The startup screen is a console’s way of introducing itself to the game-hungry masses. This digital vignette must accomplish two important tasks in just a few seconds: showcase the system's brand ...

Back in 2002, Xbox Live shaped gaming forever by bringing online multiplayer to home consoles, but it wasn't the first to do so. Before Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony turned online multiplayer into a ...

For the most part of the 21st century, Sega has been synonymous with a blue, attitude-filled hedgehog, but there was a time when the company wasn't just a game publisher. It was a titanic brand, going ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Onkyo announced a new pair of wireless earphones featuring Sega Saturn motifs and that play the startup and system sounds of the original console system. The new earphones cost 15,500 yen (or ...