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Sega CEO Shuji Utsumi says the company has no plans to release more mini consoles. The Japanese video game company released two mini versions of its acclaimed Sega Mega Drive 16-bit console – known as ...

These days, you hear the phrase "console wars" all too often, usually in a very mild context. The debates about video game consoles have always been a part of discussions within gaming culture.

What makes a great video game console? It’s a bit of an existential question. It’s much easier to discuss what makes a great video game, as they can be dissected as communicative artworks. A video ...

Fans of the Sega Dreamcast console have been dealt some saddening news from Sega. Back in 2019, Sega released the Sega Genesis Mini, which was a tiny version of the console that came packed with ...

Ah, 1995. A time when Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” was all over the radio, flat discs of memory called CDs went mainstream, and former 49ers running back O.J. Simpson, “Juice”, was famously ...

The fact that Sega no longer makes home consoles will forever break our hearts. We know you all old-head gamers reading this right now have spent countless hours playing the most celebrated games that ...

I had my doubts, but I was really hoping the Sega hardware announcement was going to be a Saturn mini or Dreamcast mini. Click to expand... That may still come out but the Dreamcast and Saturn's chips ...

I caught a lot of bullets in my time playing the new Sega Genesis game - yes, the new Sega Genesis game - ZPF. But! The amount of time in-between each bullet gradually increased as I caught up with ...