Nearly ten years ago EA Sports president Peter Moore was an executive at Sega, brought in at the eleventh hour to manage the launch of the Dreamcast. It would be Sega's last console, as the Japanese game giant announced not long after that it was backing out of the hardware business and focusing on publishing software.

It would have been reasonable to assume that Sega's Japanese leadership made the decision to surrender the console wars, but Moore took credit for the decision in an interview with The Guardian. "On January 31, 2001, we said Sega is leaving hardware--somehow I got to make that call, not the Japanese. I had to fire a lot of people; it was not a pleasant day," Moore recalled. Read more »

Jason has put together a guide for all you Shenmue players out there who are itching to import the sequel and convert your save game over. The process it not exactly simple, but if you're a real man (woman?) who must have their stuff ported over, take a look at this scary stuff:

Fire up Hex Workshop and open the Shenmue save. You can do this by either opening the program via the start menu link and opening the file manually, or by right-clicking on the Shenmue file and choosing “Hex Edit using Hex Workshop.[snip]