Speaking to GamesRadar+, veteran Sonic se🍌ries producer Takashi Iizuka explained that the joint development teams - from the Sonic and Sega Arcade Racing franchises - came together to create a "balanced, fair" r🍌acing game, starting almost completely from scratch.

"They wanted to make sure the racing itself without any items was fair and fun," Iizuka says. "The dev team really took things down to the base level, a✤nd wanted to have that fun, competitive racing mechanic." Vehicle and course design came first, and only once the devs had nailed the racing experience did they build it out by adding items.

But those items weren't set in stone, even after they eventually made it to the game. Iizuka says that the team did "a lot of playtests," and "anything that was very stressful for players, anything that alwa🎀ys allowed people to come back from behind and win all the time needed to be removed from the concept."

After that 💫somewhat ruthless-sounding approach to balance, there'd be even more playtests, and more balance passes. Eventually, the team settled on what Iizuka says was just "the right amount of chaotic," but retained the feeling of being fun, "and always feeling fair to the racers."

Now, I'𒊎ve not played all that much Mario Kart World, but I've heard plenty about being utterly bombarded by shells or watching in horror as the guy who was in last place for two laps surges forth to take the win thanks to some sandbagging-related item trickery. Whether Sonic and his many friends are immune to exactly that fate isn't clear, but if they are it could make the battle for kart racing pole position a little more interesting.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is getting Minecraft characters and Hatsune Miku to make sure people are "not just playing it when it comes out, having fun, and that being it."

Speaking to , Iizuka says, "Ten years ago, I moved from Tokyo to Burbank. At that time, the Son♔ic brand was not in a very positive space. A lot of people were bashing on the brand. They really weren't happy with the things coming out."

ꦫHe added, "We need to save the brand, or this bཧrand isn't going to be around for much longer."

Looking back at 2015, Sonic had just been through a very rough 10-year run, with the likes of Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 06, Sonic Free Riders, and Sonic Boom 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:making headlines for how terrible they all were.

While there were good games in the mix, too – like the Sonic Rush duology, Unleashed, and Generations (and, of course, one of the best kart racers ever made, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed) – conversation around Sonic had definitely 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:skewed negative.

Since then, Sonic has been on an upswing, with the beloved Sonic Mania, the beloved (by some) Sonic Frontiers, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:three blockbuster movies that includes the🌌 second-ever video game movie to be .

Iizuka says when he thinks about 10 year🔴s ago, "I can't r♋eally believe some of the things that have changed."

"We were fighting to survive," he says. "It's✱ totally different now."

After 2 underrated tactical RPGs on Switch, Mario + Rabbids developer Ubisoft Milan's pitch for another game was apparently turned down, which may explain why it's now working on Rayman.

In an interview with Famitsu, series producer Takashi lizuka revealed the team is planning to add one new character to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds each and every m✅onth. Iizuka didn't specify when the post-launch plans will conclude, although the upcoming characters are likely to come from Sega's roster.

Iizuka played coy when asked about the possibility of Shenmue's return to kart racing after his small cameo in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transfor🧸med. Though characters from other Sega series - like Metaphor: ReFantazio, Shin Megami Tensei, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, and Super Monkey Ball - might be good guesses, too.

And in case you missed it, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is digging into the multiverse, as the name may imply. We recently learned that everybody from Per🎃sona 5's Joker to Hatsune Miku to Yakuza's Ichiban will be on the list of playable char🃏acters, while Minecraft Steve is part of the paid season pass that's promising to add even more, unannounced names from outside of Sega's wh🀅eelhouse.

Of course, Sega was mum about the game's from a few weeks ago that mentioned SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Laꦑst Airbender, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be joining Minecraft Steve in the season pass. So, take that how you like.

I played Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds for an hour and its chaotic item-based destruction reminded me of how fun it is to be bad at a kart racer

Right now, this timeline only appears to be visible on the Japanese , so it has to be machine-translated to view it in English, but it's seriously detailed. For each chunk of lore, the most relevant games are listed, so anyone who wants to attempt a chronological play order can do so, although some games appear multiple times at wildly different points in the timeline because of how they tie into various events, so don't expect this to wor🍰k ent🥃irely smoothly.

While not every game has been included here, there's one very♎ surprising inclusion – the party game Sonic Shuffle. It might look like a Mario Party-like board game spin-off (and, uh, it is), but Sonic still helps save a mysterious dream world called Maginaryworld, so into the timeline it goes. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SONIC SHUFFLE IS CANON?" one baffled fan on Reddit .

Otherwise, lore heads have pointed out that the two PSP Sonic Rivals games are absent, which, as , "are pretty important as they reintroduce Silver, retcon Eggman Nega's origins and officially bring back Metal Sonic," not to mention the fact that there's a reference to Rivals 2 in last year's Sonic x 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow Generations (in Gerald Robotnik's journal). There might be a simple explanation for this, though♉, as the two Rivals games were never released in Japan, and this is a Japanese website, so Sega might not want to make references to games its intended audience has most likely never played.

Needless to say, the timeline doesn't provide absolutely perfect answers for how every game fits into the full story, but it's still really cool that we have an official resource to refer to for a lot of the series. Clearly th𓆏ough, some of us need to catch up with that all💟-important Sonic Shuffle lore.

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And yes, of course that means we'll finally get an answer to whether Sonic can outrun the ไFlash (though I suspect it'll be an outcome that flatters them both somehow). But that's not all, as writer Ian Flynn and artist Adam Bryce Thomas will go on to pit the Justice League, Sonic, and the hedgehog's friends against Darkseid as he apparently gains the power of the notorious Chaos Emeralds.

Perhaps it's that chaos that will lead to the mash-up between the heroes becoming literal, as Sonic is mashed-up with Flash, Shadow becomes Batman, Tails becomes Cyborg, Silver becomes Green Lantern, Amy becomes Wonder Woman, an🅰d Knuckles becomes Superman.

Here's a look at the interior pages from DC X Sonic the Hedgehog #1, along with the main cover Pablo M. Collar and a v🧜ariant cover by Ethan Young, as well as the main covers for #2, #3, and #4:

"DC x Sonic the Hedgehog…features an unprecedented crossover event where the Justice League and Team Sonic must unite to save their worlds from a major threat," reads the official description of the story. "The action speeds up when the monstrous Darkseid c🌠rosses dimensions to invade the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, seeking the ultimate power. Sonic and his friends have faced everything from mad scientists to ancient spirits, but the forces ﷽of Apokolips may be too much for them! Thankfully, the full heroic might of the Justice League arrives to back them up!"

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog #1 goes on sale March 19.

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There's a lot of "potentially" and "might" here because this new tool, called , simply gives fan developers a path to creating PC versions of Xbox 360 games. As the GitHub page explains, it "converts Xbox 360 executables into C++ code, which can then be recomp✨iled for any p✨latform." It's not magic - you can't simply drag a 360 .iso file in and get a perfectly functional PC port - but it could make things much easier for fan developers to create their own ports.

XenonRecomp was heavily inspired by N64: Recompiled, which effectively does the same thing for♊ Nintendo 64 games. The asterisk here is that N64: Recompiled has been out for nearly a full year and there 🌱are so far only a small handful of N64-to-PC ports that have happened as a result, and we might be in for a similarly long wait for Xbox 360 ports to take off depending on the interests of hobbyist developers.

For now, at least, there's , a PC port of Sonic Unleashed made using XenonRecomp. It has all the features you could hope for from a proper PC release, including much higher native resolutions, ultrawide support, and the ability to unlock your frame rate. Unleashed has always been among the more divisive 3D Sonic games, but if you're looking to play it in 2025 this seems to be🗹 the definitive way to do so.

Emulation tends to be the mos♛t far-reaching way of making old games playable on modern devices, but Xbox 360 emulation has never quite reached an ideal state. Unofficial 360 emulator Xenia only plays a fraction of the console's library, and even Microsoft's official emulator on modern Xbox consoles, while broadly excellent, has a relatively small whitelist o꧂f compatible games.

Many Xbox 360 games either received their own official PC ports back in the day or came to PS3, which has a far more robust fanmade emulation option in RPCS3, so very few of these games are genuinely lost to modern hardware. But the possibilities of new native PC ports are nonetheless e💟xciting, as they can offer more robust performance improvements and gameplay tweaks than emulation.

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It's a very original observation, certainly not a tired one people have been making since the mid-90s when Sonic Drift first released on the Sega Game Gear. It's also one that has an answer so obvious it's essentially canon for whenever Sonic uses another mode of transportation. I'll put this as simply as I can: it's so the races remain fair on an even playing field.

Race to win

Sonic can be an arrogant character, sure. And he does love to, nay, has gotta go fast. But he's not so mean-spirited as ♛to laud his speed needlessly. In fact, he enjoys competition. Have you seen how much fun he's having on the covers of the racing games? He's grinning, having a whale of a time. This is just another exciting activity for him, and he genuinely enjoys taking part in the events across Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

In fact, it's even been addressed before in the likes of comics. In th🐻e officially licensed, no longer printed, Archie-published ruಌn, a humorous 'off panel' strip nods to this being "because then it's fair". The comic was even written by Ian Flynn, the writer of recent games Sonic X Shadow Generations and 💦Soওnic Frontiers.

Likewise, in Sonic Riders, which focused on hoverboard 'extreme gear' races, Sonic is irked by Jet The Hawk (who returns here in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds alongside the boards) specifically being able to outspeed him while they're both boarding. Though Sonic could doubtless outrun Jet The Hawk on foot while the latter stayed boarding, it simply wouldn't be enough – he wants to prove he can still be the fastest even within the context of those rules. You can't best your pal at Tekken 8 by saying you're actually really good at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Street Fighter 6. It just wouldn't make sense.

Sonic Riders is helped along, of course, by a plot that revolves around Eggman orchestrating an extreme gear tournament. Sonic and friends simply have to use the boards to compete, just like how the rules of the racing in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds doubtless specify use of the transforming vehicles. If that's not enough, both Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and Sonic & All-Star Racing Transformed feature both air and sea sectionౠs of track. Sonic can't fl🍒y or swim. Do you want Sonic The Hedgehog to die?

Sonic has raced on-foot before. The underrated Sꦰonic R (which I'll note had far fewer technical issues on PC than on Sega Saturn) may be maligned by some, but it has💜 all racers bar Amy and Eggman spinning their legs, and is technically the first fully 3D Sonic game ever. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Sonic The Hedgehog 3, of course, feature split-screen multiplayer races. Sonic Rivals and Sonic Rivals 2 on PSP are entirely based around two-dimensional races. Simply put – Sonic covets speed in all its forms, even though his penchant is for his default sprinting, and is always up for some fair and friendly competition. No, I cannot explain why Sonic doesn't always win foot races in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Leave me alone!

Looking for more righteous Sonic takes? Here's why Shadow the Hedgehog is peak Sonic, he's always been peak Sonic, and after 23 years I can't bury the truth any longer

In the full announcement trailer, which you can view just below, we can see a roster of classic Sonic the Hedgehog characters zooming around various stages in cars, off-road buggies, hoverboards, 🐟and watercrafts, which seem to be able to a♏dapt to different environments and surfaces.

You can also sಞee racers zip through portals leading them to completely different worlds, which suddenly makes the whole CrossWorlds ti✨tle make a whole lot of sense. PlayStation explains in a that the "Travel Rings" are chosen by the lead racer before each match and force every player to be transported to a different level in the second lap of the race.

This isn't the first time we've seen Sonic Racing CrossWorlds, but it is by far our most comprehensive look yet, and it's also the first new trailer since the subtle reveal of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart 9, Cross🅘Worlds' biggest and most direct competitor.

Neither Mario Kart 9 nor Sonic Racing CrossWorlds have release datꦕes yet, but the latter is getting a closed network test on February 21. You can sign up for that , right now if you want to try out the game before launch.

Only time will tell whether Sonic Racing CrossWorlds has the chops to take on Mario Kart in our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best racing games to play today.

The former long-time Dragon Age executive producer revealed the interesting tidbit in a , calling 2008ಌ's Sonic Chronicles: The Dar﷽k Brotherhood his "favorite" project to work on because there was something "magical about leading a team as small as this game was - it never got much above 20 people."

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood "actually use𒁏s Dragon Age: Origins' dialogue system," Darrah said. "Heavily streamlined to fit on the Nintendo DS, but it's still at its base t🐎he same code stack. I guess if you really wanted to try, you could make the argument that, because Sonic Chronicles shipped in 2008 and Dragon Age: Origins didn't ship until 2009, that Dragon Age: Origins actually shipped using the Sonic Chronicles dialogue system."

The Sonic RPG team eventually moved on 💝to the cancelled Mass Effect DS game that was planned to have you pirating across the fringes of the galaxy in first person. The spin-off was scrapped due to the economics of shipping games on the Nintendo DS, though.

BioWare now doesn't have the bandwidth for any quirky projects like Sonic Chronicles, though. The entire studio now reportedly employs around 100 people after 澳洲幸运🍎5开奖号码历史查询:EA cut even more roles from the team. The publisher blaඣmed the layoffs on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's🍰 performance, but one wonders how much more "agile" a team can get.

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer slams EA’s BioWare layoffs as “a short-term cost-cutting measure” that “doesn’t solve a long-term” problem.

At the Sac Gamers Expo 2024 during a December 15 panel with David Humphrey (the voice of Shadow) and Ryan Drummond (the voice of Sonic) celebrating the anniversary of Sonic Heroes🦹, Dreier says the hardest line he ever had to say was "Shift, rock, yeah!" 

If you played Sonic Heroes as a kid or have revisited in your adult years ♔and ever thought that "shift" sounded a lot like a swear word, that's the point. No one tell my mum, I played that game when I was eight.

"That was the hardest line for me, because back in the day they did not want us to swear, we weren't allowed to swear," Dreier remembඣers. "That day in particular everyone was in the booth and they had me on mute. I could see the entire Japanese team having this conversation and thinking, 'am I doing something wrong? Am I being let go?' Finally, the interpreter speaks up and says, 'would you feel comfortable making that F of shift as soft as you can. We want it to be shift, but we want people to wonder if you're swearing.'" 

So, if you rememb💦er hearing it as s**t, that was en✅tirely intentional but done in a way that Sega could still get away with not technically swearing in a kids game. So, Shadow wasn't the first one to swear in a Sonic game, it was actually Knuckles. To be honest, here in the UK most of us wouldn't even consider "damn" or "crap" swear words, but maybe we're all just potty mouths.

The actually comes from the Blue Blur himself. In the original Japanese dub of SonicX 🐟episode two, he says "s**t" when he and Cream are evading some security lasers.

In the reuinion video, it's amazing seeing Dreier and the other voice actors switch into Knuckles, Sonic, and Shadow, ﷺthey're incredibly talented. Even so, it wasn't easy for Dreier.

"It was the hardest line f🍷or me to say because it's really hard to give that performance, that 'yeah!' but also to make that F super silent and it took us about an hour," Dreier continues. I can picture it now, Dreier saying the line and then the interpreter asking for it even softer or just a touch louder.

The hard work paid off, because Dreier adds, "I will nev🍨er forget when I got it right, that entire room erupting and laughing and giggling and thinking that they were going to be putting in this li🐓ttle Easter egg. It's so naughty, but now no one would give it a second thought."

It clearly worked, as people have been wondering about it online for years. "My favorite thing is now when people come up to me today and say, 'you have to tell me is it 𓆉shift rock yeah or s**t rock yeah?' my answer is always, 'yes.' It's very tiny but it's there."

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Netflix-style subscriptions have sprouted out from almost every corner of the industry ever since Microsoft went all in on its Xbox Game Pass strategy in 2018 - now PlayStation Plus, EA Play, Ubis⛎oft+, and Nintendo Switch Online's classic catalogue all unlock access to hundreds of games for a monthly fee. 

Sega is theไ latest publisheꦐr to consider joining the already-saturated market as the company's president Shuji Utsumi told the he found such services "very interesting" and was "evaluating some opportunities" in the space. "We're thinking something - and discussing something - we cannot disclose right now," he said.

Sonic might be the company's golden jewel - especially with Sonic The Hedgehog 3💟, the film'♒s, glowing reception and the recent Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster - but Sega has built up a hugely impressive line up away from its Blue Blur that it could dump on any kind of Game Pass competitor: Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, Yakuza, Total War,✱ Football Manager, and recent game of the year nominee Metaphor: Refantazio included. 

But Sega might just 𝐆run into the same trouble that most Hollywood companies did when following Netflix's footsteps. At a certain point, the business model becomes too saturated since people likely aren't going to want to pay six different monthly subscriptions to play games.

Regardless, Utsumi is focused on making the company "really shine again" by using all those heavyweight names listed above. "Sega has a great RPG group, Sega has amazing IPs, Sega is a rea♈lly well-known brand."

For now, get the rundown on Sonic The Hedgehog 3’s biggest cameos as two iconic video game characters appear - just not as you expect them. 

With my favorite edgy boy, Shadow, about to take center stage, I'm getting in the mood for his movie debut by playing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic games like the Sonic X Shadow Generations on my PS5. Should you want to live and learn and follow my example, Sonic X Shadow Generations and a whole host of Sonic titles are available from as low as right now thanks to the site's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 game deals in time for the holiday season.

Releases like Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Superstars have been out for a while, so their super low price points of $19.99 aren't that surprising. PS5 games see significant discounts all the time, especially when it comes 🍨to older physical releases. However, Sonic X Shadow Generations only launched in October 2024 so its $20 savings is a welcome sight to behold. Especially as the game features a standalone Shadow the Hedgehog movie tie-in campaign - perfect to get you in the mood for all Sonic 3 has to offer over the holiday break.

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Regal shared the merchandise on its Twitter account, and in the figurine line-up you might notice one that appears to be Cream the Rabbit – and she even has Cheese the Chao at her side. Cream hasn't been announced as part of the movie, making ♎her appearance here a little strange… unless, of co⛦urse, she's a surprise cameo that has been kept under wraps until now.

Of course, we have no way of knowing for certain if Cream (and Cheese) are actually in the film♑. This could just be a fun piece of merchandise featuring the beloved character. But, it certainly looks like Cream showing up is a possibility.

One character who we know for certain will be showing up in the movie is, of course, Shadow – voiced by Keanu Reeves. "For 50 years, Shadow has been in a state of suspended animation. He's coming out of it seeking revenge," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Reeves has teased. "It was♋ really the in🍌ternal journey to get to the anger and the emotion. It was intense."

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One of the challenges that Sonic Team faced was creating a 3D look for the stages from classic 2D games that fans would find acceptable. “It was important to respect and pay tribute to the original beauty and fun gameplay elements of each stage we included, and it was equally important to preserve the design motifs of the Classic levels (chequered patterns in Green Hill, blue pipe routes in Chemical Plant, etc) when modernising the🅠 textures and graphics, so the worlds all felt correct in the 3D space,” Iizuka recalls. “There was a lot of trial and error as we explored how to do this bꦆefore deciding on the final look, but once we secured the 3D design language and look of Green Hill, the rest of the stage designs all sort of fell into place.”

Iizuka also talked to us about Sonic X Shadow Generations, a remaster that updates the original game and adds plenty of Shadow-related content. “Different stages let Shadow show off his new abilities like surfing on water, gliding and completely transforming to move across different terrain,” Iizuka says, before explaining their role in the game’s new White Space hub world. “The White Space in Sonic Generations was a fun 2D platfℱorming hub world, and we wanted to do even more for the Shadow Generations White Space, so we used elements from the Sonic Frontiers’ Open-Zone design to create a 3D White Space. One of the reasons why we went in this 3D platforming direction was to enable Shadow to use all his Doom Powers in the White Space and really push players to run around and explore the hub world.”

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Appropriately titled Sonic x S﷽hadow: Generations x Chao, the manga will be wri😼tten by longtime Sonic comic writer Ian Flynn, with art from Miisa Shion and colors by Min Ho Kim.

Details about the new manga are a little sparse at the moment, with Sega's official announcement giving almost nothing away – including where fans will be able to read it. The announcement simply reads: "While Sonic and Shadow go thro⛎ugh their journey in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS...what are the Chao up to? Join the Sonic Chao and Shadow Chao on a special journey by @IanFlynnBKC!"

This is far from the first Sonic-related manga or comic. Indeed, there have been Sonic comics for as long as there has been games, with the first being published in Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan in June 1991 – the same month that the original game came out on the Sega Mega Drive in the US. The following year another Sonic manga was serialized in Shogakukan's Study Magazine. That series, written by Kenji Terada who also wrote the first three 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy games, did a lot to fill out Sonic's backstory. Since then the Blue ꦕBlur's adventures have continued in titles such as 2009's Sonic and the Black Knight, 2011's Sonic Generations, and many more.

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Sonic x Shadow: Generations x 🧸Chao is released by 💯Sega on October 18.

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Sony has attempted to convince everyone that a $700 upgrade - not including the add-on disc drive - is worth the extra horsepower with several 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:zoomed-in, side-by-side comparisons of ga🃏mes running on both the PS5 Pro and base PS5. Graphics have gotten to the point where most people won't be able to distinguish the difference while looking at compressed footage online, but hearing that the high-end 𝄹machine might give us "games that can express the speed of Sonic?" Well, that's all t𒅌hey ever had to say.

Speaking to , Sonic Team producer T🐷akashi Iizuka admitted that $700 is generally "really expensive" but reckons it might be worth it for "high-end users" willing to drop the cash. "The price isn't something we feel it's appropriate for us to comment on, but in terms of the capabilities, we think that it's definitely worthy of the Pro name. So we're excited to see what it can do," Iizuka said.

Sonic Team isn't currently working to give any of the Sonic the Hedgehog games a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 Pro enhancement - or, at least, it hasn't made any such announcement - though Iizuka is still excited to see what's 🃏possible with the "high-end machines" in the future. "Coming out with those consoles, we feel that we can make newer Sonic games that can express the speed of Sonic and with much better gaming UI as well," Iizuka notes, although he's still committed to the people playing on older hardware like the PS4 or Switch.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 Pro pre-order guide to catch up on everything you need to know before its November launch. 

The partnership was formally announced in the , with presenter Tiffany Smith interviewing Sega of America senior vice president Ivo Gerscovich to get the details of the impending DC X Sonic mash-up. The interview starts around the 1🌌6:15 mark.

Launching in March 2025, the five-issue limited seri♋es will be written by Ian Flynn, who wrote over 100 issues of the official Sonic the Hedgehog comic. No artist has been announced, but the official designs for the characters were🧜 shown in the video. 

Here's a gallery of all the designs, which include Shadow as Batman, Sonic as Flash, Tails as Cyborg, Amy as Wonder Woman, Knuckles as Superman, and Silver as🐬 Green Lantern:

"It's gonna start with comics. That's gonna start in March 2025, and we're gonna have one issue a month," states Gerscovich𒊎. "Besides the five comics we talked about for March 2025, we're also gonna do a collected edition of those comics, as well as merchandise including apparel, accessories, toys, collectibles, and all this will be for fall 2025."

But the partnership won't🍰 stop there, as Gerscovich als🎀o reveals that there will be more DC X Sonic mash-ups to come in 2026.

"We're gonna continue the celebra👍tion of Sonic and DC through 2026," heജ states. "We're just getting started."

DC X Sonic kicks off in March 2025.

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At Gamescom 2024, I had the chance to sit down with Sonic creative officer Iizuka – as ꧅well as Sonic x Shadow Generations game director Katsuyuki Shigihara and producer Shun Nakamura – to talk about all things Shadow, as well as Sega's upcoming high-speed platform game. Via interpreter, Iizuka tells me Shadow is his favorite Sonic character, largely because of his "tragic backstory" which makes him "interesting and compelling," but I was curious to find out if, as his creator, he felt fans have interpreted Shadow in a different way over the years than how he originally expected or intended. The answer? A resounding 'yes.'

"So yes, there are some ways that people interpret Shadow that are not how the team is intending," Iizuka begins (via translator). "I think the biggest one, if you look online, everyone's like, 'Oh, this is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dragon Ball Vegeta.'"

As far as Iizuka is concerned, Shadow is "not Vegeta in any way." He explains: "Vegeta really starts out as an enemy and then later becomes a friend and an ally and kind of, like, fights for justice and trying to save the world and whatnot. Shadow is not like 🍸that. I never want him to be like that. Shadow is doing his own thing, he's not friends with Sonic, and he's gonna go off and, you know, do whatever he feels is correct or right, or what he needs to do. And it's not like, 'Well, okay, we used to be enemies, but we're friends now. Let's save the world.' He's not that kind of character, and [I don't] want him to be that kind of character. 

"So when people are always🔜 online saying, 'Oh, it's Vegeta, i🐽t's Vegeta,' it's like, it's not Vegeta," he laughs.

Perhaps Sonic X Shadow Generations and the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:third Sonic the Hedgehog movie might be able to set this record straight for good, but for the time being, just know that the Sonic team definitely doesn't see Shadow as a Vegeta counterpart. 

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Bobo Bay is an upcoming indie game that's ta🍸king inspiration from Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2's Chao Garden modes - pronounced like ciao, not chaos - that forced our hedgehog to slow down for once and nurture adorable little creatures called chao. Babo Bay is instead stripping out the lightspeed platforming sections to focus and expand on the the pet-simulation that fans have been wanting to see return since 2001. 

"I'm making the Chao Garden game that I've always wanted to play," the game's mostly-solo developer NewFutureKids explains in the first developer vlog seen below. "People have been wanting a game like this for years, so I knew my job was to take that formula that worked and expand upon it, rather than completely change it. I also couldn't forget thꦿat this game needs to appeal to people who have never even played or heard of Chao Garden before."

Everything else about Babo Bay's first vlog had me internally screaming 'yes, perfect!' every two minutes. There are apparently "millions" of possible babo combinations this time around as patterns, colors, adult forms, and more can affect how your babo looks. Other core chao elements are being improved too, as NewFutureKids shouts out "cute designs for the creatures, ton🌳s of customization possibilities, breeding, stat progression with depth, races and fighting" as areas that they're focusing on. Oꦗh, and you can still chuck the tiny critters across the place. Perfect!

Since Sonic and his speedy escapades aren't here - because, "erm, Sega isn&ap♓os;t gonna let that happen" - NewFutureKids is expanding on the more wholesome simulation elements instead. Babo Bay introduces an in-game calendar, "like Stardew Valley but without the stress," with new competitions, events, and seasons opening up as time goes on. I can't say I miss the Blue Blur much - or at all - since his replacement is literally a zombie with a skeleton arm called Miss Parfait Bags. Perfect! "Actually, everyone in the world is a zombie too," the video explains without elaborating.

"You are a♊ble to feed your Bobo an old shoe which is kinda funny," the Steam blurb reveals, which is also, as you might have guessed, perfect for this kind of game.

Babo Bay is due to com🍨e out sometime in 2025, though a demo coming in the next few months should tide us ov🍸er until then, while a public alpha test goes live tomorrow, July 18. You can also get a taste of the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2, which is still available on Steam and Xbox Series X|S. 

In the meantime, check out some other exciting upcoming indie games from 2024 and beyond.

The comedian confirmed the news via posting a picture of himself i🌠nside the recording booth captioned: "On your marks. Get set. Go. My #SonicMovie3 recording has officially begun." See the post bel♌ow.

Based on t😼he ‘90s video game franchise Sonic the Hedgehog by Sega, the live-action adaptation that 🍬brings the beloved coin-collecting hedgehog to life has proven to be popular with OG and new fans alike – who are more than pleased to see Schwartz returning for number 3. "Let's go Ben! Kill it once again!" , while : "Never thought Ben Schwartz would be my favorite English-speaking Sonic of all time but here we are."

In 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the first movie, Sonic is discovered by an evil scientist known as Eggman who plans to use the hedgehog’s🐻 superpowers for his selfish needs. After escaping the scientis꧙t, Sonic returned for the sequel where he and his sidekick Tails faced up to Eggman and new opponent Knuckles.

Plot details for the threequel are under wraps, but if the ending of Sonic 2 is anything to go by, we may have an idea of who Sonic’s next antagonist may be. During the end credits scene, a major game character named Shadow, a darker Hedgehog who resembles Sonic and serves as his arch-rival and occasional ally, makes an appearance. Shadow’s shoes also appear in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:first look for Sonic 3.

As well as Schwartz’s Sonic, other characters will be returning such as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询ꦿ:Jim Carrey as the villainous Dr.ꩲ Ivo Robotnik (Eggman), Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Tails, Idris Elba as Knuckles, James Marsden as Tom, Tika Sumpter as Maddie, Natasha Rothwell as Rachel, and Shemar Moore as Randall. They'll be joined by new cast members including Breaking Bad’s༒ Krysten Ritter, Ted Lasso's Cri♋sto Fernández, Jorma Taccone, Sofia Pernas, James Wolk📖, 🧸and Ayla Browne.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is set to hit theaters on December 20, 2024. For more, check out our ever-growing list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming video game movies.

Sonic Frontiers launched late last year, and if you've alre🎉ady zoomed your way around the Starfall Islands and done everything there is to do there, then fear not, as new content is only a few days away.

As reported by , Sega has announced that Sonic Frontiers' first✃ DLC, titled "Sights, Sounds and Speed", will 🗹be released on Thursday, March 23. This is the first of three content updates planned for Sonic Frontiers, all of which will be available for free.

In an email sent to players, Sega says that the update offers new "features and modes," but it didn't go into detail about exactly what these are. However, a look at the released bac💖k in November 2022 shows DLC Update 1 includes a jukebox, a photo mode, and new challenge modes seemingly tied to the game's Cyber Space levels, so it's safe to assume that these are the extra bits being added later this week.

Looking to the future, Update 2 will have content related to Sonic's birthday as well as an "open zone challenge" and new Koco, the adorable stone-like creatures Sonic encounters on the islands. Update 3 is set to be a big one with new playable characters and additional story content. Naturally, the prospect of pl🍒aying as characters other t🌳han Sonic has fans more than a little excited. So far, there are no details on when either of th🌠ﷺese DLCs will be released.

Earlier this year, in a Q&A with investors, Sega revealed that sales of Sonic Frontiers have "greatly exceeded" the company's original estimates and said it's committed to giving Sonic Team a bigger budget for fut𝔍ure titles. Given the popularity of Sonic Frontiers, we could see other entries in the series adopt its open world approach. That being said, Sega seemingly doesn't plan on abandoning the classic 2D formula anytime soon either, as Sonic Frontiers' director Morio Kishimoto recently teased that we should "look forward" to more꧙ sid🌜e-scrolling Sonic games.

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In a Q&A with💮 investors, Sega revealed that sales of the latest game in the long-running series have "greatly exceeded" the company's original estimat🌸es and is committed to giving Sonic Team a bigger budget for future titles. 

"We expect development costs for new titles to grow even larger in the future," Sega says. "We will strive to ensure solid quality in the development of major titles from our existing franchises. However, development labour costs will rise due to the impact of the global external environmen💙t, and we expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future."

It added, "Since it is necessary to take on these challenges for m🍷ajor titles, we are proceeding with a bigger budget, even from the basic research stage. There😼fore, we assume that development costs for future new titles will increase accordingly."

Naturally, Sonic's solid band of supporters took to Twitter to celebrate. One wrote, "The small team that worked on Frontiers is amazing enough!! I can't wait to see what they accomplish with a bigger team and budget." Another said, "This is actually really amazing and I'm excited to see what Sonic team will cook," while a third added, "It's what ꦡhe deserves".

Given that Sonic Frontiers has been hugely successful - it's now sold close to 3 million worldwide - a full-blown sequel is a strong possibility. That being said, the game's director Morio Kishimoto also recently teased that we shou🐠ld🦂 "look forward" to more side-scrolling Sonic games. Whatever come🐷s next, it's certainly loo🌠king like a great time to be a Sonic fan.

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In a tweet – written in Japanese, so there's a chance Google Translate hasn't quite got the details right; consequently, please take this a꧋s hopeful speculation for now, just in case it's wrong – Kishimoto responded to a fan of the old-school Sonic 4 and told them to "please look forward to them".

After explaඣining tha🍌t Sonic 4 was "made by Dimps", Kishimoto added: "In addition to 3D Sonic games, Sonic games also have side-scrolling Sonic games, so please look forward to them!"

Given you can't look "forward" to somet🐓hing that's already happened - not technically, anyways - some fans have interpreted this as meaning that there may be more 2D side-scrolling Sonic🌠 games on the way. Watch this space, I guess (thanks, ).

Kishimoto also recently confirmed that Sonic Frontiers 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"still has a long way to go", whilst Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka thinks the open-world template set for Sonic Frontiers will be the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"cornerstone of future Sonic games", stating that its' "brand-new appr🐼oach" "marks another💃 defining moment for the franchise".

"Our goal with Sonic Frontiers was to evolve the linear, stage-clearing 3D action that began with Sonic Adventure in 1998 into a new action-packed adventure game where players have the freedom to explore the environment a🐻round them," Iizuka said a little while ba💫ck.

Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka has revealed that while he thinks 2022 was "the biggest year in Sonic history", there's "a lot more" still to💯 come for Sonic fans to enjoy, too.

"This past year was the biggest year in Sonic history, including the release of the movie sequel, new titles Sonic Origi♐ns and Sonic Frontiers, and the Netflix animation Sonic Prime," Iizuka 🐻said.

"We are preparing a second wave to keep the fans happy and maintain that momentum going into 20𝓀23. We already announced additi꧑onal content for Sonic Frontiers, but there is a lot more outside of that, so please look forward to it."

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Naoto Ohshima, known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman for Sega's iconic franchise, sha🦩red the news via their Twitter account along with some early concept art of the character. "I made a game draft. An action game about twins defending the dream world from Thirteen, the boss of the Nightmare World. It evolved into Sonic," the tweet reads.

The concept art features hints at what would eventually become Green Hill Zone as well ꦑas some menacing-looking characters an𓄧d two kids with a blue and red color scheme. The two boys, described as twins in the tweet, both have spiky hair - one blue and one red - and matching blue/red shirts with a gold star in the middle of them. The twins are adorable and probably would have been just as fun to play as Sonic, but it's clear Ohshima made the right choice by developing the design into one spiky character. 

Ohshima has revealed even more about the scrapped concept in the replies to the tweet. According to the director, a lot changed when Sega decided to turn the 'Twin Stars' project into Sonic the Hedgehog,൲ however, some elements remained. This included the smooth terrain for players to run on anꦓd the loops, which we can see in that scrapped concept art. The idea of a playable character that would get around by curling up into a ball and zooming around apparently didn't come until Sonic was officially born though. 

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The five sets will reportedly range in size from 292 to 802 parts and will retail from around $30 to $100ꦍ. It's thought they'll be available in the first wave in August 20🌌23, although the precise release dates and designs have yet to be confirmed.

As leaked ahead of time by Lego site 🔴 (thanks, ), the five new kits - codenamed "Lemon" at the time - will feature different levels from the iconic game that may combine with the existing Green Hill Zone set. Unlike the Mario sets, it's thought they retail🌞 with the collectible minifigs included, too.

"Another special feature of the LEGO Sonic 2023 novelties shꦕould be a kind of launching device, which is included in every set," the site teases (translated via Google Transl🍷ate).

"With this, the Sonic minifigure, which you have to put in a ball, can be shot through the corresponding level. What exactly the sets wil𒉰l look like and which minifigures will be included is not yet known."

It's not the first time sonic has been immortalized in Lego, of course. This time last year, Lego announced a brand-new set based upon the iconic Green Hill Zone from 1991's Sonic the Hedgehog. 

Conceived by "superfan" Viv Grannell – who submitted their idea through the Lego Ideas platform and received 10,000 votes from other fans to propel their🥀 dream into reality – this new "analog version of the Green Hill Zone gives fans the chance to build and display a piece of gaming history".

Did you see Lego's festive take on the iconic Home Alone movie? It's been a long time coming, but the Home Alone set is finally h🅷ere, and we've reviewed it so - unlike the Wet Bandits - you'll know exactly what you're getting into before you take on Kevin McCallister and the i❀conic McCallister home.

"If you love Lego and Home Alone, it's hard to fault this product," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we wrote in our review, which awarded the kit an impressive 4.5 stars﷽ out of 5 for its numerous Home Alone references, dollhouse functionality, and brilliant booby traps. 

"In my opinion, it's worth the money not only for the amount of Lego you get but the joy and nostalgi🐭a the build brings. Now all I need is Kevin's uncle Rob and aunt Georgette's townhouse on New York's 95th Street, or maybe Duncan's Toy Chest, to complete the set." 

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In a quote shared with (via / ), Iizuka trumpeted the celebrated Sonic movie sequel, new Netflix show Sonic Prime, and 2022's two Sonic releases - Sonic Origins and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers - and said that whilst the team was busy "preparing✱ a second wave to keep fans happy and maintain that momentum", there was a lot more than just Son🍸ic Frontier's DLC to look forward to as we move into 2023. 

"This past year was the biggest year in 🐬Sonic history, including the release of the movie sequel, new titles Sonic Origins and Sonic Frontiers, and the Netflix animation Sonic Prime," Iizuka said.

"We are preparing a second wave to keep the fans happy and maintain that momentum going into 2023. We already announced🐽 additional content for Sonic Frontiers, but there is a l🐼ot more outside of that, so please look forward to it."

Morio Kishimoto, the director of Sonic Frontiers, recently confirmed that the game 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"still has a long way to go".

Kishimoto said that they were "relieved the release date has arrived" and said the Sonic Frontier꧒s development team was "checking out the opinions of the critics and players" and likened the release to "a global playtest". 

“I’m sorry I haven’t contacte൲d 💯you until now, because we’ve been busy since the release date,” Kishimoto tweeted at the time. “I’m relieved that the release date has arrived and that [Sonic Frontiers] seems to have reached everyone safely.

“We are checking out the opinions of the critics and players. As you have pointed out, we still have a long way to go﷽, and we will take this seriously as a global playtest."

That said, Iizuka thinks the open-world template set for Sonic Frontiers will be the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"cornerstone of future Sonic games", statin🍰g that its' "brand-new approach" "marks another defining moꦦment for the franchise".

"Our goal with Sonic Frontiers was to evolve the linear, stage🐠-clearing 3D action that began with Sonic Adventure in 1998 into a new action-packed adventure game where players have the freedom to explore the environment around them," Iizuka said a few weeks ago.

Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games list to find out if Sonic Frontiers makes the cut. 

First up, we have the delightful Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-speed-ia (hardcover) that was released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Blue Blur. Published by Dark Horse Books and Sega, It deep dives into every game starring the character alongside the extensive lore behind each. Usua🍬lly available for $49.99, it can now be purchased – that's a 48% discount and the lowest price Amazon has listed it for since it was published last year. 

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Three major updates are planned for 2023, and th♑ey're all going to be free. Update 1 will feature some smaller additions, including a jukebox✨, photo mode, and new challenge modes that appear to be tied to the game's Cyber Space levels. Update 2 will include some sort of celebration for Sonic's birthday, an "open zone challenge," and new Koco.

Update 3 is the big one, including "new playable characters" and a "new story". The art attached to this bit shows Knuckles, Tails, and Amy in the background (likely the new playable characters) with Sage in the foreground (likely featuring in the new story). There haven💯't been any additional details beyond that just yet.

Fans are beyond excited to be able to play as characters besides Sonic himself. "More play﷽able characters...in a mainline modern game...how long has it fucking been," .

Or, as says, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (deep breath to manage hype) FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA𒁃AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The response on Twitter ﷺhas been s𒈔o massive that the .

We did not care very much for the new game, though you can read more about that in our 2/5 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers review. Nonetheless, the divide between critics and the Sonic fandom is maybe the biggest in gaming, and the broad response to Frontiers has been positive enough that Sega🍬 is🌊 calling it the "cornerstone of future Sonic games".

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Sonic Frontiers propels the Blue Blur in a bold new direction, mixing the series' staple elements like platforming and ring collecting, with an open world filled with puzzles to solve and colossal enemies to take down. While many enjoy having the freedom to zoom around a larger world, the game isn't without its flaws. Since launch, players have been experiencing game crashes and other issues, including a boss with a tendency to vanish into thin air d🍷u🅠ring battle. Thankfully, Sega has released a new patch aimed at squashing these pesky bugs.

As shared on the (thanks, ), patch 1.10 fixes "an issue where when retrying a boss fight on Kronos Island, the boss sometimes disappeared." Additionally, the upda🗹te resolves an issue where an activity on Chaos Island would still be marked as incomplete on the map screen after꧃ you'd finished it.

According to the tweet, patch 1.10 is available to download now for PS4 and PS5 players and will be rolled out on other♏ platforms "in the near future."

As well as the aforementioned fixes, the patch notes reveal that developer Team Sonic has "fixed random crashing bugs" and "addressed audio related issues." It's also introduced "UI improvements," "gameplay optimizations", and "stability and performance improvements", as well as implemented some unspecified 👍"minor fixes."

Elsewhere, we could see future Sonic titles adopt Sonic Frontiers' style of open zone platforming. In a recent interview, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka said the game's open world 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sets a "braꦏnd-new approach for the franchise."

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That's according to Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka, who confirmed in an interview with (thanks, ) that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers' "brand-new approach" "marks 🌳another defining moment for the franchise".

"Our goal with Sonic Frontiers was to evol📖ve the linear, stage-clearing 3D action that began with Sonic Adventure in 1998 into a new action-packed adventure game where players have the freedom to explore the environment around them," Iizuka said. 

"We know 🅰many players love exploring expansive worlds with no predetermined path and that’s what we set out to achieve with our new open-zone platforming co𒈔ncept. I am very excited for Sonic to join this revolutionary step in immersive gaming worlds.

"Bringing Sonic fully into the 3D world with Sonic Adventure was one of the most challenging yet rewarding moments," Iizuka added. "I truly believe 2022 marks another defining moment for the🤡 franchise as we move into open zone platforming gameplay with Sonic Frontiers. I feel incredibly privileged to work on such a well-loved franchise."

However, just because 💟Sonic is looking ahead doesn't mean the team isn't respectful of i♐ts past.

"Just like Sonic Adventure, our goal for Sonic Frontiers was to create a game that would be the cornerstone of future Sonic games," Iizuka concluded. "It is a brand-new approach for the franchise, but we have been conscious to honor Sonic’s roots as well - the game still needs to feel like a Sonicꦓ game."

Morio Kishimoto, the director of Sonic Frontiers, recently confirmed that the game 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"still has a long way to go".

Tw🐼eeting in Japanese, Kishimoto said that they were "relieved the release date has arrived" and said the Sonic Frontiers development team was "checking out the opinions of the critics and players" and likened the release to "a global playtest". 

“I’m sorry I haven’t contacted you until now, because we’ve been busy since the release date,” Kishimoto tweeted. “I’m relieved that the relea🐎se date has arrived and that [Soꦗnic Frontiers] seems to have reached everyone safely.

“We are checking out the opinions of the critics and pꦅlayers. As you have pointed out, we still have a long way to go, and we will take this seriously as a global playtest.”

Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka was recently arrested in Japan over allegations of insider trading. As first reported by Japanese outlet FNN on November 18, Naka's a🐟rrest was related to allegations of insider trading specifically related to Square Enix's Dragon Quest serie🅷s.

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Tweeting in Japanese, Kishimoto said that they were "relieved the release date has arrived" and said the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers developmen꧃t team was "checking out the opinions of the critics and players".

Interestingly, they ﷺlikened the release as "a global playtest". 

“I’m sorry I haven’t contacted you until now, because we’ve been busy since the release date,” Kishimoto tweeted (thanks, ). “I’m relieved that the release date has a𒈔rrived and that [Sonic Frontiers] seems to have reached everyone safely.

“We are checking out the opinions of the criti𒊎cs and players. 

"As you have pointed out, we still have a long way to g🌞o, and we will take 🌸this seriously as a global playtest.”

It's a candid response, not least because Sonic Frontiers hasn't been universally well-received. We awarded the game 2 stars out of 5 in the GamesRadar+ 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers review, saying: "Sonic Front༒iers takes an all-too-ambitious approach to rಞeimaging the 'hog in an open world setting. The result is a Sonic who is far too sluggish to control across a wide range of dull combat, exploration, and platforming challenges".

"Sonic Frontiers features the kind of lightweight yet engaging storytelling that should easily enrapture fans young and old – though I'd hate to be a child forced to play through some of the abysmal platforming featured throughout," we said. "Was taking Sonic open world an ambitious endeavor? Yes. Did it pay off? Absolutely ✤not."

Did you catch the PSA that those who purchased the Digital Deluxe version of Sonic Frontiers should install the DLC📖 before starting a new game? If you don't, you risk it not being valid at all. 

Sega has said that fans should 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:install the DLC before starting a new game - this means prior to finishing up in the tutorial ar𓄧ea of Sonic Frontiers. It has also said that players should ensure that they have updated the game to its most recent patch before installing the DLC. 

If you're not quite feeling Frontiers, take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games list to find out what you should play instead. 

How to use Sonic Frontiers Fast Travel

To switch to a previously explored island, bring up the map then look at the bottom left of the screen for the ‘Switch maps’ button prompt. Press the button shown and then choose the island y𓆉ou want to go to. Done. 

Alternatively, to Fast Travel 🌊on the island you’re currently on, open the map and push the right bumper to change the map display to ‘Fast travel’. This will show you Elder Koco or Hermit Koco, provided you’ve added them to the map and have their corresponding scroll. Simply highlight the special Koco to whom you wish to travel then push the displayed button to zap right there. Don’t have the Elder Koco scroll or Hermit Koco scroll? Then read on.

How to unlock Sonic Frontiers Fast Travel

Sonic Frontiers Fast Travel can be unlocked pretty quickly, but there are a ꩲfew steps you need to complete first. These are:

1. Collect Purple Coins

First off, collect purple coins whenever you see them. They can usually be found on the stone ruins that are dott🌱ed about the landscape, often up high, which require some clever use of Sonic’s double jump ability (and a lot of patience as the game isn’t particularly well-suited to precision plaꦫtforming). Collect at least 10 to give yourself a good chance of unlocking Fast Travel. The more you have before you go fishing, the easier it will be. 

2. Find the Purple Portals / Fishing Spots

Each main island has a fishing spot hidden behind a Purple Pღortal. The first one can be found at the end of the peninsula past the purple web-like ruins (pictured – the portal is in the middle of the image and has a circle at the top of it).

Unlock the portal then go and see Big, who teaches you how to fish. It’s very simple – just push the button to cast your line, then again when you get a bite, and then again whenever the white ripple overlaps the red area. There may be several of these, but to staꦿrt with there’s just one.

Each go at fishing costs purple coins, the req꧋uired number rising as you go through the game. It starts at one coin per cast, though, and after a few successful catches, you should land an Elder Koco scroll. Keep fishing and you should also land the Hermit Koco scroll – note that you’ll need to fish again at each new island to unlock the corresponding scrolls there. This unlocks Sonic Frontiers Fast Travel, but only if you’ve already added the corresponding Koco to your map. So keep fishing until you ideally have both scrolls, then exit the fishing spot. For now, we’ll use Elder Koco’s scroll.

3. Find the Elder Koco

You need to add Elder Koco or Hermit Koco to the map to unlock Fast Travel in Sonic Frontiers. 🍎Do this by completing the mission puzzles in the area to remove the ‘fog of war’ from the map screen and show where they are located.

Missio📖n M-023 near the waterfall (pictured above) where you have to Cyloop the white sparkles within a time limit is the first. This will reveal Elder Koco, who’s standing nearby. So go and speak to them, and♕ level up while you’re there.

4. Fast Travel

Congratulations! You’ve found Elder Koco and have their scroll, so you can revisit them at any time. To do this, bring up t💟he map, push the right bumper until you get to ‘Fast travel’ (it’s the first thing you’ll switch to when you’re near the start of the game), highlight Elder Koco’s icon and confirm. Boom! Gotta travel fast. Repeat the process for Elder Koco and Hermit Koco on each island and fast travel awaits.

Good thing Sonic likes jumping through hoops, eh? One final thing to mention is that extra-long g💫rind rails also appear as you clear areas of the game, allowing you to fast travel in a more conventional way between areas of the island🎶 you’re currently on. Just jump on, hit the right trigger to boost, and take in the views.

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Drain the water in Sonic Frontiers at Ares Island oasis

The easy bit is getting started on this assignment, by followinꦜg the on-screen mission marker (the white square with a metre number that decreases as you get closer) until you arri🐭ve at this large cannon. 

You know you’re supposed to fire it at the lar🦩ge black structure looming over the lake, but how? Well, first you need to load it, and not with Sonic (though that would have been cool). Look to the right of the lake from where you’re standing and you should see a smaller structure with a large bullet on top of it. Yes, now it starts to make sense. Run over to ඣthis.

Once you’re there, it doesn’t seem to do anything. Ah, but it will if you perform a cyloop. This involves holding the Triangle (PlayStatio🦩n) / Y (Xbox) / X (Switch) button and moving Sonic in a circle around the bullet on its pedestal. You don’t have to make it really big or even make the circle perfectly circular. Just join up the trail that Sonic leaves by looping round and back over your own path. The circle should flash pink like this when you’ve done it right. 

Now let go of the cyloop button and the bullet should levitate and move above Sonic. A countdown timer now begins, and you can’tꦍ dash any more, so simply trot back over to the gun (the white square mission marker is still there so you can🅺’t miss it) without wasting any time, where a cut-scene should show the bullet being loaded into it.

𝕴Finally, before the clock runs out (you have a few seconds to aim), you need to move the crosshairs upwards and across slightly, until the centre of the crosshairs lines up with the eye icon on the large plug contraption in the air. When it does, push the fire button when prompted.

Voila! The water flows out allowing you to head down into the path that’s opened, and Sonic starts to wonder whether emptying the one oasis around in the desert 🐬was really a good thing to do. But as Kn🏅uckles points out, you’ve been able to drain the water in Sonic Frontiers and revealed the way forward so… who cares? Hurrah!

If you mess up this process for any reason, then don’t panic – just run back over to where you found the bullet. It will have respawned, allowing you to try again aꦉs many times as you need.

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As revealed via the Sonic the Hedgehog , those excited to play Sonic Frontiers as soon as i💜t arrives might want to take a second before speeding straight into the game. As warned by Sega, if you don't, you could risk losing the DLC contents completely. 

Sega has said that fans should install the DLC before starting a new game - this means prior to finishing up in the tutorial area of Sonic Frontiers. It has also said that players should ensure that they hav♚e updated the game to its most recent patch ඣbefore installing the DLC. 

In a follow-up , the account also highlighted an Xbox-spꦚecific issue with the DLC. If you're struggling to find the digital art book (that also comes as part of the Digital Deluxe version of Sonic Frontiers) in your library, Sega has suggested that players should "search for [it] and download it in the app section of the Xbox Store."

It should also be noted that the second bullet point in the tweet embedded above only applies to the Digital Deluxe DLC items, meaning future items, such as the Mo🌠nster Hunter DLC, can be installed at any time.  

Speaking of the DLC, Sonic Frontiers is offering a unique sound pack to players which enables them to replace sound effects with vtuber Inugami Korone. Instead o💞f the usual noises you'd hear when Sonic jumps, climbs, and slides along rails, you can instead choose to hear a series of sounds from a virtual anime dog girl. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. 

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As you may have deduced, there's a lot to unpack here. Let's start with the latest Sonic Station stream, which showed off Korone's unique – extremely unique – sound pack and DLC (around 3🦩0 minutes in). 

That's right. Through the perilously unchecked power of virtual YouTubers, you can now play through Sonic Frontiers with an anime dog girl providing the sound effects for the Blue Blur's every jump, climb, rail grind, and more. It's onomatopoeia taken to an illogical extreme, and it's not even the end of the game's Korone DLC♋, which also adds collectibles styled after the mascot stand-in for the vtuber's viewers.

You may understandably be wondering why Sega has partnered with a vtuber to such an extent, and there are actually several reasons for that. Firstly, Korone's really popular; with nearly 1.9 million YouTube subscribers at the time of writing, she's in the upper echelons of the Hololive vtube꧃r agency. Hololive's extensive list of t꧋alents also includes Gawr Gura, an English streamer and the most-subscribed vtuber in the world. 

Hololive is so big, in fact, that it's spawned plenty of fan games, including the shockingly good Vampire Survivors riff HoloCure. Korone, in particular, has a remark🤡ably large presence in the gaming community. She was briefly given an Easter egg in Doom Eternal (per ), and even Banjo-Kazooie composer . So as bizarre as it is, you can start to💞 see why to spearhead marketing for Frontiers. 

Alas, this Korone DLC is apparently . Of cour🎶se, that's never stopped determined fans before, and vtuber fans and Sonic enthusiasts are nothing if not determined. 

Here's hoping Korone can liven up what our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers review calls a tour of abysmal platforming. 

With so much choice, getting your hands on the best games in the Sonic series can be easi🥀er said than done. That's why we've looked across the entire franchise to help build out our list of the best Sonic games. Naturally, Sonic Frontiers hasn't made the cut, nor has the recently released Sonic X Shadow Generations, mainly because there are so many other good options.

From the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sega Genesis games to some delights that count among the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Dreamcast games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Switch games, below you'll find our pick for ꦦthe 25 greatest Sonic games of all ti𝔉me. 

The best Sonic games ever, starting with...

25. Sonic Spinball

Release: 1993
Platform(s): Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, PC

The early Sonic games had developed a uniquely satisfying rhythm: jump on a few baddies, collect a ring or twenty, then hit a hill and bounce around until you found out whether you were epileptic. And for many players, that thꦦird high-speed component of the experience was where the money was at. So hey, figured Sega, why not fashion a whole game out of those bits?

The Genesis was already the console of choice for many pin♏ball fans with 🌸a puzzling aversion to actual physical pinball tables, and Sonic Spinball held its own alongside the likes of Dragon Fury, Psycho Pinball, and Crue Ball. And if you weren't a huge Sonic fan, here was a game consisting of nothing but opportunities to bash the mouthy mascot around the head with huge flippers. Everyone wins!

24. Sonic Rush Adventure

Release: 2007
Platform(s): Nintendo DS

Built for fast-paced dual-screen challenges, the Rush titles were for a long time the best way to get old-school side-on action with a pinch of next-generation flair. Rush Adventure thrives in plus-sized side-on platform bursts but also offers bouts of well-executed 3D to remind you that you're playing on a ma𝕴chine with some chops.

ꦬTechnical aptitude aside, here's a game that keeps Sonic and Tails off the streets and introduces a non-mortifying new character in Marine the Raccoon, a character that serves as the sprꦚingboard for a story of piracy, multidimensional invaders, and interplanetary conflict. In its day, this was the title you fired up to disprove anyone who said the series had lost its way.

Read our Sonic Rush Adventure review.

23. Sonic & the Secret Rings

Release: 2007
Platform(s): Wii

Intended as yet-another rebirth for Sonic to coincide with Nintendo's then-upcoming Wii console, Secret Rings takes its cue from the Arabian Nights - meaning developers were free to wear their Prince of Persia influences on their sleeves. The title played to Wii stre💎ngths with an emphasis on racer-style platform action and level design which favored speed-runs over precision-jumping challenges.

For an early Wii title the game holds up well today, with graphics that impress🧜ed on release and still turn heads. Critics at the time suggested that Secret Rings might mark a turning-point for the series then ailing fortunes; history and replay value prove them right.

Read our Sonic and the Secret Rings review.

22. Sonic R

Release: 1997
Platform(s): Sega Saturn, GameCube, PS2, PC

Sonic and racing had always seemed an obvious fit, and Sega had made early forays into the concept with the Game Gear's Sonic Drift t🌳itles. This Saturn title offered a substantial-tech injection for Sonics pole-position aspirations, with co-developers Travellers Tales tweaking the game's design to sq🔥ueeze as much speed and detail out of the 32-bit hardware as possible.

It's a short, colorful burst by today's standards, which is no bad thing, and offers a look at the early days of what would become quite the profitable little sideline for Sega's mascot. Later, Sonic Ra🌞cers would only improve on the concept, making Sonic R an embryonic taste of what would become titles like So💦nic All-Stars Racing.

21. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Release: 2008
Platform(s): Nintendo DS

Expanding the hyperkinetic Sonic series into role-play territory was a stunt guaranteed to raise eyebrows, and you can bet Sega wasn't about to just fob the job off on anyone. After all, Mario hadn't gone the HP-n-battle-scenes route until Squaresoft was ready to do the coওncept justice - so similar interest in Sega's experiment was piqued when genre titans BioWare were given the task.

While geared more toward the DS youth audience than fans of Mass Effect or Dragon Age, the game remains among Sonic's stronger cross-genre ventures - to say nothing of more ambitious. Sequel rumors have been teased since the game's release, but following BioWare's incorporation into EA, these seem rather unlike😼ly to come to fruition.

Read our Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood review.

20. Sonic Colors

Release: 2010
Platform(s): Wii, Ninte🍸ndo DS,൩ Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC, Xbox One

Assuring players that their aim was to rectify the missteps of earlier Sonic titles, Sonic Team gave players a reason to look out for this Nintendo-exclusive soft reboot geared toward pla💙yers too young to have grown up with the series' side-on originators. The result, released for the DS and Wii in 2010, showed the wisdom of this strategy.

Instead of trying to roll together everything anyone had ever liked about a Sonic title, Co🅺lors was fast, tight, and offered variety via well-placed power-ups and environments built around high-speed thrills. Which, come to think of it, was pretty much everything older fans had always liked about Sonic games as well.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Colors review.

19. Sonic Unleashed

Release: 2008
Platform(s): Wii, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360

Okay, you know what? It's been years since Sonic Unleashed, and Werehog jokes have put several GamesRadar children through college by now. We're finally ready to lay the matter to rest and a🐓dmit that Sonic Unleashed is actually a good game. It looks beautiful, plays fast 'n' flashy, and certainly can't be accused of coasting on earlier successes.

Besides this, it's worth bearing in mind that the Sonic games take place in a world where animals are always being turned into creepy creatures. The whole reason the Sonic/Robotnik beef got started in the first place was due to the latter turning animals into monsters. Meanwhile, Mario is getting turned into frogs and bees and a mythical Japanese raccoon without so much as an objection. And besides tওhat, the non-Werehog bits of Unleashed were𒈔 a welcome return to form for the Hedgehog, bringing 2D perspective and high-speed thrills back to the forefront.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Unleashed review.

18. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear/Master System)

Release: 1992
Platform(s): Master System, Game Gear

The Master System and Game Gear versions of Sonic 1 had hewn fairly close to the Genesis standard, but Sonic 2 💧on Sega's 8-bit systems bore little comparison to the 16-bit title of the same name. The game looked different, sounded different, and played like a Sonic title, but one built for the smaller systems strengths. If the high-speed multiplayer pyrotechnics of Sonic 2 Genesis were reined in slightly for this ve💟rsion, in their place were new vehicle modes and gameplay gimmicks to push the 8-bit hardware.

Did the different approach pay off? While the 16-bit Sonic 2 is the one that's remembered, this title remains a thrilling challenge with plenty of surprises for first-time players. It's still one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sega Game Gear games of all time.

17. Sonic Chaos

Release: 1993
Platform(s): Master System, Game Gear

Having played to the Game Gear and Master System's strengths with the distinctly standalone 8-bit versions of Sonic 2, repeat series contributors Aspect Co. were given free reign to continue the breakaway adventures of Sonic and Tails on the then-dwindling Master System and Game Gear. Which, hey, if you were still actively rocking a Master System in 1993, was probably the best news you❀'d heard all year.

And while attention was focused on the series' increasingly hi-tech fortunes, Chaos quietly continued to remind players that they were still playing a Sonic game, damn it. Tails was finally playable (having kept to an NPC role in the 8-bit Sonic 2) and Sonic continued to run as fast as he could through as many gravity-testing scenarios as the older h💙ardware would permit. A late contributor to the series' Golden Age, but it just scrapes in.

16. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Release: 2012
Platform(s): Wii, Nintendo 3DS, PC, PS3, PS Vita, Xbox 360

Having well and truly found its feet on the racetrack, this second racing entry in the Sonic/Sega All-Stars crossover is a standout for either franchise. Presenting players with a variety of characters and courses drawn from the bre𝄹adth of Sega history, it's at once a Smash Brothers-esque fan-service extravaganza and an instantly accessible, easy-to-like addition to the mascot-racer genre.

The game's transforming vehicles keep races interesting, and loving callouts to earlier properties like Golden Axe and NiGHTS serve as reminders that Sega has known how to make a good game since bౠefore many of its current fans were born. Early issues with the game's 💝Wii U version were soon patched and served as a strong early showing for Sonic on the Nintendo platform.

Read our Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed review.

15. Sonic Adventure 2

Release: 2001
Platform(s): Dreamcast

One of the endearing qualities of the Sonic series has long been its trans-Pacific development history, with Japanese and US teams both having contributed to the franchise over the years. Sဣonic Adventur𓂃e 2 may have marked the series last outing on a Sega console - the Dreamcast had been discontinued months earlier - but it was also the first to be developed primarily by Sonic Team USA, whose San Francisco streets influenced the game's urban environments.

Just as US input had seen the Genesis Sonic 2 expand substantia🐎lly on the original's high🅺-speed bravado, Sonic Adventure 2 was a much zippier, more stunt-filled experience than its comparatively plot-heavy predecessor. This influence served the series well and would ensure positive receptions for later ports of the game.

14. Sonic Advance

Release: 2001
Platform(s): Game Boy Advance, N-Gage

The new millennium brought with it new rules: there was a different President in the White House, airplanes wouldn't fly unless you took your shoes off, and original Sonic games were now making their debut on Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. At✱ the time, these releases were often superior to Sonic's co💦nsole adventures.

Nowadays, Sonic and Nintendo are more like old friends with a colorful backstory - ꦰbut when the hedgehog first stepped out with Big N in 2002, console war veterans pr🏅obably wondered what all those playground arguments had ever been in aid of. Showcasing classic 2D Sonic action, Advance gave birth to a consistently successful new franchise, reducing Sonic's die-hard brand loyalty to a distant memory from the halcyon-toned 1990s.

13. Sonic & Knuckles

Release: 1994
Platform(s): Sega Genesis, PC

Nowadays, we think nothing of it when a developer builds so much game that the excess has to be mopped up and rolled into a DLC extension; but back before downloading was a thing, a physical add-on for adding new content to your game cartridge was quite the talking-point. Never gimmick-shy, Sega made the most of the oddity (made mostly out of resources that couldn't fit into Sonic 3 in time for release) with a variety of new unlockables, depending on which Sonic cartridge the game was pairᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed with.

Offering new ways of playing through Sonics 2 and 3, as well as added levels exclusive to the Knuckles-themed chunk of the game, the title extended already beloved releases and tided fans over until everyone went out and bought a Se▨ga Saturn (well, that was the hope). It's that first 16-bit heyday extended just a little longer.

12. Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Release: 1994
Platform(s): Sega Genesis, PC

The Sonic franchise has gone from bust to boom more than once - but if there's any period that can be said to represen📖t the character's Golden Age, it would have to be the late-era 16-bit generation. And while not necessarily the best of that era, Sonic 3 is probably the one that the most people played.

Having achieved widespread ubiquity via Genesis bundle-filler Sonic 2, the next title rewarded series fans with a greater degree of variety between characters, stages, and enhancements. In many ways, it's the best parts of Sonics 1 and 2, rolled into a frantically spinning ball and padded out with enough new surprisಞes to fill two games' worth of content, which was appropriate, with Sonic & Knuckles coming hot on its heels.

Read our Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review.

11. Sonic Rush

Release: 2005
Platform(s): Nintendo DS

While Sega was tweaking the Sonic formula with high-profile home console outings in the mid-'00s, the company placed a bet on this side-scrolling throwback - a throwback that would go on to become one of the series' most celebrated entries. After all, we don't want to spoil anything for you, but a recurring theme of Sonic's life story is going to be Sonic and 3D don't al🐎ways mix.

So when bringing the character to the DS, Sega wisely chose to employ the handheld's polygonal capabilities diligently, mainly by adding 3D characters and boss encounters to a side-scrolling jump-and-dash ex🐼travaganza much more in line with the series' roots. The result is a game that bridged the gap between hardline retrogamers and fans of the character's later chummier outings.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Rush review.

10. Sonic Lost World

Release: 2013
Platform(s): PC, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS

After examining Sonic's long history in Sonic Generations, Sonic Lost World starts a whole new chapter for the Blue Blur - partially by borrowing from Super Mario Galaxy. Instead of running on city streets, Lost World restricts Sonic to floating planetoids that restrict his movement so he can focus on pure speed. It seems so obvious that it's strange Sonic hadn't done this before (not counting the canceling Saturn ga🔯me, Sonic X-treme).

The 3D controls are better than ever for Sonic, and the Wii U-powered visuals are candy-colored perfection. Lost Worlds builds on what Sonic Co🙈lღors did and, save for some annoying difficulty spikes, makes for a great Sonic game for every type of Sonic fan.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Lost World review.

9. Sonic Adventure

Release: 1998
Platform(s): Dreamcast, GameCube, PC, PS3, Xbox 360

You have to understand, seeing Sonic transition so seamlessly ♐into 3D in 1998 was like bumping into an old friend you'd lost touch with, only to find that since you last spoke they'd become World President George Clooney. Seriously, the Dreamcast original still looks good alongside some games made 10 years later.

Mapping Sonic's twitch-centric gameplay onto the Z-axis would prove a continual challenge for Sega, but🎶 for a while there, Sonic Adventure m♔ade it look as if the company had nailed it. At the very least, it was a step up from the previous attempt, Sonic 3D Blast, which was neither 3D nor a blast of any kind.

8. Sonic Generations

Release: 2011
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, PS3, PC, Xbox Series X, Xbꦯox One, Xbox 360, Switch, Nintendo 3DS

No one can accuse Sega of being unwilling to take Sonic in new and interesting directions - even if those directions don't always sit well with longtime fans. When the company celebrated the character'sಞ 20th birthday with Sonic Generations, Sega set the OG Sonic alongside his contemporary counterpart in an all-time fan-gripe showdown for the ages.

As perennial fan-gripers with a strong bias toward fun and/or forgetting how many years we've been alive, we welcomed the new Sonic as one of the character's best outings since the Genesis era and were disappointed to hear that Sega has no plans for Classic Sonic beyond Generati💙ons. Still, if '90s Sonic was ever going to cash out, you'd think hꦬe'd have done it by now, what with the eleventy billion or so times players sent him to his death already...

Read our Sonic Generations review.

7. Sonic Pocket Adventure

Release: 1999
Platform(s): Neo Geo Pocket Color

Perhaps you took note of the Neo Geo be🦩ing reborn with the official SNꦚK handheld named the Neo Geo Gold. If you, like us, are still trying to work out what to make of the iPhoney-looking contraption, consider that SNK's been doing crazy things to portable gaming for years--suc🐈h as having the first ever Sonic game on a third-party console, 1999's Sonic Pocket Adventure for 🌼the Neo Geo Pocket.

Playing much like the Genesis' Sonic 2, with a few Sonic 1 elements and Sonic 3 music tracks mixed in, Sonic Pocket Adventure showed that SNK's handheld was good for more th🌳an just SNK games; regrettably, it's a lesson💖 few took to heart, as evidenced by the Pocket's quick cancellation in the western markets.

6. Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear/Master System)

Release: 1991
Platform(s): Game Gear, Master System

If you've played the guts out of the Genesis versions of Sonics 1, 2, and 3, you probably see yourself as quite the arbiter of all things old-school and Sega. Before deciding you've seen all the Sonic th💧e 2D Age has to offer, though, spend some time with the 8-bit versions of the series' initial entries.

Sonic 1 and 2 on the Game Gear and Master System share some cosmetic elements with their better-known coun🌠terparts, but for the most part, are entirely new ad𒊎ventures - including early forays into vehicle sections and a dauntingly fast-paced take on the series' signature bonus stages. The titles survive on Nintendo's Virtual Consoles and various compilations and on the shelves of the nation's thrift stores, just waiting to be dusted off by the right lucky retro-friendly hoarder.

5. Sonic Mania

Release: 2017
Platform(s): PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One

Sonic Mania is a delightful love letter to♊ the best 2D Sonic games. Released in 2017 as part of the series' 25th anniversary celebration, Mania doesn't just pay homage to the legendary Sega Genesis games which inspired it, but actually surpasses some of them. It's the original concept infused with new ideas, and a refined visual style which evokes a strong sense of nostalgia.

Sonic Mania is an absolutely delightful platformer that every Sonic fan should take the time to play, even if they've already played the original adventures to death.🐼✤  

Read our Sonic Mania hands-on preview.

4. Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)

Release: 1991
Platform(s): Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, PC,♔🐭 Nintendo 3DS, Switch

"The game that started i👍t all" is an easy way to say it, at least if you don't feel that it all started when someone at Sega brought a Mario game to work and said, "Guys, we need some of this action." Regardless of the character's origins, his debut was a resounding success, in oneꦅ shot propelling the attitudinal anthropomorphic to international recognition.

While establishing Sonic's signature zippiness to the satisfaction of a generation yet to discover the wonders of Ritalin, the series' first installment is also deceptively intricate, rewarding repeat play with enough extras and secrets to keep players interested until later sequels ramped up the speed even further. It's a snapshot into a time before buzzwords like Bla🍷st Processing changed the way we see the world, and to think the Nobel Committee continues to look down its nose at Sega for that innovation.

3. Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Release: 1994
Platform(s): Sega Genesis, PC

Nowadays, when a developer releases new bits of a game with bonus additions 🔴to the original titl🌳e, we call it DLC and grudgingly devour it whole on launch day. But back in the '90s, that extra content had no way of getting to you besides the medium of a whole other game cartridge; a special one, no less, that could be physically bolted onto older Sonic games to add a new character and teach kids all sorts of erroneous things about what an echidna is exactly.

But the cart's best use is probably as a Sonic 3 enhancement device. The Knuckles-augmented threequ🍌el is both the character's finest hour and our favorite way to play Sonic 3 itself. The original game was designed with the intention of featuring Knuckles as a core character, and the three-way ability divide between Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles is one of the add-on's biggest o🌠verhauls. The separate games deserves spots on this list, but they work best in tandem.

2. Sonic CD

Release: 1993
Platform(s): Sega CD, PC, PS3, Xbox 360

If we can just turn your little cookie-cutter world upside down for a second here, the canonical version of Sonic CD isn't actually the Sega CD version at all. Though, admittedly, the 1993 original looked pretty special in 1993 - particularly next to most Genesis titles, and particularly if you were young and undisওcerning enough to fall within Sonic's target audience at the ti💦me.

Dig that game out now and all the new bits (such as Metal Sonic, in-game time travel and, ahem, Amy Rose) look a little less shiny, but are surprisingly innovative for the series. Still, it was starting to show its age, at least until a recent downloadable port, rebuilt for modern consoles and mobiles, is the game that actually plays as 🌱well as you remember.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic CD review.

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Release: 1992
Platform(s): Sega Genesis

The game where much of the Sonic formula fell into place, Sonic 2 on the Genesis is probably the title most commonl❀y associated with the character. The game launched in November of 1992, the same month Bill Clinton - the model for Sonic's can-do personality, - was elected to the Oval Office. And it's fair to say that both events had a comparable effect on the next decade.

Launched amid a barrage of international hype, Sonic 2 would become a standard of Genesis players' collections as the pack-in game fꦿor the redesigned system. So fruitful was the title's development that many of the more ambitious elements intended for Sonic 2 (before getting cut) would end up forming the backbone of later entries in the series. Meanwhile the bits you did get - Tails, the Spin Dash, increasingly inventive uses of the Genesis hardware - are what made this one an easy choice to rank as the best Sonic game ever made.

For more classics, head to our lists of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Saturn games and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best DS games of all time.

Sonic the Hedgehog raced onto the gaming scene all the way back in 1991 with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Me🦄ga Drive. Having appeared on many platforms over the years, this speedy anthropomorphic blue Hedgehog is known and loved by players of all ages, and he's got the sales figures to prove it.

As spotted by video game industry analyst and Twitter user MauroNL, the latest by Sega reveals lifetime sales (that's combined game sales and downloads across premium and free-to-play games) of Sonic the Hedgehog are now more🌊 th💜an 1.51 billion. shows sales for the Sonic franchise stood at 1.38 billion, meaning more than 30 years later, the series is showing no signs of slowing down. 

Likely helping to boost Sonic's profile even more is the recent CGI movie sequel, something which Sega CEO Haruki Satomi touched on in the report. "Released worldwide in the spring of 2022, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 broke the record for the highest-grossing video game-based film ever in the U.S., and met with high acclaim worldwide." He added, "I saw a local shopping mall in the States that was oꦰverflow😼ing with Sonic merchandise."

When it comes to Sega's other series, it seems none can keep up with Sonic. As the report shows, Puyo Puyo currently has a total of 37.7 million sales, and Virtua Fighter has managed to shift 18.8 million units so far. In terms𝓰 of IP acquired by Sega, the strategy series Total War has reached an impressive 40.4 million in sales, while figures for Football Manager currently stand at 25 🍎million.

See which of the iconic blue Hedgehog's adventures takes the gold in our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games.

I didn't know ಞwhat to expect when I sat down to play Sonic Frontiers. After all, the last time I had played a Sonic game it was a 2D affair. As I hopped on launch pads and flung the little blue critter through various🍬 hoops, the movement is definitely more akin to one of Sonic's adventures than Link's. But I still came away feeling like I had played some kind of Breath of the Wild fan-remake with Sonic as the star. 

Not in Hyrule anymore 

What really sold Sonic Frontiers to me as a Breath of the Wild-inspired game are the enemies known as Titans that can be found scattered around the island. Just like Breath of the Wild's Guardians, the Titans have a mysterious and ancient feel about them and put Sonic through his paces. Very early on in the demo, I'm prompted to approach a group of peculiar-looking rocks that spring up and turn out to be Titans. These Titans are some of the smaller ones I encounter along the way, and only require a couple of quick charges from the blue blur to defeat. There isn't mu🦩ch of a technique to winning these smaller fights; you just have to get close to one of the enemies and repeatedly hit a button to make Sonic throw himself at them and take them out. 

This technique is pretty much the same for the bigger Titans I'm t🌳hrown into battle with during my playthrough. One of these enemies is a Titan called Ninja. This intimidating geometric entity tosses me around the map more times than I'd like to admit, causing gold rings to fly out of Sonic at an alarming rate. Thankfully, just like with its smaller cousins, Ninja wasn't too hard to beat and only required a few additional - slightly more strategic - charges to eventually wear it down.

After this encounter, I'm presented with a puzzle - albeit a very simple one. To pass through to the next location, I have to line up three statues that then opens a sealed-off archway to the next area - which is also somewhat similar to the kinds of puzzles you'd find in the Shrines of Breath of the Wild. I'm not prepared for what's on the other side of the door though - an even bigger baddie called The Tower. Unlike the first few enemy encounters I'd come up against so far, this one feels like a genuine boss fight and not just something to get your XP up along the way. The Tower is composed of several smaller segments, which once again requires Soniꦓc to thrash into it repeatedly to gradually break it down. 

I can't say that I had a bad experience playing Sonic Frontiers. In fact, as someone with so little Sonic experience, it's a great game to get started with. The best part of the whole demo saw me racing Sonic up and down the hilly environment, sliding onto rails, and launching him up into the sky after jumping on a springy platform. It's also very easy to get from one side of the map to the other, meaning there's never a moment during my playthrough where I feel like I don'ওt know what I'm doing or where I should go next, whereas that can be the case when playing Breath of the Wild. 

In this short demo, the similarities between Sonic Frontiers and Breath of the Wild are palpable. Perhaps it's just this zone th🤪at bears a resemblance to Nintendo's 2017 hit, and maybe other areas of the game's world have a completely different feel. Judging by some of the Sonic Frontiers trailers, there's definitely more to this game than just wandering around an island, collecting rings, and taking out Titans. 

If you're wondering what games you can play while you wait for Sonic Frontiers, take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games list for inspiration. 

If you're unfamiliar with Gamescom - well, first, check out everything announced at Gamesco🅠m Opening Night Live - i💧t's an annual video game convention taking place in Cologne, Germany. In the vein of shows like PAX (or the public E3s), there's a big show floor where attendees can go hands-on with upcoming games. This year, that includes Sonic Frontiers.

The Gamescom Sonic Frontiers demo has a 15-minute time limit, but according to fans who got in during the first few days of the show, Sega neglected to disable the game's autosave features on the show floor. That meant that people could keep making progress well beyond the 15 minutes of the demo, uncꩲovering secrets that were not yet meant to be public.

Like, for example, the appearance of Big the Cat.

That one's not technically a spoiler, a🤡s Big's role in the game was revealed by a last month. This is the first time we've actually seen what Big looks like in-game, however.

If you want larger 🎀spoilers,💃 folks like have been collating footage from the show, which reveals things like previously unseen Cyber Space stages. If you don't want spoilers, well, just be careful when you're browsing Twitter.

It seems we're unlikely to see too much more, however, as according to folks at the ♈show, Sega's . If more footage trickles out, well, at least it'll probably be filmed from much further away.

Sonic Frontiers has been confirmed for launch on November 8.

There were over 30 reveals shown throughout Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, so you're bound to find something that aligns with your taste. Fans of chill city-building games like Dorfromantik will be pleased to know that it's coming to the Nintendo Switch, while comic fans will surely be thrilled to find out that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gotham Knights is releasing a few days early.

Keep reading🔯 to🦹 find everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022.

Everywhere

Well, it’s finally here. Nearly. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Everywhere was unveiled with a brand new trailer, showing off various environments for players to create in and explore. Everywhere is aiming to launch at some point in 2023, and it’s clear that play🌞er-driven content is a big focus for this game, which has been in the works for over five years now.

Dune Awakening

It’s a Dune game! 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune Awakening is a survival game set in the expansive Dune universe, and basicall𒅌y takes the fo𓂃rm of an open-world survival MMO. Oh, and if you were wondering whether the big bad worm would be making an appearance in this newly unveiled game, we can answer that with an emphatic “yes.”

New PS5 controller

After plenty of rumours, Sony has finally lifted the veil on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 DualSense Edge, a fancy controller in the vein of the Xbox Elite series gamepads. You'll get options to tweak the dead zones and sensitivity of your analogue sticks, adjustable✃ resistance for the analogue triggers, and, of course, back paddles. No price or release date info for the controller was anno🦄unced.

The Callisto Protocol

The Callisto Protocol continues to look extremely gory, but that’s no surprise from the mind behind the Dead Space games. 🦹This was actuall🥃y our first look at “live” gameplay for The Callisto Protocol, which showed our protagonist sneaking around an area and stabbing horrific monsters in the back, and hurling enemies with their stasis power into a blending machine. Oh, and then he gets swept away by a flood and chopped in half by turbine propellers. Hard luck.

The Lords of the Fallen

One of the earliest games to adopt the Souls-like moniker is getting a reboot for the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Lords of the Fallen has been revealed with a flashy three-minute trailer that features voiceover work from Joseph Quinn, who you may recognise from St🐷ranger Things. Expect an all-new adventure set more than a thousand years after the first game's events in a world more than five times larger.

 Moving Out 2

Couch co-op indie game Moving Out is getting a sequel you can play next year. The developer isn't messing with a good thing gameplay-wise, though you might be happy to know that Moving Out 2 introduces online co-op alongside cross-played enable🧸d gameplay. Oh, a🍌nd you won’t be stuck in Packmore this time around, as there are new worlds out there for you to visit. 

Hogwarts Legacy

A new trailer focuses heavily on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:darker side of Hogwarts. Potter fans will be familiar with the Unforgiveable Curses, and it seems you'll be wrestling with at least one 📖of those as you journey through Hogwarts. Some of that dark magic might come in handy, however, as the caves beneath the iconic castle are full of some pretty unpleasant🦩-looking magical beings.

The trailer closes on the reveal of the game's Deluxe Edition, which offers a bunch of cosmetics and mounts, but also grants 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:72 hours early access to the game, which is set to launch in February. Pre-ord𒁃er will be available later this week, starting on 🃏August 25.

New Tales from the Borderlands

You only have two months to wait to play 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:New Tales from the Borderlands. Gearbox Software has revealed 🏅that the new standalone, choice-based interactive narrative adventure is due to launch on October 21, 2022, for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. 

This time, you'll be shaping the stories of altruistic scientist Anu, her "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the frogurt-loving Fran through your decisions. While Telltale isn't ar🐠ound for this one, its influence certainly is. 

Dying Light 2: Bloody Ties DLC

Dying Li♐ght 2's first story DLC is called Bloody Ties, and it's out on Oc𒐪tober 13. This one's all about arena battles, sending you to fight against other survivors in a new area called the Carnage Hall. We don't yet know what the balance between combat challenges and story missions will look like, but the new content promises an array of new weapons to play with either way.

Tortuga: A Pirate’s Tale

The developer beꦰhind the Port Royale strategy games series is working on a new pirate-themed adventure called Tortuga: A Pirate’s Tale. The reveal kept things brief, though we got a wee glimpse at ship customisation, open-sea battles, and Caribbean exploration, all the while a captain put a call out for some new recruits.

Destiny 2 Lightfall

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Destiny 2 Lightfall reveal trailer is absolutely stacked. Of course, the headliner is the February 28, 2023 release date, but we've also got a new Darkness subclass called Strand. We'll need Strand's power (and grappling hook) to defend Neptune's cyberpunk city of Neomuna from the Witness and his new disciple Calus, who leads a Shadow Legion of Cabal bolstered by the new Tormentor enemy type. At least we've got some friendly and absolutely shredded Cloud Strider warriors to help us out. Oh, and we're finally getting loadouts, in-game LFG, and a new-ཧplayer guide, plus promises of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"no more expansion sun✤setting" from Bungie. 

Sonic Frontiers 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers finally𒈔 has a release date of November 8, 2022 for all systems. In this brand new trailer, we saw the Blue Blur activate some strange pillar-like device, before running headlong around and through tracks. Th꧒ere were brand new locations and enigmatic characters aplenty shown off in this new trailer, and there’s some mysterious “ancient” force awaiting to be uncovered.

Under the Waves

Quantic Dream is publishing a new single-player narrative-driven game called 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Under the Waves. You’ll be following a professional diver called Stan who starts to e▨xperience strange events at the ocean’s depths, tying into the game’s themes of the engulfing power of grief. This one is due to release next year on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

Goat Simulator 3

We have got our first glimpse of Goat Simulator 3’s gameplay, and it’s every bit as bombastic as you’d hope. The new trailer shows goats charging around with jetpacks, wearing different outfits, and even pꦛlaying a bit of soccer for good measure. It’s not all chaos, as there’s an opportunity for a𒅌 spot of yoga, too.

Return to Monkey Island

Return to Monkey Island is nearly here! The new Gamescom trailer revealed it’ll be here next month on September 19, so there really isn’t long to wait until we rejoin Guybrush for more adventures. Oh, and you can even pre-order the new Monkey Island game for ꦉso💜me special Horse Armour. Yes, that is a real thin🎀g. No, it doesn’t affect the wider game at all.

Moonbreaker

Well, this was something of a surprise. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Moonbreaker is a sci-fi ga𒁏me featuring digital miniatures, set in a universe created by the best-selling author Brandon Sanderson. The game actually has you painting your characters before sending them out into turn-based battles on a playing field. Moonbreaker enters early access later this year on September 🐽29, and it looks like a lush miniatures game for people who just can’t handle the stress of painting.

Friends vs Friends

What started as a cute trailer with anthropomorphic animal protagonists and a ukulele ditty💃 soon turned into something else entirely as we have been introduced to Friends vs Friends, a stylish deckbuilding FPS that we didn’t know we needed until now. Battle your buds in various PvP modes, or simply tinker with your deck in a practice mode to get everything just right.

Lies of P

If you were on the fence about Pinocchio-bourne Lies of P, then the fact it's a day one Game Pass offering will probably ease it into your 'give a try' pocket. A new Life of P gameplay trailer has shown off an odd mix of FromSoftware-like combat, mixing up giant saw blade weapons, a very Sekiro-like moddablဣe arm and JRPG-style 'gasp it's you&apo🌟s; style cutscenes. 

The Blue Fairy's there, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto - it's basically exactly like you remember as long as you remember bruta▨l monster killing and punishing boss fights. The overall premise sees you playing as a puppet mechanoid trying to find Geppetto in a city called Krat "overwhelmed by madness and bloodlust". Th🀅is bizarre-but-intriguing mix of fairy tales and demanding soulsborne action will begin its once upon a time when it releases in 2023.

Stranded: Alien Dawn

Another one of Opening Night Live’s space-filled reveals was Stranded: Alien Dawn, a survival base-building tactical game where you and the gang help a group of stranded astronauts survive on an alien planet. You’ll deal with extreme weather, disease, starvation, and the looming threats of aliens. Soun𒉰d good? This one hits early access in October.

Atlas Fallen

No, this isn’t Forspoken, but it sure looks like it. A new game by Deck 13 and Focus Entertainment, Atlas Fallen is an action-packed game launching next year in 202🧜3. The announcement trailer for the game showed a figure out in a wasteland, protecting a travelling caravan procession as it went through the desert, fending off monsters with an ally. 

Homeworld 3

The latest in the long-running tactical spacefaring game has seen a short delay, but Homeworld 3 will fಌinally be with us in the first half of 2023. A🌟side from the short delay, we saw brand new gameplay, as spaceships used debris out in the vast reaches of space to avoid detection from enemy ships, before launching a surprise attack on them.

Genshin Impact

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Genshin Impact 3.0 release time is just hours away at the time of writing, but Hoyoverse managed to fire out one more teaser trailer ahead of the big update. This is one of the m🥀ost compelling looks at Sumeru yet, and the new characters Tighnari, Dori, and Collei still look incredible in action. Compared to previous trailers, this short p🌠review shows off a bit more of the desert side of Sumeru, and it looks every bit as stunning as the region's rainforests, chock-full of relics and ruins waiting to be unearthed. Between ancient secrets, glorious sights, and new Dendro team comps, 3.0 is looking like Genshin's biggest patch yet. 

Honkai Star Rail

We got a fresh look at another game from the Genshin Impact devs with a new trailer for Honkai Star Rail. This one's all about the story, featuring a✃ very hot anime boy resting dreamily on the titular space train, before being disturbed by some nightmarish visions of weapons, villains, and general unpleasantness.

High on Life

We got an earful of some very talkative weapons in High on Life, a first-person action game previ𝕴ously unveiled at the Xbox showcase earlier this year. The action and platforming look solid in the gameplay footage shown, but your tolerance for the unending dialogue is going to depend a lot on how much you like the work of Rick and Morty creato🍨r Justin Roiland, whose style is all over High on Life.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Now here’s one game you should definitely have an eye on for this year. Hardspace: Shipbreaker ♏is coming to PS5 an𝔍d Xbox Series X platforms next month on September 20, telling the story of a lone co🐠rporate worker caught underneath the crushing weight of capitalism. It’s currently on Xbox Game Pass for PC players, but trust is, you’ll really want to play tﷺhis one.

The Expanse: Telltale Series

New ga𝓰meplay for the Expanse Telltale game suggests it's following the show's themes closely- spacing people you don't like (flushing them out of an airlock), and trying not to die gen🔯erally because everything off planet wants to kill you. 

Carওಌa Gee is reprising her role as Camina Drummer, a Belter - which is what you're called if you're born in space - when she's just a lowly scavenger and XO on a ship called the Artemis. Long before she was the feared Belter leader on TV. 

The newly revealed gameplay shows a lot of zero-G action as you move freely through the stars, trying to stay attached to things because drifting off into the depths is every Belter's nightmare. As you 🤪deal with all this you'll meet a younger, less hardened Camina, trying to take care of a mutiny on board the Artemis while survivin🐽g the harsh unforgiving nature of space as portrayed in The Expanse on screen. It's coming in Summer 2023.

 Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game

Well, who saw this coming? 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Killer Klowns from Outer Space is somehow back and ready for it all over again, this t💝ime in the form of a multiplayer game. ♏This multiplayer spin on the old horror is being made by the studio behind Friday the 13th, so you know it’s in veteran hands already. If you’re looking forward to this one, beta sign-ups are already live. 

Scars Above

Another sci-fi game that’s “coming soon”, Scars Above has shown off a good deal of story and gameplay during Opening Night Live. The story kicks into gear when a mysterious alien structure appears above the earth, giving us all🐷 the reason we need to experience a goo🌟d helping of over-the-shoulder gunplay, exploration, and puzzle-solving.

Wyrdsong

Not only have we got a glimpse at a new op൩en-world RPG from some of the developers behind Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas, but we’ve got word of the♛ir new studio, too. Something Wicked Games is a new studio that’s headed up by

15-year Bethesda Game Studios veteran Jeff Gardiner. We’ve only got an animatic teaser trailer to go off for now, though we do know that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wyrdsong is an ocꦉcult historical fantasy RPG that’s set in a fictionalised version of Portugal in the mi🦹ddle ages.

Age of Empires 4

Two new civilizations are on their way to Age of Empires 4 in its upcoming anniversary update. The first, t﷽he Malians, are focused on strategy and cunning, with a gameplay preview that makes a lot of their attempts at stealth and ranged combat. The♋ second new arrival, the Ottomans, are all about brute force, making the most of both powerful siege tools and larger formations to simply blast through their enemies' defences. Both new civs will be available for free when the update arrives on October 25.

Gotham Knights 

Gotham Knights is no stranger to the game industry's sea of delays, but this time it's getting the opposite treatment: it's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:coming out four days early, on October 21. A new trailer focused on a host of villains you'll be battling throughout the game, including Mr. Freeze, Clayface, and Harley Quinn🌱.

Where Winds Meet

Here’s one game that very nearly stole the show. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Where Winds Meet is a brand new action-RPG with an open world, set in ancient China, and developed by Chinese❀ studio Everstone Games. We saw lots of aerial combat throughout the new trailer for the game, complete with wall-running and martial arts combat. Hey, if you 🐎thought mainline Assassin’s Creed should head to China, this could well be the game for you. 

Hideo Kojima is doing a podcast

Yes, really. Geoff Keighley's best friend made his customary appearance to say that while he's working on his new "games" (yes, that's games, plural), 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:he's also putting togethe🍬r a new ༒podcast. Arriving exclusively on Spotify this September, both English and Japanese versions will be avail♛able, with "simultaneous interpretation." Other details are scarce, but Keighley himself will be appearing with an industry news segment (alongside other industry guests), and the first episode is set to release on September 8.

Park Beyond 

Park Beyond is a 🙈new take on the concepts built by the likes of Roller Coaster Tycoon and Planet Coaster, letting you build an amusement park full of increasingly unhinged rides equally sure to maim and delight. 

A new trailer offered a broad overview of the game, alongside some unfortunate news: it's been delayed to a vague release window of 2023 from☂ its previous vague release window of sometime in 20🐬22.

Warhammer 40k Darktide

A new trailer for the co-op action of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide opened with the line "you are a reject," as if Warhammer fans didn't already suffer enough social stigma. The trailer offers a broad overview of the game, going through class selection, loadout building, and the combination of ♔melee and ranged combat.

Blacktail

We got a ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnew look at the first-person fantasy archery game, Blacktail, thanks to a gorgeous new trailer showcasing the setting, story, and monsters you'll be facing. Blacktail puts you in control of Baba Yaga, who seems to be presented in much more sympathetic terms than the traditional myths - though it seems you'll be able to decide how good or evil you want to be. Blac🔴ktail launches for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S this winter.

Phantom Hellcat

This theatrical platformer-slasher combines 2D jump♏ing puzzles with brutal 3D combat, all with a distinct Phantom of the Opera vibe. Beyond a (very impressive) vibe check tonight, there's not much to go on, but you might just learn more later this week.

Crossfire X Babylon

Online FPS Crossfire X just got a major content update in Babylon, which adds a pair of new maps, oꦐ⛎ne reintroduced map, four new weapons, a host of matchmaking improvements, better weapon handling, and updated UI.

Dorfromantik

As cute and cosy as you could possibly wish for, adorable miniature town builder Dorfromantik is heading to Nintendo Switch on September 29. A little like classic board game Carcassonne, thꦺe aim is to stitch together different tiles to make the broadest, most sprawling settlement possible.

The Outlast Trials

Yes, there is a new Outlast game, and yes, it continues to look downright horrifying. This time though, the horror franchise is putting a multiplayer twist on its usual formula, beckoning in multiple players at once to get absolutely scared silly. There’s actually a closed b𝕴eta for The Outlast Trials taking place later this year between October 28 and November 1, 🦹for those who are brave enough.

The Finals

This one got t🦩he briefest of teasers, though that’s all we needed. The Finals is a "shooter wrapped in a game show format” from a new studio made up of former Battlefield developers. A full reveal is coming next month, though you can sign-up to playtest the game now.

Dead Island 2

Zombie killing? Check. Lenny Kravitz? Yes. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dead Island 2 is finally back and ready for more, and there i🌺sn’t even that long to wait until the long-gestating game is here, as it’s launching early next year on February 3, 2023. In this new trailer we were introduced to protagonist Jacob, but he’s actually just one of six available characters you can play as and master in the zombie-smashing sequel.

At the Gamescom Opening Night Live ceremony ea♎rlier today on August 23, Sega debuted a brand new extensive trailer for Sonic Frontiers. It was during this trailer th𒀰at the worldwide release date of November 8 was finally confirmed for the new action-packed game, confirming the leak from earlier on in the day.

The original article follows below.

Original: A 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers 🏅release date of November 8 has a♑pparently been accidentally revealed online.

The new detail came about earlier today on August 23, from 🎐a Japanese ad for the 𒀰upcoming game. Apparently, the new ad ended by displaying a release date of November 8 in Japan for Sonic Frontiers, which if true, is a brand new release date for the game.

However, it appears the trailer has since been delisted from YouTube. If you click on the YouTube link to the trailer in the tweet above now, you'll find a message instead saying that the video has been set toও private, me😼aning only those with access can see the restricted trailer.

Although the trailer has been delisted, it does lend credence to the accuracy of the leaked release date for Sonic Frontiers. We could potentially be waiting just a few m📖ore months for the arrival of Sonic Frontiers, and it's worth mentioning that Sega has always been transparent about targeting a late 2022 release window for the Blue Blur's new game.

In fact, this isn't even the first time the date of November 8 has been mentioned for Sonic Frontiers. Earlier this year, sleuthing Steam users noted the 澳🐷洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:storefront's database had ♋been updated to display a release date of November 8 for the game, 🐼although this was changed to the date of December 3 shortly after it was picked up on.

It could be that this trailer was supposed to be revealed later today on August 23. Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley has confirmed that Sonic Frontiers will have a presence at the showcase taking place lat꧋er today, so 💧it's entirely possible that the leaked release date could be announced here.

Head over to our full 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers preview to see what we made of Sega's ambitious new direction when we played the game earlier this year.

The game's - which recently pointed to a November 8 launch - has been updated again less than 24 hours after the original change. As of last night, the associated release date is now December 3. That could mean a slightly longer wait, but it could also mean that this backend information isn't being used to track the launch ♈at all, as game releases are of🌃ten set with a greater degree of exactitude than these tweaks would imply.

Whatever the reality of the situation, however, there does seem to be some good news. Controversial anti-piracy software Denuvo, which was added to the Steam listing earlier this week, now appear🎃s to have been removed from the game. That could prove to be good news for performance-focused Sonic fans.

Original story: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers fans think they've fig🔯ured out the game's release date thanks to a Steam listing.

Yesterday on July 19, Twitter user Aozora drew the Sonic fandom's attention to the fact that the SteamDB database had listed a November 8 release date for the new game. Additionally, the Steam entry for the game had also just been updated to add full controller support, achievements, DRM support, and more. The en꧙try also shifted the release date associated with the listing away from September 1, which is likely to have been a placeholder date.

If the listed release date is accurate for Sonic Frontiers, it means that Sega's new game will be going up against 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Skull and Bones, which is set to launch from Ubisoft on the very same day. Perhaps overshadowing both games, though, is the imposing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War Ragnarok, wh♌ich launches just one day later on November 9.

It should be noted that Sega has never provided a specific re🌱lease date for Sonic Frontiers, and has always maintained a "late 2022" release window for the upcoming game. Nonetheless, a release ꦑdate of November 8 would very much align with the planned late 2022 window.

Over on the , the news of a supposed November 8 release date is♎ going down pretty well. What isn't going down so well, however, is the planned Denuvo DRM inclusion for the game, which fans reckon might significantly hinder performance for PC players. It's not the first time we've heard cries again꧙st Denuvo's technology, and it probably won't be the last.

Check out our full 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers impressions from when we went hands-on with the game for the very first time just last month in June. 

Last month's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ninte𒐪ndo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase gave us our latest look at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers, which will bring the series' traditional platforming to an open-world setting for the very first time. While the levels showcased certainly look like classic Sonic environments, it remains to be seen wheth🅷er "open-zone fr🐈eedom" will be as popular as the linear levels of previous titles.

But for those who prefer a slightly more old-school Sonic adventure, there's now a fan-made Sonic game that transforms Sonic Frontiers into a 2D game. Made 🌼by the talented KomliWorldGames, Sonic Frontiers 2D features an open zone to explore and gameplay mechanics straight out of the blue blur's upcoming game. There's also a Cyberspace level which you can access by collecting ten hearts. 

From the footage, which you can check out below, Sonic Frontiers 2D looks impressive and fittingly pays tribute to both Sonic's new adventure and his old hits at the same time. You'll have to wait until late 2022 to play Sonic Frontiers, but you can download this fan-made🔯 creation right now via .

Back in May, we got our first look at gameplay for Sonic Frontiers, which showed combat, open-world exploration, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow of the Col𒊎ossus-🦄style boss fights. 

We recently got to demo the game but weren't exactly wowed by what we saw. "Mechanically, visually, and narratively, Sonic Frontiers makes a staggeringly awful first impression," we said in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers hands-on preview. L🍰et's hope for better things from the full g🌟ame.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Frontiers preview from earlier this year for more on what Sega's trying to achieve with this new take on the blue blur.

"This ꦡis frustrating," Simon 'Stealth' Thomley of Headcannon says on . "I won't lie and say that there weren't issues in what we gave to Sega, but what is in Origins is also not what we turned in. Integration introduced some wild bugs that conventional logic would have one believe were our responsibility - a lot of them aren't."

Headcannon i♛s a software development studio run by Thomley, which worked on the mobile remasters of Sonic 1 and 2 alongside famed community developer Christian Whitehead. Those two ports, as well as Whitehead's Sonic CD remaster, were folded into the Origins collection, as well as a new remaster of Sonic 3 & Knuckles developed by Headcannon.

However, Thomley says that the Sonic 3 remaster was originally "a separate project that was then wrangled into something entirely different" for Origins. Thomely says t💎hat the Headcannon team did make "some actual mistakes, some overlooking, [and] some rushjobs," but claims that Sega denied requests for delays and last-minute fixes, and made major changes to the submitted build.

"I'm extremely proud of my team for their performance under such pressure, but every one of us is very unhappy about the state of Origins and even the Sonic 3 component," Thoml🤡ey says. "We weren't too thrilled about its pre-submission state either but a lot was beyond our control."

Thomley that the team's dealings with Sega of Ame🃏rica were "very pleasant for the most part" and that "I am not fighting with Sega." Thomley says that "🐈we offered to come back for post-release fixes and updates - we do not yet know if this is happening."

Players have reported a number of issues with the collection so far,💞 including poor audio quality, buggy new features, and poor AI f💫rom companion characters. The PC version, which also includes the controversial Denuvo DRM, is currently sitting at a "mixed" user review aggregate on .

We've reached out to Sega for comment and willꦕ update if we learn more.

Sonic Origins has also made the Sonic 3 and Michael Jackson saga even more convoluted.

Naka from the official Sega TikTok account where a person in a Sonic costume tries to pick up a cup of coffee that's too hot - while the base line from Billie Jean plays i🦩n the background and samples of Michael Jackson's voice play in the background.

"I feel ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlike I'm being misunderstood a lot," , "probably because I don't speak English and I'm using a translation tool. Sorry."

While Sega's never officially acknowledged Jackson's contribution to Sonic 3, the musicians who worked with him on the game have been very specific about it. A 2016 features direct confirmation that Jackson&🃏apos;s music made it into the game.

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And just like that, Sonic creator Yuji Naka has caꦅsually confirmed on Twitter that Michael Jackson worked on the Sonic 3 soundtrack. 

Somewhat out of the blue, the industry veteran took to social media to query Sonic Origins' soundtrack before confirming a long-standing rumour. "Does Sonic Origins Sonic 3 have a different song?" Naka . "Oh my god, the music fo𒀰r Sonic 3 has changed, even though Sega Official uses Michael Jackson's music."

Naka follows up the tweets with an old picture he took with a camera while flying in Jackson's helicopter to visit his house. Clearly feeling a pinch of nostalgia, he has also shar𒆙ed some vinta🦋ge snaps of a Pontiac Fiero and Chevrolet Lumina he drove while creating Sonic in San Francisco.

over Jackson's involvement with the game has persisted ไfor close to 30 years now. It's that the music star did work on the soundtrack but remained uncredited. Finding the truth to thesღe claims, though, proved elusive as Sega has never officially confirmed Jackson's involvement, though several others, such as a keyboardist who worked with Jackson called Brad Buxer, . 

To clarify Naka’s tweet somewhat, he’s talking about Sonic Origins, which doesn’t appear to include the original Sonic 3 soundtrack. If you’ve been out of the loop, Sonic Origins brings Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3, & Knuckles to cu꧟rrent-gen consoles. Sega has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:delisted the classic Sonic games ahead ꦐof Origins’ launch, so it might just be your best way🍌 to play the classics. 

Sonic Origins is out today. 

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Each of t༒he four games in the collection will offer two main modes. Classic offers "the original game presentation in 4:3 with remastered visuals," though it's unclear what's remastered in this mode. Either way, this is the way to play if you want the original lives system of the 90s. Anniversary mode expands the game screen to fill a widescreen view and gives you infinite lives.

Story mode strings all four games together into a single, contiguous experience, with new animated 🍌opening and ending cutscenes to help bridge the gaps. (The original Sonic CD cutsceౠne is in there too, don't worry.)

A boss rush mode in each game lets you face off against all the majo💯r enemies. Mission mode offers a variety of challenges that you can take on, earning ranks based on how well you do. An unlockable mirror mode lets you play each game backwards, as well.

Coins can be unlocked by smashing open special item b🔜oxes hidden scattered across stages in anniversary mode, or by completing missions. You can spend coins to instantly retry special stages in anniversary mode, or to unlock things like concept 𓄧art, videos, and music in a museum, which also features some "never before seen content."

While Origins looks like a solid collection of the classics, things like the game's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:confusing DLC rollout and the removal of other classic releases fro🍷m digital stores have left fans scratching their heads.

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This 30 second clip is a preview for an cover story, and the outlet will have an array of additional coverage on the game throughout ⛄the coming month, starting on June 1.

The most intriguing bits ꦜof the new footage are the boss fights. Large robotic creatures appear to be wandering the open world, and as one's foot crashes down to the ground, Sonic runs up its leg like a ramp and starts bashing a glowing weak point on top of its body. We see a couple of different robots exploꦺding into bits, and the scale of these automatons makes the game look a bit like a less somber Shadow of the Colossus.

Combat again🐎st normal enemies looks to include an array of moves you can string into combos. We see Sonic circle an enemy, launch it into the air, and then deliver what looks like a series of mid-air spin dash atta🐲cks.

We also see Sonic ac🌼tivating a giant ring by running in it like a hamster wheel, which then sends out a large ping - perhaps a Ubisoft-stylꦍe tower that shows nearby points of interest?

Sonic Frontiers was officially announced at Th✨e Game Awards last year.﷽ While that trailer f♊eatured plenty of in-game footage, it was mostly big vista shots of scenery and the big explorable world. Today's clip marks our first real look at the game in action.

Expect a whole lot more info on big games over the course of June as the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:E3 2022 schedule kicks off.

Pat🍃rick Casey and Josh Miller, the writing🌃 duo behind both Sonic the Hedgehog movies, recently took part in a small Q&A session with Klamath Community College in Oregon. As reported by , fans asked the pair several questions about the planned Sonic the Hedgehog 3, some of which they could answer, and others they unfortunately had to skirt around.

Casey and Miller couldn't answer a question about whether fan-favorite character Amy would appear in the sequel, for example, but offered a little hope, saying things were "in the works." Similarly, the duo couldn't comment on Jim Carrey returning for the sequel, after the actor 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:recently alluded to retiring, but said they were hopeful to have him r🦩eturn as♒ Robotnik.

After Shadow was briefly introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, there were obviously going to be questions about the character i🐈n the third movie. Casey and Miller couldn't go into specifics about Shadow's presence in the sequel, but did say there were plans to incorporate elements from Shadow's spin-off game fo🍒r the forthcoming film.

The 🔯duo also didn't rule out hiring a famous Hollywood actor to voice the role of Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. You might think this isn't a surprise, given the nature of the Hollywood movie business, but it's worth pointing out Sonic the Hedgehog 2 recruited the long-standing voice of Tails, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, for the voice of the character in the sequel movie.

Finally, Casey and 🌜Miller have revealed that the current plan is to release Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 2024. The duo stressed in the Q&A session that it's early days with pl♑ans for the sequel right now, and a script hasn't even been formalized, so it's no surprise the movie could still be at least two years out from release.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 review to see what we made of Sonic's clash with Knuckles.

The reason is simple: all four games are being remastered and released as part of Sonic Origins, which is launching on June 23 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Sonic Origins is a retro compilation that bundles together remastered versions of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD. You can get the standard edition for $39.99 or the deluxe edition for $44.99ꦜ.

Until they're delisted next month, the original games will be available for $5 each on , which means you can buy all four of them individually and pay about half what you would for Son💃ic Origins, although you wouldn't get all the added goodies included in the collection. 

For one, the games are remastered in Sonic Origins, which typically means better visuals and performance. But then there are also new areas to🃏 zip through, new animations, and the new anniversary mode, which gives you infinite lives and full-screen resolution. And for the retro faithful, Sonic Origins' classic mode offers the OG experience with limited lives and original presentation. It's worth noting that some of this content, particularly bonus animations and art extras, is locked behind DLC packs which are included in the deluxe edition and also sold separately. 

There are some exceptions that will let ꦰyou buy and play some of the original Sonic games indefinitely. Sonic 1 and 2 will remain available via Sega Ages on the🎐 Switch and Sonic 2 will still be included in the Sega Genesis collection on Switch Online  Plus, but the other games will become digitally exclusive to Sonic Origins.

You might remember Rockstar doing something similar with the original versions of GTA 1, 2, and 3 ahead of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA Trilogy collection. Rockstar ultimately re-released the original PC versions and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史ꦉ查询:bundled them in for free with GTA Trilogy, but that seemingly had more to do with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sorry state of the remast❀ered ver♐sions th✤an any sort of preservation effort from Rockstar.

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Sega has today revealed that Sonic Origins will release on June 23, 2022 (Sonic’s birthday, FYI) and will be available on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5, PS4, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Pre-orders are open from today, but what’s got ꦍfans scratching their heads is the weirdly complex pre-order bonuses - some of which have to be purchased separately. 

A quick look at the shows four different pre-orders. Two of those are the standard game and a deluxe version with extras, and the other two are small adds ons for an extra cost. A list of the DLC content can be seen in full below, but what this really means is that the likes of𝓀 character animations, camera controls over the main menu islands, mirror modes, and more are exclusive to certain 🐬versions of the game. 

According to the website, fans haveꦗ the option of the 'Standard Edition' which just contains the main game ($39.99), the two𝄹 DLC packs 'Premium Fun Pack' and 'Classic Music Packs' that offer exclusive in-game features and tracks from the Sega Mega Drive ($3.99 each), and the 'Digital Deluxe Edition' that contains some of these exclusive add-ons as well as the main game ($49.99). 

To make things even more confusing, ther✨e’s also the 'Start Dash Pack,' a free pre-order bonus for those who purchase either the standard or digital deluxe version of the game ahead of its release that gives players the likes of 100 bonus coins, mirror mode unlocked, and a letter box background (Mega Drive pattern). 

As to be expected, with this strange pre-order setup, with w🐎hy there aren’t just two options available, the standard and deluxe that comes with all the bells and whistles. 

In case you missed it, the ♋Sonic Origins collection will contain remastered versions of several classic Sonic titles including Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD. The new collection also comes with a range of new features, giving the classic games a modern twist. 

Players will be able to revi꧑sit the iconic early Sonic games in a number of modes, including 'Classic Mode' which keeps the majority of the game’s original challenges and presentation, 'Anniversary Mode' which offers a full-screen display and infinite lives, 'Missions, Medallions and Museum' mode where players can put their skills to the test in the form of various missions, and 'Better Than Ever' mode which contains remastered versions of all four games. 

Looking for something to play in the meantime? Take a look at our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games for inspiration.