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Today, however, I appreciate what it's trying to do: Bring two cult objects together into a single, self-contained artifact glorifying two of the great tech icons of the late 90s. The old, heavy and powerthirsty CRT has been replaced by an LCD monitor, while the Dreamcast is stowed away in the back, bolted in upside down. The controller ports on the front are seamless enough to make the whole thing work, keeping it from looking like a hackjob that would make it tantamount to desecration. [CGCC via Hackaday]

Discovered on the IGN forums, these unsigned pieces (anyone know the artist?) may be a tad idealist, but they make up for any naivety in sheer cuteness. And I'll tell you, if my Wii ever teared up over the loss of the Dreamcast, I'd be rocking that thing like Alec Baldwin.

[IGN via GoNintendo]

By November 1998, when the Dreamcast first arrived in Japanese shops, it had been ten long years since the popular Megadrive, a decade punctuated by a triple whammy of high-profile hardware mistakes...the Dreamcast simply came too late in SEGA's hardware decline to reverse a long-running downward trend. For all its technological innovations and excellent games, SEGA's misadventures during the 1990s had left both gamers and publishers wary of any new platform bearing its name...Even if it had shipped with a champagne fountain and a nozzle that fired a constant stream of chocolate and diamonds into the player's lap, it seems likely that many potential owners would still have adopted a "wait and see" attitude.

While we gave away the article's thesis, it's still worth heading over to the link and giving the entire cathartic piece a read (before polishing off a sixer in DC's name and loading up some Shenmue). [Eurogamer via Kotaku]

The controllers are offered in proper scale with each set of hands sized identically. And we see, while controllers have gotten more complicated, they've also grown larger—though we look to have peaked back in the last generation (if you discount arsenal of peripherals you'll find in Rock Band or GHIV).

One trend we found interesting: The ill-fated Atari 5200 represented the early height of how-many-buttons-will-this-thing-fit engineering. And I don't think that it was before two successful generations of consoles later that the arms race picked up again. [Chewing Pixels via Offworld]

So what's the catch? Oh, right. It can't play freaking Dreamcast games any more. Impress via Kotaku]

It really is a work of beauty, isn't it? We've seen portable Dreamcasts before, but this one just looks so much better. Created by Hailrazer on the Ben Heck Forums, it brings tears of both joy and sadness. It's such an awesome piece of work, yet it just brings back bad memories of the Dreamcast's untimely demise.

Sigh. [Ben Heck Forums via BBG]

He also goes on to say that it's almost as strong as a PlayStation 2 and an Xbox 1 at launch. Think back to the games you played on the PS2 and Xbox. Now think of the games you're playing on the iPhone. Doesn't quite match up, does it?

It's strange to us that Carmack is throwing out so much hype for Apple, seeing as he's got a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with the company.

The verdict is also out on whether Apple has a concrete grasp of gaming, the id co-founder said. The company's reception to criticism has also been counterintuitive, which has led to its relationship with id being something akin to a roller-coaster ride.

Apple essentially kisses his ass when they need him to show up for one of Steve Jobs' keynotes, but then throws him the cold shoulder the second he passes judgment, Carmack said.

[Apple Insider]

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[Thanks Steve!]

What could endear us more to the plastic, white, game-playing god? An absence of a disc tray, meaning the disc spins freely, thus creating an awesome spectacle on LCD screen and off. Smashing. Only thing is; we can't get our hands on one. Oh, the bitter sweet irony; how it burns us so. [Dvice]

We're very happy being a platform agnostic company and have moved up the ranks the past three years from #11, to #9, and now stand at #6 in terms of our market share by units among third-party publishers. We like our current strategy and have no plans to change in the middle of this outstanding growth.

So no Dreamcast 2, just a renewal of the trademark—which means we'll have to stick to hoping there's an Ikaruga 2 for PS3/Xbox. [Gamedaily]

home video game machines; player-operated electronic controllers for electronic video game machines; video game interactive controller, namely, hand held pads, and floor pads or mats; joysticks for video games; computer cursor control devices, namely, computer mouse; flash memory cards; video game software, computer game programs

Flash memory cards and floor pads/mats? Any Dreamcast fan would tell you that those devices were not involved with the original machine. Odds are that this means nothing in the long run—after all, this is probably not the time to pick a fight with the big three. As our friends at Kotaku noted, it probably means that Sega is trying to prevent somebody from developing these devices under a Dreamcast brand. Still, the idea of a new Dreamcast is a pleasant thought. What do you think? Could and should Sega consider this? [Videogamer via Kotaku]

Product Page [Playasia via dc emu]

Tacohead over at lowdown411.com sent word of a teeny tiny Dreamcast he bought via Lik-Sang. The toy consists of a Dreamcast console deck, removable modem, 2 VMUs, one controller and a copy of Space Channel 5. It gets better. The friggin console s lid opens. Insane.

I would eat the entire thing and wait until each piece—the Dreamcast, the controller, and the game CD—passed through me like a glorious, Sega-themed comet.

World s Smallest Sega Dreamcast [Kotaku]