SEGA Share Price Rises On Microsoft Buyout Rumours

Chalk this one up to being one MASSIVE rumour at the moment, but reports are circulating that Xbox console manufacturer Microsoft could be eyeing up a takeover of SEGA. Shares in SEGA rose by 17 per cent as a result of the speculation.

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SEGA America to Release Sonic & Tails Spinner Machine to Arcades

Tickets, you need more tickets! SEGA USA has created a new game that allows you to win tickets. It’s called the Sonic and Tails Spinner, and pictures can be seen below.

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Comic Preview: Sonic the Hedgehog #121

The relationship between Sonic and Mina looks set to continue in the next upcoming issue of Archie Sonic the Hedgehog, as the Mongoose gets her own strip in Issue #121. In the mainline story, the search for Prince Elias Acorn continues and it looks like the Freedom Fighters have found themselves a lead… Full solicitation below.

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Sonic Stadium & SonicVerse Team… Team Up!

Yeahp. You get to hear it here. FIRST. The Sonic Stadium has been open not even a week and already there’s partnerships coming along. But it’s not just any old team up here. The Sonic Stadium has officially teamed up with the biggest and world renowned Sonic Fan Media group, SonicVerse Team, in some hugely exclusive deals between the two website groups that aim to benefit you, the Online Sonic Fan.

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Archie Sonic Comics Get a Price Hike With Issue #117’s Release

Sonic’s ‘hare’-raising adventure (geddit?) can now be fully read by American Sonic fans all over the country, as Issue #117 becomes the latest comic to hit store shelves. It seems that the price of the comic has had a small update as well…

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SEGA Seemingly Separating From Parent Company CSK

Recent moves from SEGA’s corporate team suggest that it may soon be parting ways with its parent company, CSK. According to a news story on IGN, the House of Sonic has plans to sell its majority stake in CSK by the end of the fiscal year, and there are analyst predictions that CSK will soon sell its SEGA shares in kind.

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Sonic Secrets Group Plans New Online Event

With the morale of the Sonic Internet Community at an all-time low, things have been taken into action in order to spice things up. First it was SAGE, the Fan Games expo in 2000. Then it was The Sonic Stadium with the Sonic Site Awards in 2001. It’s now 2002, and along with SVTcc we have a new event pop up in the form of SSG. Continue reading Sonic Secrets Group Plans New Online Event

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Sonic Adventure 2 Battle is One of the Best-Selling Gamecube Games Ever

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle isn’t just a top-seller for SEGA in general. It’s also one of the best-selling third-party games on Nintendo’s Gamecube, selling nearly 500,000 copies in the US in the year or so since the console’s been available for sale.

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Sonic Games to Hit RealOne Arcade Player

You will soon be able to play classic SEGA games on the popular RealPlayer service on PC. An agreement has been signed with RealNetworks to provide official versions of four games via the new RealOne Arcade application. SEGA will have its own specific ‘Sega Channel’ on the service. Sonic 1 is included in the initial lineup, with more Sonic games to come.

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Take Sonic on the Road in Shift Up, the Next Sonic Cafe Game

Sonic finally gets to do some racing in the next game on Sonic Team’s Japanese ‘Sonic Cafe’ mobile service. ‘Shift Up’ pits the blue blur against a number of challengers (including, naturally, Shadow) as they race to the finish line in race cars.

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Dreadknux’s Diaries: TSS relaunch, Staff, Sonic United…

Well, what an eventful month. The Sonic Stadium (now beginning to be lovingly abbreviated as TSS real quick) has been relaunched successfully, and without delay, interest has grown for it. Andrew and I both agreed that a team should be secured to maintain the website, as it’s just getting too damn big.

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Comic Preview: Sonic the Hedgehog #120

Looks like there’s going to be some romantic trouble on the horizon in the Archie Sonic world, as the lead story in the upcoming Sonic Issue #120 focuses on love-struck Mina the Mongoose and her attempts to join the Freedom Fighters. She has a thing for Sonic, you see, so time will tell if this is just a phase she’s going through or if something more will happen from it. Full solicitation below.

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Sonic Site Awards: Phase II Ending, Phase 3 Ceremony Details

The Sonic Site Awards 2002 is coming to a close, and with just a month to go until the end, it’s time I revealed when, where, and what will be happening at that time. 

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Ken Penders In Talks to Produce Archie Sonic-Based Animation

Turns out there might be another Sonic animation in the works on top of the one SEGA is already apparently producing. And it could be an Archie-influenced production! Sonic comic artist and writer Ken Penders revealed that he has been in talks with animators about making a Knuckles comic-based series.

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SEGA Makes a Sonic Chocolate Bar Thanks to House of Brussels

Fans with a sweet tooth will be happy at this news – SEGA has signed a deal with House of Brussels Chocolates to make candy bars based on Sonic the Hedgehog. The deal will last two and a half years.

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Registrations for SonicVerse Team’s Sonic Comic Con Are Now Open

Things are moving forward for SonicVerse Team’s ‘SVTcc’ event, now re-named as simply ‘Sonic Comic Con’. After announcing the show in June, and a few updates in July, organiser Sonic Adventurer is finally ready to open the doors for fan comic artists to register their online booth. Read on for the full statement.

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