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Find Your Inner Geek - Sega CD: The Forgotten Add-On

Years ago when the Sega Genesis was in the midst of a war with Nintendo and NEC, Sega came up with a great concept that they thought was going to shift the war into their favour. This idea was the Sega CD in addition to the 32X which I will touch on in a later article. While the Sega CD was a great concept on paper, it never gained the traction that it needed to and was discontinued within a few years. Find out the story behind one of the most infamous add-ons in the history of gaming.

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SEGA announces Fearless: Year of Shadow

SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.

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Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios

GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.

The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."

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-Foxtrot20d ago

Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.

just_looken20d ago

It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.

gold_drake20d ago

I hope they find new jobs in the industry soon.

Jingsing20d ago

Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol

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SEGA’s Switch Predecessor: What Happened to the Nomad?

Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.

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