Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Switch) News Articles
Sunday6th Jul 2025
News Sega Teases New Sonic Racing Animation, Speeding Ahead This September
Launching the same month as CrossWorlds
Sega is promoting its upcoming release Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds in all sorts of ways, and apart from the game's opening theme reveal earlier this week, it's also recently teased a new animation. This new animation celebrating Sonic's latest racing game is scheduled to arrive this September (the same month as...
Thursday3rd Jul 2025
News Wait, 'Busted' Member Is The Singer Of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds' Opening?
He said "I've been to the year 3000"
Sega has shared the opening theme to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and, rather than pulling in familiar faces such as Crush40, Kellin Quinn, or Madeline Wood, there's a very familiar voice to a certain generation of people from the UK. James Bourne of the British pop-punk band Busted — yes, really — is the lead...
Tuesday24th Jun 2025
News Sega Knows You Hate Mario Kart's Blue Shells
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds removes "unfair" and "stressful" items
A cornerstone of the Mario Kart experience is, for better or worse, the dreaded Blue Shell. Seen as a means of keeping the playing field (relatively) level, this item targets the player in first place, and has been the cause of much frustration over the decades—to the point where...
Sunday22nd Jun 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Officially Reveals Nickelodeon Collaboration
SpongeBob and friends join the race
Following character leaks earlier this month, Sega has now officially confirmed SpongeBob SquarePants and other Nickelodeon characters will be racing alongside Sonic and friends in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds when it arrives this September. This news was shared during the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards...
Saturday7th Jun 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Switch 2 Version Announced Alongside "Paid Upgrade" For Switch
Guest characters and release date also revealed
Sega has now officially locked in a release date for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – announcing it will be speeding on to the Switch on 25th September 2025 for $59.99 / £54.99. Perhaps even more excitingly is the news there will be a Nintendo Switch 2 version "coming at a later date" for $69.99 /...
Wednesday4th Jun 2025
Rumour Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Character Leaks Reportedly Surface
Are you ready, Sonic fans?
Sega has hyped up Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as having the "largest" roster ever in a Sonic Racing game. It's set to include characters from across the Sega Universe, but it seems there could be even more surprises on the way... Ahead of the Summer Games Fest, a new leak has reportedly emerged and it's revealed a possible...
Friday23rd May 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Gets Ready To Race With A New Rating Down Under
SEGA launched Sonic's new campaign this week
Alongside Sonic's new campaign launch this week, it seems his upcoming racing game Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has now been officially rated. This rating by Sega popped up in Australia earlier this month. According to the Australian Classification Board, it will be 'PG' for 'Parental Guidance' and contains...
Thursday22nd May 2025
News SEGA Unveils New Sonic 'Racing Around The World' Campaign
"Sonic Team partners with Red Bull"
[Wed 21st May, 2025 00:30 BST]: Sonic the Hedgehog is known for all sorts of partnerships and ahead of the arrival of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Sega might be teasing some sort of collaboration with the energy drink company Red Bull. Sonic's official social media account posted a rally car featuring a Sonic the...
Wednesday30th Apr 2025
Video Sega Reflects On Sonic's Rich Racing History Ahead Of CrossWorlds
Take a drive down memory lane
It's a big year for racing games in more ways than one and apart from the new open-world Mario Kart game, Sega will also be releasing its new Sonic Racing game. In the leadup to this game's release, it's now uploaded a video (with narration by the YouTuber Sam Procrastinates) covering "the history of Sonic Racing"...
Thursday20th Mar 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Reveals "Most Popular Characters" From Network Test
Take a guess who won
SEGA has been sharing all sorts of information about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds since its closed network test and today it's revealed the "most popular" character selections. In first place is perhaps unsurprisingly the blue blur Sonic the Hedgehog. In second place we've got the ultimate lifeform Shadow the Hedgehog, following...
Tuesday18th Mar 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Acknowledges Closed Network Test Player Feedback
"We've read through your comments"
Following the full reveal in February, Sega's upcoming release Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds held a special closed network test exclusively for the PlayStation 5. While part of the focus was on the stability of online matchmaking, there was also a lot of feedback from the community about the gameplay and how the...
Sunday23rd Feb 2025
Round Up The First Impressions Of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 'Closed Network Test' Are In
Here are some thought so far...
Sega is this weekend running a limited-time Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 'closed network test' for the PlayStation 5 and the first impressions are now rolling in. There's obviously no feedback about the Switch version at this stage, but there's still enough commentary doing the rounds online to give Sonic fans an idea...
Thursday13th Feb 2025
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Adds Characters From "SEGA Universes"
Update: IGN has an exclusive preview up
SEGA has now officially released its announcement trailer for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and as part of this, it's shared some new details about what exactly Sonic fans can expect from this new racing experience. Not only will this game include the "largest" roster ever in a Sonic Racing game, but it will...
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Trailer Released, Speeding Onto Switch "Soon"
The announcement follows rumours and leaks
At The Game Awards last year, SEGA announced its new racing game Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was "coming soon" to multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. If you're wondering about when we'll be getting another update, there's now a rumour more information could be arriving as soon as this week...
Thursday6th Feb 2025
News Sega Files New 'Sonic Blitz' Trademark
But what could it be?
Sega has filed a new trademark for something called Sonic Blitz, as revealed via Chizai Watch (thanks, Sonic Stadium). Naturally, very little is known about the trademark, but it covers all the usual categories you might expect from a company like Sega: education and entertainment, machinery, ROM cartridges, programs for home...
Saturday14th Dec 2024
News Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Speeds Onto Nintendo Switch "Soon"
Update: New info has surfaced
At this year's Game Awards show, SEGA announced it would be releasing a new racing game officially titled Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. We've only got a cinematic trailer so far, but as you can see, Shadow the Hedgehog features. It will be "coming soon" to the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. Sega has also...
