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10 years of Dreamcast; the 10 best games.
Sega’s Dreamcast celebrated its 10th Birthday recently so this would seem the perfect time to take a look at ten of the Dreamcast’s best games.
The Dreamcast has always been something of a paradox; a superb gaming machine with great games that was somehow never truly loved until it was dead.
Despite its short life, the Dreamcast [...]
Stop the pre-order bonus madness.
Pre-order bonuses are video games publishers’ latest fad; free items in exchange for your commitment to buying their products early.
Whether you’re in the high street or online, browse through the upcoming games release lists and I guarantee you’ll come across numerous offers promising you a variety of goodies in exchange for a small deposit and [...]
Getting out of the game.
It’s that time of year again. The time when I leave gaming and the family behind for the weekend and head off to the green slopes of a small mountain boarding centre near Hereford. The event? The annual 22nd Global Gaming Clan meet part IV: The Search for Carlsberg!
I first became serious (or perhaps I [...]
Digital distribution to kill future classics?
Digitally downloading your games is a convenient and often cheaper method of building your games collection. The games are usually automatically patched, the ’stores’ never close and they can deliver your chosen game (more or less) there and then.
The lack of packaging probably helps the environment and certainly saves on shelf space; if my house [...]
PS3 isn’t the best games machine, but it is a great piece of kit.
The current generation of consoles marked something of a departure for me. At any other time in my gaming life I have always brought all the new consoles at the point of (or very close to) their release dates. This time around however I’ve only just now completed the ‘set’ with our recent acquisition of [...]
Taking a Gaming Holiday (or why some things were better in the past).
Firstly I should probably point out that this post is not about the ultimate gaming holiday for most seasoned Western gamers – Akihabara in Japan. I’ve always wanted to go but the long flight puts me off. One day maybe!
Rather this post is about going on my normal family holiday; how gaming came with us [...]
Next-Gen? Really? Then sort the damn controllers out!
Last night I fired up Ikaruga on XBL Arcade. I’ve played the game to death before on both the Dreamcast and the Cube/Wii but I felt like a blast and grabbing a couple of achievements too. Big mistake.
20 minutes later and I am swearing at the screen, wondering if it would survive a Nana Shoryuken. [...]
