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Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice Footage Released

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice Footage Released

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Some new footage for Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice has found its way online in a new livestream by Sega (via Siliconcera). You can check out the video in the player below. The new game features Sonic the Hedgehog and his pals, who have to stop Dr. Eggman and an evil robot named D-Fekt from destroying the environment. Based on the new footage, players can switch between playing as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Sticks and also Amy in order to progress their way through different levels. In addition, it looks like it will be a complete 2D action-adventure platform gameplay experience. Besides some 3D-rendered graphics, it doesn’t appear that there’s any 3D gameplay here. Still the gameplay footage looks like a nice traditional throwback to the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games and style from the early 1990s. Hopefully, the overall look of this game will bode well for the future of the franchise. Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is a Nintendo 3DS release. It hits shelves on September 27 in North America.

Sega Admits Sonic Has Been A Bad Hedgehog Lately

Sega Admits Sonic Has Been A Bad Hedgehog Lately

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With a few exceptions, the majority of Sonic The Hedgehog’s video games have been lackluster since the game industry transitioned to polygons and 3D planes. A sizable amount of people are Sonic fans, yet haven’t purchased an actual Sonic video game in a long time. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like Sega is aware of how bad things have gotten, but they may be starting to wake up.  Sega of America’s chief operating officer Chris Olson spoke with Polygon about the problem. While Olson emphasized the importance of attracting young gamers, he added “there’s still a very large-sized audience with old-school Sonic fans who grew up with the Genesis,” and that perhaps focusing on one market they’ve repelled the other. (The grown-ups are the ones who buy the games for their kids, after all.) “We have an obligation to the fans of Sonic and the consumer,” Olson said. So while the company will continue to “[evaluate] different ways to bring cool experiences” based on Sonic, it will do so with an

Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice Delayed

Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice Delayed

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Sonic has been on anything but a roll in regards to video games. In fact, you could say his most significant video game appearance recently is him being in Super Smash Bros. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, was so bad (for both gamers and reviewers) that Sonic honestly almost stopped making Sonic games. They did commit to a 3DS title called Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, but as the Sega Blog revealed, that’s now been delayed. “The team at SEGA has decided to delay the release date of Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, which we announced for Nintendo 3DS earlier this year. In order to make sure the game has the time and polish needed, we’re moving it out into 2016. No exact window from us, just yet – it’ll be ready when it’s ready! In the grand scheme of things, while the downside is that you won’t be playing the game this year, the upside is that what you’ll play next year, and what fans will continue to play

Sega Admits Sonic Boom Did NOT Work, Future of the Series In Question

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Sonic the Hedgehog has a very curious history. He shot out like a rocket and wowed gamers with his high speed and attitude, which was meant to be an antithesis to Mario. And it worked. Gamers loved his titles. Then…slowly…his games started getting worse. Now, even though he’s got a great comics line, and even a good TV show (according to fans), his games just can’t seem to get good again. The latest attempt to “fix” the Sonic franchise was via Sonic Boom: The Rise of Lyric on the Wii U and 3DS. Sadly, this was game was panned by both critics and gamers. Numerous bugs made the game a joke at best. And other gameplays aspects made gamers furious at what was happening to the favorite blue speedster. Ironically, Sega themselves admit they did wrong with Sonic Boom. In a recent podcast, Sega Producer Stephen Frost spelled out what went wrong with the game. “The biggest mistake in Boom was trying to cram too much into the game,” he