Lego! The second-most popular use of plastic since Beverly Hills socialites attempted to reverse the curse of aging by going under the knife. Combine that with a Sonic the Hedgehog theme, and you've got a winner on your hands.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been browsing the Odd Tinkering channel, which has been a godsend of a how-to visual manual that shows just how video game devices and peripherals can be restored to mint condition.

Roger Craig Smith, one of the better known voice actors in the industry who isn’t Troy Baker or Nolan North, looks ready to say goodbye to one of his most iconic roles.

For a brief moment in time though, a new challenger looked set to give the Gameboy a run for its money, as Sega threw its hat into the portable gaming ring. The Sega Genesis Nomad was a huge upgrade in the scene, featuring a kickass design, amazing visuals, and Sega’s top-tier games playing on a colourful LCD screen.

According to the house of Sonic, the lifetime sales of the Yakuza series is now at 14 million copies sold across all titles. The last two years have been particularly impressive, with a 20% growth after the release of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life that saw the series hit the 11 million sales mark back in 2018.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s switch to turn-based RPG combat and team-based tactics may bite off more than it can chew thanks to terrible difficulty spikes and ill-defined character progression, but it’s still a breath of fresh air for the series. Ichiban Kasuga and his pals are an entertaining lot, the game has plenty of style, and even though the combat devolves into an ungodly grind, it’s a flashy new start to one of Sega’s best franchises.

Alien: Isolation is a faithful masterpiece of design that serves as the benchmark for what a studio is capable of when all cylinders are firing. And that game almost never saw the light of day.

According to Sega Japan creative producer Yosuke Okunari said to Famitsu, a Dremcast Mini is being discussed.