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…or, alternatively, Sonic the Hedgehog meets Skrillex for the weekly Mash-Up Monday! Sonic 2‘s Chemical Plant Zone clashes with the famed dubstep artist’s “Disco Rangers” and “Lazy Eye” tracks. Quite the piece of ear-candy!
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Special thanks to Jack Roletter for the find!
UPDATE: The sale’s now over. If you missed out, you’re too slow!
Original article:
Get your wallets ready, GamersGate.co.uk are having a huge sale on Sonic & SEGA PC games this weekend, with everything at least 49% off! Highlights of the sale include Sonic Generations for a mere £9.98, Sonic CD for £2.00, Sonic 4 for £3.00 and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing for just £4.98. There are tons more games on offer, mostly consisting of classic Mega-Drive/Genesis titles, so there’s bound to be something in there that takes your fancy!
Will you be picking anything up? Let us know in the comments!
SEGA has announced via their blog that they are looking for 10 pieces of Jet Set Radio-inspired artwork (though SEGA-related artwork will be considered) to be used in the Jet Set Radio Future level of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. The main prohibitions of the contest are that you must be over 18 and live in either the United States, Canada or United Kingdom to enter. There are plenty more rules and regulations for the contest though, so be sure to read them before entering!
If you couldn’t hold on much longer for news on special guests at this year’s Summer of Sonic, you’ll never let go of this announcement! Prepare to open your heart and get ready to roll out the blue carpet, because Crush 40 will be making a booming return to the annual SOS convention!
Continue reading Crush 40, Summer of Sonic Venue Announcement!
With the announcement of Transformed, the iOS version of the first Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing has received a massive update this morning, namely with two new characters added to the roster who weren’t available beforehand: Knuckles the Echidna and Shadow the Hedgehog.
Continue reading SASASR iOS Distributes “The Knuckles & Shadow Update”
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UPDATE: We now have the footage for you above, courtesy of SSMB member Rawrdom.
Sony has snagged some exclusive gameplay footage of the newly announced title Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for their free UK downloadable show PlayStation Access. In Episode 32 released on the PlayStation Store today, you can check out about 25 seconds of new gameplay footage from the Panzer Dragoon themed track. Sumo Digital’s Joe Neate also speaks briefly on the show.
The Xbox Live Marketplace product page for Sonic 4: Episode II gave two new Oil Desert screens today, one of those showcasing the oil rig stage’s boss.
As a reminder, the game is confirmed to begin release this month: May 15th for the Playstation Network and PC, and May 16th for the Xbox Live Arcade. It is also due for release this month on iOS devices, an exact date yet to be confirmed.
French book publisher Pix’n Love has contacted us to announce that the English version of The History of Sonic will be published, and made available “at the end of June.” Just in time for the blue blur’s birthday!
The company has also responded to reports that customers were not yet getting their orders on the original French book dispatched. “The book is indeed available on the French Pix’n Love website,” company spokesperson Olivier Braillon told TSS. “Orders have started being dispatched on Monday and the Pix’n Love team is working day and night to send all the orders placed (and there were many!). So if some readers haven’t received their order yet, it is entirely normal.
“Moreover, Tuesday was a bank holiday in France so most orders should arrive on Thursday in France and by the beginning of next week for all worldwide shipments.” Continue reading Pix’n Love: English History of Sonic WILL be Published
Sumo Digital’s Executive Producer Steve Lycett (under his alias S0L) has been busy answering the questions of many fans over on the Sonic Stadium forums and has revealed a few more details about the new Sonic All-Stars Racing game, as well as a few teases! Although he couldn’t give away major details such as characters and tracks, he still answered as much as he was allowed to.
Hit the jump for all the details, it’s a big read!
Continue reading Steve Lycett Answers Fan Questions on SASRT
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Listen to my disembodied annoying voice as I sit down to have a talk with Joe Neate about SEGA and Sumo Digital’s upcoming racing title!
Fellow Sonic Stadium writer Jason Berry also interviewed Mr. Neate with different, more SEGA centric questions, which you can find here.
I don’t often post about the SEGAbits Sonic podcast here, but I do believe this one will hold a special interest for a lot of you. In this episode, Jason and I sit down with Sonic Stadium boss Dreadknux and discuss our experiences with Sonic & All-Stars Racing.
You can find the podcast here.
Eurogamer has a very well written preview of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed that I highly recommend you read. It’s very well written and pretty effectively illustrates the struggles many arcade racer developers are having today, and how much of a unique case the success of the original Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing is.
The article also had loads of new info, which I’ve reported below:
The game has 27 characters. This is 7 more than the last game, not counting console specific characters.
A WiiU release cannot be confirmed or denied. I personally quite confident we’ll see it at E3, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
The development team has been expanded, taking in people from two recently closed British game development studios that specialize in arcade racing titles: Bizarre Creations, the people responsible for Project Gotham Racing, The Club, and Blur, as well as people from Black Rock, creators of Split/Second. Gareth Wilson, whom we met at the press event in San Francisco, is one of those people. He came from Bizarre Creations and has games like Project Gotham 2-4 as well as Blur under his belt.
Continue reading EuroGamer Provides Loads of Additional SASRT Details
Special thanks to Barry the Nomad for this image mock-up
Wow.
That is an actual quote this SEGA fanboy uttered as SEGA turned on the television to give a group of people from the gaming media their first look at the newest All-Stars game. As the TV switched on, I was expecting to see Green Hill, Chemical Plant, or maybe Emerald Coast grace the screen in glorious HD. This was a Sonic title after all, right? Then, as the screen turned on, I noticed a small Panzer Dragoon logo in the left hand corner. For a moment, I didn’t believe it. Then I saw Lagi stretching her wings, the Shelcoof soaring through the sky and heard “Flight” playing in the background, and the little SEGA fanboy in me screamed.
Wow.
Continue reading Preview: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Hands-On
Following yesterday’s teaser by Sumo Digital’s Steve Lycett aka S0L and the many reports since we first brought you news of a possible sequel to Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, a listing has just appeared over at GamesRadar for a PS3 title called Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Has GamesRadar let the cat out of the bag?
Source: GamesRadar
You know that feeling when everybody knows something you don’t?
Late last year, publisher Pix’N Love surprised everyone when they announced a ‘history of Sonic the Hedgehog’ book would be printed for release near to the start of 2012. However due to various problems at the publisher this ended up being delayed, but now Pix’N Love have finally revealed the final product… and what a product it is too!
Continue reading Pix’N Love’s ‘History of Sonic the Hedgehog’ out… Now?
A slew of 14 high quality screenshots have just surfaced regarding Sylvania Castle Zone and the massive Egg Serpentleaf boss of the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II. Not much to say other than they look gorgeous!
Check out the rest of the gallery after the jump!
Continue reading New Sylvania Castle Zone, Egg Serpentleaf Screenshots Surface
There have been whispers for well over a month now, but in a report from Entertainment Weekly, it looks like our favourite villain, Doctor Eggman, is set to feature in Disney’s up-and-coming videogame homage “Wreck-It Ralph”, a story of a videogame antagonist looking to change his ways.
Continue reading Doctor Eggman To Cameo In Disney Movie “Wreck-It Ralph”
Last year, GamesMaster’s spin off magazine ‘GamesMaster Presents’ did a special Sonic 20th Anniversary issue, despite the high price, many who bought that magazine were amazed by the level of detail which went into it as well as well as the quality of the articles and even how the magazine had contributions from the Sonic community.
Continue reading GamesMaster Presents: Mario Vs Sonic Out Now
Yesterday it was announced that Sega would be bringing a selection of Sonic 4 Episode 2 themed avatars to PSN users ahead of the release of Episode 2. Well the avatars are now live on the EU PSN and can be downloaded for the low price of 21p each. For those in the US, you’ve gotta wait another week for them. You can see a quick photo gallery of the avatars after the break as well as details of other Sonic related happenings on the PSN.
Continue reading Sonic 4 Episode 2: PSN Avatars, Now Available
SEGA Japan announced today via their Sonic Twitter account that a Platinum Collection edition of Sonic Free Riders would see a Japanese release tomorrow, indicating that the game has sold reasonably well since its release November 2010. The game is available to buy on Play-Asia right now, but only in NTSC-J format. No word on whether or not we’ll see a release in other territories, but we’ll keep you updated if anything is announced!
Be sure to hit the jump for more!
Continue reading Sonic Free Riders Goes Platinum, Riders OSTs Now on iTunes
SEGA’s Mike Kebby has today revealed on the EU PS Blog that they will be releasing the first ever Sonic PSN Avatars on the EU PS Store. Kebby didn’t say who or what the Avatars will be of or how much they will cost, but did say they will be available from tomorrow. No information was given about a US release. In other news, Kebby announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 will be released on the EU PS Store on Wednesday the 16th May for £9.99/€12.99, which is a day later than SEGA Europe has been advertising on their website for a while now (and still is at time of posting).
We’ll update with more information about the Sonic PSN Avatars tomorrow.
Source: EU PS Blog
Following the recent announcement that the limited edition Sonic Nendoroid figures will be made available to UK customers, it has been revealed that SonicMerchandise.com has now received its stock and will be dispatching pre-orders over the next week.
The official Sonic the Hedgehog 4 website has been updated with the zone unveiled in the game’s recent trailer, Oil Desert Zone!
The update leaves four new screenshots as well as a short description of the zone.
Huge refineries were made by Dr. Eggman to collect the resources of this Zone. Sonic and Tails must be careful as many traps await including Sand storms, quicksand, huge sand-filling tanks, etc.
You can all check out the screenshots accompanying it after the jump.
Continue reading Sonic 4 Website Updates with Oil Desert Zone
As our kind friend Turbo explains, you can win one of these lovely Sonic Generations Commemorative Statues when you try to beat Jay’s (of The Sonic Show) highscore at his new favourite game, Hamster.
Special thanks to VGM:Awesome.
If you’ve not been awake for the past nine hours, you’ve probably missed the news that Sonic 4: Episode 2 was leaked onto Steam and subsequently downloaded by those who had pre-ordered it, as well as by people rushing to snag an early copy.
However, if you did manage to download it, you might be in for a surprise when you try to re-launch the game.
Continue reading Steam Disables Play of Sonic 4: Episode 2 Beta
UPDATE: Steam has fixed the error and the beta can no longer be downloaded.
A beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 has been released on sale just a couple of hours ago this afternoon on PC digital download service Steam. Various Steam users on our SSMB forum have been able to purchase and download the beta and then play through it. At the time of this article we’ve just heard that SEGA has now become aware of the leak and has erased discussion of it over on their official forums. We expect SEGA will plug the leak on Steam pretty soon.
Thanks to the Steam users at the SSMB for the heads up and to Nemain for the image!
Mike Pollock, the voice actor for Eggman, left a rather curious comment on YouTube yesterday, during a conversation with a one Roonco Prime regarding the old cast appearing at “anything Sonic related.” Mr Pollock said that he couldn’t speak for the rest of the cast, however, “You might be able to see me very soon, stay tuned for a major announcement.”
Continue reading Mike Pollock: “Stay Tuned For A Major Announcement”
If you are a PS3 owner and you also subscribe to Playstation Plus, there’s some rather nice deals on the Playstation Store right now, with Sonic CD heavilly discounted and other DLC packs at less than half price.
Full details after the break
Continue reading Sonic CD, Unleashed & All-Stars Racing DLC: Discounted (PSN+ Only)
Following recent hiccups and internal setbacks, S2HD’s Project Leader Vincent has officially announced on the game’s Facebook page that there will be no more development on the project. This decision was in fact made over 2 months ago, but the team wanted to at least get the Alpha demo out for their dedicated supporters to enjoy. Read the full statement after the jump. Continue reading S2HD Officially Discontinued
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It’s no secret that the tag-team abilities of Sonic and Tails are going to be a major part of Sonic 4: Episode 2’s gameplay, and at last we have some official details on them. SEGA’s Mike Kebby took to the PlayStation Blog to tell us about what we can expect from the real super power of teamwork in the second episode of the Sonic 4 saga.
Continue reading C-C-C-Combo Maker! Sonic 4’s Collaborative Play Explained
Merch-hogs, prepare to open your wallets once more – it has been recently revealed that the all-new Sonic Nendoroid figure from the Good Smile Company will be making its way to UK shores!
Continue reading Limited Edition Sonic Nendoroid: UK Pre-Orders Now Open!
UPDATE: The segment has now ended. Did you watch it? Have you seen it live before? Going to a future VGL? Let us know in the comments.
Original Story: Earlier today, Video Games Live announced that they would be broadcasting a Live stream version of tonight’s show in El Dorado Arkansas.
Continue reading Video Games Live to Broadcast the Sonic Segment Live: It’s Over, You’re Too Slow!
In an update to their website today, SEGA has cleared up the release dates for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 in Europe and Australia. It appears SEGA is going to defy expectations and release the PS3 version in all territories on the same day of May 15th 2012. The Xbox 360 version will also have a simultaneous release the next day on May 16th 2012 as expected. Other formats will follow later.
More after the jump…
Continue reading Sonic 4: Tails Could Lead in Future Patch, Ep 2 Dates Clarified
Cheat Code Central got some time to speak to a few SEGA representatives at the recent PAX East event about the future of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and have today published all of the juicy details. First of all we learn that like Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 will not receive any DLC add-on content, BUT Episode 2 does not end the Sonic 4 story.
The booth reps also said that SEGA is committed to delivering more classic Sonic games in the future. While they confirmed that there would be no DLC add-ons for Episode II, they did say that Episode II does not end the Sonic 4 story. Instead, they are taking Sonic games one at a time. If Episode II does well, Episode III will come out. After that, IV, and so on until they get to the point where they are ready to develop Sonic 5 (the rep speculated this wouldn’t be until after Sonic 4: Episode IV).
Continued after the jump…
Continue reading SEGA Talks to Cheat Code Central About the Future of Sonic
Continuing our coverage on Sonic 4: Episode 2, the Xbox 360 product page for the upcoming episode of the Sonic 4 saga has updated with seven new screenshots today. The screenshots showcase more of Sylvania Castle Zone, as well as White Park Zone.
Check out the entire gallery after the jump!
Continue reading Xbox.com Reveals More Sonic 4: Episode 2 Screenshots
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