Articles by Dan Clark

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The Sonic Head-Jog: Bubba N’ Stix

The Sonic Head-Jog is a weekly look back at the great Sega soundtracks of the past thirty years, from simple chiptune pieces to full-blown orchestral works. Where possible, Youtube links are provided throughout to let you hear the music for yourselves. Seeing this week’s title, all of you Sega Addicts who read last…

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The Dream Cast: Toejam and Earl

It’s widely believed that video game movies suck worse than the Tiger Game.com, but could it be that just not enough of them have been based on Sega franchises? Sure, we’ve had House of the Dead from Uwe Boll, but he couldn’t make a decent film if you gave him…

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How Do You Fancy Working for Sega?

If you can speak Japanese, have a passion for games and live in the UK (or are prepared for a pretty hefty commute!), Sega could be looking for you. The European arm of the company today advertised for a new Assistant Producer to work on future European localizations of the Japanese studios’ output. You’ll be working…

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Happy 15th Birthday, European Saturn!

July 8th 1995 was the launch date of the Sega Saturn in Europe, and while I may be blasphemous enough to cram my Master System with spaghetti, there’s no way I’m stuffing birthday cake in my Saturn’s CD drive. So I’ve done the next best thing and borrowed the Saturn launch issue of…

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The Sonic Head-Jog: Wiz n’ Liz

The Sonic Head-Jog is a weekly look back at the great Sega soundtracks of the past thirty years, from simple chiptune pieces to full-blown orchestral works. Where possible, Youtube links are provided throughout to let you hear the music for yourselves. Some you will know, others you may not but whether…

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The Hostess With The Most, Desu!

Sega of Japan have released a video introducing the hostesses you will be meeting in Yakuza: Black Leopard (Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinshou) for the Sony PSP. That’s assuming that Sega of America don’t remove the hostess bars again because they couldn’t be bothered translating due to “cultural differences”… Now,…

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End of an Era: AM2 ceases to exist

Today marks an important day in Sega corporate affairs. The legendary development team responsible for such classics as Virtua Fighter, Shenmue and Outrun no longer exists under the AM2 name as of July 1, 2010. Whilst the studio continues to work together under the name Sega R & D Division 2,…