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 ...

Sonic Mania opens as Dr. Eggman once again steals ... slowing things down can occasionally pose its own frustration. Sonic has always been terrible with precise platforming. The controls and ...

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but the cut pose became legend among the hardcore game-hacking fans. Sonic Mania has both, of course - he now punches the air, then does his finger waggle. At last, those animations made it into a ...

Nintendo console wars with this fun Easter egg hidden in Sonic Mania’s Studiopolis Act 2 ... an act before entering into his victory pose — a reference to early pre-release images to a ...

Sonic Mania (out now on PS4, Xbox One and Switch; Aug. 29 on PC) built up a ton of hype before release, and unlike many recent installments, actually brought the goods and snatched top scores from ...

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 disappointment of Sonic 4 back in 2010, and it's more than made up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. It has been a long time since I actively looked forward to a ...

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are back in Sonic Mania, a game that remixes everything you know and love about the Sonic games from the Genesis era. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Editor’s note: Sonic Mania Plus is an expanded version of the original game released last summer. We reviewed the original game already, and awarded it a 5 out of 5. We thought it was brilliant ...