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Sega's E3 2007 Nintendo lineup: Sonic and Mario, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

Sega and Nintendo working together still vaguely weirds me out. I grew up when children became bitter enemies or best friends depending on whether they thought the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis was the better system. To this day, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario working together just feels wrong, somehow.

That's not stopping Sega, chummier than ever with Nintendo, from showing off its upcoming Wii and DS titles at E3. We've heard about these games before, but E3 will bring more screenshots, more trailers, hands-on impressions, and harder release dates for all of these games.

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Sega's spring Crush

We speak not of Sega mascot Sonic the Hedgehog's romantic obsession with gold rings (creepy as that may be), but of Crush, an upcoming platform and puzzle game for the Sony PSP that we saw at Sega's spring press event here in NYC.

This puzzle game caught our eye with its unusual 2D/3D design. Players traverse the find-the-exit levels by temporarily "crushing" the game's geometry down to a 2D view, allowing the main character to get to otherwise impossible-to-reach places. It's similar in some ways to Super Paper Mario for the Wii, and … Read more

Happy belated birthday, Sonic!

Last week at DigitalLife, a couple of reasonably important announcements were made. There was that new Treo that comes in pretty colors. And a few whispers about Vista. But there was also something that the gaming crowd might consider more important: the 15th birthday of Sega's classic video game character Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah, his first game came out in 1991. Feel old yet?

Sonic was kind enough to pose with some hotshot reporters at a DigitalLife kickoff party. From left: CNET TV's Rich DeMuro, Sonic the Hedgehog, and yours truly.