Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms, but it wasn’t always that way. In January 2001, the company announced it would ...

9/9/99. 20 years ago today, the Dreamcast landed in America. And even though it was ultimately an absolute failure, it changed the face of console gaming forever. It brought the power of Sega's arcade ...

We originally ran this piece five years ago, on a day when the 15th birthday of Sega’s Dreamcast coincided with a major Apple keynote event. In honor of the Dreamcast’s 20th birthday today, we thought ...

The Sega Dreamcast launched in North America 20 years ago, on Sept. 9, 1999. The system enjoyed a brief but memorable time in the limelight with some truly fantastic games and a few features that ...

Conceding defeat in the hard-fought video-game console war, Sega plans to reveal today it is scrapping its flagship product, Dreamcast, to focus on developing software for former nemeses Sony and ...

Dreamcast – ahead of its time and taken too soon. Ultimately, the console was the final nail in the coffin for SEGA's console empire. Released in 1999 (1998 in Japan), the Dreamcast was SEGA's answer ...

At 100MHz, the Dreamcast’s graphics architecture used 10 million transistors on a 25 micron (25,000nm) process like the Saturn’s SH4, which could generate 7 million polygons per second, and could ...

Sixteen years ago today, Sega made history with the launch of its Dreamcast video game console, selling more than 225,000 units and setting a Guinness World Record for most revenue generated in the ...

Tadashi Takezaki, these days, works at Sega in the position of "head of project implementation department, president's office," which doesn't describe very well the things he's been involved with ...

I’ve recently seen some news stories pop up regarding Sega’s long-rumored and now possibly scrapped Dreamcast mini console. A device that, should it have actually released, would have competed with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about video games, technology and pop culture. Japan's video game giant Sega employee Hiromi Anzai displays the portable ...

As it turns out, Sega’s long defunct Dreamcast console is still thinking. The company behind the machine cut support long ago due in part to the commercial pressures applied by Sony’s PlayStation 2 ...