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Until Sonic The Hedgehog debuted on the SEGA Genesis, a fat plumber somewhat inexplicably served as the game industry’s most recognizable icon. All of that changed when gamers saw SEGA’s blue blur careening off springs, zipping through loops and wagging his finger disapprovingly at people still playing “baby games” on Super Nintendo.

After several failed mascots (Alex Kidd, we hardly knew ye!) SEGA scored a major hit with Sonic, and he has remained the company’s spokes-hedgehog for nearly three decades, appearing in dozens of titles across SEGA platforms. Even after the failure of the Dreamcast, Sonic endured, finding new life on Microsoft, Sony and even — gasp — Nintendo consoles.  After the most recent reveal of Sonic in the upcoming live-action film, we thought we’d take a look at this visual history of the blue hedgehog to celebrate over 25 years of ramps, rings and Robotnik.

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Half of all Switch owners purchased Nintendo’s three biggest games, according to Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime.

Speaking to IGN about Switch’s success following The Game Awards last week, Fils-Aime said the attach rate for Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe represents a record in the United States.

“Those three games continue to attach to hardware at better than 50 percent,” Fils-Aime told IGN. “Just think about that. For everyone who owns a system, more than one out of every two have bought Zelda, more than one out of every two have bought Kart, more than one out of every two have bought Odyssey. That’s never happened in U.S. video game history.”

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4A Games and publisher Deep Silver were planning to release Metro Exodus on February 22, but they have good news for fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise: The game is now arriving a little earlier.

Metro Exodus will now release on February 15, 2019, meaning it will no longer be launching on the same day as BioWare’s Anthem.

Instead, its competition will be Crackdown 3 on Xbox One, as well as Far Cry New Dawn. The latter game was just announced at The Game Awards, and also features a nuclear post-apocalyptic setting, albeit in Montana instead of Moscow.

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For those who have purchased Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch, you may want to check your email as your DLC code for Piranha Plant may be there waiting.

Owners of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and those who purchase a copy by January 31, 2019, will be rewarded with an unexpected brand-new fighter, Piranha Plant, in February of next year.

However, you will need to redeem a code that Nintendo will send to the email linked to your Nintendo Account to receive the new character. The problem? The email’s subject line doesn’t indicate a code is inside and simply says “Thanks for your purchase of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game.”

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In case you haven’t been paying attention, the biggest gift-giving day of the entire year is less than two weeks away. That means if you’ve been putting off shopping, you’re running out of time. Fast. Not to try to make you panic or anything, but I wouldn’t put it off much longer.

One of the hottest gifts this holiday season is the Nintendo Switch. That’s probably no surprise. Beloved television personality Ellen DeGeneres put the Nintendo Switch on her list of “15 must-haves” for the holidays, and she is an influencer. Her words rattle the retail world to its very core.

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With Treyarch’s release of Operation Absolute Zero for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, dozens of changes have come to the game, with some new, familiar voices to the Zombies mode as well.

Helena Bonham Carter plays as Madame Mirela, Game of Thrones’ Charles Dance plays the Butler, Godfrey, and Metal Gear Solid’s Kiefer Sutherland and Brian Blessed voices Gideon Jones and “The Brigadier.”

The new Zombies Experience, Dead of the Night, takes place in 1912 with players stepping into new characters during an evening at a luxurious estate, owned by the relic-hunter, Alistair Rhodes.

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Where does your favorite character stack up against these community tier lists of the best fighters in Smash Bros. Ultimate?

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The Overwatch League has announced its 2019 schedule, which includes away games and a $5 million prize pool.

The Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign and Los Angeles Valiant will all be hosting games in their home cities — a marked change from OWL’s first season, when every regular season game was played at Blizzard’s Burbank Arena. Tickets for those away games will be available at a later date.

OWL has upped its prize pool from $3.5 million in 2018 to $5 million for the 2019 season. The winner of the overall 2019 season will win $1.1 million, with the runner-up team walking away with $600,000, with decreasing amounts for lower-ranked teams.

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If you’re someone who hasn’t played Persona 5, you may have been a bit confused when its protagonist Joker popped up as the first DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last week.

While Joker himself is a bit enigmatic, don’t worry – you won’t need to put 100 hours into Atlus’ gigantic RPG to get the basics. We’ve got you covered.

Who Is Joker?

Persona 5’s protagonist begins the game as an exchange student who comes to Shujin Academy after getting into some trouble back at home.

Like any good RPG character, he lives a normal school life by day and battles monsters by night, soon becoming embroiled in a fight to save Tokyo by invading evil characters’ mind Palaces to give them a change of heart.

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