Delightful ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ speedrun is the perfect distillation of what makes speedrunning great

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At a hotel in Maryland, about 15 miles outside of Washington D.C., hundreds of gamers gather to play (and watch people play) over a hundred games as quickly as they can, back-to-back, at all hours of the day and night, for a week straight.

This is Awesome Games Done Quick, an annual speedrunning charity marathon that raises money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and on Tuesday night one of the best runs of the week happened: Sonic the Hedgehog run by Dr. Fatbody.

This run is a distillation of what makes speedrunning great — and it just so happens to be a game that’s all about going fast. Read more…

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The internet is obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog’s muscular, sculpted sex legs

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Stupid sexy Sonic.

A poster for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie surfaced on Monday morning, and the internet has declared that Hollywood’s vision of the eponymous speedy rodent is a horrifying monster of Lovecraftian proportions. But god damn, would you look at those sexy legs?

In the poster, the video game mascot’s body is seen only in silhouette — a weirdly muscular and human-shaped look. Take a gander. (It’s a motion poster, so you have to hit play.)

With so much left to the imagination, this kind of response was almost unavoidable. Maybe that was the point.  Read more…

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Somehow, someone bought a brand new copy of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ in 2018

Someone just bought a brand new copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Game Gear.
No, it wasn’t from an online reseller or a copy from a consignment store. Someone bought Sonic 2, new, at a store that has apparently been carrying it since the game…

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Machine Learning Zone: OpenAI competition takes on Sonic the Hedgehog

Retro video games have been a useful platform for machine learning research for years, and the systems created have been creeping through the classics, mastering them as they go. Sonic the Hedgehog may be the next to fall: OpenAI has announced a competition to apply machine learning to the classic Sega game.

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