Sonic The Hedgehog - A Little Ball of Energy in an Extremely Handsome Package

[Berto]

SEGA ATLUS Festival 2026 is Coming to Indonesia! 🇮🇩







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pql9vXchBqE

Soak in the festival atmosphere and immerse yourself in the world of SEGA & ATLUS! 🤜💥

📅 Date: 07 & 08 February 2026
⌚️ Time: 11:00 - 21:00
🎟️ Entry is free!
📍 Location: Mall of Indonesia, Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, Indonesia

Join the Official SEGA Southeast Asia Discord channel for more information . 🎮✨

👉 https://discord.com/invite/segasea

Official SEGA merchandises await you in Indonesia. 🇮🇩
Secure them all at the SEGA ATLUS Festival 2026 before they're gone! 💙✨

RUN, DON’T WALK — TO MALL OF INDONESIA FOR SEGA ATLUS FESTIVAL ! 🌀💨

📅 Date: 07 & 08 February 2026
⌚️ Time: 11:00 - 21:00
🎟️ Entry is free!
📍 Location: Mall of Indonesia, Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, Indonesia

Shinobi, Sonic the Hedgehog, Like a Dragon, Persona, and many other SEGA ATLUS merchandises await you.
Join the Official SEGA Southeast Asia Discord channel for more information . 🎮✨

👉 https://discord.com/invite/segasea

[Berto]

SEGA Talk #178: US Box Art Design (1989-2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8-5qwZYQA

In this episode of Sega Talk, we track the radical evolution of SEGA’s North American branding, from the clinical “graph paper” grids of the Master System to the high-tech “black box” era of the Genesis. We dive deep into why Sega abandoned its uniform look for the iconic red-stripe rebrand of the 90s, the switch to the massive plastic long-boxes of the Saturn, and finally, the Dreamcast’s sleek transition from bright orange swirls to the edgy “SegaNet” black. It’s a nostalgic look at how Sega used graphic design as a weapon in the console wars, shifting from a toy company aesthetic to a lifestyle brand that defined a generation.

Article: https://segabits.com/blog/2026/01/23/sega-talk-178-us-box-art-design-1989-2001/

[Mystic Monkey]

It's just coincidentally I picked BBC, but it's not just BBC who posted the news.

https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/28/win-compensation-valve-uk-steam-lawsuit-goes-ahead-26571586/

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/uk-activist-hits-valve-with-a-usd903-million-lawsuit-claims-steam-is-abusing-its-market-dominance-and-forcing-uk-consumers-to-pay-too-much-for-steam-games

https://boundingintocomics.com/video-games/uk-approves-900-million-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-valves-30-steam-share-revenue-is-excessive-and-unfair-to-players

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steam-games-could-overpriced-millions-uk-players-656m-lawsuit-against-valve-moves-forward-1774378

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/usd900-million-lawsuit-accusing-steam-of-overcharging-gamers-in-the-uk-and-abusing-a-dominant-market-position-will-proceed-after-valve-loses-appeal-against-it/

If Steam gets banned in my country over this, I am royally screwed! I'm not much of a gamer these days, but 90% of all the games I "own" are on Steam. And by "own" I mean, as I said, Steam customers don't legally own their games. VALVe can't make our purchased games available to us at any given time. If UK Govt bans Steam, that means over thousands of pounds spent in the last fifteen years as well as games that "should" be mine, will be gone. And I'll be one of 14mil Steam users in UK. That's roughly 20% of UK population.