Seeing Sub-Zero and Batman together is bizarre. Really, really bizarre even if Midway cuts fatalities in favor of DC Universe canon. Even stranger is this will not be the only fighting game with DC characters. When Street Fighter II clones were…

Before online gaming was chic Sega tipped their hat into the online ring with the Sega Channel in the USA and SegaMega Net in Japan. Both devices let players access online only content such as Mega Man: The Wily Wars…

Game|Life pointed me to a video of a US developed Sonic the Hedgehog title based on Sonic: The Animated Series. There is a neat pseudo 3D move Sonic has where he steps into the background, it’s sort of like Guilty Gear’s…

  I can’t imagine this being a comfortable controller to use since you have to grip a fist shaped joystick, but PlayPal’s Sonic the Hedgehog shaped controller is a neat novelty for Sega fans. The PlayPal plug-n-play Sonic joystick comes…

Way before FASA Studios decided Shadowrun should be a Counterstrike-like FPS three other Shadowrun games were released for consoles in the 90s. Hardcore Gaming 101 has a detailed look back at the history of Shadowrun games starting with the SNES game…

Sega sent over a release that Streets of Rage 2, Toe Jam & Earl Panic on Funkotron, Shining in the Darkness and Kid Chameleon are going to be released on the Wii’s Virtual Console. If you had a Sega Genesis…

Sega sent over an e-mail announcing three new virtual console titles for the US Wii line up. Virtua Fighter 2 and Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle aren’t a surprise because both of these were release this week on the…

No gamer plays every title on the market and even game journalists overlook the old school. What about the general public? How many gamers missed out on the Legend of Zelda even though it’s been released on the NES, Game…

Streets of Rage, the archetypal SEGA Genesis/Megadrive 2D side-scrolling beat’em up, will soon be gracing the Wii Virtual Console. Presumably, for a price. Now, taking into consideration that a) most people haven’t got their much deserved Wiis yet b) Virtual…

After only releasing one title last week, Nintendo has four classics coming out on the Virtual Console. Mario Kart 64 is probably going to be the most downloaded game. It’s the Nintendo 64 game repackaged for the Wii and if…

Before the Wii remote, Sega tried to get gamers more into the �game� with a full body controller known as the Sega Activator. Players would put the activator mat on a floor and instead of pressing buttons they could control…

Sonic the Hedgehogs next generation debut was a bust, but Sonic 1 Megamix brings Sonic back to his glory days. The game is a homebrew hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 1 with new levels, physics from Sonic 2 and abilities…