Ben Schwartz is a delight. He’s proven that in any number of beloved projects—DuckTales, Parks And Rec, Comedy Bang! Bang!, House Of Pies, etc.—but never as quickly or as succinctly as in the following video clip, in which he somehow convinces Larry King to take his best shot at voicing classic video game character…
After months of fervent speculation—and what we have to assume was a truly heartbreaking period of limbo for former franchise star Jaleel White—Paramount has finally announced the actor who will become the new center of the Sonic The Hedgehog video game/film/worrying fan art universe: Ben Schwartz.
Ensuring that his voice will likely be the screechiest, most “I hate that hedgehog!” it’s been in years, Jim Carrey has just been announced as negotiating to play the villain in Paramount’s upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Carrey will likely play Dr. Robotnik in the upcoming live-action/CGI hybrid, based on the long-…
Dooming himself to a life of jokes about chili dogs, “gotta go fast,” and an unsettlingly vast tapestry of diverse and determined internet pornography, actor James Marsden has willingly joined himself to the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise. Specifically, the Westworld star—who’s made a career out of standing handsomely…
After nearly 300 issues at Archie Comics, the Sonic The Hedgehog comic is getting relaunched at IDW. But other than the numbering and the publisher, not much else is changing for the spiky blue speedster. Ian Flynn is sticking around as writer, and he’s joined by a lineup of veteran Sonic artists for new issues…
We’ve known for a while now that John Carpenter, the legendary director of films like Halloween and The Thing, is a big video game fan. And it’s not just horror, although he has praised The Evil Within and Dead Space (the latter of which owes a tremendous debt to The Thing). He loves Borderlands and Assassin’s Creed,…
Today’s question is in honors of Halloween:
During the heyday of their 16-bit console the Genesis, Sega famously ran advertisements that claimed “the Genesis does what Ninetendon’t.” Not only was it a sick burn on their biggest competitor at the time, but it was also right in line with Sega’s cocky-confident branding. They wanted kids to know that they did…
As pop culture’s booming nostalgia-industrial complex goes to show, the comfort and delight we find in the familiar is only amplified the longer we go without it. Two of gaming’s most recent hits, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Sonic Mania, reach back more than 20 years for the subjects of their respective…
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Sonic Mania isn’t your typical nostalgia trip. Yes, it borrows the look, feel, music, and even specific levels from Sonic The Hedgehog’s Genesis-era glory days, but there’s more to it than the cynical recycling of fondly remembered bits. Mania’s development team—an assemblage of developers from outside Sega who cut…
Sega is launching a new mobile gaming initiative called Sega Forever, the long-lived publisher announced today. Under that banner, the company plans to bring loads of games from all eras of its 30-year history to Android and iOS devices as free-to-play apps. While all the games will share some universal trappings,…
Yesterday a Twitter user by the name of Ktr4ks posted a video of what appears to be a hacked version of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 starring Yoshi, everyone’s favorite disposable dinosaur buddy. Ktr4ks even posted a direct link to download the game and play it yourself, assuming you have a Sega Genesis emulation program to…
After leaving Deadpool 2 earlier this month over “creative differences,” original Deadpool director Tim Miller has moved on to a big-screen Sonic The Hedgehog movie—meaning he’s going from chimichangas to chili dogs. (For readers who are less nerdy, chimichangas are Deadpool’s favorite food and chili dogs are Sonic’s…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Best, Worst, Weirdest focuses on three installments of a long-running video game series to explore its strengths, its failings, and where it got lost.
The Sega Genesis Classics Collection has been available on Steam for several years now, offering a way to buy and play dozens of Genesis games on your modern computer without turning to the murky waters of unlicensed emulation. It was a pretty clumsy product, little more than an official and unintuitive version of the…
Video games leave all sorts of legacies in their wake: carpal-tunnel syndrome, destroyed couch cushions, intense arguments with supposed friends, and countless hours of lost productivity. But the truly great games deserved to be enshrined in the video Valhalla that is the Strong Museum’s World Video Game Hall Of Fame…
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As the 1990s dawned and Nintendo soared, Sega desperately needed a new mascot. The video game company’s previous icon, floppy-haired moppet Alex Kidd, had failed to capture the public’s imagination. Naoto Ohshima, a designer and artist at Sega of Japan, had a better idea: an aggressive blue hedgehog named Sonic.…
