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Rune Jade has now been brought back online thanks to Dreamcast Live. This obscure Japan-exclusive online RPG got its internet multiplayer features restored by Sh- wait, wait. Nope. It was just flyinghead who got the new servers on this game up and running by himself this time. Anyway, the game is finally about to fulfill your online multiplayer dungeon crawling itch once again since its servers were shutdown 25 years ago.Chances are many of you might not be familiar with Rune Jade. You’d be surprised that this game beat Phantasy Star Online to market by a couple of months, making this the first MMORPG on Dreamcast instead of PSO, but its online servers didn’t last as ...
If you've been anywhere near retro gaming social media circles over the past weekend, you'll almost certainly have seen some Japanese adverts for various vintage consoles featuring scantily-clad ladies.As you can imagine, these "lost" promotional images have triggered a pretty big online response, with many people assuming they are legitimate historical items which show just how "great" everything was a few decades ago – which, of course, they're not.These fake adverts are yet another dubious "benefit" we've been blessed with thanks to the arrival of Generative AI, and are no more real than the Easter Bunny. That hasn't stopped thousands of ...
SEGA announced the cancellation of its 'Super Game' initiative, originally planned as an online AAA global hit involving multiple games with a reported $800 million budget. SEGA reallocated over 100 staff from Games as a Service projects to standard full game development, while revival titles like Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage Revolution, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter, Persona 4 Revival, Alien Isolation 2, and Crazy Taxi remain active.