Indigo Rush

This appears to be a free patch that paves the way for the proper Plus DLC (Mighty and Ray, Encore Mode, etc) and this patch happens to change some things. Based on how this rolled out and what's in it, anyway.

I wasn't there for any leaked stream. I was present for the Developer Stream as a chat moderator, and I ducked out whenever new content came up. Not that it mattered, some chucklehead spoiled the Mean Bean boss for me anyway.

How dare you spoil this I get a second chance to go into this blind and y'all had to ruin it Actually mad right now

Doin' some research, and the fact that the plain jane spin-dash doesn't have any special launch animations for the dust cloud in any version (Mania included), I think we can confirm that M2 is either going above and beyond or that this is actually the drop-dash.

I'm checking the 3DS e-shop right now and I can't find it - was this a regional thing?

Honestly, this is worse than not porting Sonic 3 at all. I need to lie down

smh Sega returns to the hardware business and the first thing they do is make another Mega Drive model

Going off the art style, I'd say it's Sonic Jam 2. Since that's actually Sonic Jam's cover art.

Not necessarily. We can always have this thread open for general news as it comes in, as well as express hopes and desires for the hypothetical next entry. I kinda miss those days.

You... know who that is, right? You mean you guys don't share a bunk bed with Iizuka-san???

Oh for crying out loud. Replicating a physics engine isn't anywhere near enough to warrant the freedom to create a full game. You also need level designers, modellers, writers, directors and a host of other necessary roles that not a single one of these "fangames" offer competently. It's not even a game, it's little more than a tech demo. Controls and physics are only one component of a game. I'm tired of the call to have any Joe Blow with Unity and a YouTube channel take the reins over the next Sonic game. The only reason Mania worked was because it was a team of people with different skillsets and many of which had actual professional experience prior to Mania's conception. At best, any one of these guys could be hired on as another programmer or the like.