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Ten years ago, Sega announced a drastic corporate restructuring and emerged as a third-party developer and publisher. It's been downhill ever since.

Gaming culture needs archival marketplaces more than we know. Here's why.

News Blips for January 14, 2011: Sega's Dreamcast Collection underwhelms, the PS3 hacker heads to court, THQ just missed out on signing Respawn's Jason West and Vince Zampella, and more.

News Blips for Dec. 14, 2010. Uncharted 3 gameplay debuts on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Sega's Alan Pritchard confirms the creation of a Dreamcast collection, Minecraft heads into beta soon, and more.

In this week's Mobcast, community members Michael Pangelina and Larry LeBron join Bitmob co-founders Demian Linn and Dan Hsu. The group discusses whether they prefer Halo or Call of Duty, the innovation of new gameplay mechanics, great stories set in less-than-desirable genres, the place of minorities in modern titles, and more.

In which the Dreamcast is played and uncomfortable secrets are revealed only to become accepted in the end.

News Blips for June 10, 2010. The venerable Dreamcast game library will emerge on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this fall, box art for Metal Gear Solid: Rising appears out of the shadows, Evolution Studios announces MotorStorm: Apocalypse, and more.

News Blips for June 2, 2010. A German and Korean ratings board leak info on Xbox Live Arcade ports of Plants Vs. Zombies and two Dreamcast games, study concludes that playing EA Sports Active can be an effective workout, court rules in favor of unbanning video game ads from Chicago transit, and more.

This week's shortened Reviews Spotlight features looks at Modern Warfare 2, Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, Miner Dig Deep, and retro reviews of Crazy Taxi and Final Fantasy 7.

A detailed review of Crazy Taxi.

Former President and COO of Sega of America speaks out about why Dreamcast failed, Sony vs. Sega, and the pranks he pulled against Sony.

A series of 14 (15 if you include the title) palindromes written to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Dreamcast.

Indulge me if you will as I imagine that Sega has hired me, a long time Sega supporter, to be in charge of a newly created department that would be responsible for developing games based on some of their most illustrious and notorious franchises and bring these properties into the next generation. Here are some of my Sega reboot ideas.