Posts with tag sonic the hedgehog
Posted Jul 11th 2007 9:00AM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, E3
This week's Xbox Live Arcade titles are
Golden Axe and, finally,
Sonic the Hedgehog. Both cost a mere 400 Microsoft Points, with
Golden Axe allowing for co-operative play on Live and locally. The Achievements for both titles were made
available yesterday, and led us to believe that at the very least,
GA was coming today. Fortunately, we were only half right, as
Sonic finally made its debut under the Sega Vintage Collection line of titles. With any luck, we'll see
Ecco and
Sonic 2 follow suit.
Posted Jun 7th 2007 4:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
We sort of missed this yesterday, and it's time to make it right. In addition to the
ESRB revelation that Lara Croft's latest adventure,
Tomb Raider: Anniversary, is heading to the Xbox 360 (possibly as DLC), Joystiq also uncovered an ESRB entry for
Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Add this title to the ever growing list of Genesis classics rated by the ESRB --
Sonic the Hedgehog,
Streets of Rage 2,
Ecco the Dolphin, and now
Sonic 2 -- and the existence of the
SEGA Vintage Collection is becoming harder and harder to deny. Our only question: how many more titles does the ESRB need to reveal before SEGA makes an official announcement?
Posted May 17th 2007 11:30AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
Further validating the screenshots of SEGA's
Vintage Collection discovered earlier this month, ESRB ratings have been discovered for two of SEGA's classic titles. One of them,
Sonic the Hedgehog, we've known about for some time. The other, however, is something of a surprise.
Ecco the Dolphin is also listed for the Xbox 360. While we love the original
Sonic as much as any self-respecting gamer, we have a special soft spot for
Ecco. Given an HD makeover and the spiffy new age soundtrack from the SEGA CD version and we'd really have a special title on
Xbox Live Arcade.
What other titles would you like to see in the SEGA Vintage Collection?
Kid Chameleon,
Altered Beast,
Phantasy Star?
[Via Joystiq]
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Posted May 9th 2007 12:00PM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
For the first time since its announcement back at The Last E3 Evar we
finally have some new info regarding SEGA's involvement with Xbox Live Arcade, and the original Genesis/Mega Drive launch title,
Sonic the Hedgehog. We were a little worried that Nintendo's Virtual Console scooped Microsoft, as the title's been available since the Wii's launch. SEGA's apparently going to be releasing their XBLA titles under the "SEGA Vintage Collection", with Sonic leading the pack. More screens available by clicking the "Read" link. So, is it about time, or does it really take
AGES to be this good?
Posted Apr 18th 2007 4:00PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
As more and more comic books are being turned into movies (
X-Men,
Hellboy,
Sin City, etc.), comic book characters are becoming a hot commodity. SEGA is now jumping into the fray, picking up the videogame rights to Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor. All three characters are set to have feature films in the near future and it makes sense that SEGA would do their best to acquire them (blockbuster movie = free marketing). These characters will join SEGA's roster alongside Iron Man, whom the company acquired last year.
Iron Man, incidentally, is also being made into a feature film.
Given the quality of recent SEGA titles (cough,
Sonic the Hedgehog, cough), we remain suspect of the new Marvel games. Still, comic book heroes generally make decent fodder for videogames (
Superman notwithstanding), so we're cautiously optimistic. Here's hoping.
Since we're on the topic, how about we get
Captain America and the Avengers on XBLA? Let's get somebody working on that, mkay?
[Via Joystiq. Thanks, Annie]]
Posted Mar 30th 2007 4:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
Speaking to
N'Gai Croal about the upcoming
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, SEGA of America president, Simon Jeffrey intimated that
Sonic will soon be disappearing from the public eye for a while. Jeffrey notes that "we're not going to be bringing another [
Sonic] game out on the other platforms for quite some time, because we feel that it is time to reinvent Sonic, to make Sonic contemporary again." While the recent Nintendo iterations of
Sonic (
Sonic Rush on DS and
Sonic and the Secret Rings on Wii) have received decent reviews, his most recent outing on PS3 and 360 suffered from
serious problems. Before that, the
Sonic universe was subjected to the God-awful combination of hedgehogs and guns in
Shadow the Hedgehog. To put it bluntly, the
Sonic series has been faltering. Of course, that doesn't mean it hasn't been selling well, as Jeffrey points out.
Frankly, this can't be viewed as anything but a good thing. The quality of
Sonic games has been slipping over the last few years and a "reset" sounds like exactly what
Sonic needs. What would you like to see SEGA do with the next
Sonic. We have only two words. No. Sidekicks.
[Via Joystiq]
Posted Mar 21st 2007 11:00AM by David Dreger
Filed under: Downloads, Xbox Live Marketplace
Sonic the Hedgehog has a a few pieces of new content available on Xbox Live Marketplace. If you enjoyed the boss battles found in the game with, you might be interested in this. You can download, for 150 MS points each, "Boss Attack"s for each of the game's lead hedgehogs. Apparently, if you've completed Sonic, Shadow, or Silver's respective episode, you can use this content for what seems to be a game mode akin to
Heavy Weapon's Boss Blitz, but for individual characters. Do you play the game, and would you pick this up if you do?
Posted Jan 1st 2007 1:00PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News
We haven't touched the Xbox 360 game
Sonic the Hedgehog, but we're kind of glad we didn't. Following Revolution posted a video of the game's load times during some mini mission where you help out one of your human friends. And look what we have, a loading screen literally every five seconds. Seriously, if this loading screen appeared that much in the game Sonic would be ejected and flung against the wall out of disgust. This has to be horrible coding especially when a game like Gears doesn't bring up a load screen once during the game. Do you know of any other 360 game that we should avoid due to extremely long load times? Video after the break.
[Via Digg]
Continue reading Sonic load times are slow ... very slow
Posted Sep 27th 2006 11:30AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Fan stuff, Xbox Live Marketplace
If
Sonic creator, Yuji Naka, knew that this is where SEGA wanted
Sonic to go, it's no wonder he left the company. The
Sonic demo, if you haven't played it yet, is bad. Really bad. Believe me, I am a
Sonic fan. I write for 360 Fanboy it's true, but I am a SEGA fanboy at heart. Thus, it hurts me even more to tell you that the demo is just not very good. It's not unplayable, but parts of it are close. Read on for more.
Continue reading Sonic demo is craptastic
Posted Sep 27th 2006 10:05AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace
Another day, another demo in the latest batch of X06 content. Today we get a brand spanking new demo of
Sonic the Hedgehog. Is it possible we could see a new demo every day? The possibility is titillating. As for the rest, well, there isn't much. Just this:
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men trailer
It should also be noted that the
Alan Wake theme and picture pack are also available now, though they weren't mentioned in yesterday's official list. The picture pack is 80 MS Points and the theme will cost you 150. Curious by their absence are the
promised HD trailers of
Lost Odyssey and
Blue Dragon. We can only hope they'll hit sometime today as scheduled. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime, we're downloading the
Sonic demo and working on the sh*t-ton of X06 info that is starting to hit. Stay tuned.
Posted Sep 26th 2006 11:45AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Downloads, Xbox Live Marketplace
Another day, another batch of BIH content. See what we did there? BIH. See, it's an acronym for Bringing It Home. Pretty sweet, huh? Anywho, here's the almighty list for today:
Forza 2 Physics & Damage trailer
NBA 2K7 trailer
Sonic The Hedgehog trailer
Shrek 3 trailer
Just Cause trailer
NHL 2K7 trailer
The Darkness trailer
LEGO Star Wars II demo(!)
A potent list indeed, capable of discombobulating even those of the strongest constitutions. The real winner here is of course the demo of the UK's recent
chart topper,
LEGO Star Wars II. On a more peculiar note, wasn't there a trailer for
The Darkness up yesterday? Is this one different? We'll be back shortly with our thoughts on the
LSWII demo. We're sure you're waiting with bated breath.
Posted Jul 9th 2006 3:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Downloads
Now that we know when Sonic is coming, why not take a gander at some movies shown at the Japan Expo -- which was held in Paris, oddly enough. The videos have no sound it seems, but they do give us a glimpse at the telekinetic powers of Silver (the white one) and show off one of Sonic's levels, too.
Also in the video: a rather lengthy load screen and a cameo by some guy's face. Enjoy.
Posted Jul 9th 2006 1:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
IGN has the scoop that
Sonic the Hedgehog -- of the next gen variety -- will launch for the 360 on November 17th. This rendition of the classic franchise is supposed to take Sonic back to his roots. One can only hope, I suppose. The mere fact that the number of playable characters has been reduced to three is a
huge improvement in my book.
Anybody out there think this one will recapture the Blue Blur's glory days?
[Via QJ]
Posted Jun 20th 2006 3:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
In celebration of
Sonic the Hedgehog's fifteenth anniversary, SEGA has released a veritable bounty of next gen
Sonic the Hedgehog screens. The shots effectively showcase the game's detailed and otherwise "real perty" graphics. It also looks like one of the new characters will sport psycho-kinetic powers á la
Psi-Ops. I'm still not sure of a hedgehog's odds against a giant lava monster, though.
On a side note, if Big the cat is in this game, I may never play Sonic again.
[Via QJ]
