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  • Sega says Nintendo 3DS will bring back mature gamers. But let’s not confuse ‘mature’ games with ‘violent’ games.

    Sega says Nintendo 3DS will bring back mature gamers. But let’s not confuse ‘mature’ games with ‘violent’ games.

    Sega believes the Nintendo 3DS could be just the thing to win back the hearts and minds of older, more mature gamers, the implication being that your average 20-something doesn't want to play Mario Does His Taxes 8. Games like House of the Dead and Saint's Row were two of the game that Sega referred to in a recent interview.

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  • Ultra-rare Sega Action Chair up on ebay

    Ultra-rare Sega Action Chair up on ebay

    Awesome. Simply awesome. How could I have gone through my childhood not knowing that I could have played my Sega Genesis games on the Sega Action Chair. The beauty here is that the chair itself is the controller with a joystick pad located on the chairs single mounting point and controller bars holding the buttons. Amazing.

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  • Sega delays Sonic 4 till later this year (but there will now be an iPhone version!)

    Sega delays Sonic 4 till later this year (but there will now be an iPhone version!)

    It would appear that Sonic 4 has been delayed until the “latter half of 2010.” That’s the bad news. The good news? One, there’s a new trailer. Two, it’ll also come out for the iPhone and iPod touch (in addition to the platforms we already knew about). Hear that, Nintendo? The full title of the game [...]

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  • Photo report: CrunchGear digs up Akihabara’s top 10 expensive classic games

    Photo report: CrunchGear digs up Akihabara’s top 10 expensive classic games

    Nearly two years have passed since I last went to Akihabara in Tokyo to dig up Japan's most expensive retro games. This time, I made the observation that the general price level has gone down in the past months. Some of the pricey carts and CDs I listed up were simply nowhere to be found, some were considerably cheaper for some reason, and other games became more expensive over time.

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  • New Sonic 4 screenshots shows Sonic battling Eggman, again

    New Sonic 4 screenshots shows Sonic battling Eggman, again

    Bored? Let a couple of new Sonic 4 screenshots cheer you up.

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  • First screenshots of Sonic The Hedgehog 4 reminds us of our youth

    First screenshots of Sonic The Hedgehog 4 reminds us of our youth

    Oh, look! The first screenshots of Sonic The Hedgehog 4! I do believe Sonic now hold the record for longest wait between the third and fourth game in a series, beating Street Fighter IV. That's my gut feeling, but that has proven wildly inaccurate in the past.

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  • You know what’s fun? Napoleon: Total War

    You know what’s fun? Napoleon: Total War

    An idea of how much I enjoyed playing The Creative Assembly's, by way of Sega, Napoleon: Total War pretty much all weekend long: I just ordered all four parts of Max Gallo's biography of Napoleon from Amazon France. I don't even speak French! (Well, a very little bit, but certainly not enough to read a four-volume biography written by someone who's a member of L'Academie française.) That's a pretty big endorsement: the game re-kindled my interest in Napoleon so much that I bought books that I can't even read. Wild.

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  • Awesome Sega Genesis and Space Invaders business card cases

    Awesome Sega Genesis and Space Invaders business card cases

    If you're an old-school gamer, the Sega Genesis (known as Sega Mega Drive outside North America) sure does have a special place in your heart. And if your current job requires you to give away business cards from time to time, this new business card holder that's shaped like Sega's legendary 16-bit console might be the right thing for you. In case you want to go even more retro, there's also a Space Invaders business card case in red and another one in black now.

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  • Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Confirmed: Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    Rumor no more! Are you standing? Then sit down. Are you sitting down? Then stand up, then sit down again, for there's huge news to share: Michael Jackson is now confirmed to have written the music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

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  • Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Tokyo Game Show: Sega’s action game Bayonetta (video)

    Sega's third-person action game Bayonetta was playable today at the first day of the Tokyo Game Show, both on Xbox360 and PS3. The game looked fine on both consoles and features a bespectacled female ("Bayonetta") as the main character. Judging from the demo versions and previews I've read so far, Bayonetta isn't much different from other third-person action games like Devil May Cry.

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  • Leaked Sega-Sony meeting doc says PS3 motion control coming this Spring

    Leaked Sega-Sony meeting doc says PS3 motion control coming this Spring

    A document on Sega America's official FTP server suggests that Sony will launch it motion control thingamajig this Spring. The document summarizes a meeting between Sega and Sony, which took place last month.

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  • You can make your very own Sonic the Hedgehog level now, if you want

    You can make your very own Sonic the Hedgehog level now, if you want

    My guess is that most, if not all, of you have played the original Sonic the Hedgehog at some point in your life. But while many of you have played the game, how many of you can actually say you designed a level? You know where I'm going with this: PlaySega.com has released a fully working level editor, letting you try your hand at creating a level or two.

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  • Comic-Con: Win a Bayonetta Xbox 360 from Sega!

    Comic-Con: Win a Bayonetta Xbox 360 from Sega!

    Attention Nerds- Sega and PlatinumGames are giving away one superduperkickass Bayonetta themed Xbox 360 tomorrow. Look at it! You want it! There are two ways of getting yourself into the party to win the one-of-a-kind 360. - Dress Like a Sega Character and attend one of our cosplay events. We should have at least two tickets to [...]

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  • First look at Sega’s Iron Man 2 videogame

    First look at Sega’s Iron Man 2 videogame

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