Knuckles review – Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving
The seven best shows to stream this week
A Man in Full to Shardlake: the seven best shows to stream this week
October 2023
‘Cool, timeless and enigmatic’: Sonic the Hedgehog’s creators on taking him back to the 90s
Longtime Sonic caretaker Takashi Iizuka talks about new game Sonic Superstars, perfecting the platformer, and the blue blur’s longstanding rivalry with Mario
June 2023
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Pushing Buttons: Why Sonic and Mario duelling it out in 2D again will be a spectacle
Sega and Nintendo are releasing new games within days of each other this October, both nostalgic callbacks to the era of 2D platformers. Can they push the genre forward?
November 2022
Sonic Frontiers review – wild, weird and a bit broken
The open-world adventure is brilliant in terms of input and response at the expense of any discernible logic
October 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: a harrowing report on child sex trafficking in the US
Channel 4 heads to Texas, where 80,000 children are victims of the industry, plus the return of Babylon Berlin. Here’s what to watch this evening
May 2022
Forty years of joystick waggling: the glory of multi-sport video games
Despite their chunky graphics and analog sounds, multiplayer sports sims of the 1980s defined a whole era of gaming – can their legacy live on?
April 2022
The joy of Sega: why Sonic is such a tonic
What is driving the box-office success of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, reboots of classic games such as Crazy Taxi and even talk of a Sega Cinematic Universe?
March 2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 review – no surprises in Sega’s speedy-critter sequel
Jim Carrey reprise his role as baddy Robotnik and Idris Elba plays spiny anteater Knuckles in Sonic’s so-so second coming
June 2021
The 15 greatest video games of the 1990s – ranked!
It was the decade Sonic the Hedgehog, the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and so much more entered the world – here are the 15 best games of this golden age of gaming
May 2020
Ranked
Ill-advised car journeys on film – ranked!
Dominic Cummings’ drive to Barnard Castle is unlikely to cut it as a road movie, but here are some nightmarish trips that did make it into the cinema
March 2020
'Boring but cool!': can children predict box-office success?
A test screening of trailers for this year’s most anticipated family films – from Mulan to Peter Rabbit 2 – reveals what kids really want to see at cinemas
February 2020
Sonic the Hedgehog is designed for fans – no wonder movie critics hated it
Sonic the Hedgehog review – running to a standstill
Super Sonic: creating the new sound of Sega's hedgehog hit
Sonic the Hedgehog review – dastardly Jim Carrey gives Sonic the blues
