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September 4th, 2008

G-Spot: Is making Golden Axe: Beast Rider a bad idea?

There comes a time in every Sega Nerd’s life when you have to question what Sega is doing with their classic franchises.  This could be something as basic as “Why haven’t they made a new game of X, Y or Z.”  [X, Y and Z of course being Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia and Panzer Dragoon […]

By Graham -- 14 comments

August 21st, 2008

GC 2008: Golden Axe Beast Rider

Just a few new screens from the new Golden Axe game.  While some people may not be so excited by this title, I think it is looking like it could be fun.
   
While a lot of the scenery, and overall appearance of the game, seems to be rather brown - I think the game does look […]

By Graham -- 6 comments

July 26th, 2008

Sega playing hide ‘N seek with old source codes

For those of you are wondering why Sega seem to only be putting Megadrive games on XBLA and VC (with a few Master System games on VC too), and perhaps want to see some classic old Sega System 16/24 arcade games, then Simon Jeffery has the answer… they are hiding.
In another (and supposedly last) […]

By Graham -- 10 comments

May 21st, 2008

Box Art Bash: Golden Axe

Welcome to the first edition of a new weekly feature here at Sega Nerds: The Box Art Bash, where I’ll be your tour guide as we journey through Sega’s colorful history of bad box art. Check back (hopefully) every Wednesday for a new entry into the Box Art Bash hall of shame. If you have […]

By Nathan -- 18 comments

May 14th, 2008

Three free Sega games on your mobile

That’s a bit of a mouthful eh? Well Sega Mobile is offering it’s US residents the chance to download three of their titles for nothing.
Sonic Jump, After Burner II and Golden Axe are all on offer, from GameJump. The game’s are being offered for free through a partnership deal with GreyStripe. There […]

By Graham -- 3 comments

May 9th, 2008

Top Ten Friday: Sega Villains

[Editors’ note: Every Friday we’ll give you a top 10 list, breaking down some of the very best and worst aspects of Sega and its games and consoles.]
Everyone wants to be a villain in games, but not all villains are the as good as others. Some are misunderstood and some are straight out evil. Today […]

By George -- 18 comments

March 2nd, 2008

New Golden Axe: Beast Rider screenshots look better

A lot of the forum members have been debating if we should consider this game as being shit already. I think I’ll wait to find out more. But in the end, we will never know till we try it.
Though I don’t think these screenshots look that great (apart from the one above) .
Secret Level’s website says:
…is guaranteed […]

By George -- 14 comments

February 11th, 2008

Sega gets own feature page on GAME website

For those of you who don’t know (which would be most people outside the UK), GAME is the UK’s leading video games store. 
Just like any typical gaming store, they cater for all areas of gaming, including Sega Nerds now, it seems.
On the home page to the GAME website, (at the time of writing this), there is a clear […]

By Graham -- 3 comments

November 27th, 2007

Golden Axe: Beast Riders first details

The first details for Golden Axe: Beast Riders are appearing on the Internet and we have scooped them all up and slapped them together for you. The game developed by Sega of Americas new development team Secret Level seems to be going in a newer more up-to-date direction then the original series.
Here’s what CVG […]

By Ryan -- 1 comment

October 25th, 2007

A look back: Golden Axe III

Yes, that is a snail-dragon. Yes, those hostages are wearing modern dress. No, it doesn’t make any sense.

Golden Axe! Like Streets of Rage’s little, overcompensating brother it took the standard beat ‘em up and injected it with a dose of Conan the Barbarian, followed by a chaser of awkward world mythologies. Now the third entry […]

By Hudson -- 5 comments