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Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon Zwei remakes
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The internet was recently awash with Sega fans falling over themselves discussing the recent announcement about the return of Panzer Dragoon. Now there are two things you won't find within this art...
  By Kev Mason
Insert Coin launches new Shenmue range
Thumbnail 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 E...
  By Kev Mason
20 Years Of Dreamcast: The Past, Present & Future
Thumbnail 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...
  By Tom Charnock
A Brief History Of ChuChu Rocket! In Your Pocket
Thumbnail 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...
  By Lewis Cox
DCHDMI Versus 480p 'HD' Dreamcast Cables
Thumbnail 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 del...
  By Tom Charnock
A Beginner's Guide to Visual Novels on the Dreamcast
Thumbnail 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 releas...
  By Lewis Cox
TR Fight Stick & Beharbros Working To Bring Custom Dreamcast Console Shell To Market
Thumbnail 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...
  By Tom Charnock
Retro Surge Games - A New Dreamcast Software Publisher
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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. Ret...
  By Tom Charnock
PLAY Expo Blackpool 2018 - Show Report
Thumbnail 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 hu...
  By Tom Charnock
SEGA Launches UK & European Online Stores
Thumbnail 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 mercha...
  By Tom Charnock
DCHDMI: Full Speed Gameplay Footage
Thumbnail 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 t...
  By Tom Charnock
Hardware Review: DCHDMI - The 1080p Dreamcast
Thumbnail 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, getti...
  By Tom Charnock
Play Test: After The Fall
Thumbnail 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...
  By Tom Charnock
Stampede: The Lost Dreamcast Sheep Herding Sim
Thumbnail 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 a...
  By Tom Charnock
Revisiting the Aesthetics of TrickStyle and Dreamcast 20XX Futurism
Thumbnail 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...
  By Jet Brian Radio (@VirtuaSchlub)