Sonic R/Sonic 3D is a bundle consisting of Sonic R and Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island for Windows PCs, released in the UK under the Xplosiv brand.

Sonic games did what most other video game franchises do: joined the third dimension. Long ago, Sonic the Hedgehog was just a 2D platformer. In more ways than one, it was Sega’s Super Mario Bros ...

Sega's Sonic 3D Blast has been re-released by one of its developers as a director's cut 25 years after the game's original release on the Sega Genesis.

Most Sonic fans agree that Sega’s hedgehog mascot had his early peak during the Genesis days in the mid 1990s. But 1996’s Sonic 3D Blast does not receive the same love as its 2D predecessors.

Next up for the series was the transition to 3D, which it had some rough spots with. A poorly received racing game called Sonic R and a 3D games called Sonic Jam were middling.

Perhaps it’s because it launched on the Wii, a console more famous for its non-conventional video games, but it’s easily one of the best attempts at 3D Sonic so far, introducing power-ups that ...

Sonic 3D in 2D is what it says on the tin, but that doesn’t really do Sotaknuck’s work justice. Enemies unique to Sonic 3D Blast have been recreated in the style of classic side-scrolling ...

To his mind, the newly styled Sonic — commonly referred to as ‘modern Sonic’ in contrast to the ‘classic Sonic’ designs — was born from necessity, after the move from 2D to 3D.