{"title":"Devil's Details","description":"\u003cp\u003eDevil's Details Ltd. is a Sheffield, England studio formed in late 2007 by Pete Bratcher and Steve Oldacre, two developers who had each been working as contractors before deciding to build a company of their own. The pairing was deliberately complementary. Bratcher brought the technology side, a mathematician's head for optimisation and a record of delivering cutting edge solutions, while Oldacre brought considerable programming experience together with a background in building, organising and managing teams. Their founding idea reached beyond the games shelf: alongside work in the established games industry, the studio set out to carry game production into markets that had rarely used it, including advertising campaigns, training programs, film productions and social networking sites. Registered in England and Wales as company 06259586 and a member of Game Republic, the regional network for UK developers, Devil's Details built its in-house technology around a clear philosophy - keep it lightweight and decoupled, favour proven open source solutions over reinventing the wheel, and let the technology serve the project rather than become the point of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor PC players the studio's name is best known from the credits of three SEGA conversions. Devil's Details brought Sonic Generations to PC in 2011, putting Sonic Team's anniversary celebration of the series in front of a new audience, and followed it in 2012 with Binary Domain, the squad shooter from the team behind the Yakuza series, as well as a PC conversion of Virtua Tennis 4. Those conversions are how all three games made it onto a computer, and for anyone playing them there it is Devil's Details' work under the hood. The studio also shipped original games on Sony hardware: Top Darts on PlayStation 3, designed around the Move controller, a second Top Darts for PlayStation Vita, and Table Top Tanks, a Vita title built on the handheld's augmented reality technology. That mix, precise conversion work on one side and small hardware-led originals on the other, fits a studio that treated technology as a means rather than an end. Its public output is concentrated in the 2010 to 2012 period, with the studio's own site last updated in 2012, but the PC versions of Sonic Generations and Binary Domain keep a small Sheffield team's craftsmanship in circulation well over a decade on.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-generations-steam-cd-key","title":"Sonic Generations","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eSonic Generations is Sonic Team's twentieth-anniversary celebration, and it takes the idea literally: a mysterious force tears holes in time, dragging Sonic and his friends into a blank White Space where the greatest zones of his history sit frozen and drained of colour. To put things right, Modern Sonic teams up with his shorter, rounder 1991 self, and every stage in the game is built twice, once for each hedgehog. This edition includes the Casino Night DLC at no extra cost, so the pinball stage inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is part of the package from day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Hedgehogs, One Timeline\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe split is the whole design. Classic Sonic plays side-on, with the spin dash, the rolling momentum and the tight platforming of the Mega Drive games. He does not talk, he does not home in on enemies, and he lives or dies by how well you read a slope. Modern Sonic gets the full 3D toolkit that Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors refined: the Boost that turns him into a blur, the homing attack, quick-steps, drifts and rail grinding, with stages that shift between behind-the-back sprints and 2D sections without a cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause each zone has a separate act for each character, the same location becomes two different levels. Chemical Plant as Classic Sonic is a careful climb through rising purple water; as Modern Sonic it is a high-speed chase along pipes and conveyor belts. Clearing both acts and rescuing the friend held in each zone unlocks a set of challenge acts, which remix the stage with new rules and a partner such as Tails, Knuckles or Amy along for the run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eNine Zones From Three Eras\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n  \u003cdt\u003eThe Classic era\u003c\/dt\u003e\n  \u003cdd\u003eGreen Hill from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Chemical Plant from Sonic 2 and Sky Sanctuary from Sonic \u0026amp; Knuckles are rebuilt in HD with their checkerboard cliffs, loops and floating ruins intact. Their soundtracks return as new arrangements, and hearing the Chemical Plant theme kick in over a fully modelled factory is one of the game's best moments.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n  \u003cdt\u003eThe Dreamcast era\u003c\/dt\u003e\n  \u003cdd\u003eSpeed Highway from Sonic Adventure and City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2 bring back the skyscraper dashes and the runaway truck, while Seaside Hill from Sonic Heroes rolls out its coastal ruins. This is the stretch where Modern Sonic's Boost feels most at home, and where Classic Sonic gets to run through places he never visited the first time.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n  \u003cdt\u003eThe Modern era\u003c\/dt\u003e\n  \u003cdd\u003eCrisis City from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Rooftop Run from Sonic Unleashed and Planet Wisp from Sonic Colors round out the timeline, complete with the tornado-torn ruins, the tiled European rooftops and the alien construction site. Each is reworked to suit the character you are playing, so even the newest stages feel fresh from the Classic side.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eRivals, Bosses and the Chaos Emeralds\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRival battles pit you against Metal Sonic on Stardust Speedway, Shadow on the Final Rush rails and Silver in the streets of Crisis City. Each is a straight race or duel that plays on the rival's own signature abilities rather than a standard boss arena.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe boss roster reaches across the series too, from the Death Egg Robot and Perfect Chaos to the Egg Dragoon, each restaged with the modern engine and finished with the kind of set-piece camera work the 2D originals could only hint at.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWinning those fights earns Chaos Emeralds, and gathering the full set opens the way to the Time Eater, the creature behind the time holes. Along the way, Red Star Rings hidden through every act and a skill shop of unlockable abilities give completionists plenty to chase after the credits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Casino Night Pinball Stage\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe included Casino Night DLC adds a self-contained pinball table modelled on the neon-lit zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic is the ball, flippers and bumpers do the rest, and racking up rings rewards you with the flashing-lights slot machine feel that made the original stage a favourite. It is a compact extra rather than a full zone, but it fits the anniversary theme neatly and is a good place to unwind between the harder challenge acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Celebration That Plays Well\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlenty of anniversary releases lean on nostalgia alone. Sonic Generations earns its place because both halves are genuinely good Sonic games: the Classic acts have the best 2D level design the series had produced in years, and the Modern acts are the Boost formula at its most confident. The PC conversion by Devil's Details carries the stereoscopic 3D presentation across as well. If you have ever wanted to see where Sonic came from and where he ended up in a single afternoon, this is the game that lets you do it, spin dash first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SEGA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":887633608716,"sku":"PC_87477518348_DL_GL","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-sonic-generations-pc-game.jpg?v=1789011663"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-fr\/collections\/devils-details.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}