In an announcement that’s sure to both please and frustrate platforming gamers young and old, SEGA of America announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episode 2 will be released sometime in 2012. Whether that’s a week away or a year away isn’t revealed, but the sequel to 2010′s Episode 1 will be released on more »

Sonic fans will surely remember Sonic CD as it is a direct port of the same game from the Sega Mega-CD system. But of course, there are bits and pieces that were changed to make the game well-suited and unique for iOS. The game now fully supports Retina Display, achievements and leader boards, and features both the Japanese and U.S. version soundtracks.

The iPad continues its march to become the hottest gaming device of 1993 with the announcement by Sega that Sonic CD will be available for iOS later this month. The game features Sega’s iconic hedgehog in yet another high-speed side-scrolling adventure as he races through the Little Planet in an attempt to stop Dr. Robotnix from stealing the Time Stones. Sonic CD will be available in the App Store later today (December 14th), at a special sale price of $1.99.

Samurai Bloodshow will show blood, Samurai. SEGA brings you Samurai warfare for the really small screen. Samurai Bloodshow is a combat strategy game set in feudal Japan. Arrange your defenses on the field of battle then show your mettle against the oncoming hordes. Well, it isn’t exactly hordes, really more like two or three at a time at the lower levels.

This has been an interesting week for Black Friday deals, and app developers got into the spirit of Black Friday this year by bringing their own mega sales. The biggest titles from the biggest game publishers on the iOS platform are still on sale during this weekend. Gameloft, EA, Telltale, Sega, Chair and others are offering their games are great prices, and you’ve still got time to download your favorites before they get back to their regular price.

Black Friday starts now for iPhone and iPad gamers. SEGA has announced an early bird sale that sees 13 of their more popular iPhone, iPad and iPod touch titles reduced to as little as $0.99 each. The sale lasts until Cyber Monday, November 28th, and includes names such as Sonic the Hedgehog (three installments) and Super Monkey Mall, saving gamers up to 80% per title.

I’m not into racing at all. Never really have been. But I don’t mind kart racers because they give you more to do. You get to throw stuff. There are explosions. The environments are fun. In short, they’re enjoyable, and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing may be the most enjoyable kart racer available for the iPad and iPhone.

Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing is exactly what you’d expect—a kart racer that utilizes characters and settings from the SEGA universe (the cartoony ones, of course). In my demo, kart control was handled with the accelerometer; tilting left and right to turn. A large yellow button is used to accelerate, while a smaller red button is used to brake/reverse.

Streets of Rage 2 harkens back to a dark, dark time (the 80s) when streets gangs wandered our streets (all our streets), flaunting their identical mohawks and brightly colored coats, spray painting our schools with words like “NINJA” and “MUTANTS RULE.” Since the police at that time were legally required to keep criminals on the street, the only solution was for a sufficient number of bad dudes (who were also good citizens) to take the streets back, one punch at a time.

Here’s a little context for Streets of Rage 2. In the ’80s, you could not go wrong with the idea that our streets were about to be overwhelmed by gangs of Mohawked, drug-addled mutants who were just going to walk the streets (back and forth) waiting to make our kids into addicts and hassle our womenfolk. There were only two solutions to this problem which was going to happen any minute now: “Just say no” or beat them up.