Smash Bros. Ultimate s Sharpening Its Claws For Its Next Spirit Board Event
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate s weekly rotation isn t slowing down yet for 2021. We got a Spirit Board event two weeks back based around the colour yellow, and last week offered a Going Ballistic tournament for projectile users only.
This week, we re back to the Spirit Board. Beginning on February 12th, Smash Bros. Ultimate s latest event goes live for 3 days, focusing on characters with claws.
Based on the new promotional image, we can expect Dry Bowser, Metal Sonic and Mecha Ridley to feature prominently. During this time, winning battles will earn more gold than usual.
The Sonic CD Intro, Sonic Boom, Is Now Available in Glorious HD
Sonic fans have used the chaos emeralds to up-res the classic Sonic CD intro, so now you can watch it in glorious HD!
Users Tanks and Quazza over on the Sonic Retro forums have painstakingly cleaned and upscaled the
Sonic CD intro, and their work is finally finished. Utilizing AI-technology, Tanks goes into detail on working on the up-resing process, utilizing the program ESRGAN, to build specially-tailored AI models for this project. “We stuck to our proprietary models for most of the frame cleaning and scaling, using the film cels SEGA released not too long ago as a guidepost. Some of the darker scenes needed some extra support, and it’s thanks to the recently released celframes model we were able to fill in some gaps,” Tanks explained. The rest of the forum post goes into greater detail, and you should give it a read if this AI wizardry interests you!
Vin Diesel Rumored For Mystery Role In Sonic The Hedgehog 2
If you’d have said a year ago that
Sonic the Hedgehog would end up as one of the highest-grossing movies of 2020, most people would have written you off as insane. But a combination of the film being much better than anticipated and COVID-19 lockdowns delaying almost all of its competitors left it jockeying for the domestic top spot with
Bad Boys For Life.
A sequel –
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – was quickly greenlit and is now being fast-tracked through development for an April 2022 release. Over the past few months, we’ve been hearing whispers of casting information for the project and one of the most consistent names that’s popped up is Dwayne Johnson, who’s been repeatedly linked with voicing Knuckles the Echidna. But now, his