It’s Ursa Majors season again, and all the finalists have been announced. And just like how Entertainment Weekly pretends they know best, Weasel Wordsmith has its Editor’s Choice list of winners!

Microsoft’s motion gaming device for the Xbox 360 is finally here. Included among the dozen or so launch titles are a handful of game starring talking animals. But before you go buy everything with fur, check out the breakdown on which games are actually fun.

Wait, SEGA, what is this? Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing? It’s Sonic the Hedgehog, in a car, launching boxing gloves, doing flips off ramps, powersliding around turns and turbo boosting. This is, like, a totally fun kart racing game, from a company that makes some of the worst kart racing games known to man!

The mysterious Project Needlemouse has been teased for a while now, but today SEGA officially announced that the 2D Sonic game is going to be called Sonic the Hedgehog 4.

Apparently those half dozen 2D Sonic games on the Game Boy Advance, DS, and PSP don’t count.

This is sort of my release of negative energy so I can go into the new year with a positive attitude. Bear with me, it’s for the good of humanity.

One thing I was expecting to see when FurAffinity went back up was a flood of Ash/Kristofferson pairings. You know, the fox boys from The Fantastic Mr. Fox that were just seething sexual tension. But recent searches turn up a mere three images. You people are slacking, get to work!

And while you’re at it, here are a few more characters severely lacking in the “horrendous mind-scarring porn” department.