Raise your hand if you remember the early days of Crystal Dynamics. The days of Off-World Interceptor and Total Eclipse on 3DO, Solar Eclipse on Sega Saturn. Who can forget Gex, Legacy of Kain, and Tomb Raider more recently? Yep, the company behind those games is turning 25 years old. I remember the days when […]
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Crystal Dyanamics Turns 25 Years Old, Buckle Up for Ride Down Memory Lane
December 13th, 2017
Carl Williams
Unreleased Sega Saturn Game Sold on eBay Auction Service (Updated with New Information)
December 11th, 2017
Carl Williams It is not all that often that we get news that a Sega Saturn prototype has surfaced. Armed, an unreleased game by Point of View who was developing it for Interplay, is a 2D side scrolling action game. Everything seems to feature pre-rendered graphics (you either love the style or hate it), some parts are […]
Armed, Unreleased Sega Saturn Game, is Unearthed
October 5th, 2017
Neil Reive Discovering long lost unreleased games from yesteryear is always fun, but can sometimes come with mixed emotions. The discovery of a working prototype of Armed, which was cancelled mid way through its development, is one of those instances when it comes with mixed emotions.
Sakura Wars Tops SEGA Japan’s Poll
November 20th, 2016
Neil Reive Sakura Wars has come top in two separate categories in a recent online poll conducted by SEGA Japan: Most Memorable Creation and Most Wished-For Revival. The long-running Strategy RPG franchise has been a sizeable hit in Japan and this was clearly backed up by the online voters. SEGA Japan announced the three-day poll on November […]
Super Nintendo Rayman Game Unearthed
October 27th, 2016
Carl Williams Rayman was the first platform star of the 32-Bit era. Ubi Soft was quick to launch this little guy unto the world of Atari Jaguar, then later Playstation and Saturn. Sadly Rayman never made it to the 3DO console- though it would have surely been quite cool if it did. Rayman was the first 2D […]
Revenge of the License: Alien Trilogy
October 16th, 2016
Michael Crisman One of iD Software’s initial ideas for Doom was to make a first-person shooter set in the world of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’. When a licensing deal couldn’t be worked out between iD and 20th Century Fox, Carmack and Romero’s team fell back on a more generic ‘space marine kills everything’ setting, and an FPS classic […]
Sega Saturn Policenauts English Fan Translation Released
October 7th, 2016
Carl Williams In issue #2 of our magazine we covered fan translations and digital comics. We of course placed artwork from Snatcher on the cover. In that issue was an exclusive interview with Artemio Urbina of Policenauts.net and featured Snatcher (among other digital comics and fan translations). Well, today I am proud to write up this article […]
Did Sega Turn Down the Nintendo 64 Hardware?
August 20th, 2016
Carl Williams It is almost the point that gamers can point to that was the fall of Sega. Releasing a ton of add-ons for the Sega Genesis seems to be the point that most game companies point at when asked why they didn’t support the Sega Saturn. That Sega was all over the place. They were actually. […]
Project Blaze New Sega Saturn Homebrew Announced
July 24th, 2016
Carl Williams It has not been a full week or so since the Sega Saturn BIOS was compromised and we are already starting to see homebrew/independent developer’s show off new games. One of those new games is Project Blaze by Titan Game Studios. Fans of 2D side scrolling action platform titles will want to start paying attention. […]
Revenge of the License: Dark Seed
April 17th, 2016
Michael Crisman Over the lifespan of this column, we’ve looked at games licensed from every conceivable medium: blockbuster films, television shows, comic books, sporting events, fashion dolls, a casino, a restaurant, table top role-playing games, and even real life. Just when you sit back and think you’ve covered every conceivable thing a game company could pay money […]
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