BlobCat For Nintendo Switch - A Love Letter To ChuChu Rocket!
Like many Dreamcast fans I consider myself a huge fan of ChuChu Rocket!, and I joke that it's the best free game I’ve ever received - we Europeans had it sent as reward for signing up for the online...
View ArticleIndie Spotlight: Rizzo Island
Rizzo Island is the latest in a long line of independently developed games that have designs on a Dreamcast release, and in this spotlight we thought it would be interesting to take a quick look at...
View ArticleAfter The Fall: A New First Person Shooter For Dreamcast
If you're the type of gamer who prefers a mouse and keyboard to a controller, you're probably pretty au fait with the modding scene. And by extension, you're probably pretty familiar with the Quake...
View ArticleReview: Battle Crust
There was undoubtedly a period, not too long ago, when the mention of yet another shoot 'em up for the Dreamcast would have brought a deafening sigh from the community. It seemed that for a time, every...
View ArticleExamining Yu Suzuki's 'Tower Of Babel' 1998 Dreamcast Tech Demo
Way back in May 1998, Sega of Japan held a conference announcing the impending arrival of its new console. It was to be named Dreamcast. The Sega New Challenge Conference was the first time that the...
View ArticleSan Francisco Rush 2049 & ChuChu Rocket! Websites Restored
As reported recently over at Dreamcast Live, the websites for both San Francisco Rush 2049 and ChuChu Rocket! have been added to the ever-growing list of restored online resources for Dreamcast games....
View ArticleRevisiting the Aesthetics of TrickStyle and Dreamcast 20XX Futurism
You can tell a lot about a society’s hopes and fears by how its fictitious works depict the future. In this regard, the Dreamcast is a fascinating time capsule of our most prevalent insecurities at the...
View ArticleStampede: The Lost Dreamcast Sheep Herding Sim
Of all the aspects of being a Dreamcast fan, discovering lost and cancelled games is by far the most fascinating to me. Yes, the games we actually got are numerous; and a large proportion of them are...
View ArticlePlay Test: After The Fall
Recently, we broke the news that one of the more elusive Quake total conversions, After The Fall, was finally being ported to the Dreamcast after years in the wilderness. The reasons for this were...
View ArticleHardware Review: DCHDMI - The 1080p Dreamcast
Playing older games in higher resolutions than they were ever intended to be played in is all the rage these days. Be it through emulation, or via the relatively recent trend of the remaster, getting...
View ArticleDCHDMI: Full Speed Gameplay Footage
It became apparent after I uploaded the review of citrus3000psi and chriz2600's internal Dreamcast mod - the DCHDMI - that the footage included in the video was actually throttled to 25fps due to the...
View ArticleSEGA Launches UK & European Online Stores
The SEGA Shop has been online for a while now in the United States, but now the United Kingdom and Europe both have their own dedicated web stores from which a range of SEGA-branded official...
View ArticlePLAY Expo Blackpool 2018 - Show Report
The weekend of 27 - 28 October saw the return of one of the UK's biggest retro gaming events to the northern seaside town of Blackpool. PLAY Expo Blackpool was a dedicated retro showcase, with hundreds...
View ArticleRetro Surge Games - A New Dreamcast Software Publisher
The recent resurgence in the popularity of the Dreamcast shows little sign of slowing down, and a brand new publisher that will deal exclusively in Dreamcast games has recently been launched. Retro...
View ArticleTR Fight Stick & Beharbros Working To Bring Custom Dreamcast Console Shell To...
There is a market for custom Dreamcast console shells, and we all know it. The standard white ones yellow like crazy after a few years, and even with a nice peroxide bath they still go yellow again in...
View ArticleSo What Exactly Are Those Weird Anime Games In Your Dreamcast Collection?
Avid fans of the Dreamcast are most likely already aware that the console enjoyed a much longer life in its home country of Japan (the last officially licensed Dreamcast game, Karous, was released in...
View ArticleDCHDMI Versus 480p 'HD' Dreamcast Cables
As I'm sure you're aware by now, there are a range of 'HD' options now available for the Dreamcast. What it's important to note though, is that all of these so-called HD cables are not actually...
View ArticleA Brief History Of ChuChu Rocket! In Your Pocket
ChuChu Rocket! is a puzzle game that is undoubtedly a product of a struggling Sega. Imaginative, innovative, insane - one of the many one-of-a-kind experiments that was thrown at a wall in the Sega...
View Article20 Years Of Dreamcast: The Past, Present & Future
It's hard to believe that the Dreamcast has been with us now for two whole decades. Twenty years since that November day back in 1998 when Sega finally unleashed its successor to the Saturn on the...
View ArticleInsert Coin launches new Shenmue range
It may be the 20th year since the Dreamcast launch. However 2018 is proving to be one of the most bountiful years for merchandise and Dreamcast related gear. The launch of the official Sega shop in...
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