Back in 2002, Xbox Live shaped gaming forever by bringing online multiplayer to home consoles, but it wasn't the first to do so. Before Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony turned online multiplayer into a ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Let’s​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ talk about the Sega Dreamcast—the console that really was like a shooting star, bright but for a short ...

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The company has two new tiny devices, the Astro Mini City V and the Sega Genesis Mini 2, that prove there’s still a place for miniaturized classics. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, ...

Sega CEO Shuji Utsumi says the company has no plans to release more mini consoles. The Japanese video game company released two mini versions of its acclaimed Sega Mega Drive 16-bit console – known as ...

Looking at the Dreamcast lineup for 2013, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Sega’s 15-year-old home video game system had never gone away. Of all the supposedly dead consoles, the Dreamcast is ...

Ah, 1995. A time when Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” was all over the radio, flat discs of memory called CDs went mainstream, and former 49ers running back O.J. Simpson, “Juice”, was famously ...

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