A promising Kickstarter for a promising 2D platformer, with a pedigree of being worked on by one of the main Sonic Mania developers, tragically couldn’t find its success story. Vertebreaker was an upcoming hopeful that mixed fun looking 2D 16-bit graphics with Sega Genesis-like sound and style. Unfortunately the campaign only raised 5 percent of
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With 2018 behind us already, its time to reflect on all of the great games the year brought us. From God of War to Red Dead Redemption II, plenty of publishers gave knockout performances last year. But who reigned supreme over everyone? Well, believe it or not, Capcom did. Capcom released 14 unique titles in
The hit animated short series Sonic Mania Adventures has a new Holiday Special episode. Sega has released the episode on YouTube today. You may watch the cute short below. Sonic Mania Adventures completed its series run this year back in July, but Sega has put together a brand new short that takes place after the
To hype up the impending launch of Sonic Mania Plus earlier this year, SEGA partnered with Neko Productions to create Sonic Mania Adventures. This was a five-part series of animated shorts that followed Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty, and Ray on various misadventures until they finally all came together to fight Dr. Eggman. Today, the official
I consider 2018 to be one of the best years for gaming in recent memory, even when compared to the lofty heights of 2017. No matter what genre you are a fan of, there was likely a great game for you to enjoy. I played a ton of games this year, both for review and
Between March’s SXSW presentation and the July 17 launch of Sonic Mania Plus, SEGA released Sonic Mania Adventures, a five-part animated series on YouTube. The series went over extremely well, and now SEGA is giving people a closer look at the series’ production in a new Behind the Scenes video. The video features Sonic Mania
Sonic Mania Plus released earlier this week and one of the special things about this edition of the game is that it would see a physical release which included all kinds of goodies. One of those special inclusions with the physical edition of the game is that it would have double-sided box art. The main side of Sonic
Sega has today released the fifth and final episode in the ongoing animated series Sonic Mania Adventures. Following up on the events of the previous episodes, the newest installment finally sees Sonic and friends teaming up to take down Metal Sonic. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Ray, and Mighty are all finally together in this final episode and
When it released last year, Sonic Mania brought players back to the era of the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games with its retro-fueled gameplay, and for SEGA has released a new promotional video for Sonic Mania Plus to celebrate the game’s upcoming release on consoles in the most ’90s-inspired way possible through an infomercial. From its VHS-styled looks to
When Sonic Mania launched last year, it gave the Sonic the Hedgehog series the speed boost it needed. Following several underwhelming or outright bad titles, Sonic Mania ended up becoming one of, if not the best game in the series as it was crafted by loving fans-turned-developers and channeled the best parts of classic Sonic games.
In just eleven days, SEGA will release Sonic Mania Plus, a physical edition of the hit 2017 that also adds new content, including playable characters Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. In addition to hyping the game up with the animated Sonic Mania Adventures series, the publisher has released the first of two
Today, SEGA released the third episode of its animated short series Sonic Mania Adventures, which is aptly titled Sonic & Knuckles. While previous episodes have focused on characters like Sonic, Tails, and Dr. Eggman, this third episode shifts focus to Knuckles and, surprisingly, Ray the Flying Squirrel. Knuckles begins the episode guarding the Master Emerald
During a Sonic the Hedgehog panel at SXSW last month, SEGA announced Sonic Mania Plus, a definitive edition of last year’s critically acclaimed 2D Sonic game that will also be receiving a physical release. Today, SEGA gave more details about what new content will be included in this game, while also announcing that the game
Earlier today we learned that SEGA was poised to reveal two new Sonic the Hedgehog related projects at their Gotta Go Fast: The Official Sonic the Hedgehog Panel at SXSW. One of those projects is Sonic Mania Plus, the definitive physical edition for Sonic Mania that adds new characters and other new content that is releasing this Summer