Tomorrow is October, the month of Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Though it won’t be long before everyone and their avatar will have their own “HANDS-ON” opinion of the latest Sonic game, SEGA is priming the hype train with their latest trailer. Exclusive to Gamespot, the trailer showcases the penultimate level in the game, Mad Gear. [...]

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Remember the console wars?  Yeah, we do. We lived them. It’s the early 1990s.  Your old NES is collecting dust, but there’s a new console on the market, the SEGA Genesis.  It was time to put that 8-bit machine to bed in order to get your Blast Processing on.  Sonic is lighting up your television [...]

Our Sonic 4 thread is closed until the game releases, so some of the ones responsible for its lock have had to find something else to do.  Good to see that they’re getting outside.  Bad to see that this might cause me to wake up in a cold sweat tonight. [Thanks to our friends at [...]

It’s time for Retro Tuesday again, duuuuUUUUuuuudes.  For rizzle. This week’s featured artist is an old standby when it comes to classic Sonic art (or pics of dinosaurs), gsilverfish.  Here’s a super cool concept that spins a new perspective on the original Sonic the Hedgehog. What if three of the levels went deeper and deeper [...]

Despite other sites reporting a lockdown on Sonic 4 discussion here, well, this certainly warrants coverage, no? According to IGN, Sonic 4 is homing in to consoles as early as the early half of next month. Apple’s iDevices will be the first to get the game on Oct. 7, though no price was confirmed at [...]

Apple and Sega have had a pretty good relationship getting games onto the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Even Sonic 4 is going to run on their devices! For some people though that just isn’t quite integrated enough. A dedicated SEGA fan in Japan decided to take advantage of the new iPod Nano’s tiny-as-hell form [...]

All right, Retro-ites(?), these are the Monday Links, where we recap the past week of Sonic Retro and SEGA happenings.  It was a pretty busy week, so head on down and start clickin’ to get over your case of “The Mondays.” Sonic Retro News Sorry for the downtime and overall slowness yesterday.  Our servers are [...]

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If you’ve been bummed lately by the download-only nature of Sonic the Hedgehog 4‘s release, Barry the Nomad has a pleasant surprise for you–a custom conversion of Genesis box art to make a slick companion to the other Genesis boxes on your shelf. Grab a copy of the required files to print out your own [...]