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Sonic Nebulous will most likely go down in history as one of the first ever fully completed fangames at a SAGE event. But there’s a lot to be excited about here too besides such accolades, as Nebulous brings its own quirks and innovations to a game that otherwise is inspired by the roots of the classic Sonic games.
One of the most impressive things about this game is that the graphics are entirely customised sprites. All of the backgrounds, foregrounds and characters have been crafted from scratch, and the additional scenery and easy-to-follow storyline helps bring a very moody atmosphere to Mobius. It really feels like you’re battling for the planet’s freedom here.
The main innovation in Nebulous is the screen rotation, that kicks in when you’re at a point where a wall links up to a roof. The screen rotates to sit exactly along the wall or roof you’re on, so there’s no over or under-rotation. A notable point about this is how well-programmed this feature is – the camera snaps back to position if you jump back onto the ground from the roof.
All of the individual characters have their own special abilities and play styles, showing off the abilities of the game engine, and with 30 characters to choose from it’s amazing to think that Pink Ninja Monkey Studios have thought of all the possibilities for each one while still keeping true to their personalities.
The game so far is great – I only found a couple of problems with it. For example, as Fang I seemed to miss some rings when running into them as if their “action point” was set a fraction too high, and another thing I miss is there being checkpoints in the middle of levels. This however is covered with the levels not being too long to do in one run (even if it is after a couple of tries).
With a unique design style, thirty characters offering tons of replayability and an interesting story to boot, Nebulous is definitely one of the more ambitious and playable titles at SAGE. Give it a go at their booth here.
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So, I was chillin’ with Mike Pollock, the voice of Dr. Eggman, recently and he told me to invite you guys to a special chat involving him and his voice acting buddy, Jason Griffith. I hear that he does the voice for Sonic the Hedgehog.
How do you get invited to this chat? Send an e-mail to this address requesting to join the chat. The e-mail must include your Yahoo Instant Message or MSN address. If you are accepted, you will receive a confirmation and a private invite to join the chat at a selected time.
The fun starts at 8 PM EST on Friday, July 31st. Don’t miss out to finally speak to Jason Griffith!
By the way, if you’re going to the chat to just shit-talk Jason for “not being Ryan Drummond,” please get a life.
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The Taxman, real name Christian Whitehead, sat down with portable gaming website Touch Arcade to discuss his Sonic CD proof-of-concept port to the iPhone, which we unveiled yesterday. Eli Hodapp asks questions to Christian about the flexibility of the RSDK and its future. Christian also manages to clear up a few misconceptions that have been swirling in comment boxes across the gaming internet.
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On 15th July Sonic the Hedgehog got together with The Pink Panther to help celebrate his 45th Birthday, Sonic also received some Birthday wishes for his Japanese 18th Birthday that was coming up the 18th July. The pair of abnormally coloured animals look to be working the stage well together, with no reports of Sonic giving The Pink Panther any attitude or The Pink Panther playing any tricks on Sonic we can assume all was well at the event.
The Pink Panther even got a nice cafe set up with a lovely selection of food except he didn’t accomodate for Sonic as there doesn’t seem to be any chilli dogs on the menu, for shame.
Here’s to many more years for both of these colourful characters!
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The Taxman, like Stealth, is very good at dropping bombs. I have watched Taxman for days as he held back this news from the Sonic community. Now that he has revealed it on Sonic Fan Games HQ, it’s time for everybody to know and shit a brick.
Taxman has been working hard the past few months to port Sonic CD to the iPhone using his famous “Retro-Engine Software Development Kit,” formerly known as the “Retro-Sonic Engine.” The engine is famously used in the Sonic Nexus and Retro-Sonic XG projects. The project uses none of the game’s original programming and is built from the ground up in Taxman’s “RSDK.” It only took him a few weeks to port Palmtree Panic and all of its time periods to the iPhone. Also, the game runs at a perfect frame rate.
Recently, Taxman sent an e-mail to SEGA Europe about his iPhone port. He has yet to receive return contact from them. On Monday, July 27th, SEGA of America’s blog asked the fans which classic SEGA game that they’d like to see ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch. With that announcement, Taxman decided to reveal to all of you his amazing project and he wants you to answer one question:
The question is, do YOU want it? Let SEGA know. This is more than just one of their crappy emulator ports, we’re talking iPhone exclusive enhancements and features (I’ve got some cool plans)
You heard the man! Get to that blog post and tell them what you want!
Please, get SEGA to pick up this port of Sonic CD. It’s flawless. Given the history of SEGA’s iPhone ports, with the Streets of Rage one being exceptionally horrible, we need an amazing game like this one to hit our mobile devices.
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Even though Discoponies is on holiday at a secret location he still has time to post some fantastic things over at the Sonic Show. Today he’s posted something a little unique. Jim Sass, the guy who runs Sasso Studios has put together along with a cast of family and friends, a full-length Sonic fan-movie…
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WE STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO INSTEAD OF WATCHING IT ON THE PLAYER. THE DOWNLOAD VIDEOS QUALITY IS WAAAAY BETTER
I have put many many hours on top of much blood sweat and tears into this movie to provide you guys with the most optimum Sonic movie experience so please let me know what you think!! – Sass
This is one of the most epic fan things I have ever seem! And Jim Sass has been kind enough to let us share it with you in its full length glory!
What is Sonic and his friends were humans? What would it be like? Well, you’re not going to get any better an answer than by watching this!
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At 2 PM EST this Thursday, July 30th, visitors of the SAGE 2009 chat room will have the opportunity to talk to esteemed video game and movie composer Spencer Nilsen.
Spencer is famous for his SEGA CD soundtracks for Jurassic Park and Batman Returns, but most noted for his work on the US version of the Sonic CD soundtrack.
Join the SAGE chat room with the client provided on the site. Alternatively, you can use a chat client and join “irc.rizon.net #sagexpo.”
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If the Summer of Sonic wasn’t already awesome enough, it just got a whole lot more exciting.
Lee Brotherton a.k.a. Japanese chart-topping solo artist and Sonic fangirl heart-throb Bentley Jones has announced via the good old communication media of Facebook and Twitter that he will be attending Summer of Sonic again this year. Bentley Jones is the musical genius behind several Remix-Factory songs to have featured in recent Sonic titles, and more notably known for “Dreams of an absolution (Silver’s theme)” from Sonic ‘06 as well as versions of “His World”, “Open Your Heart” and “Seven Rings in Hand”.
To what capacity Lee will be attending the event is yet to be confirmed, but either way, we are absolutely stoked to have a legend of the Sonic universe return for the second year running. Only 34 more days to wait!
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We love how fan games are getting the grasp of 3D.
based on BUILD engine by Ken Silverman, using Eduke 32 port. You may to ask – why such an old engine? Well, i just love this engine, and i love to make projects for BUILD.
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Stealth is the master of bomb-dropping. To list a few, he has ported Tweaker’s Sonic 1 Megamix hack to the SEGA CD, tricked morons with news tips, and released a port of Sonic 1 for the Game Boy Advance that doesn’t suck. At this year’s SAGE though, Stealth has outdone himself. His long-time project, Sonic: Project Mettrix, has been successfully been ported to the Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation Portable.
Project Mettrix uses Stealth’s “E02 Engine,” a multi-platform game development tool for 2D games. Mettrix has been around for quite some time, but it is really flourishing with the E02 treatment. Now, you can play and create custom levels for Mettrix on your Wii and PSP.
Those with homebrew enabled Wiis should download this game right away and experience this momentous occasion.
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The 2009 Sonic Amateur Games Expo is celebrating its 14th showing and does not disappoint yet again with 40+ fangames for you to play. InstantSonic, KTZ, and the members of Sonic Fan Games HQ have been working for months to put this annual event on for all of you, so head on over there and have some fun!
Aside from the fangames, there are many cool events to check out. The SAGE chat room is always happenin’ and ridiculous. An awesome chat client is provided on the site, but can be accessed through programs like mIRC (irc.rizon.net, #sagexpo). In the chat room, you will be able to talk to Mike Pollock, the voice of Doctor Eggman, and Tom Payne, the level artist for Sonic 2. Check the “Events” tab to see when they pop in the chat room.
Also, the ever-entertaining SAGEcasts are broadcast from a flash player on the site. Sonic community members from all over will be broadcasting their music, thoughts, and sketches throughout the week.
The biggest online Sonic community event is waiting for you to come on over and enjoy yourself! It runs from July 25th through the 31st.
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Sonic Robo Blast 2 has been in development for 11 years. To think that we’d be playing a “version 2.0” makes me feel old, despite me only recently turning 22 years old. A day before the 2009 Sonic Amateur Games Expo opens, Sonic Team Jr., the game’s developers, have released this new version, three years after the last demo.
Version 2.0 has a completable, polished, yet unfinished single player campaign. The team’s leader, AJ Freda, has assured that there are so many improvements to the game that “to list them would be exhausting.” With this release, however, AJ will be leaving the team and turning over control to his other members. He is expecting a child soon, so we in the community wish him well on fatherhood and his future endeavors. It certainly is the end of an era.
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It’s a strange time to be in the Sonic community at the moment, particularly if you run a fansite. For years, we’ve been able to post – as webmasters on TSS, Retro, SFGHQ, CulT or any other site – our thoughts and feelings of being Sonic fans, and not have to worry about possible tabloid ramifications in doing so. Running a website such as this is a hobby, nothing more, so personal feelings are surely going to be thrown into the mix. But these days there’s less of a feeling of community due to nobody talking to one another – perhaps as a result of such prejudicial fear.
It’s been harder for the poor guys behind the Sonic Amateur Games Expo this year, who are now the new targets of such unwanted gossip. With festivities kicking off tomorrow, there have been fangame creators who have had some trouble in getting demos online, or in other cases pulling out of the show entirely. Such activity isn’t new; as a dedicated (and at times, official) coverage-provider of the SAGE event, I know that such bad situations are part and parcel of a hobby activity that dedicated fans undertake in their spare time. Sometimes work gets you down, you have a kid, money’s tight, or some social event happens in your life, and you just need to put your fan project on hold for a bit. With such trivial matters being highlighted as headline news though, it’s even less fun for those fangame creators involved.
This next week is all about celebrating Sonic fangames, and the people behind those projects who put their free time into it all. They don’t owe us anything. They’re hardly obligated to even finish their games (and many who set out to make a fangame seldom do). SAGE was created to be a structured exposition on the year’s best fangames, but again it’s not an obligation to show your game. Fangames aren’t a business, it’s a hobby. Some of can forget that we’re only in this community to have some fun.
So when SAGE opens, people should all just kick back and enjoy that hobby, whether those people be the creators showing off screens, videos and demos of their labours of love; or the visitors that play, watch and get impressed with the work that one or two people at home are capable of achieving.
Tomorrow, TSS will be covering SAGE, and we’ll be in it to have some fun. Come and join us, or play the games yourself when the site opens at http://www.sagexpo.org/
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Yup, it’s finally that time of the year again for the San Diego Comic Con, and for the handful of lucky, lucky American Sonic fans there’s a nice little treat in store. All attendees have their chance at picking up one of the Jazwares JUVI Metal Sonic figurines, which are exclusive to the event and will only be sold over the 4 days the event in held.
HOWEVER, if you’re quick enough, Toys R’ Us US are stocking a limited amount of the figure at $15.99 a pop, so even if you’re unable to attend the event you can still pick up one of these nice little additions. Unfortunately it looks like this is only open to the US, and only available to purchase for 4 days, so be quick about it if you’re wanting to snag one! Everyone else will have to open up their wallets and fork out for one (plus postage) on ebay!
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UK Mario and Sonic fans are in luck as Argos are currently giving 20% off of pre-orders of certain video games with the promotional code GAME20 that expires 24/07/09. Both Wii & DS versions of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games are in the offer so be quick like the spikey blue one and get in there now. WARNING to everyone though that money is taken on order and not on despatch.
Here are the prices before and after the 20% is discounted: Mario & Sonic: The Olympic Winter Games DS £24.99 £19.99 Mario & Sonic: The Olympic Winter Games Wii £32.99 £26.39
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Numerous people have tried to remake Sonic 1, but finally someone has done it and FINISHED IT! That’s right a fan game is having a FULL RELEASE at the end of SAGE. Amazing. Are you hyped?
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In amongst all of our rushing around to sort out Summer of Sonic, AAUK didn’t notice until yesterday that someone had left a rather curious looking suitcase lying around his office…
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I think that it’s hilarious that somebody tried to sell Sonic 3D Blast on a Tiger LCD handheld. That fact is funnier than the commercial itself. Not to mention all the false hope the ad provides. Compare how many times you see the Genesis version of 3D Blast to the Tiger handheld version and laugh.
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It’s about time I started adding back some of the really old content TSS used to have on here, and I’m making some progress now by relaunching the Comics Zone. It’s not hard to miss on the sidebar – look for the flashing ‘new’ icon. It aims to be a vault of information on the Archies, Sonic the Comics, random Japanese Manga and all sorts of other miscellaneous books that get discovered.
At the moment, you can view information on Fleetway’s Sonic the Comic from Issues 1 to 11. Now that the section’s relaunched, I’ll find time every now and then to add a few more issues to the archive. So for now, enjoy a Fleetway blast from the past while I get more stuff together for you.
The Games Archive is requiring a little rethink before I fully relaunch that – having said that, you can see full-view boxart of M&S at the Olympic Winter Games by going to its archive directly here.
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Above is a screenshot of a game coming to SAGE ’09 in 2 weeks, called Sonic Attitude by SFGHQer Endri Lauson. The game is a 2D sidescroller in full 3D. LOOK AT THE PRETTY. LOOK AT IT.
Endri originally designed Attitude for the Nintendo DS, but the recent screenshots that have been coming in have been for the PC version. Endri built the PC version from the ground up in his own custom software development kit:
One thing that I would like to note is that I redefined the engine for the PC version. The PC version will now feature a brand new engine entirely customized by me myself. I like to call it, “Attitude Engine”. It’s an entire SDK for developing Sonic games for PC. In fact, you can you it to develop other types games but Sonic games, but the main sources included are for Sonic in general. The main features in the engine I belive is SSAO and almost-with-no-pre-calculations-at-all Global Illumination.
To play the 2008 tech demo of Sonic Attitude, check out Endri’s website (translated from Portuguese) and follow the progress Endri makes on the game at the official thread at Sonic Fan Games HQ.
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Sonic the Comic legends Nigel Kitching and Nigel Dobbyn are to be special guests at the Summer of Sonic 2009 convention, it has been revealed. The two are well known for their influence in creating, arguably, one of the greatest canons outside of the computer game series.
A Q&A session will be arranged on the day to chat to the duo on stage, and they will be available for signings and general chit-chat with fans who grew up with the Egmont Fleetway publication. Kitching is a return guest from last year’s debut convention, while Dobbyn contributed to Summer of Sonic 2008 by lending original prints to be displayed.
This is the first of many large announcements regarding guests, features and activities to be made over the course of the next few weeks on the Summer of Sonic 2009 website. You can keep a track of the action, and communicate with the organisers directly by heading there now.
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The sequel to the rather-good-if-massmarket-preaching Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games has had its release date confirmed, thanks to a post on the official Sonic City Blognik sporting a snazzy advert. The Nintendo DS and Wii versions of the game will arrive on store shelves on the 16th October 2009.
In addition to this, the official website for the game has been updated, and box artwork have been released for both the Wii and Nintendo DS versions, both of which you can download in high quality from TSS’ Game Archive.
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In a news blast to his fan community website, Jun ‘Parfect’ Senoue has followed up on our last story by revealing that he’s actually working on three CDs, with the intention of them being released this year. The brand new Crush 40 album that was announced previously is no longer to be released within the September – November window, but the musician promises that work will continue once he and singer Johnny Gioeli have some spare time.
The three CDs include a new compilation of Sonic themes to compliment the recent ‘True Blue’ release, a Crush 40 Best-Of collection and a profile of Senoue’s works in non-Sonic games and other soundtracks. Sayeth the guitarist:
Crush 40 : The Best of Crush 40 – Super Sonic Songs
– Sep.16, 2009
– The previous one we released through Frontiers Records had been out of print for years and also we have released several songs since then. This CD will have most of our songs we did for Sega video games.
JUN SENOUE : The Works
– Oct. 21, 2009
– I have worked on several non-Sonic related games like ‘Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition’, ‘Sega Rally 2’ and some others. Also there are some rare tracks I provided for soundtrack releases as well. This is the compilation of my works from mid of 90’s through 2009.
The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Part2 : True Colors
– Sometime in November
– ‘True Blue’ was the collection of music of world famous blue hedgehog, Sonic. And ‘True Colors’ will be the compilation CD featuring theme songs for characters of the world of Sonic the Hedgehog.
When asked if there would be any unique or special material included on any of these projects, Senoue seemed optimistic about throwing in some rare, unreleased tracks and alternate versions to popular songs. But so far, nothing has been confirmed on that front.
Even without the long-awaited sequel to Crush 40, it looks like fans of Jun are going to be treated well this year.
Thanks to bcdcdude for the tip!
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Sonic: Time Twisted has been a mainstay at SAGE since 2006 and, if you remember my review of it on the Stadium front page last summer, I was let down by how little of it had changed over the years and how the awkward design choices ruined the experience. Well, it looks like Overbound, the game’s creator, has addressed all the issues with his project and is looking to deliver at SAGE 2009. Below is a video of the new hotness:
The 2009 Sonic Amateur Games Expo runs July 25th through the 31st at “http://sagexpo.org.” It is the biggest online community event that showcases the best Sonic fan projects around.
UPDATE: Since people decided to be silly and troll the comments box with “NEW SKOOL RULZ,” Overbound has now made sure to cater to your audience. You can thank him later:
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A report from Andrew Paulson has revealed that US anime localisation company 4Kids are to start providing original, uncensored episodes of the Japanese Sonic X series. A short trailer featuring a clip from the first episode, Enter the Supersonic Hero, has been uploaded to their Youtube Channel. The only problem is, if you’re outside of the US, you’re blocked from watching it – just like any other Sonic X video the company has on their account.
The move is both a positive instance of 4Kids coming to terms with what a lot of their audience has asked for, yet a shock for worldwide fans that even today have to put up with archaic regional rights issues. The TSSZ article is littered with comments from fans disappointed that they cannot watch their favourite cartoon online.
4Kids has received a lot of venom in the past for their handling of Japanese anime shows. Vitriol from Sonic the Hedgehog fans have been somewhat more intense due to an ownership of the franchise’s merchandising rights, along with a controversial move of integrating their voice actors into the Sega games.
They may well be trying to make things up to a ton of their disgruntled viewers tired of the American edits and censors, but have 4Kids scored another own goal here? Let us know in the Comments box or the SSMB.
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If rumours and an official LinkedIn profile are to be believed, one of the key players in Sonic Team, technical director Yoshihisa Hashimoto, has left in order to further his career in RPG developer Square-Enix.
Hashimoto is best known for his work recently in Sonic Unleashed, where he helped create the Hedgehog Engine and was the latest in the studio’s “revolving door” system to take the reins on the Sonic franchise and drag it out of the quality quagmire. Before his Director role he had a hand in many Sonic Team games since 1997, including writing enemy programming for Sonic Adventure, the Chao engine for Sonic Adventure 2 and coding tasks for Sonic Advances 1 and 2. It is believed he left Sonic Team as long ago as late April, to take a position at Square-Enix in a similar technical director capacity.
The rumour mill has been turning since GoNintendo carried the rumour, but doubters suggest that a discrepency in his LinkedIn profile (the incorrect Japanese naming of his latest work, Sonic Unleashed) could be a sign of a hoax. If true, it only throws more weight under the suggestion that Sega are seriously re-organising how they are developing and producing their Sonic titles.
We’ve contacted Sega for comment, and will update when we get a response. Thanks to the SSMB for the heads up.
UPDATE: ArchAngelUK has responded to our calls, confirming Hashimoto-san’s departure:
I can confirm that Yoshihisa Hashimoto has left SEGA to pursue another opportunity and we’d like to wish him well in his future endeavours.
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The Summer of Sonic 2009 website has opened up ‘advance registrations’, which will allow those who send in their contact details ahead of time to jump the long queues that people will face on the day. By sending an email that includes names, addresses and other information to convention staff, you will get an e-ticket that can be printed out and handed in on the day for immediate entry. E-tickets can be personalised by submitting a username/name to be printed on the ticket.
Attendees will be required to submit their details via a form on the day if they choose not to register in advance. The information is needed for fire and safety purposes, as well as a legal obligation. The convention confirms that whichever method visitors choose to register, attendance will be free for everyone.
To register in advance for the Summer of Sonic 2009, due to take place in London’s Truman Brewery on 29th August, visit the Summer of Sonic website for more information.
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A costume design company in Shangai, China who sell many of their costumes on eBay ranging from Beijing 2008 mascots to weird advertising things like OMO(whatever that is) are selling a New condition Super Sonic costume that actually looks very well made, especially compared to the other crap Sonic costumes on eBay. The costume has the light orangey colour we saw from Sonic 2006’s Super Sonic, the spikes curving up, the red eyes and the more serious mouth so they’ve done their research. At the moment there are no bids which start at $0.99(approximately £0.62) with the end date being 17 Jul. Postage is worldwide but make sure you have a spare $84.00 to cover it on you.
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In light of yesterdays news of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games still making the UK top 40 chart Chart Track has released the sales results for the first half of 2009. Half of the list comprises of Nintendo games but SEGA’s Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for Wii and DS has made it to the number 10 slot, quite an achievement for a game released more than a year ago.
Here’s the top 10 list –
1: Wii Fit
2: Wii Play
3: Mario Kart Wii
4: Professor Layton And The Curious Village
5: Killzone 2
6: Resident Evil 5
7: Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training
8: The Sims 3
9: Call Of Duty: World At War
10: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games
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There are many reasons why The Sonic Show, the video podcast that’s hosted on the TSS Network, is incredibly awesome. This is merely one of those reasons – a trailer for ‘Shadow the Hedgehog 2’. Note my incredible journalism skills and AAUK’s special detective skills. And T-Bird screaming like a girl.
In other news, TSS (and the Network) will be moving servers quite soon, which is also the reason we’ve not made much progress on the Summer of Sonic website. Updates are incoming, we swear. Oh, and remember – The Sonic Hour returns thus Sunday, 6pm GMT/BST.
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This weeks UK sales chart has now been released on Chart Track.co.uk and in All Formats Top 40 we can see Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and SEGA Superstars Tennis are still holding on strong.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games was released 23-11-07 on Wii and 08-02-08 on DS but still very much enjoys great UK sales across both formats especially now the sequel is on its way. The game is 26th in the chart this week.
SEGA Superstars Tennis was released 20-03-08 for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS and also continues to enjoy UK sales across all formats especially on Wii despite the recent release of SEGA’s newest tennis title Virtua Tennis 2009. The game is 33rd in the chart this week.
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Games featured include Sonic Robo Blast 2, Sonic Rebirth, Project Mettrix, Sonic Emerald Hunt, and Sonic Nexus. Games that were not in the video include Sonic: Time Attacked and Sonic: Mecha Madness.
In other SAGE news, let me put a damper on many people’s hopes by informing you all that Retro-Sonic XG will not be anywhere close to the show this year. There were never plans for a demo to surface in 2008 or this year’s show.
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YouTube user, AfriqueDeluxe, has worked some magic and released a pair of fantastic remixes that utilize the vocals from pop music and the melodies of classic Sonic tunes. He is planning to release a “Sonic Remix” album later this year. His first remix takes Fergie’s “Glamorous” and throws Green Hill behind it to make the song actually enjoyable:
Awesome. I look forward to more Sonic remixes from AfriqueDeluxe.
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It’s that time again! Lets slash some things to death for the last time in ‘Ye Old England!
An Interesting Story.
We sometimes wonder why HellFire comms did this exclusive playthrough for The Sonic Show….. then we remember and shut up. (that wasn’t as interesting a story as I originally planned).
Sonic and the Erazor Djinn Knight
Sonic and the Its Like Sex In A Toy Its Amazing Knight is a title within the Sonic the Hedgehog series, released exclusively on Wii as the second entry in the Sonic Storybook series, following on from Sonic and the Secret Rings. The game is directed by Tetsu Katano, who was the lead programmer of the Sonic Adventure titles and Sonic Heroes. Set in the world of King Arthur, the game combines Sonic’s trademark speed with a new swordfighting system, making use of the Wii Remote’s motion-sensing functionality….. deja vu?
Who are Hellfire Commentaries?
They are people
To watch one of their other entertaining videos, please head over to
http://www.youtube.com/user/HellfireCommsIt’s that time again! Lets slash some things to death in ‘Ye Old England!
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