Sega giving away new retro-inspired games for their 60th birthday

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Sega giving away new retro-inspired games for their 60th birthdayI didn’t know I needed Streets Of Kamurocho

I didn’t know I needed Streets Of Kamurocho

If you’re in the mood for a proper classic, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 is first on the free-for-keeps list. You can find iton Steamand add it to your account free until Monday, October 19th at 6pm BST / 10am PDT. To get Nights, you need to headlink to a Steam account.

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For something new with retro flavour, Sega are releasing several small games built on classics.

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Giving away retro games free is nice and all but investing the time and talent into creating new stuff to give away is actually quite neat. Good on ya, Sega. That’s properly cool in my book. I swear I’m not just saying that because one is Yakuza-themed.

They’ve also slapped sales on many of their current games. You can find all those over on theevent sale page on Steamalong with the freebies. Quite a lot series are discounted, from Sonic to Total War to Alien to Yakuza.