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Wave Master has their Billy Hatcher CD page up, it has some images and info. The CD will be called “Music Popped Out Of The Egg” and will come with a free sticker, which is shown on the page! ^_-
Bullet King joins the other games, check out the Sonic Cafe to see more on this game and others.
Many people have come to us on this, Mj2 and Very Crazy Penguin, but the first place for the news, as with many things TSS-wise, was reported on the Sonic Stadium Message Board.
Sonic Adventure DX, a recent port of the original Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast, looks set to branch out on the PC as well as Nintendo GameCube. Here are some screens, courtest of GameOnline, a japanese gaming website:
All the features from the GameCube version will be present, such as the Game Gear titles, and it being a PC title will probably be much cheaper than the GC outing, with early screens already showing graphics about 10 times better than the Nintendo ‘Cube effort. Looks like Sonic Team are trying this time. *shot*
As always, we will keep a close eye on it, and a new game section will open up soon.
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle has become Nintendo Players’ Choice Million-Seller. The game will have the special Players’ Choice casing and it will be $10 off the original for the Nintendo Gamecube.
Tokyo Game Show 2003 is soon to be and Sonic team has put up their TGS Page. Japanese gamers will get special gifts and such for playing any Sonic team games, the gifts will be exclusive to TGS. The show will also feature a few special presentation’s of Sonic team titles.
Solly, webmaster of The Dream Avenue seem to of discovered the original version of Sonic, at first Sonic Team planned on having Sonic as a rabbit. Below is supposedly official art of Sonic The Rabbit from 1990.
Below are screens from Sega Direct of the next Sonic Game Boy Advance adventure, Sonic Battle. Look below, you’ll see a screen of what appears to be a new character playable. Looks to be some type of bot named “Emerl”?
News Source:
Sega Direct “Page”
Sega Direct is taking pre-orders for the Billy Hatcher Soundtrack, it will be published by Wave Master on November the 6th. Click Here for details.
Today is the 10th Anniversary of SatAM, some recognize it as the best of the Sonic cartoons and to celebrate this day, Ronic Warihog sent me the below email.
Hello. My name is Ronic Warihog, and I have some news for you on a special day for the Sonic Community.
As some of you may know, today is the 10th Anniversary of the debut of ABC’s ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ SatAM animated series. It is the show that forever changed the perception of the Sonic world, and while the games were primarily for SEGA fans, the SatAM helped to bring Sonic into mainstream society. It also changed the path of the comics to one of respectability, and became one of the most powerful animated series of all time.
I would like to extend my personal thanks to all 182 individuals who worked on the SatAM, and all of those who have supported the show, past and present. Without the support, the SatAM would probably have been forgotten long ago.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #132, ships 1/7. 32-page, full color comic, $2.19 US.
“Home, Part 3 – A.D.A.M. & Evil”: Sonic, Knuckles and the entire Kingdom of Acorn launch a two-pronged defense against the forces of Eggman’s Empire. As usual, Dr. Robotnik (a.k.a. Eggman) has a few tricks up his sleeve to keep his foes from winning the day. And then there’s Shadow and a stash of deadly weapons… SCRIPT: Karl Bollers. ART: Dave Manak (pencils) and Jim Amash (inks).
“Mobius: 25 Years Later – The Unveiling”: Our popular look at the future lives of Sonic’s friends and foes continues! This time, Lara-Su undergoes the female echidna coming-of-age ceremony. As Knuckles’ daughter, this is a very big deal – everyone on the island is invited. Will Lara-Su be able to deal with her insecurities? Also, if he’s not here for the ceremony, just why has Rotor come to see Knuckles?! You won’t want to miss this intriguing installment! SCRIPT: Ken Penders. ART: Steven Butler (pencils) and Ken Penders (inks).
Thanks for the heads up by Benji, theres a new Billy Hatcher Video which is a new commercial for the game. Check it out at Sega of Japan’s Billy Hatcher Page
SAGE is a two week event. TSS gets the coverage during the second week. And we get word today that the SAGE event will close tonight.
So, just before you go ape over the whole thing closing early yet another time, TSS has managed to save all the booth links, so at least you’ll still get the booth reports each day.
Let’s hope, come March next year, when we cover SAGE 2004 Season 1, that Perfect Chaos 0 (the guy supposedly taking over the reigns from Luckett X) will do a better job with time keeping. =/
Starting today, you can view a continuous report on the Sonic Amateur Games Expo on The Sonic Stadium – every day this week we take 6 SAGE booths to town and record our opinions, as well as interviewing the very best of those featuring at SAGE. See the first instalment right now here:
Monday’s report is yet to be fully completed, with two games yet to be commented on, but you can see them added later on tonight. We also have an interview with Myst Hedgehog, who is developing Sonic: Eternal Rings. 🙂 Who can say fairer than that? Get to the Sonic Fan Games Club now!
Nokia has released a new Sonic N Movie that shows the opening to the game, its obviously identical to Sonic Advance.
A while back The Sonic Stadium was the first to announce Sonic’s appearance in Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (oh, you know it), and there were some naysayers.
A day or so ago, we found Sonic Team’s updated Japanese website with more official details and screenshots of Sonic popping up as a hatchable animal.
Most recently, IGN managed to contact SEGA about whether it was all real or just a fake stunt (slow mo’s… :P), SEGA came back with a press statement confirming the incident, and some concret details about the hedgehog’s whereabouts…
Regarding Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg: Sonic the Hedgehog can be unlocked and used, considering the user has collected enough coins, in Dino Mountain 3 stage. Sonic is the most powerful egg animal to appear in Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. Once activated, he is capable of quickly defeating all nearby enemies. He also bounces off walls to change directions and attack new groups of enemies. Once found, users can activate him by pressing the Y button.
No doubt TSS will be tracking the progress of this game.
Sonic Guy, long standing member of the Sonic Stadium Message Boards, brought us to some interesting news that THQ has revealed the arrival of the third instalment of Sonic Advance. Delving deeper, we found this statement from an unknown source:
“THQ announces a copublishing agreement with Sega Europe for five upcoming GBA games, including the previously unannounced games Sonic Advance 3 and Shining Force.
THQ has today announced that it has entered into a Game Boy Advance copublishing agreement with Sega Europe. The deal will see THQ publishing a number of Sega GBA games in Europe, Australia, and other international territories starting this winter. The games confirmed for inclusion in the arrangement to date include the following:
Shining Force
Shining Soul II
Sonic Advance 3 – BOIT. See? 😛
Sonic Battle
Sonic Pinball Party“Our two Sonic-branded releases, Sonic Advance and Sonic Advance 2, enjoyed sales of more than one million units at retail in North America according to NPD TRSTS,” said Tim Walsh, senior vice president of international publishing, THQ. “We are delighted that our relationship with Sega has expanded to our international territories.”
“We are looking forward to working together with THQ for the release of these quality games,” added Mike Sherlock, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Sega Europe. “Using THQ’s unparalleled know-how with the GBA platform will help us to reach our long-term goals in the shortest amount of time. This partnership not only helps us realize our commitment to expand our overseas presence, but also gives us the opportunity to further strengthen the Sega brand name in the international marketplace.”
While this is all freakishly good news, it’s odd seeing THQ announce these titles for Europe, whereas Infogrames has been doing the distribution in Europe for some time now. We all knew SEGA Europe was to become its own entity and thus detach from Infogrames, but then why go to THQ for publishing when they can do it themselves? It boggles the mind. o_O
And the fact that THQ has actually announced these titles on SEGA’s behalf seems strange too. Still, the announcements are all concrete enough, so not only do we get a new handheld Sonic experience on your Game Boy, we’ll also be getting either a continuation or a port from one of the best RPG series created – SHINING FORCE. Rumours of a port of the BEST RPG in existence, Shining Force II (no question – NO, don’t talk! No question about it!) heading for the Game Boy Advance may be realised with this announcement.
Sonic Team has now confirmed the presence of Sonic in Billy Hatcher after some thought it was nothing but a joke or fake. Sonic is one of the animals in the game and can be hatched by finding a special Sonic Egg.
New Billy Hatcher Wallpaper
Click Sonic Team to check out new wallpapers that Sonic Team has added, also head to their Index Page to see a new flash movie.
Sonic X DVD and VHS volume 2,3, and 4, head to the CDJapan.co.jp “Page” to check it out! Japanese only pal.
Those of you that don’t know, SAGE is the Sonic Amateur Games Exposition.
It’s a show that has a bunch of Fan Game developers (who make Sonic the Hedgehog and other related fan games, from programs such as The Games Factory and MultiMedia Fusion) come together and show their works to the Online Sonic Community. It’s an ONLINE event, unlike professional Video Game expos like E3 that take place on Real Life locations.
SAGE 2003 begins tomorrow – September the 9th.
And best of all, The Sonic Stadium is once again covering the event!
TSS went on record as the first site to officially cover the original SAGE event back in 2000/2001, but stopped covering the last few because of the general audience that SAGE was now aiming for. TSS will be there covering the event so that you guys can become interested in it once more, and Shadow Team’s presence there will certainly add to that as well.
Make sure there’s only ONE place you go for SAGE coverage, and that’s The Sonic Stadium! The SAGE website is below, and will be found in related media. All SAGE reports from hereon in will be exclusive to TSS!
Benji has sent me this information, Sega of Japan has a new Billy Hatcher movie, head to Sega of Japan’s Billy Hatcher page. Below is from Benji…
Sonic is in the game. I’m not sure what his role is but by the poses it looks like they’ve been competing so I’m assuming he’s playable in multiplayer mode. Since they only show 1 second of Sonic in the vid, I took the time to take the screen shot and put it up on the net. View it here…
Those who live in Canada, go buy the sucker, but everyone else must wait till tommorow to buy Sonic #127. Dont say I didn’t warn you, below is the information from Diamond Comics:
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Labor Day holiday, U.S. (including Puerto Rico) and International accounts will receive their product on Thursday, September 4. Canadian delivery of shipments will be made on Wednesday, September 3.
Gamestop.com has Nokia N-Gage’s Sonic N box art, so go check it out.
Sega.com has launched a brand new Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg which features story, character and gameplay information. The website can be accessed from Sega.com’s Billy Hatcher Fact Page.
Billy Hatcher GBA Games Update from Gamesarefun.com:
As we reported in our earlier story, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg will allow you to unlock classic games for your Game Boy Advance, including NiGHTS into Dreams, Puyo Pop, and Chu Chu Rocket. After a sharp eyes reader questioned if these would be the same versions that are downloadable via Phantasy Star Online Episode I and II, we have indeed confirmed that are the same versions found in that release. The good news is that no online connection will be required to access them, as was the case with PSO.
Sonic Team will be released a new Puyo game called Puyo Fever which will be released on the sega Dreamcast and be the final Dreamcast title. The game will also be released on the Xbox, Gamecube and PS2. It will feature the all new “Fever” mode to the Puyo series, and will be for 2-players too and is expected to be released in Japan this winter. Click here to visit Sonic Team and Sega of Japan’s Puyo Fever pages.
This info was sent to me by Turbo3 concerning the UK airing date of Sonic X. He stated he sent the UK Fox Kids an email and they replied…
Sonic X is currently scheduled to air on Fox Kids UK around Easter time 2004.
Thanks to Adam Corsetti for the tip, Gamingchart.com has 10 new screens of Sonic Heroes, it also has this to say…
Sonic Heroes puts a new spin on the legendary platform series of games by offering team-based gameplay and allowing players to control three playable characters from 12 teams simultaneously. Sonic Heroes will be released on the PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox platforms. Until then, take a look at the 10 outstanding new screenshots just released by Sega.
This is one of those rare moments where I post non-Sonic news, but it might get some Sonic fans who have yet to buy the Gamecube to buy it. Nintendo has announced that it’ll be dropping the price of the Gamecube from $150 to $99 next month in North America. So if your a Sonic fan and has yet to buy the Nintendo Gamecube, go out and buy it now!
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #131, ships 12/10. 32-page, full color comic, $2.19 US.
Two titanic stories in one action-packed issue! “Home-The Gathering” Part Two (of Four): Continuing the saga of the four-part epic begun last issue. The threat of nuclear annihilation by Dr. Robotnik and his new minions looms large, so Sonic and the citizens of the Kingdome of Acorn AND Station Square must ready themselves to strike the Eggman Empire before its too late! With stakes this eye, everyone joins the battle lines. Don’t miss this nail-biting installment-it could be the last!
SCRIPT: Karl Bollers. ART: Ron Lim (pencils) and Andrew Pepoy (inks). Continue reading Archie: Sonic #131 Preview
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #130 ships 11/12. 32-page, full color comic, $2.19 US.
“Home-The Blue Blur Returns” Part One (of Four): The first entry in a four-part epic finds Sonic back from his adventure in outer space-and just in time, too, as the Kingdom of Acorn and the Empire of Robotnik are about to collide head-on in their monumental struggle to control Mobius! How will everybody react to Sonic’s “return from the dead?” How will Sonic react to all the changes that have occurred during his absence? If you read only one Sonic comic in this lifetime, make it this one!!!
SCRIPT: Karl Bollers. ART: Steven Butler (pencils) Michael Higgins, Jim Amash and J. Axer (inks).
samandfuzzy.com have a page with voice files of the English voices of Sonic X, it includes Sonic & Eggman, Eggman, Amy & Tails. After listening to them a few times I wasn’t very impressed with any of them. Click here to listen to them.
SAGE is less than a month away, and we’re giving you the exclusive details on a new Fan Game developer who will be rearing it’s head among the entire Online Sonic Community. Labelled Shadow Team, regular visitors of TSS will know them as the home-grown antics of Roareye, Anarchy Rat and Dreadknux (Click HERE to visit the website), but this will be their first real appearance onto the public.
Their first game, Sonic Avalanche, met with a very good reception at Sonic Fan Games HQ, but with SAGE hopefully shedding of it’s niche audience, Shadow Team and other Fan Game teams will be able to get more recognition for their work. Continue reading Pre-SAGE: Shadow Team’s Showcase
Sega of Japan has launched a new Sonic Adventure DX commercial, their second. The commercial has Dr. Eggman’s Japanese voice and is 15 seconds long, click below to view it.
Yes, SAGE (Sonic Amateur Games Expo) is coming up fast once again, and entries are being accepted by Perfect Chaos Zero until the 24th August!
For those that do not yet know what SAGE is, we can’t really blame you. SAGE is a showcase of everyone’s Fan Games, much like what E3 does for professional video games. It pops up twice a year, and the first opening in 2000/2001 caused a huge reaction within the Online Sonic Community. Thank Blaze Hedgehog for that.
But as time went on, interest for the event waned, as the event slowly became more and more the property of popular site Sonic Fan Games HQ. The last Sonic Amateur Game Expos have been alright, but didn’t really catch mainstream like it used to – only people who visited SFGHQ on a regular basis showed their items. Continue reading SAGE 2003 Registration
This comes from Sonic HQ News by Kanshisha:
The Sonic Underground, Mario and Zelda DVDs will have bonus Sonic episodes. Here is the list.
Sonic Underground – Dr. Robotnik’s Revenge Episodes:
Beginnings
Hedgehog’s Home is her Castle
ModoboonDVD Bonus – Super Mario Bros. – Do You Princess Toadstool, Take this Koopa
Sonic Christmas Blast Episodes:
Sonic Xmas Blast
Three Hedgehogs and a Baby
Price of Freedom Continue reading Bonus Episodes on Sonic DVDs
House of Brussels Chocolates has updated their Sonic Chocolates Website with images of Sonic chocolates, packages, and floor displays.
Yuji Naka and the Sonic Team has just won the 16th Nikkei New Office Promotion Prize. In a SEGA Press Release, it states that Yuji is very happy with the award and felt that a good office environment stimulates a creative mind.
