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Sega has been hosting a special broadcast titled 'Sonic Central' around the time of the blue blur's birthday since 2021, but this year the anniversary celebrations are a little different. Sonic brand social media and community manager Katie Chrzanowski explained during a surprise live stream...

The news that the Mega Drive is to get its own version of Capcom's Final Fight was welcomed by the Sega community a while back; developer Mauro Xavier's Final Fight MD project aims to give the console the most authentic port possible – even more so than the Sega CD version. Xavier has been...

Once upon a time, Sega had plans to release an all-in-one Genesis / Mega Drive and 32X home console called Neptune. Those plans were scrapped when the 32X flopped and it became clear that Sega needed to focus on Saturn, but not before the company had shown off a prototype. That same design is...

Atlus has announced that Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance has surpassed 500,000 sales within three days of its launch on 14th June 2024. Of course, while the original Shin Megami Tensei V was exclusive to the Switch, Vengeance has been released on Switch, Steam, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox...

When you discussing the most expensive video games of all time, the 1993 Mega Drive shmup Eliminate Down is likely to crop up pretty quickly. Developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision, it's one of the rarest games on the console; it never saw release outside Japan and South Korea...

Update [Mon 25th Dec, 2023 14:25 GMT]: Pigsy has released a playable demo - Merry Christmas! You can download it here. Original Story [Tue 3rd Jan, 2023 12:30 GMT]: Some time ago, our friends over at Nintendo Life reported on the existence of a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of Konami's...

The Genesis / Mega Drive is getting some serious love from homebrew and indie developers of late. We've got exciting projects like Final Fight, Symphony of the Night, Earthion and True Galactic Mission all hovering on the horizon, and now we've got another exciting project to look forward to –...

The Genesis / Mega Drive is getting a new shmup called True Galactic Mission. Developed by Yuri R. d Avila (AKA Davila Games), this vertically-scrolling blaster has been in development for a while and has been built using the SGDK library. "A new project is getting ready to take off!" reads...

When the first footage of Over Jump Rally appeared online, it rightly caused quite a stir. Created using Unreal Engine 5, it offered a tantalising glimpse of what a modern-day Sega Rally could look like, complete with super-realistic car models, breathtaking environments and – of course – the...

A new offline meeting space called the Hakuba Virtual Off Center (HVOC) has recently opened in Nagano, Japan for fans of the Virtual On series, giving players a special place to meet up and play all of its original arcade entries (h/t: Game Watch/Forbes). Virtual On — just in case you've never...

Yuzo Koshiro has shown off more footage of the upcoming Mega Drive / Genesis shmup Earthion, and it's shaping up to be one of the most technically remarkable games ever released on the 16-bit system. "You'll spot a lot of new stuff and scenes we've added in," says Yoshiro. "Plus, there's a...

Wayô Records has announced that it is going to release Yuzo Koshiro's phenomenal soundtrack to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis action RPG The Story of Thor (known as Beyond Oasis in North America) as a limited edition double-LP this September and that pre-orders are now open. The Story of Thor is...

Back in the '90s, a battle was raging in arcades all over the world. On one side, there was Namco, which had shaken things up with its 3D racers such as Driver's Eyes (1991) and the seminal Ridge Racer (1993). On the other was Sega, which had seen success in the '90s with OutRun, Super Hang-On...

A demo of the SNES version of Black Jewel Reborn is now available and can be downloaded free of charge (or with a donation if you'd like to support the project. The project was successfully crowdfunded by 785 backers, who pledged €64,095 in total. Here's some PR:

Back in 1993, Sega released SegaSonic the Hedgehog in Japanese arcades. Controlled using a trackball, it is notable for featuring Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, and was developed by Sega's AM3 arcade division. It's also one of the only Sonic titles to not have been...

Emulation site Vimm's Lair – which has been running since 1997 – has announced that it has been asked to remove many games from its archive. "Vimm's Lair has been asked to remove many games from The Vault on behalf of Nintendo, Sega, Lego, and the ESA," says a statement on the site's main page...

It's been two years since Sega announced its Mega Drive Mini II micro-console, a fact that producer Yosuke Okunari felt compelled to note on his social media account. Sadly, in the same post, Okunari confirms that there are no plans for another hardware release this year – although he does...

FPGA developer Jotego has just released an update which brings Sega's Alien Storm and Capcom's Bionic Commando to the Analogue Pocket and MiSTer platforms. The cores, which are currently only available to Jotego's Patreon supporters, are JTS18 and JTBIOCOM. The former is Jotego's...

Description: This innovative modification introduces the beloved characters from the iconic arcade game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs into the fray, replacing the original heroes Axel, Blaze, Skate, and Max with the intrepid explorers Jack, Hannah, Mustapha, and Mess. In this masterful ROM hack of...

References to Street Fighter characters Ryu and Ken have been discovered in the Sega Saturn exclusive Fighters Megamix. The discovery was made by @memory_fallen, who specialises in reverse-engineering Saturn games and coming up with cool hacks and patches to unlock hidden features. Here's...