Golden Axed prototype creators livestream with Digital Foundry Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Golden Axed prototype creators livestream with Digital Foundry Get the inside story on the reboot that never was. News by Richard Leadbetter Technology Editor, Digital Foundry Updated on 22 Oct 2020 10 comments Last week, as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, Sega released an unfinished prototype version of a Golden Axe reboot that saw a small team from Sega Australia look to modernise and revitalise one of the company's beloved arcade franchises. Suffice to say, the sudden release of the original 2012 code caught its creators by surprise, and developer Tim Dawson's Twitter thread detailed at length a story of the project's inept mismanagement that took place in crunch conditions. Sega stepped in to apologise to the coders. As the prototype itself was only available for one weekend, you may have missed out on the opportunity to play it. And that's where Digital Foundry may be able to help. DF Retro creator John Linneman is streaming gameplay from the prototype, and joining him to discuss the project in much more depth are two of the game's developers, Sanatana Mishra and Tim Dawson. Watch on YouTube Now that the stream is over, we thought it would be a great idea to credit everyone involved with the development of the prototype: Adam Dowley - Animation Anne-Marie Weber - Audio Brent Waller - Environment Art Daniel Hooley - Design Lead Darius Sadeghian - Production Dean Ferguson - Art Lead James Fearn-Wannan - Animation Jeremy Love - Concept Art Jeremy Taylor - Audio Lead Koji Hashimoto - Character Art, 3D Logo Marcus Fielding - Studio Head Mark Rowley - Tech Lead Mauricio Milne-Jones - Rigging Ruan Ji - Character Art Sanatana Mishra - Design Simon Dew - Environment Art Tim Dawson - Programming, Animation, Design Vikram Shingrani - Rigging Wayne Perry - Tech Art Will you support the Digital Foundry team? Digital Foundry specialises in technical analysis of gaming hardware and software, using state-of-the-art capture systems and bespoke software to show you how well games and hardware run, visualising precisely what they're capable of. In order to show you what 4K gaming actually looks like we needed to build our own platform to supply high quality 4K video for offline viewing. So we did. Our videos are multi-gigabyte files and we've chosen a high quality provider to ensure fast downloads. However, that bandwidth isn't free and so we charge a small monthly subscription fee of £4.50. We think it's a small price to pay for unlimited access to top-tier quality encodes of our content. Thank you. Support Digital Foundry Find out more about the benefits of our Patreon More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 3 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 10 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 3 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store