Exams have a habit of getting in the way… Expect a DtN update next week, hopefully with something  a bit more awesome to make up for the lack of update this week!

Once again the Nemain has been merch hunting and has hooked something most excellent to share with you guys…

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There are a fair few games out there which are brilliant, just never got the attention they deserved, either because they were on a console no one liked, too late in the consoles life cycle or in this case far too far ahead of its time.

So what is this game? Well while Mario and Sonic duked it out on the consoles this little gem was made as a rival for the other gaming format, the PC. Of course since most of the popular PC games had shooting in them (Doom) we couldn’t very well negelct that audience. Guess what? It worked brilliantly.

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Sonic and SEGA Allstars Racing is the game a lot of Sonic fans have been waiting a long time for, over the years we’ve had Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic R, Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders Zero Gravity. All of which have varied in quality from tolerable to terrible. Never has there been a game that did for Sonic what Mario Kart did for Mario, that is until now.

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At times the Sonic community can have a really good sense of humour, and on April fools day this is especially true, so for those of you who missed the fun here’s a quick round up of the best pranks.

First off I’m happy to announce that Urtheart’s post yesterday about a ‘Classic’ mode in Sonic 4 is not true, although his sentiments are still true. I’m rather happy with how that one turned out actually, we caught a few people with it and pissed off a few others, mission complete!
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I’ve been meaning to get around to doing one of these for a while now but recently I haven’t been able to find much to talk about, that is until I got an email. Yes I do occasionally get emails, and no it’s not hate mail. The email spoke of a new podcast called SEGA Addicts celebrating all things SEGA, I was intrigued so I went along to have a listen.

Featuing Jim Sterling, Topher Cantler, Tom Kyzivat, and Kris Knigge, the podcasts are just fun chats about various SEGA games or aspects of SEGA between a bunch of friends who want to share their love for the greatest games company on earth. It’s a nice listen and at times I found myself laughing with them, there’s a peculiar fascination with food that runs through the shows but it just adds to the relaxed atmosphere.

Well worth a listen even if it’s just to help kill a Sunday afternoon.

Over the last few years SEGA have been re-releasing collections of old Sonic games for various platforms, and then you have the downloadable versions for the consoles/phones, so you can see why fans are getting a little tired of them. This year it’s Sonic Classic Collection for the DS, okay I’ll give SEGA credit for picking a console they haven’t released these games on before (unless you count the abysmal port of Sonic 1 to the GBA about four years ago).

The question is it good? Or is it another slapped together re-release to cash in on some of the back catalogue… again. (continue reading…)

Where have I been? Don’t ask!
Anyway remember when we put up this trailer?

Well SEGA kindly gave both me and Vger a copy (see another post somewhere) but because Vger doesn’t like the Wii I decided I would try it, so let’s get down to the Nitty Gritty of it all!
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to get the chance to preview Sonic and SEGA Allstars Racing, but before I get started on my impressions of the game I’d like to note that the build I played is not the final one, and also the Xbox 360′s were operating in a highly humid environment with two of them already rendered inoperable by the time we got there, and as anyone who has a 360 can testify to they can be highly temperamental at the best of times. I say this now so that people fully understand the circumstances of this demo and not make any wild assumptions about the quality of the final product.

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Now I don’t pretend to be an expert on roller-coasters, far from it, my experience extends as far as visiting a few theme parks and hours of time wasted on Roller-coaster Tycon (the first one, all later versions are rubbish), however roller-coasters are one of my passions. Perhaps a passion I don’t indulge in as much as I should but if I did then I’d have no time to keep track of the goings on in the world of Sonic (it’s a full time job… on top of a full time job).

As you should have noticed by now, I go the opportunity to have a go on the new Sonic Spinball ride at Alton Towers over the weekend and so what follows are a few of my thoughts on the ride. (continue reading…)

After my trip to SOS last year I’ve been resting up a bit, but I’ve finally decided to come back out of hiding for a little trip SEGA invited me along to something about a new roller-coaster and a themed room, once again I was accompanied by my handler/photographer Vger, I really need to hire someone else, his inside jacket pocket is way too small for me.

I’m Back!
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