Hi,

Something interesting from Wikipedia... and I thought the Dreamcast
was official dead this year!!



The Return of the Dreamcast

On February 16, 2006, Sega once again began selling Dreamcast consoles
through its online store, Sega Direct of Japan. The package deal
included a refurbished Dreamcast, a cell phone card, and Radilgy — a
new 2D shooter game by developer Milestone. A short time later,
developer G.rev followed that game with a second new 2D shooter game
called Under Defeat in March. Both releases were for the Japanese
market alone. While the refurbished package has been discontinued,
Sega Direct does still sell several Dreamcast software titles.[5]

On May 20, 2006, Sega of Japan went live with free Phantasy Star
Online servers.[6] A translated excerpt from the article reads, "I
would like "Phantasy Star Online" to play forever in users. [...]
Please continue your favors toward the degree in which 'Phantasy Star
Online' is patronized."

On May 30, 2006, the gaming website IGN officially relaunched IGN
Dreamcast with the goal of revisiting the 243 North American-released
Dreamcast games and give "new impressions, screens and videos" and
compare them to the gaming experience provided by PlayStation 3, Xbox
360, and Wii games.


On January 31, 2007, a port of the Neo Geo game Last Hope, developed
by NG:DEV.TEAM was published by redspotgames via Play-Asia.com and
various other stores. The GOAT store has planned other games which
will be released in the 2007.

On February 22, 2007, a port of the Naomi powered 2D shooter Trigger
Heart Exelica, developed by Warashi, was released on Dreamcast for the
Japanese market with both a current and a limited edition release.
Despite rumors that went around the internet, the game was not
retitled to Trigger Heart Extension for the Dreamcast release.

Milestone announced that Karous, their new NAOMI vertical shooter,
would be making its way to Dreamcast on March 8, 2007.

On April 1, 2007, the official servers for Phantasy Star Online were
closed. Later a campaign via paper petition to Sega Europe started,
but Sega Europe finally said they will not support Phantasy Star
online for Dreamcast or give the software to a third-party.


Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Dreamcast


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