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Palit Adds New HD 4850 Sonic Graphics Card

Palit Microsystems, a world leading manufacturer of graphics cards based on NVIDIA and ATI's GPUs, has recently introduced a new product that incorporates the graphics power of ATI's Radeon HD 4850. The new card is part of the company's Sonic series, which means that it will deliver an improved perform...

9 September 2008
03:10 GMT

Sega Superstars Tennis - Achievements (Xbox 360)

Sega is known for the development of some of the best tennis games to date and we can understand its desire of trying to switch a little to the more casual part of the gaming world with Sega Superstars Tennis. Developed by Sumo Digital and published by Sega on the 17th of March 2008 in Europe, the 18th of the same mo...

23 June 2008
10:07 GMT

Sonic Unleashed New Details Arise

Strange or not, the huge hype surrounding Sony's latest Sonic game and the leaked gameplay footage/screenshots/infos last month quickly faded and people forgot it. With the clear intention to bring back some of that excitement, Sonic Unleashed's developers have decided to come with a short factsheet and a f...

21 May 2008
15:06 GMT

Sonic Unleashed Turns Sonic into a Wolf

If anybody was afraid that no Sonic or Mario games will hit the market anymore, stay calm and take a deep breath: this is not going to happen and everybody seems to agree that it shouldn't. One of the games that comes to confirm this already known fact is the official, then back to rumor announcement of Sonic Un...

24 March 2008
03:55 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mario and Sonic Redux

As Calin needed to take a week off and cry himself to sleep after reading some of the comments (both here and on Digg) that his "Mario, Sonic & Co Should Retire from Games" column attracted, I'm gonna do this week's Weekend Reading column. And I'm gonna talk about gamers and their irrational responses....

21 March 2008
19:31 GMT

Superstar Tennis Hits Stores

Sumo Digital, makers of Virtua Tennis 3, have set out to create a game that's true to their tennis credentials while also appealing to a wider player base. And the result is SEGA Superstar Tennis and it is available in all game stores in North America, for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii and Nin...

19 March 2008
06:19 GMT

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Breaks One Million Barrier

According to reports from Nintendo of America, the sky is the limit for its latest fighting game. It was released in the United States on March 9 and has since sold over 1.4 million units, of which around 874,000 we're sold in the first day. In the first week, the game is reported to have sold more than 120 game...

18 March 2008
03:46 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mario, Sonic & Co Should Retire from Games

Probably half of the gaming world will hate me for saying this, but somebody has to do it. Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Wario, Dr. Eggman and all the other arcade/platformer icons should retire! Each and every one of them should be put in a museum and locked there. That's the only way to do it, that's the only thi...

14 March 2008
14:06 GMT

Sonic Rivals 2

The fact that most dogs have something against hedgehogs is common knowledge by now so when my quadruped best friend decided to chase one of these cute little animals while I was playing Sonic Rivals 2, things got ugly. Of course, the dog got spiked as a punishment for chasing the critter and this goes to show that ...

10 December 2007
08:56 GMT

Sonic Added to the Super Smash Bros. Brawl List of Featured Characters

In a move meant to ensure that Super Smash Bros. Brawl sells 1 million more copies than planned, Nintendo and SEGA Europe have revealed that Samus Aran, Link, Mario and other characters featured in the upcoming beat 'em up title will be making room for SEGA's frenetic blue hedgehog, known worldwide as Sonic...

10 October 2007
07:04 GMT

Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games - First Solid Details

SEGA Europe and SEGA of America have teamed up today to reveal some details on their upcoming frenetic title, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. As everyone knows, many Wii games present a small degree of difficulty when it comes to playing them with the Wii Remote. As such, SEGA has confirmed that controls for this...

27 September 2007
06:20 GMT

BioWare Talks More Sonic (RPG) for the DS

BioWare is best known for developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire. However, the company has recently made the surprising announcement of teaming up with SEGA to create a new DS title, based on the classic Sega flagship icon, Sonic The Hedgehog. All that was known so far is that this exclusiv...

17 July 2007
05:32 GMT

Nintendo DS to Get Sonic Game from Sega and BioWare. BioWare?

BioWare, best known for developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire, have made the surprising announcement today of partnering up with Sega to create a new DS title, based on the classic Sega flagship icon, Sonic The Hedgehog. They don't know how they're going to call it yet, but this ...

21 June 2007
12:36 GMT

Sonic Using Unreal Engine 3

That is of course if SEGA decides to use it for the Sonic series. And what would they use Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for, other than Sonic, NIGHTS? Sure that one too, but it's not enough reason for adopting such powerful technology and NIGHTS is for the Wii remember? The console lacking horsepower.The company h...

18 May 2007
03:26 GMT

Sega: No More Sonic

Sega's done some thinking recently and decided to "refresh" Sonic a bit. How come? Sonic and the Secret Rings was a massive success on the Wii platform and Sega's cute, blue hedgehog is still on for the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, so why is there a problem with the character. Speaking with Newsweek,...

31 March 2007
06:03 GMT

Superb Sega Exclusive Coming to the Wii

There is pretty strong evidence that NIGHTS, a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system, will have its porting quite soon to the Wii. Of course it's not going to be the same old 32 bit NiGHTS, developed by Sonic Team, even if it does happen.Both Official Nintendo Magazine and GoN...

17 March 2007
04:45 GMT

Sonic Rivals - Gameplay Hints (PSP)

What starts as a friendly competition between Sonic and Knuckles quickly gets intense as other rivals jump into the action. Sonic's rivals trip, shove, and vault over Sonic using boost moves and power ups while hurtling toward the finish line at breakneck speeds. Players will negotiate wildly twisting 3D tracks ...

16 March 2007
11:41 GMT

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Codes and Cheats (GameCube)

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle is Sonic's first GCN title and it is a good one at that. This game comes from the old Sega Dreamcast, except for the fact that it is remade with better graphics and a cool battle mode. The one thing that really makes this game totally different from the previous SA2 is that now players c...

16 March 2007
04:38 GMT

Fancy Pants Interview

The Fancy Pants Adventures is a game made by Brad Borne, a guy who decided to be all original in making a side-scrolling-platformer. Many compare these games with Mario or Sonic. Some of them are exact replicas of it, yet some platformers of this kind do tend to fall into another category. That category's name i...

12 March 2007
09:43 GMT

Sonic Riders Tips and Tricks (Xbox)

In Sonic Riders, you race on an Air Board. The Air Board works similarly to a skateboard or snowboard, except that the concept of catching air takes on whole new proportions. You fly along above the ground, leap off high cliffs, and reach new heights when you jump off ramps. Sonic himself is new to air boarding, so y...

5 March 2007
06:42 GMT




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