Aside from a Japan only Sega Ages update of Cyber Troopers: Virtual On Sega’s robot battling series vanished into the ether. Out of the few Virtual On games I spent the most time with Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram on the Dreamcast always envious of Sega’s bulky Virtual On Dreamcast controller. The massive device replicated [...]

Sega’s final console (if you don’t count all of the third party licensed Tec Toy clones in Brazil) is nine years old today. First party support for the Dreamcast ended ages ago, but indie developers continue to develop and sell games for it. We talked to Yuan-Hsi Chiang who is finishing up work on Wind [...]

One of the things that’s great about gaming is the fact that the games we play attach us to our various gaming devices whether they be to our favorite worn controller, Commodore 64, or console.  Developers are no different than fans in this respect and plenty of talented people are still making games for systems [...]

The Dreamcast never dies. Seven years after the machine went out of production indie publishers continue to support Sega’s final console with new games. Sometime in July the crew who released Last Hope will finish up work on Dux, another horizontal shoot ‘em up. However, Dux has a very different feel from their last project. [...]

I’m guessing most of the gaming public hasn’t heard of Cosmic Smash since it barely made a splash in Japan where it was released in arcades and later on the Dreamcast. Cosmic Smash is a futuristic tennis game where your opponent is a wall of blocks, not another player. You simply “smash” the ball back [...]

With the unlikely mash up of Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Collin Chou it’s easy to overlook numerous video game references in the movie. Well, when one of the kids holds up an Xbox 360 and says “look, I found your new Xbox” or something to that magnitude and Jason, the young boy who needs [...]

Rez HD? Great, but it’s just an enhancement of a PlayStation 2 disc I already own. If you love Rez and want to play something fresh dust off your Dreamcast. The Lost Levels dug up the code for K-Project, (clarification: by dug up I meant discovered, not ripped or anything like that) an early version [...]

I’m one of the poor souls who bought Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 5: Golden Axe looking for a good co-op brawler. The experience wasn’t dreadful, but I haven’t cracked open the PlayStation 2 remake for years. Meanwhile, Golden Axe: Beast Rider looks nothing like the simplistic arcade game of yesteryear.   Members of the Insert [...]

Sega has never been worried about putting their most iconic character in other games. Before he appeared along side Mario in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, the blue blur appeared in Crusader of Centy, an action RPG published by Atlus for the Sega Genesis, and as a horrific monster in Illbleed. Remember Illbleed? [...]

Pascal, one of the moderators from Sealed Game Heaven, dropped me a line to let me know about his page. Little did he (she?) know that I've scoped it out before. When I first saw it I thought "wow, look at all the games someone else could be playing." Personally, I'm not a collecting kind [...]

Now that Karous is out the Dreamcast release schedule is dormant again, but after its "death" the Dreamcast has become the de facto system for shmups. Kurt Kalata who  maintains Hardcore Gaming 101 (and also writes for Siliconera) takes a look back at a sizeable list of shmups starting with Border Down, which has branching [...]

Most systems quickly fade into existence after their lifespan, but not the Dreamcast. Time after time new publishers are stepping up to release dating games and shoot ‘em ups for Sega’s final console. Before Trigger Heart was announced redspotgames said they were bringing Last Hope, a 2D horizontal shoot ‘em up to the cast. Why [...]

Back on the Dreamcast Sega released Seaman, a talking virtual pet. The catch with the game is that you had to play it everyday to feed and converse with your fishhead creature. Seaman 2 begins with the discovery of a Peking man in the old Soviet Union. Then players are given packages with small cavemen [...]

Before used copies of Rez made it on eBay and way before it was released on the Dreamcast the game went under the code name K Project. The K Project has always been a futuristic on rails shooter, but it went through a huge evolution to become the synaesthesia experience that the final game ended [...]

After Adam Shannon attacked his friend he was given more than five years at the maximum security Perth Prison in Scotland. To help him pass the time his wife brought over a Dreamcast and fifteen games for him to play. When Shannon got the Dreamcast nine days later, it was in non working condition and [...]

Think you know your 2D fighters? How many King of Fighters games were released on the Dreamcast? Mortal Kombat: Gold added in how many new characters? Which edition of Street Fighter introduced “parrying”? Racketboy has the answers to these questions and a look at the 2D fighting games that came to the Dreamcast.   Read [...]