Sonic

Activision’s soldiers hold the fort

UK Charts Despite the very fine Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit being released last week, Call of Duty: Black Ops has held onto #1. They have to make do with #2 and #3 respectively. Wii Sports Resort has risen from #19 to #7 but...

Kinect goes through the motions

UK Charts There’s no prize for guessing what’s #1 this week. 2m copies were sold in the UK over 5 days, generating an estimated £81.9m. The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops sold the most copies with 55% of the share, while the PS3 version...

Kinect helps you shed pounds (and weight)

This Week’s Games It seems funny to say that most of the games out this week require another £130 to be blown in order able to play. I am of course talking about the Kinect, which doesn’t appear to be totally sold out just yet. Eurogamer reviewed the...

Sega stops shipping Sonic

There has been a lot of average Sonic games over the years. Sega knows this, and before the ‘hogs reputation is completely run into the ground they’ve decided to “de-list” a handful of Sonic games from stores. In other words, Sega aren’t going to be shipping any more...

Sega GameGear: An Appreciation

If you’re a follower of our Twitter feed then you may be aware that I’ve been collecting Sega GameGear stuff since the start of the year. After having been lucky enough to bag a few large bundles on eBay relatively cheaply, I’m not far off from having a...

“Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing…”

This Week’s Games I don’t know if Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing features any music – remixes or original – from Sonic R, but it bloody well should. Even if it doesn’t it’s still worth considering as reviews have been solid including an 8/10 from GamesRadar and 78%...

HD Hedgehogs

At long bloody last Sega have realised that Sonic fans don’t want another shoddy 3D Sonic game and would rather have a super slick 2D one instead. Enter Project Needlemouse. That’s a temporary name, obviously. Details are slimmer than Kate Moss but Sega have revealed that it’ll be...

Sega doesn’t know their Sonics

Sega has slipped up! Next to the caption for Sonic 2 on the back of the new Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (known as Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection in the US, for some bizarre reason) somebody has used an image of Sonic 3 by mistake. It’s an easy...