That's right folks, a Brazilian man held a 60-year old woman hostage for ten whopping hours with a Sega Master System Light Phaser. Captain PEW was looking to collect on an unpaid debt, and things got 8-bitty when the lady refused to pay. The Light Phaser, the light gun that shipped with the Sega Ma...

Those Brazilians seem to have a problem with gaming and kidnapping. This time it was a crazy guy who used a Sega Light Phaser—from the good old Master System—to kidnap a woman for ten......

The latest Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) ads don't just feature gameplay, but a bigger selling point — well, for us at least. The game's ridiculously tanned Toshihiro Nagoshi skips stones with the game's hero Kazuma Kiryu and talks about the PS3's "power of expression." Kazuma Kiryu says how impo...

Atsushi Inaba, creator of Okami and the upcoming Madworld , contends that western game developers are better than their Japanese counterparts in a new interview with Develop. According to Inaba, Japanese developers have to "work hard" to match the standards of western developers. He adds that game d...

Sega may be soon walking onto the court with an extra spring in its step, as TechRadar UK reports that the recently announced Wii version of Virtua Tennis 2009 will ship with support for WiiMotion Plus. Citing an anonymous source, the site writes that the game will be among the first third-party tit...

Has the new November turned February come amongst us? Well, not exactly, but looking at this months slate of releases would have you thinking so. We have Alma’s return, Japanese women in bikinis kicking ass, old school Genesis/Megdrive goodies, and standalone instrument for the Guitar Hero fair. T...

Filed under: Driving, Rhythm, Business Depending on what half of the information we're about to report appeals to you, be prepared to launch your trance vibrators or cans of Skoal high into the air in a fit of glee. Sega recently saved two franchises from the trademark trash compactor, effectively r...

Hostesses? Boring! Guys getting hit with a gas tank? So not boring. This batch of Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 images packs a walloping punch. PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 hits Japanese retailers February 26. galleryPost('ryugagotoku3screens', 3, 'Yakuza');...

If the world has felt just a little more mediocre lately, it's not your imagination: Sega has begun work on transforming upcoming Robert Downey Jr. vehicle Iron Man 2 into "multi-platform" video game form. And why wouldn't Marvel want to make a deal like that, after Sega Studios San Francisco (forme...

After pretty much completely screwing up the game based on the first Iron Man movie, Sega has announced their plans to potentially ruin the game based on the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2. Sega continues its existing partnership with Marvel Entertainment with the announcement of Iron Man 2, due out in 201...