Doodling away at his desk, a skinny and unassuming young man, Li Feng, ponders how to draw a political cartoon regarding missile defence shields. Li, 32, is a graphic artist for a media company in Beijing and he attributes his choice of career to his upbringing, an upbringing in China, with video games.
Yesterday, Nike’s soccor division cranked up “My Time is Now”, which looks like the big campaign it’ll have going during UEFA Euro 2012 in about three weeks. It shows a soccer pitch, the locker room, a team dinner all overrun by ordinary joes. OK, I get all that.
Sonic just can’t get enough attention from collectible statue creators First 4 Figurines. Though committed to other franchises, and even introducing a few of Sonic’s friends in previous products, First 4 Figurines has covered Sonic, Metal Sonic and Super Sonic.
Take a look at this commercial, for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). It’s for the Indian market, and while it’s a little rough around the edges, it’s mostly what you’d expect from the mid-1990s. Except for that weird “Shaw Wallace” business.
Artist and toy customiser Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy, whose work we’ve featured a few times here before, returns with a Sonic the Hedgehog piece that sheds new light on the term “Metal Sonic”.
Last Friday, Sega introduced us to the sequel to their alternative to Nintendo’s Mario Kart. Racing against their PR team and the Sonic brand manager, I learned how developer Sumo Digital is working on setting Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed apart from their first Sega kart racing title.
A false alarm related to keylogging, which seemed like a pretty raw deal for a promising fan remake of classic platformer Sonic 2, turned out to be just the tip of a giant iceberg scientists have named “Drama”. One that’s now sunk the game.
A user at The Sonic Stadium, a Sonic the Hedgehog, noticed that a beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 was available to download through Steam earlier today. Though the leak has since been plugged its resulted in some additional screenshots of the game and early user impressions.
As promised, today we’ll be looking at Sonic the Fighters.
