I heard it before I even played Sonic CD, thanks to it being the music of Green Hills Zone and Mecha Green Hill Zone on the Master System/Game Gear games Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic Chaos.

SEGA wisely deciding to avoid the rumoured (or confirmed?) Smash Bros. launch day, unlike Ubisoft and Watch_Dogs

I don't know whether to be happy or sad that the US never got to experience Toot Toot Sonic Warrior, otherwise known as You Can Do Anything.

Sonic: Lost World was worth it for that level alone. Also Sea Bottom Segue.

I came hoping to see this. Sure it's not quite within the purview of io9, but it's a fantastic opening that sets the tone for the show.

It's clickbait in paper format.

Recent figures from Japan put Nintendo's art department in their new Kyoto building as being 40% female, as I recall. It'd be interesting to see what the numbers are like for music/sound folk.

In the UK, women's magazines tend to have content that would make you look like a psychopath if you collected it in a notebook. Scandal, crime, horrible injuries, affairs, abuse, recipes, fashion, death, and diet tips. And massive pictures of smiling women near grim story titles.

Now do a re-enactment of the first part of Half-Life 2 in the Gone Home home.

Question is, will they talk to Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software? I spent so much time playing Exile 2 and Exile 3 on my old 486. Avernum didn't grab me as much.

I'm glad Sonic made a return, and there are lots of newcomers I'm interested in playing. The main one though? Wii Fit Trainer. I don't know why, but they've been the ones I've been most excited for in the new Smash.

"How do we reach a readership that is accustomed to seeing people dying en masse in war zones as a result of games like this one?"

Simon Belmont in Smash? N-team brawl? That'd be mega rad-icus.

Ridley isn't who I want for Smash. It's Raymond Bryce from Disaster: Day of Crisis. With Snake gone, now it's Raym time.

I just keep thinking back to Microsoft buying Rare Ltd.

We had a local discount chain set up where ours was, the only good thing is that they stock IRN-BRU and Vimto.

Didn't he or someone with him build a branch of Woolworths in Minecraft?

Part of me wishes that some of the 'clone' characters got their own final smash attacks. Link and Toon Link for an example. And for once-transforming characters, Zero Suit Samus gets a new one, but Shiek still has Zelda's?

MegaMan's final smash was definitely the highlight of the Smash Bros Invitational at E3.

Shimpan or no sale.