In the West, Sega is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a slate of free games that are probably best summed up as "for the fans." There's a Yakuza 2D beat-'em-up, a canceled reboot of Golden Axe, a mash-up of Fantasy Zone and Endless Spa...

Arcade1Up made a big splash earlier this year when it announced its first set of cabinets to feature Marvel Vs. Capcom, but there is one more cabinet it's preparing this year for fans of classic arcade action. Starting today, you can order ...

Golden Axe II and III are now available for free on mobile devices thanks to Sega's "Sega Forever" line up. Instead of having three separate apps, the original Golden Axe has been updated to now be the Golden Axe Collection. You'll have acc...

Golden Axe, Sega's classic scrolling brawler from 1989, is to be immortalised on stage in the form a play, written and performed by Japanese collective Spiral Chariots.The old-school arcade classic, which sees three heroes on a quest to def...

Sega's ever expanding collection of classic titles, Sega Forever, is getting a new addition today with Golden Axe. Hailed as one of the best beat-em-ups from Sega's arcade roots, the game allows players to select from one of three character...

This is not an announcement that Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is being renamed Gilius Thunderhead & All-Stars Racing Transformed. I wish, because Gilius Thunderhead is the greatest Sega character of all time, and his inclusi...

Today, over on Amazon, the Xbox 360 version of Golden Axe: Beast Rider is on sale for fifteen dollars. I asked Jim Sterling, who reviewed the game when it released last October, if he thought that was a reasonable price to ask for the actio...

Sega has announced that Golden Axe is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch like, right now. You can hop on the iTunes Apps Store and grab the game for $4.99, and get your Amazon on. The classic game appears to be fully playable using the...

I'm an action game obsessive and nothing gets me going more than a solid, brainless, gory hack n' slash. Part of the blame for this love of action can be traced back to the good old days of the scrolling brawler, a genre to which Golden Axe...

[video]107609:550[/video]Pretty much everything we've seen of Golden Axe: Beast Rider has had returning character Tyris Flare riding atop the back of some creature or another. Now, we're getting a trailer devoted entirely to on-foot gamepla...

[video]105041:421[/video] Yesterday, Conrad debuted what Sega is calling "Beastly Tuesdays," where the publisher will be unveiling various monsters that can be dominated in Golden Axe: Beast Rider. It seems, however, that there i...

[video]104786:412[/video]With Golden Axe: Beast Rider hitting stores on October 17, Sega is ramping up the PR for its imminent monster-subjugating action game. Here's a video which bigs up the series and seems intent on reassuring us that t...

I grew up with Golden Axe, which is why I desperately want Golden Axe: Beast Rider to be good, even though the old school brawling sensibilities seem to have taken a back seat to vehicular monsters and there is STILL NO PLAYABLE DWARF! ARGH...

As far as I'm concerned, it's hard to go wrong with a Golden Axe remake. Just give me a dwarf and a shedload of skeletons to fight and I'm happy. Of course, this is the games industry, and nobody ever does the right thing when it comes to r...

According to this thread at NeoGAF, an issue of Play Magazine set to be released a week from now has an exclusive story on the upcoming Golden Axe: Beast Rider. While it had been previously announced a year or so ago, news on the game compl...