March2019
News Takashi Iizuka Confirms The Next Sonic Title Is Already In Development
Gotta go fast
If the video clips for Team Sonic Racing weren't already satisfying enough, the head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has confirmed the next big entry in the mainline Sonic series is officially underway. The announcement was made during a panel at SXSW Gaming 2019. Other than this, no other information is currently known about the new...
January2019
News Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka Wants To Remake Sonic Adventure
Reviving a classic
Arguably one of the standout Sonic games is the 1998 Dreamcast release, Sonic Adventure. This was Sonic's first mainline outing to feature 3D visuals and went on to become the best-selling title on the system. In a recent interview with Retro Gamer about the Dreamcast classic, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka mentioned how this...
November2018
Video Sega Producer Takashi Iizuka Talks Team Sonic Racing At The Tokyo Game Show 2018
Another look at the delayed racer
Team Sonic Racing may have missed 2018, but we've still got hope that it will live up to expectations when it does eventually arrive, purely because we loved Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and still do. Sega has now released a special video featuring series producer Tak
July2018
News Sonic Mania Plus Art Director And Sonic Team's Kazuyuki Hoshino Discuss The Creative Process
"A collaborative effort"
SEGA’s Sonic The Hedgehog YouTube channel has uploaded episode one of its Sonic Mania Plus developer diary. In a brief chat with Sonic Team Creative Director, Kazuyuki Hoshino, and Sonic Mania Plus Art Director, Tom Fry, the pair discussed how certain art and design choices came to fruition. In reference to Mighty...
February2018
News Oh Boy, Sonic The Hedgehog Was Almost Human
"The main character was a human boy"
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of gaming's most iconic characters, and ranks alongside Mario and Mickey Mouse when it comes to international recognition. However, Sonic designer Naoto Ohshima has revealed that the speedy chap was human like Mario in his original design pitch, rather than an animal. Speaking...
Random There's Nothing Quite Like The Creator Of Sonic Doing An Impression Of Michael Jackson
"Jackson had made all of it with his mouth"
One of the most persistent anecdotes in the history of video gaming is Michael Jackson's connection with Sonic the Hedgehog 3. It's often been rumoured that he wrote the soundtrack for the game, having enjoyed a strong relationship with Sega during the early '90s. The story goes that when allegations...
News Sega Is Getting Ready To Show Us What's Next For Sonic The Hedgehog
"Sonic is back, and ready to take 2018 by storm"
Sonic had a mixed 2017. Sonic Mania was amazing, but his "big" game - Sonic Forces - was met with less enthusiastic reviews. The character remains a cash-cow for Sega however, and we're going to hear very soon what it has planned for Sonic in 2018. A SXSW panel will deliver a...
November2017
News Sega Finally Embraces Sanic Hegehog With Sonic Forces DLC
Cumon step it up!!!!!
Sanic Hegehog's twisted and tortured history isn't one we're comfortable with explaining here - just check out the always-reliable Know Your Meme for the full low-down - but Sega has finally embraced this distorted version of the character by including it in Sonic Forces. That's right, you can now clad your avatar in a...
October2017
News Sega Confirms Sonic Forces Is 720p, 30fps On Nintendo Switch
In both docked and handheld modes
Sonic Forces may not be the blue hedgehog's first game on Switch - that honour falls to the amazing Sonic Mania - but it's likely to be the one that Sega hopes will find the larger audience, given the hype which has surrounded its development. Fairly early on, it was rumoured that the game wouldn't be hitting that...
September2017
Random Sega Joins Up With Hooters To Promote Sonic Forces In Japan
Yes, you read that right
We almost didn't believe it ourselves, but Sega of Japan is teaming up with the racy restaurant chain Hooters to promote the forthcoming Sonic Forces. We can't help but feel this kind of marketing would be better suited for Sega's Yakuza franchise, but there you go. The full, lurid details of the campaign are yet to...
July2017
Music Check Out Sonic Forces' Opening Theme, Featuring Hoobastank's Douglas Robb
"How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?"
Sega has released the opening theme for the upcoming Sonic Forces, which features vocals and lyrics by Douglas Robb of Hoobastank. Hoobastank were formed in 1994 (it says here) and have sold 10 million albums worldwide (it also says here). We can't say we've spun many of their discs in the Nintendo...
June2017
News Sonic The Hedgehog Turns 26 Today
Happy Birthday, Blue Blur
Sonic the Hedgehog made his Mega Drive debut 26 years ago today. On June 23rd 1991, Sega's answer to Super Mario arrived on North American store shelves, with the Japanese and European releases following in July. With its incredible visuals and astonishing speed, the game was hailed as an instant classic, and went on to...
April2017
News Gawk at 'Classic Sonic' Dashing Through Green Hill Zone in Sonic Forces
Oh Sonic, you have us dreaming again
It's a bit of an unfair myth that Sonic hasn't had good games in recent times, but a fair comment is that the mascot hasn't had many great games. Can Sonic Forces - coming to Nintendo Switch and other systems later this year - buck that trend? Well, we hope so. A bit like the concept of Sonic Generations, this...
March2017
News Project Sonic 2017's Official Title Is Sonic Forces
First look at gameplay will be uploaded tomorrow
Today, during the Sonic Panel at Austin's SXSW Gaming event Sonic Team revealed that Project Sonic 2017 will officially be called Sonic Forces. This comes from the fact that the game will explore the "Forces of Good and Evil" - it's possible we could see something similar to Sonic Adventure 2 and its...
July2016
Talking Point SEGA Has the Right Idea With Its Upcoming Sonic Projects
Looking to the past for answers to the future
As many of you are no doubt aware, SEGA made two major announcements during its Sonic anniversary bash that gave a lot of insight into the near future of the Blue Blur. Sonic Mania appears – for all intents and purposes – to be the sequel to Sonic & Knuckles that many have been asking SEGA to...
News Project Sonic 2017 Confirmed for Nintendo NX Release
Check out the debut cinematic trailer
At the close of its 25th Anniversary Sonic Party in San Diego, SEGA unveiled a cinematic for the next main-series release for the franchise - codenamed Project Sonic 2017, it's due in the Holiday season next year and is confirmed for the Nintendo NX. It's a Sonic Team project, cited as the same team that...
October2015
News SEGA’s GBA Version Of ChuChu Rocket! Arrives On The Japanese Wii U Virtual Console This Month
The Dreamcast port returns
Around the turn of the millennium when Sonic Team was in its prime with releases such as Sonic Adventure and Phantasy Star Online, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance was fortunate enough to receive a port of the Dreamcast title, ChuChu Rocket! Released in 2001 alongside the launch of Nintendo's latest portable system at the...
September2015
Weirdness Mario Infiltrates Sonic's First Adventure In Somari The Adventurer
Hack the planet
Mario and Sonic may be on friendlier terms these days, but once upon a time they were bitter enemies, and the notion of them sharing a game was as unlikely as a Smiths reunion. Still, you can now rewind time and imagine just what it could have been like had Mario decided to hop, skip and jump out of the Mushroom Kingdom and...
February2015
News Sonic Team Boss States That There Are No Plans for the Iconic Franchise to Drop Home Consoles
Onwards and upwards, we hope
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric on Wii U and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal were disappointments in multiple ways - the home console entry was panned by critics and the portable iteration seemed to be largely overlooked, and between them these game accompaniments to the series spin-off have delivered disappointi
December2014
News "Sonic Runners" Rumours Prove True, But It's a Smartphone Game
We'll have to stick with older rumours for Wii U hopes
Not so long ago there were rumours circulating of a new game in the works - Sonic Runners. As a number of fans were likely feeling burned by Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric at the time, it was understandable to be cautious; we will give some kudos to Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal on 3DS for being a...
August2014
News A Pre-order of Sonic Boom Will Bag You an Exclusive Sonic Figurine
3DS or Wii U version, it doesn't matter
Any Sonic fans out there might be interested in this; if you pre-order either Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for the Wii U or Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the 3DS you can get your mitts on an exclusive figurine of Sonic holding the Ancients' Crystal. The model itself looks fairly nicely done, Sonic has...
March2014
News Sonic Lost World Gets Free Legend of Zelda DLC Tomorrow
But can we team up Knuckles with Tingle?
Hot off the heels of Sonic Lost World's Yoshi's Island DLC, tomorrow the hedgehog's latest Wii U outing will get some Zelda-themed downloadable content to boot; it'll be free for all that have the game. Entitled The Legend of Zelda Zone, IGN reports the new level will be more than a reskinning of an old...
January2014
Video Puzzle Mashup Puyo Puyo Tetris Works Better Than You Might Think
Two puzzle giants collide, with interesting results
We've dished out info on Sega's curious Puyo Puyo and Tetris fusion before, but now the playable demo has finally hit the Japanese eShop we've been able to get our grubby mitts on it and give you a real look at how it all works. It sounds quite jarring to play Puyo Puyo against someone else who's...
June2013
First Impressions Sonic Lost World
Super Sonic
After a line of games that it would be altogether generous to label a “rough patch”, poor old Sonic is back on his speedy feet. Thanks to the combo of Sonic Unleashed (well, its daytime stages), Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations, SEGA's mascot is finally leaning back towards the positive side of the quality spectrum, and it seems...
News Sonic Team's Iizuka Recognises Sonic Lost World, Mario Galaxy Comparisons
Not quite Super Sonic Galaxy
In an interview with The Sonic Stadium, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka has acknowledged that upcoming Wii U / 3DS exclusive Sonic Lost World shares similarities with Super Mario Galaxy — but argues that SEGA's new titles are still distinctly Sonic. Sonic Team has taken a different approach to three dim
