After years of disappointments, with only a few decent games offering a small reprieve from an onslaught of garbage, the Sonic series has its first great entry in years. Sonic Mania, which comes out ...

1992 is alive and well. Christian Whitehead and team turn in a beautiful rewrite of the 16-bit Sonic games with all-new stages. There's an area in Sonic 2's Chemical Plant Zone that still has me ...

Unnecessary, egregious re-releases have become commonplace in today’s gaming industry, so much so that Bethesda felt compelled to poke fun at themselves during their annual E3 presentation for the ...

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They actually did it. They nailed it. Sonic is back. Or he's back, at least, until the extremely dubious-looking Sonic Forces launches later this year. Forces is what it is, but Mania is the real deal ...

Update August 30, 2017: After a bit of a snafu yesterday, Sega have pushed out a Sonic Mania patch that allows you to play the game offline. Following community outcry, Sega have rectified the always ...

Again, that's no surprise, considering it was created by a team that made a name for itself in modernizing Sonic's original adventures -- but this faithful re-creation of the original game's physics ...

Sonic Mania is now four years old, which may not be a huge landmark but, well, this Sonic-nerd wants to celebrate it anyway. It is the game, after all, that reminds players old and new that, actually, ...

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A brand new 2D platformer in the style of the Sega Genesis games, Sonic Mania is both an excellent game and a reminder of why so many people fell in love with that blue hedgehog in the first place.

While SEGA is working on its next 3D Sonic game, Sonic Frontiers, the fan community has been keeping Sonic Mania alive with the help of mods. It's the first 2D Sonic game to be released since the ...

Sonic Mania is a 2D love letter to the classic Sonic games from the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Created by Christian Whitehead and his team, in partnership with Sega, Sonic Mania blends brand-new stages ...