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And so the cycle starts anew. Sonic Generations lets players play as a classic, sidescrolling Genesis Sonic or as modern, control-him-from-behind-in-3D Sonic. As Kotaku previously pointed out, there are no special powers and no playable friends. More »
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Sonic Free Riders is a cautionary tale about the importance of controls in gaming. Make a game interesting, give it solid graphics and some unique hooks, but don't lock down the controls and you're going to have a disaster on your hands. More »
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Never mind that Sega's crack legal team already confirmed Sonic Unleashed, Official Nintendo Magazine (UK) has a world exclusive! The Wii game will be out this winter, use the Wii-mote and Nunchuk, but won't have online, it seems. Fair enough, the game seems like an old school Sega platformer — a good thing. Says the game's lead designer, Yoshihisa Hashimoto: More »
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Shigeru Miyamoto? Busy dude. Yet, the legendary game creator is going to work on Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Along with Miyamoto, the game is being created by Sega's sports team instead of Team Sonic — Who have been responsible for the spate of recent, AWFUL Sonic games. But how much will Miyamoto contribute? Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan explains: More »
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Poor, poor Sonic. The once heroic character was subjected to last year's cross-platform travesty Sonic The Hedgehog. The glitch-ridden game received scathing reviews and disappointing sales. So, Team Sonic leader Yojiro Ogawa what the hell happened? More »
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Team Sonic releases conceptual artwork of former Mario rival Sonic flogging the Wiimote. Somewhat humiliating sure, but the rot set in long, long ago. A damn shame. —Brian Ashcraft More »
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Sega Saturn NiGHTS could be getting that long-over-due sequel gossips Famitsu. The game's creator Yuji Naka has publically stated he's against NiGHTS 2, TWO NiGHTS, Another NiGHT, NiTE NiGHT or whatever they're gonna call it. He told the a British Dreamcast mag in 2000: ""I know a lot of people love it and want us to make a sequel, but for us it's a really important game. Like the way Spielberg likes E.T. so much he won't remake it, I don't want to make another NiGHTS." Then, how about E.T. 2? More »
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Next Generation reports that Hedgehog creator and Team Sonic ringleader Yuji Naka is taking a note from Lumines mastermind Tetsuya Mizuguchi's playbook and leaving Sega to form his own studio. It is possible that Naka's new studio will be allied with Sega, but nothing is certain at this point. Talk about a big loss, especially is the company isn't able to maintain some sort of exclusive agreement with the designer. More »
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Kanji ain't easy. Those Chinese-characters give students of the Japanese language monster headaches. Relax, Knuckles the Echidna is here to help with the learning RPG, Knuckles in China Land. This fan made download teaches various kanji characters, which come into play when Knuckles battles level bosses. Forget a character, and it might mean your red arse. But hey, same goes for living in Japan. More »
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