Santa used to deliver coal to naughty children. These days, they’ll just think it’s a Minecraft prop. 

Sonic the Hedgehog is a prickly subject. Some people love him, some people wish he was roadkill. 

SEGA has launched SEGA Forever, a new free to play collection of classic SEGA games for smartphones and mobile devices, as revealed in a launch trailer for the collection.

“You’re last year’s model,” Sam Gideon quips, as he throws a high-tech enemy from an airship. 

Sega has uploaded a new Sonic Forces video to YouTube featuring gameplay from what is likely to be the opening levels of the Classic Sonic segment, Green Hill Zone.

Sega’s highly popular third-person action game Bayonetta has finally been released for the PC, more than six years after its initial release.

LIKE a poorly designed Theme Park, or five thousand Sims corralled into a line, people waited outside GamerCon last weekend.

Virtual reality will be one of the big talking points at the GamerCon event in Dublin. Ronan Jennings looks at how the technology has evolved through the years.

Music streaming service Spotify has added a selection of soundtracks from classic Sega video games including Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe

The Lego Dimensions model is basically genius - a base game with a module that lets you add different character over time. And the supersmart part is that each of these new packs costs money and your child is going to want all of them!

SEGA and Sports Interactive today announced the release date of Football Manager 2017 as well as some of the benefits of pre-ordering.

SONIC the Hedgehog is a prickly subject. Not only does he elicit terrible puns from video game writers, he does so while dividing opinion quicker than a ghostbuster with boobs. 

Shenmue 3 is actually happening, with a massive Kickstarter campaign last week and a planned release in 2017.

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Do you know your Commodore 64 from a Sega Megadrive?

Adam Johnson is being removed from both Pro Evolution Soccer and Football Manager. EA has said that technical issues are preventing him from being removed from everyone’s version of FIFA 16.

THERE would be a thin crackle, and magic would follow. When the needle and record touched, the sound was like lightning, like Marty and Doc Brown disappearing into the past, their Delorean vanishing in a sharp crack. 

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox One is about to be compatible with 104 Xbox 360 titles.

Video games have long attracted both devotion and scorn. A new book explores this parallel universe many can’t resist, writes Noel Baker.

Tembo, a badass Elephant modelled after Rambo, is on the offensive in the launch trailer for Tembo.

Shia LaBeouf is quite the motivator. So much so that he can inspire Sonic when the chips are down.

Twenty years ago, this month, a small grey box made its debut in Japan — and changed the entertainment landscape forever.

Apple’s iPhone has scored a major double win by picking up phone of the year and gadget of the year at the O2 Pocket-lint Gadget awards in London.

You are so very old.

Nintendo's long-running kart racing series Mario Kart gets its eighth installment on May 30th, marking the franchise's HD debut.

Sonic the Hedgehog has had a turbulent history, from early moments of brilliance to massive disappointments, fans have run the gamut of emotions since 1991

We know funds are scarce, but are things really that bad at the FAI?

AN IRISH-born entrepreneur topped the charts last month with iPhone app ‘Joe Danger’.

Sega has created a number of urination-based games for people to play while they spend a penny.

JAPANESE video game developer Sega Corp said yesterday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.

Sega has become the latest computer game giant to fall prey to hackers.

Public toilet users in Japan will be able to play video games while urinating.

Computer games retailer Game today said the decline in its sales had slowed following a number of blockbuster software releases.

HAVOK, the Emmy award-winning Irish software company, has expanded its global presence by opening a new office in Japan.

Sega says its full-year net loss has fallen 66% after dumping Dreamcast and concentrating on software production.

Sega has reported a loss of £119.3m for the first half of its financial year.

New Sega president Hideki Sato has vowed to press on with the company's radical restructuring plans.

Sega's president and chairman Isao Okawa has died aged 74.

Games-console giant Sega today confirmed it will stop making its Dreamcast machine in March.

Sega has announced that production of the Dreamcast console will cease at the end of March, because of huge financial losses.