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Like a Dragin: Infinite Wealth MSRP $70.00 “Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth offers an embarrassment of riches for fans of gaming's best soap opera.” Pros Fantastic story Tight, meaningful combat Detailed Hawaiian setting Full of deep side content Dondoko Island is a delight…

At the close of 2023, Sega announced its plans to reimagine several of its greatest arcade games, including Crazy Taxi and Golden Axe, for current home consoles. It’s a welcome endeavour as modern gamers reared on Sonic the Hedgehog may overlook the company’s incredible heritage. While we’ve been trained to think of Sega as a perennial also-ran in the console wars, it dominated the arcade scene for years, some of its biggest hits occurring during the Sega Saturn era. So here’s a gentle reminder of the greatest coin-op…

Fans with fond memories of gaming in the ’90s (i.e. me) rejoice, as soon you’ll be able to play classic Sega Genesis games on the go. If you always wondered what it would be like to play Cool Spot on a train or ToeJam & Earl while in a post office queue, well wonder no more. As reported by The Verge, a company called Hyperkin – a specialist in console hardware and accessories – is working on a portable Sega Genesis device. Dubbed the Mega 95, the system is said to be compatible with the original cartridges. Image…

The Mega 95 is a new gaming handheld from Hyperkin that’s designed to play original Sega Genesis and Mega Drive cartridges. It’s equipped with a five-inch display that has a toggle to switch between 4:3 and 16:9 modes, and a battery that Hyperkin says should last 10 hours per charge. The handheld looks to be a portable version of Hyperkin’s MegaRetroN HD Gaming Console, the existing Genesis-compatible retro console released in 2018 and which now sells for $59.99. Hyperkin’s press release doesn’t go into detail about how…

The entire Like a Dragon (formerly Yakuza) series is available as part of the Xbox Game Pass catalog, so you might be scratching your head wondering where to start. With Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth launching in a couple of weeks and shaping up to be “the series’ ultimate climax,” the pressure is on to get into the series soon. Although every Like a Dragon game is worth a playthrough at some point for those who love crime dramas and video games with wild narratives, if you can only play one this month before…

Before I got into the Like a Dragon series (or Yakuza, as it was still known at the time), I watched from the sidelines with bewildered curiosity. I assumed it was a simple crime game, but every once and a while, I’d catch a wild clip of a goofy cabaret minigame or impassioned karaoke performance and realize I knew absolutely nothing about the series. I finally learned about its eccentric, soap opera glory with 2020’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon, but I can’t imagine how those still looking in from the outside will react to…

It may sound unfathomable now, but Sonic CD was once a difficult game to obtain and play, until it was made available on iPhone and iPad as a remaster, back in 2011.For those unaware, you controlled Sonic the Hedgehog through seven levels, set on a ‘Miracle Planet’. Each of these also had extra levels set in the past and the future. By destroying a hologram of one of the game’s antagonists, called Metal Sonic, and destroying a time ship containing that level’s 'badnik' enemies, you could unlock a ‘Good Future’ for that…

Someone once told me that the Sega Saturn controller (the Japanese one, not the American original) is the best 2D controller ever made. I don’t remember who it was, but it happened. The claim stuck with me. I’m not sure I agree, but game controllers are a very personal choice. For years, we’ve essentially been using different configurations of the same thing. To me, four face buttons feel like the optimal number for my thumb to handle, so my preference is the SNES controller, but I can respect anyone who prefers Sega’s…

The gaming year used to follow a predictable rhythm: we’d have a flurry of announcements in the summer, around the gaming trade event E3, then a rush of releases between September and the end of November – and then absolutely nothing would happen until March at the earliest. But now E3 is gone for good, and the Game Awards – the industry’s most glamorous and also most intensely commercial awards show – takes place in early December, so we suddenly have an eye-watering number of new trailers and debuts right as we’re all…

Creative Assembly, and specifically the Total War leadership team, posted a lengthy message to the series’ community today recognizing their own missteps while promising adjustments and course corrections, especially in regards to Total War: Pharaoh and Total War: Warhammer 3. I’m a fan of the Total War series and Warhammer 3 in particular, but I’m clearly out of the loop. I checked into what caused this and, wow, it’s quite the beehive. In terms of Pharaoh, the game has largely been seen as not really iterating on the…