Hedgehogs

“The fun, snappy Sonic Dream Team might just hold the blueprints for the hedgehog's future.” Pros Great cartoon look Snappy movement Easy to learn controls Very replayable levels Cons Finnicky camera Over just as it starts getting creative Recycled challenges…

By Rob Golum, Bloomberg The US home of Sonic the Hedgehog is now a union shop. Workers at Sega of America say they won an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. With the vote, their affiliate of the Communications Workers of America becomes the largest multidepartment unit of organized employees within the US video-game industry, according to a statement Monday. The company is part of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., of Japan, parent of the popular Sonic the Hedgehog game. According to a CWA spokeswoman, the…

Sega announced a new expansion today for Sonic Origins, its remastered collection of old-school Sonic the Hedgehog games. Sonic Origins Plus adds 12 classic Game Gear titles and new playable characters. Sonic Origins Plus adds the entire library of Sonic Game Gear installments, which includes: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Chaos, Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Blast, Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic 2 in 1, Tails Adventure, Tails' Skypatrol, Sonic Spinball. Additionally, the…

TODAY'S BEST DEALSDespite the hedgehog's long list of titles that amount to more misses than hits in recent years, I am always rooting for the Sonic Team and Sega to deliver a worthwhile experience. It took me roughly 25 hours, but I beat Sonic Frontiers on Switch and can say that it's one of the hedgehog's best 3D games in a long time, although it isn't perfect. The game opens with Sonic, Tails, and Amy flying on a plane toward the Starfall Islands. Suddenly, a strange Cyberspace event swallows the friends, but Sonic…

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hedgehogs are a lot of things. They’re small and spiky, covered in quills. And some people even say they’re cute. Now, a new study says that they are also the origin of resistance to methicillin, an antibiotic derived from penicillin. That pointed observation appears in the journal Nature. Antibiotic resistance is a huge clinical problem. And methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus…otherwise known as M-R-S-A or MRSA…can be difficult to…