On November 7th, 2017, Sonic Forces is slated to be released across the gambit in both digital and physical formats. It seems like only yesterday the cryptic CG trailer was premiered in front of fans, and now we are less than two months away from experiencing it first hand. On Tuesday, the official Sonic the […]
Sinclair launched the ZX Microdrive in July 1983. True to Sinclair’s philosophy of miniaturisation and low-cost, it promised a cheap, high-speed storage system using miniature tape cartridges. Unfortunately the Microdrive didn’t take off as well as Sinclair hoped, dogged by unreliability and also the high cost of the tape cartridges. The Microdrive (and accompanying ZX […]
Remember Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee? That game was a mighty fine puzzle-platformer back in the late Nineties, and it’s still a lot of fun today. If you’ve never played it, the game casts you as Abe, a Mudokon slave who learns of a plot to turn himself and the rest of his kind into tasty meat […]
If you’re a fan of Sega’s last throw of the dice in the console hardware market (and if you’re anything like me, you will be), you’ll be very pleased to know that Read-Only Memory has been successful in funding its Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works project. With the goal of creating a high quality book full […]
On this episode of the SEGAbits Swingin’ Report Show, Barry & George chat with Tee Lopes, composer for Sonic Mania, who answers our burning questions about his career before working on a SEGA game, how he landed the Sonic Mania job, and how one goes about composing for video games. We also try to get some soundtrack […]
Boy, it’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen this project hasn’t it? You’ll recall Sonic 2 HD as one of the featured projects on this very website up until the project disbanded in 2012. When the project was dead in it’s tracks, it did give us PagodaWest Games who’s talent eventually led to the amazing Sonic […]
You might have heard about the Nintendo Classic Mini: NES. In fact, you’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed it. The dinky plug and play console was the retro gaming hit of 2016, thanks to a great line-up of 30 classic games and build quality which has caused other manufacturers […]
Maximum Power Up takes another look at the excellent Sony Playstation 2. This time Paul is joined by Chris to discuss some of their favourite PS2 games. As well as this they talk about what makes the PS2 such a great console, the range of games for it, their memories of the machine and more.
Of all the names that left a mark on the UK gaming scene in the Eighties and Nineties, Tony Takoushi has to be one of the most recognisable. Many will remember his contributions to the likes of Big K and especially Computer & Video Games, where he launched the Mean Machines console section that gave […]
This article is written by Alex Miller, founder of CS:GO Review “Classics never age,” I tell myself while looking for my Original Counter Strike CD presented by a friend for my birthday. “My Gawd, I’m old, that was 12 years ago,” I think as I go through dusty shelves at my secret box of junk too […]