Panzer Dragoon came out in 1995 on the Sega Saturn, and almost immediately made history. Not only did it cement the Saturn as a console to remember for all time, but it also helped welcome rail shooters into the home setting. 25 years later...

So the Sonic the Hedgehog film debuted this weekend, and you know what? I wasn't nearly as bad as the original Gangsta's Paradise-booming, monstrosity-laden trailer had us believe. It was a coherent, cute (emphasis on the re-designed m...

There's a lot of Sonic-related things happening in the near future (most notably, the debut of the new film), and Sega wants to capitalize on it as much as possible. The publisher has announced a new initiative called "Sonic Station Live!" ...

There's a fun little nod tucked inside physical copies of The Yakuza Remastered Collection. If you bought the three-game set, look again – you might've missed something (or should I say someone) in the case. As discovered and promptl...

Sega's soft reboot of its popular Sakura Wars franchise has been teasing fans in the west for almost a year with trailers and new snippets of information about the role-playing action game. We've been introduced to the characters, the ...

Booting up the Phantasy Star Online 2 Xbox One beta (which is only running through tonight) and looking through the class choices sight unseen can be daunting. Not only do you have to sort through all of the not-so-D&D terminology ...

As more and more news comes out about the Phantasy Star Online 2 western beta, it all seems like the localization team is doing right by it. Not only did we learn recently that the game will support both English and Japanese audio, but...

You want more classics on Switch? You got it. No franchise is safe from the Switch eShop, from the newer generation ports no one thought would be possible (Witcher 3) to just about every retro game ever made. If Disney could muster up a way...

Normally when a game like Phantasy Star Online 2 is announced for localization, we get a ton of bad news slowly drip-fed in like a monkey's paw type situation. Not this time: so far, at least. The localization team has been taking to T...

Sega has released the first trailer for its upcoming anime Shin Sakura Wars the Animation, which will bring the mech-based combat and interpersonal drama of the video game series blazing onto Japanese screens this April.Although only a scan...

When Sega's Yakuza: Like a Dragon launched in Japan on January 16, word came in that the seventh mainline entry to the popular franchise had only shifted around 157,000 physical copies. In contrast to the 218,000 copies sold at launch by pr...

I still can't believe that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming west. After years of hoping and even playing the damn thing with the fan-made launcher and live at TGS on the PlayStation 4: I was starting to think it would never happen. But...

Phantasy Star Online 2 has been such a long time coming outside of Japan, but this is it. This is the year. We're getting the tantalizing online RPG in spring 2020 on Xbox One, and before then, there's a beta to play. If you haven't registe...

Sega has launched a unique coin-op variant of recent Nintendo Switch release Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in locations across Japan. The fun-looking arcade features 12 events from the home version, as well as multiple c...

After the ill-fated original reveal, the PR campaign push for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been night and day. Not only did the classic character get a full-on redesign, but that re-debut trailer extremely leaned into the Green Hil...

Monkey's gonna keep a'rollin, just not as smoothly as usual. Some new Super Monkey Ball shapes add rough edges to the fun. The PC version of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD has been updated with some cheat codes that put t...

[Update: Kenji Hiruta finds the overwhelming support for Skies of Arcadia "impressive," and vows to "organize all [the] comments and submit [them] to Sega directly." Who knows if anything will happen here, but it's something!] At one p...

Sega has announced its intention to release regular news concerning flagship franchise Sonic the Hedgehog for the duration of the year. "Sonic 2020" is an initiative that promises fans new and exciting headlines about the blue blur, release...

A small tidbit of news from this week's issue of Famitsu has revealed that edgy echidna Knuckles will be making an appearance in Sega Ages' upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 2 re-release, headed to Nintendo Switch at some point in the future.Knuc...

In today's contest, we're giving away awesome keychains celebrating the Another Eden and Persona 5 Royal crossover event! I know y'all like classic RPGs. Who doesn't? A couple of the bright minds behind genre favorites Chrono Trigger and Xe...

Sega released a pair of brief but impactful Japanese TV advertisements for Yakuza: Like a Dragon, an exceedingly bonkers new RPG take on the dramatic crime syndicate series. The main attention-grabber is Ichiban Kasuga decked out in knight ...

Sega isn't done with its "Sega Ages" line yet, a series of retro games released for multiple platforms (most recently, Switch) with slight upgrades. The whole affair kicked off in 2018 with none other than Sonic the Hedgehog, and worked its...

We're in agreement that the 1993-1994 Sonic the Hedgehog TV show is the best incarnation, right? It had that dark tone where anyone could be killed (sorry, robotocized) at any time, as well as that kick ass theme song. On the flipside, I al...

A new Japanese commercial for Paramount Pictures' upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie gives us a quick look at an infant version of the famous blue blur, dubbed "Baby Sonic".The cutesy chump is seeing running through his homestead of Green Hi...

Sega and Team Yakuza have released a new, near-five-minute gameplay trailer for their upcoming action RPG Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The Japanese video features a cross-section of gameplay, demonstrating what is looking to be a very varied adve...