Sonic Rush

Now here's a video to warm the geekier corners of your heart. We all know that the multi-sensory excitement of opening a new game is one of the very best facets of the entire spread of human experience, but what if that game is 14 years old and still sealed up and fractory fresh? Then my friends, you have your hands on a sexy digital time-warp.

Adverts. Posters. Flyers. All preserved like technicolour, Sega-branded fossils from way back in the primordial mists of 1997. And fresh manual smell, contained and matured for nearly a decade and a half! A gleaming shiny disc, finally released from its plastic prison after many long years in the darkness! And all of this occured completely out of the blue, when a man was randomly lent a sealed copy of Sonic R at the PAX East retro game room. It's a beautiful, gleeful moment, and you really need to watch it now.

VideoGamer.com writes: Have you ever wondered why Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim? No, neither had we - but that didn't stop us from stumbling across the answer during a brief-yet-bizarre interview with Yuji Naka.

The free magazine for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS gamers includes Worms Open Warfare 2, Pursuit Force 2, Sonic Rush Adventure and Pokemon Diamond and Pearl previews. It also has reviews of Anno 1701, Superbikes 07, Sim City and more.

These brand new screens reveal Blaze the cat's role in the 2D - and sometimes 3D - DS game for the first time. Sharing the limelight with the blue 'hog, comes this purple feline who is also able to swing, slide and race through DS's two-screened world. And just like the spiked speed-freak, Blaze cleverly flits between the top and bottoms screens, maximising the playing area as you race down a slope, or leap upwards on a spring.Sonic Rush will be released for Nintendo DS in the

Sega has just announced in LA that retro hedgehog hero Sonic will make his DS debut this autumn in the guise of Sonic Rush. The 2D platformer (with 3D effects) features Sonic along with a new character for the Sonic universe, Blaze the Cat. Hmmm. According to Sega, "This dynamic duo heads out in search of the powerful and dangerous Sol Emeralds to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands. In their quest, Sonic and Blaze must battle all-new enemies and, as they do, ripple effects