Sonic Rumble Party Halloween 2026 Event Launches With Reaper Metal Sonic, Vampire Shadow and Witch Cream
Sonic Rumble Party Halloween 2026 Event Launches With Reaper Metal Sonic, Vampire Shadow and Witch Cream

Sonic Rumble Party Halloween 2026 Event Launches With Reaper Metal Sonic, Vampire Shadow and Witch Cream

Sonic Rumble Party's Halloween 2026 Event runs through November 5, bringing Reaper Metal Sonic, Vampire Shadow, Witch Cream and returning Halloween rewards.

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Sonic X Shadow Generations Replacement Statues Near Completion, Limited Run Games Shares Shipping Timeline
Sonic X Shadow Generations Replacement Statues Near Completion, Limited Run Games Shares Shipping Timeline

Sonic X Shadow Generations Replacement Statues Near Completion, Limited Run Games Shares Shipping Timeline

Limited Run Games expects its redesigned Sonic X Shadow Generations statues to leave production in November and arrive at its facilities around December.

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SONIC EXPRESS Delivery Sonic Plush Comes to Amazon Japan With Four CrossWorlds Bundles
SONIC EXPRESS Delivery Sonic Plush Comes to Amazon Japan With Four CrossWorlds Bundles

SONIC EXPRESS Delivery Sonic Plush Comes to Amazon Japan With Four CrossWorlds Bundles

Amazon Japan's exclusive SONIC EXPRESS Sonic plush launches November 27 with stickers and four Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds bundles. Two can be preordered now.

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Sonic Officially Leaves ZETA DIVISION Following Tokyo Game Show Showdown With k4sen
Sonic Officially Leaves ZETA DIVISION Following Tokyo Game Show Showdown With k4sen

Sonic Officially Leaves ZETA DIVISION Following Tokyo Game Show Showdown With k4sen

Sonic's summer with ZETA DIVISION ended on September 20, following a Tokyo Game Show showdown with k4sen and an official farewell from the esports organization.

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Doll Style Tails, Fairytale Surge and Mummy Knuckles Join Sonic Speed Simulator’s Halloween FastPass
Doll Style Tails, Fairytale Surge and Mummy Knuckles Join Sonic Speed Simulator’s Halloween FastPass

Doll Style Tails, Fairytale Surge and Mummy Knuckles Join Sonic Speed Simulator’s Halloween FastPass

Sonic Speed Simulator's Trick-or-Treat FastPass arrives October 9 with Doll Style Tails, Fairytale Surge, Mummy Knuckles and more Halloween costumes.

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Sonic 3 Mecha Sonic Designer Says Original Pixel Art Is the “Correct Answer” for Mk. II
Sonic 3 Mecha Sonic Designer Says Original Pixel Art Is the “Correct Answer” for Mk. II

Sonic 3 Mecha Sonic Designer Says Original Pixel Art Is the “Correct Answer” for Mk. II

Satoshi Yokokawa says Mecha Sonic Mk. II’s original Sonic 3 & Knuckles pixel art remains his “correct answer,” and explains the design’s origins, mechanics and influences.

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Sonic Rumble Party Sports Festival Makes Leaked Blaze, Jet, Vector and Panda Amy Skins Official
Sonic Rumble Party Sports Festival Makes Leaked Blaze, Jet, Vector and Panda Amy Skins Official

Sonic Rumble Party Sports Festival Launches With Basketballer Blaze, Panda Amy, Ice Slicer Jet and More

Sonic Rumble Party’s Sports Festival is now live through October 23, bringing Basketballer Blaze, Ice Slicer Jet, Basketballer Vector, Panda Amy, Gummy Skin Zavok and new Event Pass rewards.

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Avatar Legends Trailer Shows Lion Turtle Island Ahead of October 13 Launch

Aang and Katara arrive in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on October 13, with a new trailer showing Lion Turtle Island, the Gliding Air vehicle and the course’s element-bending transformation gimmick.

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Hatsune Miku 2nd Festival Now Live in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds With 13 Decals and New Rewards
Hatsune Miku 2nd Festival Now Live in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds With 13 Decals and New Rewards

Hatsune Miku 2nd Festival Now Live in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds With 13 Decals and New Rewards

Hatsune Miku’s second Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Festival is now underway through October 5, offering 13 collectible decals and a new set of Festival Point rewards.

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Sonic Channel Celebrates Sonic CD’s 33rd Anniversary With New Amy Illustration
Sonic Channel Celebrates Sonic CD’s 33rd Anniversary With New Amy Illustration

Sonic Channel Celebrates Sonic CD’s 33rd Anniversary With New Amy Illustration

Sonic Channel’s September 2026 release commemorative illustration celebrates Sonic CD with Amy, a Time Stone and a look back at her very first big adventure.

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Takashi Iizuka Says CrossWorlds Season Pass Became Necessary to Fund Continued Development

Takashi Iizuka says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was planned around keeping players active for the long term, but the need to fund frequent new content ultimately left the team relying on the Season Pass for additional development money.

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Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Movies Are Boosting Game Sales and Future Development Resources
Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Movies Are Boosting Game Sales and Future Development Resources

Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Movies Are Boosting Game Sales and Future Development Resources

Takashi Iizuka says Sonic’s movie success is bringing more people into the games, increasing sales and giving SEGA more resources to invest in future titles, while stressing that movies and anime do not take developers away from the games.

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Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Frontiers Was His Most Difficult Sonic Development, Team Had No “Right Answer” Until Midway Through Production
Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Frontiers Was His Most Difficult Sonic Development, Team Had No “Right Answer” Until Midway Through Production

Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Frontiers Was His Most Difficult Sonic Development, Team Had No “Right Answer” Until Midway Through Production

Takashi Iizuka says Sonic Frontiers began without a clear answer for how Sonic should work in its vast open zones, with the team still searching midway through development before director Morio Kishimoto ultimately found the solution.

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Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Adventure 2 “Changed the Future of the Sonic Series,” Recalls Starting With Just 11 Developers
Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Adventure 2 “Changed the Future of the Sonic Series,” Recalls Starting With Just 11 Developers

Takashi Iizuka Says Sonic Adventure 2 “Changed the Future of the Sonic Series,” Recalls Starting With Just 11 Developers

Sonic Adventure 2 began with just 11 developers moving to America, where San Francisco street culture inspired rail grinding and helped shape City Escape into one of the series' defining stages.

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Masato Nakamura Reveals Original Sonic Soundtrack Used Melodies He Wrote Before His Debut
Masato Nakamura Reveals Original Sonic Soundtrack Used Melodies He Wrote Before His Debut

Masato Nakamura Reflects on 35 Years of Sonic Music, From Beating Mario to Revisiting Green Hill

Original Sonic composer Masato Nakamura looks back on creating the 1991 soundtrack, SEGA’s drive to beat Mario, revisiting Green Hill with DREAMS COME TRUE, and why he once considered adding lyrics to every Sonic song.

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Original Sonic Adventure 2 City Escape Design Document Reveals Early Snowboard Run, GUN Truck Chase and Stage Layouts
Original Sonic Adventure 2 City Escape Design Document Reveals Early Snowboard Run, GUN Truck Chase and Stage Layouts

Original Sonic Adventure 2 City Escape Design Document Reveals Early Snowboard Run, GUN Truck Chase and Stage Layouts

Sixteen pages from Sonic Team’s original Sonic Adventure 2 City Escape design document reveal how the stage’s snowboard opening, streets, loops, obstacles and GUN truck chase were planned during development.

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Sonic Rumble Party Season 10 Launches With Werehog, Wonderland Skins and New Stages
Sonic Rumble Party Season 10 Launches With Werehog, Wonderland Skins and New Stages

Sonic Rumble Party Season 10 Launches With Werehog, Wonderland Skins and New Stages

Sonic Rumble Party Season 10 is now live, bringing the Werehog to the Red Star Ring Shop alongside returning Wonderland content, new stages, skins, Buddies and AI Racer Cream.

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Takashi Iizuka Confirms New Sonic Game Is in Development, Promises New Kinds of Play
Takashi Iizuka Confirms New Sonic Game Is in Development, Promises New Kinds of Play

Takashi Iizuka Confirms New Sonic Game Is in Development, Promises New Kinds of Play

Takashi Iizuka has confirmed that a new Sonic game is currently in development, saying Sonic Team still sees room to push beyond the changes introduced by Sonic Frontiers.

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SONIC PICO PARK Reveals Cream, Cheese and Big, With More Characters Still to Come
SONIC PICO PARK Reveals Cream, Cheese and Big, With More Characters Still to Come

SONIC PICO PARK Reveals Cream, Cheese and Big, With More Characters Still to Come

Cream and Cheese are joining SONIC PICO PARK as playable characters, Big will lend his strength in certain stages, and producer Shintaro Shimazu says the team is still gradually revealing more of the roster.

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SEGA Shows Early Sonic Frontiers Prototype Footage With Smaller Titan and Different Open-Zone Look
SEGA Shows Early Sonic Frontiers Prototype Footage With Smaller Titan and Different Open-Zone Look

SEGA Shows Early Sonic Frontiers Prototype Footage With Smaller Titan and Different Open-Zone Look

SEGA has opened the Sonic Frontiers archives to show rare early development footage, revealing a very different island, a Titan one-third of its final size and the gameplay changes triggered when Takashi Iizuka demanded it be made three times bigger.

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Takashi Iizuka Explains How Sonic Adventure Still Shapes Modern Sonic 28 Years Later
Takashi Iizuka Explains How Sonic Adventure Still Shapes Modern Sonic 28 Years Later

Takashi Iizuka Explains How Sonic Adventure Still Shapes Modern Sonic 28 Years Later

Takashi Iizuka says Sonic Adventure’s camera and Homing Attack solved two major problems with high-speed 3D movement, while Sonic Colors changed how he worked with Sonic Team.

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OpenGGF v0.6 Expands Open-Source Sonic Engine With Major Accuracy, Audio and Sonic 3 & Knuckles Improvements
OpenGGF v0.6 Expands Open-Source Sonic Engine With Major Accuracy, Audio and Sonic 3 & Knuckles Improvements

OpenGGF v0.6 Expands Open-Source Sonic Engine With Major Accuracy, Audio and Sonic 3 & Knuckles Improvements

OpenGGF v0.6 brings a major round of accuracy, audio and performance work to the open-source Sonic engine, while pushing its Sonic 3 & Knuckles support further into the original game.

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Sonic CD and Sonic Mania Are Being Ported to Sega Saturn and 32X by Homebrew Developers
Sonic CD and Sonic Mania Are Being Ported to Sega Saturn and 32X by Homebrew Developers

Sonic CD and Sonic Mania Are Being Ported to Sega Saturn and 32X by Homebrew Developers

Three fan-made ports are bringing Sonic CD and Sonic Mania to original Sega hardware that never received them, with separate Saturn and 32X projects now in development.

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Bayonetta Joins Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as First Free Racer of Year Two
Bayonetta Joins Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as First Free Racer of Year Two

Bayonetta Joins Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as First Free Racer of Year Two

Bayonetta is coming to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds as the first free racer of Year Two, complete with the Butterfly Witch machine, while SEGA has also shown more of its upcoming Godzilla and EVANGELION DLC.

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RUMOR: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Year One Edition Appears on Amazon With November 3 Release Date

Amazon UK has listed an unannounced Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Year One Edition for PS5 with a November 3 release date, although SEGA has yet to reveal what the new version includes.

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Balenciaga and SEGA Launch Sonic Fashion Collection With Japan-Exclusive Jacket and Sonic the Fighters Arcade Cabinet
Balenciaga and SEGA Launch Sonic Fashion Collection With Japan-Exclusive Jacket and Sonic the Fighters Arcade Cabinet

Balenciaga and SEGA Launch Sonic Fashion Collection With Japan-Exclusive Jacket and Sonic the Fighters Arcade Cabinet

Balenciaga and SEGA have launched a new fashion collaboration featuring Sonic apparel, Japan-exclusive pieces and a playable Sonic the Fighters arcade cabinet in Tokyo, with a worldwide rollout following September 22.

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Morio Kishimoto Picks Secret Rings and Black Knight for a Remake, Says No Sonic Frontiers Director’s Cut Is Planned
Morio Kishimoto Picks Secret Rings and Black Knight for a Remake, Says No Sonic Frontiers Director’s Cut Is Planned

Morio Kishimoto Picks Secret Rings and Black Knight for a Remake, Says No Sonic Frontiers Director’s Cut Is Planned

Sonic series director Morio Kishimoto says there are no current plans for a Sonic Frontiers Director’s Cut, while naming Secret Rings and Black Knight as games he would like to rebuild with the experience he has today.

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