Game|Life Podcast: Sonic the Hedgehog, Godus, and Other Dying Things


Still from the Sonic Boom TV series.

Still from the Sonic Boom TV series. Sega



The financial results of many game publishers’ Christmas seasons are out, and some did better than others.


On this episode of the Game|Life podcast, Bo Moore and I discuss January game sales, Electronic Arts’ tease of Titanfall sequels going multiplatform, and more.


Sega’s latest Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic Boom, seems to be the series’ worst-selling ever. This has prompted The Verge to declare that Sega’s mascot “needs to die.” To that we say: We were on top of that story in 2008.


We also discuss Peter Molyneux’s troubles finishing his Kickstarted game Godus , the unfulfilled promises to Kickstarter backers (and Bryan Henderson) and what would appear to be his attempts to extricate himself from day-to-day development on the project so as to work on a whole new game.



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