GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. From the opening title's splash screen, Sonic Mania's presentation is intoxicating. Its colorful, retro 2D graphics and vibrant '90s-inspired pop ...

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 ...

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 ...

It only took Sega a couple of decades and scores of mediocre games but, finally, the Japanese giant has realised 3D Sonic games suck. Seriously, they're awful. That's exactly why - alongside the next ...

SEGA and Epic Games revealed today that both Sonic Mania and the DLC Sonic Mania Plus have both been added to the Epic Games Store. Right now, as we're writing this, you can snag the primary game ...

When Sega invited me behind closed doors to get an early look of Sonic Mania at GDC last month, I wasn't expecting much. I'd seen the trailers and indeed, it looked like a grand homage to franchise, ...

Sega has announced that Sonic Mania will be released for the Nintendo Switch. Sonic Mania is being developed in the style of the Genesis-era Sonic the Hedgehog games and will play at 60 FPS and ...

Sonic Mania starts spectacularly. There's the titular hedgehog himself, popping up on the title screen, waggling his finger at you in the way you remember, his face contorted into an expression that's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The console versions of Sonic Mania are finally released today and ...

And the critics are agreeing as well. The official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter page recently posted a message talking about the accolades that the game has received, currently sitting at a 90 score on ...

Gotta Go Fast… And Then What? My first clear memories as a gaming-obsessed child growing up in the 1990s are of the console war between Sega and Nintendo that spilled from the pages of magazines onto ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the past two decades Sonic games have been trying to target a ...