Sega Delays Dreamcast Network
News Sega of America, currently based in Japan for the Tokyo Game Show, said Thursday its Dreamcast Network will not support online gaming until the second half of 2000. Although the Dreamcast Network won't be immediately available, Sega said it will:
[September 17, 1999, 9:03]
Sega Boss Outlines "super Wideband" Dreamcast Network
News More so, Irimajiri said that, when complete, this "super wideband" network will afford delivery speeds so fast and latency so low that gamers can play action-intensive games like Soul Calibur and Sega GT with "no lag time.
[February 16, 2000, 10:41]
Excite@Home To Play Dreamcast
News Excite@Home will become the "portal partner" for Sega of America's Dreamcast network, providing content and a specialised version of its site for users of the gaming console. Excite@Home is, and will continue to be, at the vanguard of a media...
[December 14, 1999, 14:58]
Old Game Machine Turned Into Linux Hacker Tool
News When you only have a few minutes, you need to be able to drop something off that will let you access the network later," Aaron Higbee, a consultant with Foundstone and one of the two programmers who worked on the project, said of the Dreamcast...
[August 5, 2002, 7:37]
AT&T To Wire Sega's Dreamcast
News As part of the agreement, AT&T and Sega will co-market what will be known as the Sega Dreamcast Network, said the source. Dreamcast and other game machines may look chintzy, but for companies looking to bring more "eyeballs" to their content, the...
[August 4, 1999, 8:10]
Sega, Microsoft Go Separate Ways
News So while the Dreamcast will continue to support Windows CE and DirectX, Microsoft will be left out of Sega's network gaming plans. In Japan, Dreamcast users are already able to play games against other players on a network they dial into using...
[June 5, 2000, 8:13]
Sega To Develop Set-top Box With PACE
News It plans to achieve this primarily through the licensing of Dreamcast architecture and the continued development of interactive network videogame content but also through narrow and broadband electronic services to the online community, and...
[January 29, 2001, 11:54]
Sega: An Extra Life In Online Play?
News The Dreamcast network should also prove to be a major benefit. Sega.com is also counting on the current sports-friendly Dreamcast audience to get hooked on the network and multiplayer mode. With 2m Dreamcast systems on the market and a pre-emptive...
[May 11, 2000, 16:07]
Virtua Tennis Demo
Downloads The number-one seed that originally brought the crowd to its feet on Dreamcast is now ready to serve an ace on the PC. All your favorite tennis players, all your favourite dropshots, backhands and smashes and a new PC-only network-play mode.
[November 17, 2003, 21:31]
Some Dreamcast Games Not Working
News Finally, we saw at least one complaint lodged against the Dreamcast Internet disc, which connects the system to the online Dreamcast network via modem. As Sega America launches its much-vaunted Dreamcast in the US, some owners of the high-powered...
[September 10, 1999, 8:48]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Dreamcast is a fine console, as good as the PS2 in many ways, but the marketing, the timing, the price points were wrong and this isn't a game where you can make many mistakes. And I wouldn't hold out too much hope for today's announcement, the...
[February 19, 2001, 8:25]
US Report: Windows CE Lands Its Sega Dream Machine
News The new game console, called Dreamcast, is Sega's chance to reclaim its respectability in the video-game industry after the spectacular failure of the Saturn. Able to display 3 million polygons per second, Dreamcast will leap ahead of Sony's...
[May 22, 1998, 14:43]
Nintendo Reveals Online Plans
News The first games to take advantage of online GameCube play will be two new versions of Sega's "Phantasy Star Online", the first major console game to offer online play, through Sega's now-defunct Dreamcast console.
[May 14, 2002, 8:58]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News An earlier version of PowerVR technology powered the Dreamcast console from Sega. Swerve is a high-level, cross-platform technology that allows developers to simplify the way 3D objects are described, thus reducing the network bandwidth consumed by...
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Nokia Bets On Mobile Games
News Sega has eyed mobile gaming as a key growth area since the Japanese game maker left the hardware business several years ago amid mounting losses for its Dreamcast home console. The Finnish cellphone maker said it will acquire Sega.com and use Sega...
[August 20, 2003, 11:20]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's War For The Living Room
News And with hardware specs far ahead of the competition's -- 10 times faster than Sega's Dreamcast and three times faster than Pentium III, claims Sony -- PlayStation2 is the game console to beat. From Universal Plug and Play -- a Microsoft-led...
[September 27, 1999, 14:10]
ARM Pushes 3D For Mobile Phones
News The new products are the fruit of a year-and-a-half-long collaboration with Imagination Technologies, also based in the UK, whose PowerVR architecture has powered everything from arcade games to the defunct Dreamcast console.
[August 7, 2002, 15:48]
