...

Our friends over at The Dreamcast Junkyard were lucky enough to speak with former Sega peripheral development manager Kenji Tosaki recently, and he mentioned that the company had very early ideas about creating a motion-sensing controller that would have pre-dated the Wii by over a decade. When...

The Dreamcast is a console which perhaps made a more significant impression on the world of gaming than its humble sales figures would suggest. It was the first home system to launch with the ability to connect to the internet and pioneered many other cool features – such as the VMU for saving...

Publisher Read-Only Memory is reprinting its superb Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works book. Originally published back in 2019 and written by award-winning author Simon Parkin, the book is produced in collaboration with Sega and is packed with "never-before-published materials and specially...

SEGA has partnered with Limited Run for a special collector's edition of Sonic X Shadow Generations, the upcoming remaster of the beloved platformer, and it's laser-targeted to get fans all nostalgic. With a heavy emphasis on the Dreamcast, we've not seen something so perfectly aimed at editor...

Limited Run games is collaborating with Sega to release a very special collector's edition of the upcoming Sonic X Shadow Generations on Switch. Arriving at some point in 2025 and retailing for an eye-watering $249.99, the package nevertheless comes with some pretty cool extras. At the top of...

If you owned a Dreamcast in the early 2000s and loved vehicle-based games, you may have come across Red Dog: Superior Firepower in the past. A collaboration between the Star Fox and Croc developers Argonaut Games and the publisher Sega (note: the game was published in North America under Crave...

Update [Tue 27th Aug, 2024 11:30 BST]: The patch is now live. You can grab it here. There's been a lot of chatter surrounding the Capcom vs. SNK crossover series of late, driven mainly by the fact that SNK characters are appearing in Street Fighter 6, so we're pleased to add to that noise by...

One of the most unexpected Sega Dreamcast ports of recent years was Crazy Viking Studios' Volgarr The Viking. Originally developed for the PC, the brutal action-platformer made its debut on the Sega console back in 2015, thanks to the incredible efforts of a software engineer named Marc Hall...

If you've heard of the name 8BitMods, then you'll almost certainly be aware of the fact that the company creates an amazing line of 'new' memory card options for consoles like the PS1, PS2 and GameCube. It would seem that the company's next project is for the Dreamcast. It has shown off a PCB...

Remember when Sega first demonstrated the power of its Dreamcast console by showing a 3D model of then-present Shoichiro Irimajiri being manipulated and illuminated in real time? Well, fast-forward a few decades, and the development community has taken this concept to the next level, thanks to a...

The Dreamcast VMU was really ahead of its time. Primarily a memory card for Sega's final home console, it had its own built-in LCD screen and controls, which allowed it to host very basic mini-games based on the titles you played on the main console. While we're sure that this isn't the first...