Remember Project Needlemouse a few months back?  Well, that 2D Sonic platformer has been officially confirmed today (as of 3:00 AM EST) as Sonic the Hedgehog 4 – Episode 1.  Yep, you read that right.  Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will be available on all three consoles as a downloadable game.  The gameplay is 2D, while [...]

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Okay, so we’ve heard the phrase “back to its roots” before in regards to the Sonic franchise more times than I care to remember.  But this time, it sounds like the real deal.
Sega’s new game, code-name Project Needlemouse, is a 2D, high-speed, HD, classic Sonic platformer.  Yeah, it’s about time Sega decided to listen to [...]

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Unable to wait for the actual Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver on February 12, 2010, Sega announced that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games will launch on October 13 for the Wii and DS.  In this minigame fest, Sonic, Mario, and their respective friends will be competing in events such as bobsledding, speed [...]

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In all honesty, I was pretty confused when I looked at IGN yesterday.  “Sonic and the Black Knight Trailer”…wait, so you mean the Sonic Wii game I heard about back in October wasn’t the Sonic Wii game that came out the next month?  No, apparently Sega decided the best strategy was “let’s just put Sonic [...]

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Everyone who has played Sonic Unleashed knows that the stages are based on real world locations.  At first glance, sure that seems fine… but is it really?  We take a closer look at why life in the Sonic universe (specifically Unleashed) is… not particularly easy.

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Some people have to learn the hard way.  Robotnik, also known as Eggman, posed as a plastic surgeon in his latest attempt to get rid of Sonic once and for all.  Don’t ask us, it wasn’t our brilliant idea.  The charade went too far however when an innocent woman left Robotnik’s office with unexpected results.

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