Tag Archive: Sega

May 18

Nintendo and SEGA Sitting in a Tree?

I will be honest, there may be nothing to see here, but the recent interactions between SEGA and Nintendo (at least in Japan) have been quite intriguing. To begin with, let’s look at what I’m talking about. Just this week, during one of their Nintendo Directs, Nintendo and SEGA announced that they have entered into …

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Feb 06

Breaking Down the THQ Breakup

It’s been quite a long time coming, but the slow death of long-standing publisher THQ is reaching its end. After initially attempting to sell the entirety of the company’s assets to Clearlake Capital, court orders eventually required THQ to split up its assets to individual bidders in an auction if the total amount raised exceeded …

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Dec 01

Sonic Saturdays: Christmas with Sonic

The festive season is upon us, and once again everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog will be leading the charge. We’ve already covered Sonic’s Christmas Blast in previous Christmas coverage. This time, we searched the web far and wide to bring you a most interesting project. I guess it could best be described as a motion comic, …

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Oct 13

NYCC 12: Talk of the Town: Sonic And All-Star Racing Transformed

Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing was one of the more interesting entries into the kart-racing genre earlier this generation. SEGA is looking to improve on the formula by taking the battle to the air and sea in this sequel. I got a chance to go hands-on with the title at NYCC and came out impressed …

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Apr 28

Sonic Saturdays Character Spotlight: Knuckles The Echidna part 1

Welcome to Sonic Saturdays! This is the part of the site Spotlighting everything about the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise. For today we’re putting a spot-light on Sonic’s Friendly Nemesis, Knuckles The Echidna. Knuckles was created as a new rival for Sonic during the development of Sonic The Hedgehog 3 for 1994. He was originally tricked into fighting …

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Jan 21

Sonic Saturdays : Spotlight on Ken Penders

Welcome once again to Sonic Saturdays! This is the sector where we talk about the world of Sonic the Hedgehog.   For today’s article I figured we would cover Ken Penders.  Penders has a lawsuit going on right now, but we’ll get to that in a moment. But for now let’s focus on the good he’s …

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Nov 05

Sonic Saturdays: Sonic Generations Review

Sonic Generations – Available now on XBOX360, Playstation 3, & Nintendo 3DS Reviewing Xbox360/PlayStations3 version. 3DS version plays differently, and has different levels. It’s Sonic’s Birthday, and all of his friends decide to throw him a surprise party, complete with cake, balloons and chili-dogs. Suddenly, A mysterious, Smoke like monster crashes the party!  He opens some …

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Oct 18

Classic Sonic vs Modern Sonic

With the release of Sonic Generations looming, and SEGA revealing a second demo for the game to go live today, we thought it was a good time to finally settle the debate. While most people will agree that 2D Sonic games are vastly superior to their 3D counterpart, there is apparently some debate in the …

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Sep 23

Sonic Saturdays: A Genesis of sorts

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Welcome once again to Sonic Saturdays. In this feature we explore the world of Sonic The Hedgehog.  For today’s Article, I thought it would be a good idea to start at the beginning, A Genesis, if you will. Sega needed a character that could possibly rival Nintendo’s Mario. Sonic was thier answer. While many individuals at Sega had …

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Sep 10

Sonic Saturday: Sonic Underground

Welcome to the 2nd of our Sonic Saturday featurette. As I said during the first installment, there is really no set schedule for these posts, but they will be up on a Saturday or it defeats the purpose of Sonic Saturdays! Anyhow, this week’s post comes to us from our good friends over at Netflix, …

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