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VG247’s The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.31: The best game that reminds you of Christmas

December 23, 2022VG247

Special guests from across the games media join us in the spirit of togetherness. Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 31 – the best game that made reminds you of Christmas. Christmas is a time of togetherness, of sharing your table with family, friends, and strangers. In that spirit, we invited a number of our friends and colleagues from across the games media to contribute to this, our first ever Christmas edition of the VG247 Best Games Ever podcast. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it, and wish you all a…

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Sega wants its mysterious “Super Game” out by March 2026

October 30, 2022VG247

Who knows what this game will actually be though. Sega is looking to have its mysterious “Super Game” project out by the fiscal year ending March 2026. As reported by Eurogamer, in the company’s latest report, it noted that it is “striving to create a ‘Super Game,’ a major title that scales globally,” though didn’t expand upon what this actually means. Though Sega’s CEO Haruki Satomi did go into what the intentions and strategy for the “Super Game” is, which apparently aims at appealing to streamers. “One strategy for generating such hit titles is the creation of a ‘Super Game’…

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Why wait for another Fire Emblem when you can play Shining Force instead?

June 24, 2022VG247

With Shining Force 1 and 2 available via Switch Online’s expansion pack, here’s why Sega’s classic series is essential for tactical RPG fans. Fire Emblem may well have been one of the first, and most famous, tactical RPGs, despite the fact there would be over a decade between the series Japanese and international releases. However, for those of us in the West who fancied overhead wargaming in a fantasy setting, you could do worse than check out the just as good (and slightly more overlooked) Shining Force. Debuting on the Mega Drive/Genesis, the series was created by first-party studio Sonic!…

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It sure looks like Sonic 3 won’t have its original soundtrack in Sonic Origins. Here’s why

May 6, 2022VG247

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has one of the most classic and notable soundtracks in video game history. But chances are, that full soundtrack won’t be present in the new version of the game included in the upcoming Sonic Origins compilation release. Will Sonic Origins contain some choice tracks from the original Sonic 3 release? I had been hoping that Sega might’ve resolved the issues around this soundtrack for this release, like many Sonic fans and game history nerds. The soundtrack has seemingly kept Sonic 3 from being re-released for many years now – so seeing it finally coming back seemed…

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A History Of Shareware, Demos And Covertapes

March 26, 2021Kotaku

Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free slices of playable content that spawned one of the most interesting phases in the gaming.

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