Enlarge / Knuckles and Sonic. (credit: Paramount / Sega) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the snappy, fun-for-everyone film that the first live-action Sonic film should have been. It’s allegiant to the source games and comics without getting hamstrung by reverence. Its best laughs are earned. Its cheesiest laughs are easy to shrug off. And while […]
Enlarge / Shenmue protagonist Ryo Hazuki bids his father farewell in an iconic game series moment. The new animated TV version expands upon this scene in interesting ways, and it’s a great start for the series’ first season. (credit: Adult Swim / Crunchyroll) For its 23 years of existence, Sega’s game series, Shenmue , has […]
Enlarge / Sega is thinking long and hard about whether it wants NFTs to become part of its brand image. Non-fungible tokens have become the buzziest of concepts among big-budget game publishers these days. While Ubisoft is the only big-name publisher to actually roll out in-game NFT items thus far, everyone from Square Enix to EA […]
Dropped Judgment ‘s action detective, Takayuki Yagami. At a glance, Lost Judgment may seem intimidating to anyone who hasn’t graduated from Sega’s school of hard Yakuza knocks. To start, it’s a spinoff of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s long-running crime series, which is saddled with a truckload of backstory. On top of that, it’s a direct follow-up […]
Run, Sonia, run! [credit: YouTube / Dreamcast Sega Info ] Back in 1999, journalists and industry insiders attending that year’s E3 got to try an early demo version of Castlevania: Resurrection for the Sega Dreamcast. When the game was canceled in March of 2000, those lucky few became the only people outside of Konami to […]
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Sega lawyers coming for SteamDB… Here at Ars Technica, we’ve covered plenty of examples of somewhat overzealous uses of DMCA takedown notices, to say the least. But Sega’s latest takedown request, for an innocuous page on a Steam data-tracking site, might take the cake. As SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik shared […]
The intertwining paths of Chemical Plant Zone are a thing of beauty at this scale. A group of coders has decompiled the source code for Sonic the Hedgehog and its 1992 sequel from their well-regarded 2013 smartphone ports. That means these heavily enhanced versions of the early ’90s Genesis games—developed by Christian Whitehead using the […]
BONK! [credit: Nickireda ] Back in 1992, id Software proved that it can be a lot of fun to shot virtual Nazis on your computer with Wolfenstein 3D. Back in 2001, Amusement Vision proved it can be a lot of fun to roll around in a sphere collecting bananas with Super Monkey Ball. This week, […]