IGN, who only recently bashed the Sonic franchise have released a new preview video that talks highly of Sonic mania. What is going on here?!
The Indie Live Expo Spring 2026 Showcase happened, and the Indie Spotlight segment of the event included plenty of reveals and world premieres.
In an exclusive interview with Game File, new(ish) Xbox boss Asha Sharma and Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty explain their vision for Microsoft’s gaming division
A good start would be to release games to go with the console. My Xbox Series X has gathered dust virtually from launch. My advice would be to ditch a next console and release games on PC, PlayStation and Switch. Another idea would be a hybrid console based on Xbox Series X tech and go the same route as Nintendo. Another idea would be to pull out of gaming altogether. Plenty of options there.
These classics need to make a return.
Pre-ordered mine a few days ago. Love this concept and hope there are more games announced. I can’t justify paying the prices for games that collectors are asking for. It’s the primary reason I own almost every console except the Neo Geo.
I've pre ordered one here in the UK, no games though, as I'll move it on for a higher price. The white model looks awesome, but as expected, the price is too high. We'll probably see more of those all in one cartridges from China containing every AES game. In the UK, AES+ game at £70 ($95) is better than eye watering prices for the originals, but these games are so old and I can honestly say SNK didn't release many classics. The Metal Slug series is the only series I rate, there were just too many Street Fighter clones and not enough scrolling fighting games. Overall, the Neo Geo was poor for all genres apart from one on one fighters. Videos on YouTube asking for games from that console generation to be ported to the AES+, but who'd want to pay £70 for Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2? There's a lot of SNK collections out there, the best being Metal Slug Anthology on the PlayStation 2. The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on the Switch contains 12 games for around £30, instead of £840 if released on the AES+. For collectors, the AES+ is the best news since sliced bread. Are there enough SNK fans out there? Nowhere near. Those £70 cartridges will soon start creeping up in price and it'll be a re-run of the original console.
One persons opinion on Sonic does not mean IGN hates sonic, but nice try.
Articles from both ends of the spectrum creates more clicks.
That's why we get PS4 sux one day, then Xbox sux the next, from the same author
IGN is garbage.
And they want us to take gaming journalism seriously.........
Well, Sonic's reputation IS/WAS in the dumps. The first few Sonic games were amazing, and obviously Sonic and Sega Racing were very good, but apart from that, sadly, most Sonic games have been very disappointing (plain bad, actually), and that's not just the games, but the direction they took Sonic himself (the character, design-wise, personality-wise) was also crapped on by Sega, plus they kept adding terrible new characters to the roster, who weren't even needed in the first place.
The new 2D Sonic game looks very promising, so hopefully at least we see THAT game doing the old Sonic a bit of justice, but I can understand why IGN or anyone else would claim Sonic has been crap for way too long now. Sega really doesn't seem to understand what made us love Sonic in the first place, and they've taken him in every direction since, except just straight to the 2D beginnings, which is what the fans always said they wanted.
Hopefully now, Sega finally gets it. Although the 3D announced game looks terrible again,so all my hope is solely on the 2D Sonic game, as well as hoping they'll announce a new Sonic & Sega Racing game...