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Fan-made Sonic game prototype imagines open-world retro parkour

See those green hills?

Sonic superfans The Great Lange and Murasaki Fox have whipped up a prototype for a fan-made game called Sonic Utopia and it's got a heck of a trailer.

Sonic the Hedgehog turns 25 today

He's grown up so fast.

Sega mascot and Mario arch-frenemy Sonic the Hedgehog has turned 25 today.

Sonic CD races to the top of December PSN chart

Trine 2 manages a top 5 debut in the US.

Sega's Sonic CD re-release was the most downloaded title on the US PlayStation Network during December, Sony has announced.

Sonic games, DLC release on PC today

Catch up.

Three dollops of Sonic the Hedgehog content will be available to download on PC from today, following the release of Sonic Generations last month, Sega has announced.

Sonic CD Review

To be this good takes ages.

Sega is a shadow of its former self. Its star developers are scattered to the four winds while treasured series hang cracked and dry from so much tireless, often unsympathetic milking. The company is perhaps the greatest casualty in the collapse of the arcade scene, once the fertile breeding ground for its most daring ideas and brightest designers.

Nevertheless, Sega still has one jewel to its name: its fans. Sega's devotees are loyal and tenacious - and many are also talented and industrious. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in this remake of Sonic CD, a lavish, widescreen production that puts almost every other Japanese publisher who is remaking yesteryear's classics, from Treasure to Nintendo, to shame with its generosity. It was, in large part, made by a fan.

In 2009, after a number of somewhat disappointing iOS ports of classic Sega titles, the publisher put out a call to fans asking which game the community might like to see re-released next. Australian coder Christian Whitehead responded not with a wish list but rather with a YouTube video showing a proof-of-concept port of the classic Mega CD title Sonic CD, created with his own Retro Engine Development Kit.