Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. With the release of Sonic Mania this August looming ever closer, we are finally getting to see how this new game builds on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonic Mania also makes the most of modern hardware. Sure, it still looks like a game plucked out of the Sega Genesis library, but it's tuned to run at 60 frames per second.

This week, the fruits of that partnership reached a new high point in Sonic Mania, an all-new 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog platformer that sees the mascot return to his glory days. That might sound a ...

With Sonic Mania, Sega has done the unthinkable for a corporate player in video games: They’ve given it to the fans. Sega has had a nightmarish time trying to rekindle the magic and majesty of ...

With Sonic Mania, Sega brings Sonic back to his classic 2D sidescrolling roots, taking direct inspiration from the 16-bit games that originally propelled Sonic and friends to superstardom.