Sonic Runners races on to iOS

Purist fans of the flashy hedgehog might be a bit upset by this, but Sonic has joined the endless army of endless runner games with another free to play, DLC-laden offering. Going back to the look of the MegaDrive/Genesis original, its a least bit more pacey than the lame Sonic Dash effort. All you have to do is tap to jump to keep Sonic or his racing pals safe.

It comes with competitive play modes; “Rival League”, “Friend,” “World,” and “Historical.” leaderboards. The game features Sonic and his friends packing all sorts of bonuses like speed, gem collection, and more as they race their way to the top.

Sonic fans can look forward to special missions, new characters and buddies, in-game events and more content to follow. Unfortunately the game treats all players like four year olds, and there's none of the fun level design of early Sonic.

Sonic Dash brings a blue blur to endless runners

Having aped the many jumping games on iOS, Sega will bring its blue spiky mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog to the endless running type of game popularized by Temple Run and many more. Sega's hero will be doing what he does best — making a fast and frenzied 3D dash through stunning stages, as he navigates over, around, and through interminable dangers.

Players will be able to challenge their friends and compete on leaderboards and you have to suspect there will be some in-game DLC purchases to snap up.

Sonic comes to the iPad with Sega's Sonic Jump

You can't put a good hedgehog down, despite many attempts by Sega over the years with crap games. But the little blue spiky one is now headed to iOS in an all new (well, redesigned mobile) game that looks part Rainbow Islands, part BombJack.

Hard to tell how it plays, other then you tap the screen to jump and tilt to move. Could this be the game that kills Sega's mascot? The game is out tomorrow for a couple of £$€ etc.

Sega brings Zaxxon and Crazy Taxi to iOS

Zaxxon was pretty rubbish in my mind, but I had only played the Spectrum version. Crazy Taxi on the other hand was one of the best Dreamcast games and has been wrecked in recent revisits due to poor licensing of the music or crap conversions.



Both are coming to iOS soon, and although the clip is really short it looks like this version will come with the Offspring tracks that made the original so fun. Zaxxon has been seriously upgrade to be nothing like the original, which I hope is buried in there somewhere. Still, if you like the inner-Death Star bits from the Star Wars games, this should appeal.

Sega's Jet Set Radio coming to the iPad

Continuing the rise of mainstream games appearing on tablets, Sega will bring Dreamcast classic JSR to the iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Jet Set Radio includes the same slick gameplay, genre-blending soundtrack, and pioneering art style as the other versions alongside new features like OpenFeint and Retina display support and the awesome ability to use pictures taken with your phone or tablet’s camera as in-game graffiti!

There's no immediate clue from the screen as to how the controls will work, but you can rip through Traverse Shibuya terminal on the train, silence the Love Shockers on your lunch break, blast through Benten-cho while boarding a bus and upload achievements to Facebook while riding a ferry! The game was originally announced for PS Vita and consoles, bet that these versions will be a fair bit cheaper.