Does SEGAbits Offer Podcasts, Interviews, or Fan Events?

Yes. SEGAbits is not just a news and review site — it produces podcasts, runs original interviews, and organizes in-person fan meetups. The site describes itself as offering "SEGA news, reviews, articles, interviews, videos and much more," and its recent front page shows all three of those formats in active rotation. If you are looking for SEGA content beyond written articles, here is what is actually available.

Podcasts

SEGAbits runs at least two recurring shows:

• SEGA Talk — a long-running podcast series. A recent episode, "SEGA Talk #193: Sonic Heroes (2003)," is a retrospective discussion of a single game.
• Sonic Weekly — a Sonic-focused show. One recent episode, "Hard Questions w/ MICHAEL LEVINE," features guest Michael Levine, described as a writer and licensed therapist, who turns the interview around and questions the hosts.

Both are hosted by site contributors (the Sonic Weekly episode is credited to Grant and David), so the podcast output is produced in-house rather than aggregated from elsewhere.

Interviews

The site publishes original interviews with people who worked on SEGA games, not just commentary about them. A clear example is an exclusive interview with Tom Payne, an artist at Sega Technical Institute best known as one of three American artists assigned to Sonic the Hedgehog 2. According to the site's writeup, the interview covers previously unheard development details, including how Payne was brought onto the project, new information on Genocide City Zone, memories of working with Japanese colleagues, and the origin of the dinosaur enemies later placed in Hidden Palace Zone.

That gives you a sense of the interview style: first-hand development history from former SEGA staff, conducted by SEGAbits contributors (this one by Ashley Rojas).

Fan Events

SEGAbits organizes its own offline meetups. The most recent announced is SEGAbits Presents Arcade Adventure 5, held at Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois — described as the world's largest arcade — on October 3, 2026. Details from the announcement:

This is the fifth entry in the series, so the meetups are recurring rather than one-off.

How These Fit Together

The three formats serve different purposes:

• Podcasts are for ongoing discussion and retrospectives — good if you want regular SEGA conversation rather than one-time reading.
• Interviews are for development history and primary-source detail — good if you care about how specific games were made.
• Fan events are for in-person community — good if you want to meet other SEGA fans and play arcade games, though they require travel to the announced location.

All of this sits alongside the site's news, reviews, and articles, so SEGAbits functions as a multi-format fan outlet rather than a text-only blog. If you only want written coverage, you can ignore the podcasts and events; if you want any of the three, they are clearly labeled and regularly updated on the front page.