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  • Retro-Bit partners with Sega to produce new old console controllers

    Brand new, officially licensed Sega controllers and accessories are on the horizon. Retro-Bit showed their fresh lineup of Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast hardware at CES. Aside from new controllers for the original hardware, Retro-Bit will also be producing wired USB and wireless Bluetooth varieties. Also available will be bluetooth adapters for the various consoles, allowing […]

    Sonic rewards available on My Nintendo

    Celebrating the imminent launch of Sonic Forces, various Sonic items have launched on Nintendo’s rewards program, My Nintendo. Along with 50%-off discounts for various Sonic games on 3DS and Wii U (including the excellent 3D Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2), three other rewards of note are included: Nintendo 3DS theme: Sonic series: Sonic Style […]

    Sonic Mania Review

    After decades of fan outcry, Sega has finally released a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog game after 23 years of absense! Can you believe it?! Sonic Mania is a brand new game based on brand old games, headed up by lontime fans and hackers who have spent years essentially reverse engineering the entirety of the classic Mega Drive series. It's pretty exciting.

    Footage of first Sonic R prototype surfaces

    Jon Burton, founder of Traveller's Tales, has started a new YouTube channel called GameHut. On it, he's sharing behind-the-scenes footage and documentation on the development of their classic games. Traveller's Tales is known to Sonic fans as having developed both Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic R. This video thoroughly showcases the first playable build of […]

    Hirokazu Yasuhara talks game design

    Here’s a recent talk from the game designer for the original Sonic games. It’s mostly about game design in general, but he talks a little bit about designing Sonic 1 and 2 near the beginning. He shows some never-before-seen concept art, including the original Green Hill level map (drawn on draft paper!) and scrapped concepts […]

    Do you want high res Sonic Adventure art?

    Duh, of course you do. The recently-started Video Game History Foundation has begun archiving media assets sent to press from game companies. Among the first uploads is a zip disk of “Sonic Adventure character art”, which includes 3 super high resolution pieces of promo art from the game. Check ’em out:   (Click the pics […]

    Groupees Archie Comics Bundle

    The bundle site Groupees is running an Archie comics bundle, including the likes Sonic, Mega Man, and, well, Archie. It'll be running for two weeks as of this writing. Bonuses for the $1 tier will be unlocked along the way as more bundles are sold. The $1 tier includes: Sonic Boom #1 Sonic Boom #2 […]

    Huffington Post on Michael Jackson and Sonic 3

    One of the biggest mysteries shrouding Sonic history is Michael Jackson’s work in the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack. While it was hypothesized he was involved in some way, there are conflicting reports about why he departed and whether his music survived the final release. Well, the Huffington Post recently published a rather nice article […]