Spike TV is having a Video Game awards, Sonic has been nominated. Sonic Advance 2 has been dominated for best handheld game, the awards starts on December 4th so go check it out on the main part of the site.
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Well, hopefully those of you that took notice of the biggest online Sonic event of the year will know all of this information already, but The Sonic Site Awards 2003 is now officially over.
For ‘backhander’ purposes, The Sonic Stadium, the SSMB and Sonic News cannot take part in this event, seeings as we host it. Shadow Team was allowed to take part in the Fan Game Developer section however, because it’s a seperate entity, only hosted at TSS. Never mind the fact that I’m a member of Shadow Team, I haven’t done anything other than plug their stuff yet ;P
Anyway, click here for the results, awards, and vote margins!
http://www.sonicstadium.org/~siteawa rds/
The event went very well: many people gathered in the chat room, and a constant rate of about 15-20 people were listening to myself, Anarchy Rat and Roareye mess about… oh and we announced some awards too.
For those that missed the LiVECAST, there will soon be a streaming version for you to download on the official SSA website, so you can listen to it on demand. The results will also be posted on SSR 24/7 over the next week, playing at random times.
Damian Grove (aka Saxman) was also featured in the Ceremony, with the playing of his musical compositions. Nothing like giving a fellow webmaster some nice coverage, so when you listen back to the LiVECAST, you’ll be able to hear Damian’s two self-written compositions; “She’s Mine” and “Live It Up”, and a cover song called “The Heart of Rock and Roll” (from a band that’s before my time, but there you go). You can find out more at the SSA front page, where we hold a link to his music. Should you wish to listen to more of Saxman’s music, click here:
http://damiangrove.iuma.com/
Hope you enjoyed the Ceremony! SSA 2004 Next Summer!
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Kikizo.com reports that Sega’s 45% increased net profit is not because of the games but because of the UFO Catcher 7 Amusement machine, which allows players to win Sega merchandise, including a ton of Sonic stuff. Read the article to learn more.
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What more could a Sonic fan ask for than a whole town dedicated to Sonic? Profits from both Sonic games and UFO Catchers have helped Sega as they plan to launch a town dedicated to the Sonic series. The town will be like a amusement park and feature popular Sonic and Sega merchandise in Sonic themed stores and more. The most sad part is it will likely only be in Japan, but if its a hit, who knows what could happen.
The Sonic Town will feature news on Sonic games and sonic X.
The best part is it will feature themed areas for each character including the Tails area (Based for younger kids) and the Amy area (photo and printing-themed attractions), and there’ll also be a Sonic Motorcycle.
Check out Sega Japan and Watch Impress have info on the town.
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Celebrate Tails with Sonic Teams latest update to the Sonic Battle page, they’ve added a Tails wallpaper and cursor icons. Thanks to Benji for the heads up.
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EBgames has their Sonic Heroes Prima Strategy Guide ordering page up which states it’ll ship on 12/28/2003. Thanks to our friend SHADOW90 for the head up.
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #134, ships 3/3, 32-page, full color comic, $2.19 US
“Home, Epilogue: Say You Will” : The poignant aftermath to this epic tale’s climactic finale. With the present crisis abated last issue, Sonic finally has the chance to catch up to those near and dear to him, especially one Princess Sally Acorn. SCRIPT: Karl Bollers. ART: Jon Gray (pencils) and Michael Higgins (inks). ALSO: “In Transit”: the “Mobius, 25 Years Later” series continues as lord Rotor returns to the Kingdom of Knothole, while Knuckles consults with the Brotherhood of Guardians at Haven II. SCRIPT: Ken Penders. ART: Steven Butler (pencils) and Ken Penders (inks).
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #135, ships 3/31, 32-page, full color comic, $2.19 US.
Three titanic tales in one issue! “Anonymous”: Dr. Robotnik has a new enemy to contend with, and it isn’t Sonic. This enemy has left a special present for Robotnik and signed it… you guessed it… “Anonymous”! SCRIPT: Romy Chacon. ART: Art Mawhinney (pencils) and Jim Amash (inks). “Agent from K.N.O.T.H.O.L.E.”: Sonic receives a mysterious message prompting him to travel incognito to meet someone in the middle of the Eggman Empire… someone who should be dead! Can this be a trap? SCRIPT: Romy Chacon. ART: Ron Lim (pencils) and Nelson Ribeiro (inks). “Dealing With the Devil”: The next exciting installment of our popular series of tales depicting “Mobius: 25 Years Later” continues! SCRIPT: Ken Penders. ART: Steven Butler (pencils) and Ken Penders (inks).
If you look up at #134 you’ll see the name “Jon Gray”. Jon just joined the Archie Sonic team recently and goes by the name of WB in the community. You can read the WB interview I had with him a few years back to find out more about him.
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This info comes from sander kaalverink, he explains the Memory Card will be released on the same day as the game but hes unsure of if it’ll be in America though too, or if there’ll be memory cards for the other system. I’ll keep you updated.
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First off, I don’t want any comments asking where the old ‘latest’ update went. Controversy ahoy and all that, so I just got rid of it.
Second of all, the VG section IS rather massive, so the uber-update will be sometime later this or next week. Bear with me here, there’s a lotta games 😉
Thirdly, thanks to B’man, we have a banner rotation system. Choice. Something I didn’t tell you about before too, is a ‘DONATE to TSS’ button by the banners. Click on the button to read more about why donating to us is “T3H good”, what the money goes to and all that crud. 🙂 Later on today there will be the option to add your site to the Banner Rotation, and details will follow when the donation button up there changes to add another link.
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Shadow of a Hedgehog recently did a interview with Mike Pollock, the voice of Dr. Eggman for the 4Kids dub version, go check it out.
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Sonic Team has added many new updates to their official Sonic Battle game site, including a download section, box art, profiles, and sprite icons.
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Sega of Japan adds their own site to CR Sonic…Sega of Japan has added a CR Sonic event page with information and images from the event.
Yuji Naka and co.
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France gets a cool game pack that contains Game Boy Advance’s Sonic Advance and a Sonic Advance 2 wallet. It’ll be on sale soon for any of you French Sonic fans, from Amazon France.
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SEGA of Japan has launched a brand new Sonic Battle commercial, below are both high and low versions of the commercial. Also in other news Sega Europe and UK Channel Nickelodeon are currently running a Billy Hatcher promotion in the UK, also Japanese TV channel ‘Sky Perfect TV!’ have teamed with Sonic Team to promote both Sonic Cafe and Sonic Battle.
Low-Version
High-Version
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A new Sonic game has been announced, though not for any game system. Its called CR Sonic and will be a new pachinko machine. Sammy will be developing this, and has stated that it will capture the speed of the original Mega Drive (Genesis) series.
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Visit the TSS Copycats Section
Everyone who knows me well knows that I’m a pretty open-minded guy. I’m quite calm and cool under various situations… However, they will also know that there is really only a few things that I find a sensitive issue.
Copyright infringement of my stuff is one. People who don’t know me well will think that with this Copycats section I’m overreacting and sensationalising the whole issue, but then again what would you do in my position? I am very impartial in my methods when it comes to dealing with offenders.
And it’s not as if I don’t give people enough warning: THERE IS A COPYRIGHT STATEMENT, of which you can get to from the link at the BOTTOM OF ANY PAGE at TSS! It’s not too hard to just check and see what is acceptable to ‘steal’ and what isn’t. For me, things that are not acceptable are my own hand-made things. Stuff like images and, most especially, layouts.
Now recently, the TSS Layouts section has been the centre of activity for mindless n00bs who don’t have two brain cells to humble themselves with. They want to make a site? Sure, go ahead – hey, WHAT are you doing with MY stuff, Gringo!?
What has this internet community come to these days? Back when I started, it was always a case of respect – learn your way, and learn from friends too. Now it’s just “find the most popular site and nick off with their bits and bobs”. Sorry, that’s NOT what I condone. The TSS Old Layouts section is NOT a Free Web Templates portal – repeat, it is NOT. It IS there to outline the history of the site, and for people to discover TSS’ past.
I have taken measures to help protect old layout pages as of today, to help prevent people from stealing my old layouts in future – hey, it’s not like I WANT people to do it: the Copycats section is there as a prevention device as well. I don’t want to take the section down; I love my old layouts, and I want to share them with you all. However, I don’t want dumbarses (sorry, but that’s what you are) just stumbling across an old layout, assume because I’m not using it that you can get away with stealing it, and pass it off as your own.
With layouts, there is no way around it – you CANNOT use them for your own purposes. Not even if you ask me first. Not even if you vow to put a link to who made the template. I’M NOT A TEMPLATE MAKING SERVICE. Go and find some other way to fill the void in your brain where your imagination and initiative should be.
As for the latest offender, it’s a place called Sonic Kid’s and V-Dood’s Sonic 3 BETA Page. What hurts me most is that it’s a ripoff of TSS’ very first design – one of the past layouts I hold most dear to me. Check the Copycats section to see it, and also, I’ve added links to awards handed out to the finders of these sick copycats. ^_-
That is all, that was my rant. Goodnight.
Oh, and I’m reworking the VG section BIG TIME – I know I said it before, but I mean it. It will be the next thing I update, and all the games will be restored. Chekkit.
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SEGA has added a few more features to Sonic Central, they’re also looking for Sonic Heroes Fan Art to add to the site so go check it out. Thanks to Sonicoman and Knucklesdude for the heads up.
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Jeux France has added 14 New Sonic Heroes Screens, and also has alot of the old ones and some videos, so go check it out! Thanks to Knucklesdude for the heads up.
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Planet Gamecube is currently reporting that the U.S. release date for Sonic Heroes is now January 6th, 2004.
In other news, SEGA has pushed the Japanese release date back from December 12 to December 30th, i’ll keep you updated so stay tuned to Sonic News.
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Though some of these screens might be from the last Screen report, theres even more in Gamespots 41 New Sonic Heroes Screen update, thanks to Hyper_Sonic_V for the link.
“Quick, alert the media!”, Matt_TY
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The message board is back up. Go here for more details: http://www.sonicstadium.org/board/index.php?showtopic=2677
Update by Omega13a
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SEGA’s FTP press site has added a few new movies of Sonic Heroes, including the Grand Metropolis Level, thanks to Killemoff for the heads up.
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I don’t mean to cause a panic but we’re under attack again by hackers. The message board has been messed up so don’t bother going there. I’ve shut it down for obvious reasons. If you want to talk with some one, go to the chat room. We’ll post an anouncement when it is ok to go to the message board.
Update by Omega13a
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No one drools on Sonic Heroes content more then Sonic News visitors, so heres some more! Kikizo has a Article up with tons of brand new screens of some levels we havent seen yet, the levels include a jungle level, a eggman air base level, A castle like level and a futuristic city level. Go check it out.
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Sonic Team has put up their Sonic Adventure DX PC section earlier. The section has several pages with screens and such including the latest news and info on the Gamecube to PC port. The game will come with 640 X 480 and 1280 X 1024 Screen resolutions and will also have everything the Nintendo Gamecube version had including bonus brand new PC desktop accessories. The game is due out on DEcember 18th in Japan, same day as the Sonic Heroes release date and it will include 2 CD’s. Thanks to Knucklesdude for the link.
Box Art:
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