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In Sonic Mania, a lot of the level obstacles are based on Sonic 3 & K's ones. I am secretly hoping that was Taxman & Stealth way of getting all the hard work done to make it easier to port the game. Not long till we find out. Although seeing as Sega failed to release this latest Mega Drive collectio...

The rumour mill suggests Sonic Mania Plus is next from Team Taxman and Stealth, so a Sonic 3 & K port seems unlikely. They are making an announcement tomorrow, so not long to find out.

https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/973936804763123712 https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018/03/14/sega-mega-drive-classics-featuring-over-50-iconic-games-hits-ps4-on-29th-may/ Sega is releasing a new Mega Drive collection for modern consoles. It will contain over 50 games with online play, mirror mode a...

http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/clas ... hog/856574

Hirokazu Yasuhara and Naoto Ohshima are doing a postmortem on the original Sonic. Hopefully it will surface online.

Aaron Webber said on the official Sega twitter that the rumours are incorrect and no such game is in development. Although since then, two Sonic toy makers have said they are making products based on a Sonic racing game, so perhaps he was just covering. I am in the minority as I didn't like the Sumo...

That's really interesting. Thanks! Out of interest, has he posted anything else of note? (Maybe I am just too old fashioned, but Twitter is a bit awkward to browse).

Crazy Penguin wrote: Interestingly, Nack was his intended name during development, but they decided to change it in Japan because it was too similar to their other new character, Knuckles ("Nakkuruzu").

Interesting! Where did that come from?

That's good detective work. Although I'd be careful about the Sonic R Special Thanks credits. In the UK Sega Saturn Magazine, it was revealed that Travellers Tales just padded them out with any old names. That's why most of the staff from Sega Saturn Magazine and C&VG are listed even though they did...

There was that time they did Sonic Colours and Sonic Generations immediately after. Apparently they split into two teams to do this (but I've never seen any evidence of that as there's a lot of shared personnel in the credits). It's strange: Subsequent games have had longer development schedules and...

Yuji Uekawa designed Cosmo for Sonic X (That's why she looks similar to Lumina Flowlight), just like Kazuyuki Hoshino did Amy for the manga. It wasn't like the American cartoons where Sonic Team had no involvement with the original characters for those shows.

It seems way too soon for another Sonic game. There's been rumours floating about an enhanced version of Sonic Mania, so hopefully it's something small like that.

From SXSW Sonic is back, and ready to take 2018 by storm. Join the official team from SEGA who are building Sonic’s future as they give you an update on last year’s strong performance of Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces, as well as the world-exclusive first look at what comes next for the fastest blue ...

From memory, which might be dodgy, I remember Naka saying he set up Prope so he could do more programming on a small team, so the Sega Bits speculation about him not doing any since the Saturn is probably wrong. As someone living in England, Naka going from top dog at Sega to opening his own company...

Yuji Naka announced on Facebook that he's joining Square Enix, following in the steps of hedgehog engine creator Yoshihisa Hashimoto. I guess that must mean Naka's company Prope is dead (The website hasn't been update since June 2017). Back at Sega, Naka had a senior role, so it's surprising that he...

So I got Forces on Xmas day. I beat story mode shortly after and have since been playing mission mode. It's a bad game, but nowhere as awful as has been made out. Other Sonic games were frustrating because they had cheap hits and were broken to play. Forces' main problem is that it's horribly bland....

Out of interest: -How did Sonic 4 place CD after Sonic 2? -What was the hook in Rush Adventure? (It's been a while since I've played either of these games, so I don't remember). I've flip flopped over the Game Gear games, but I think overall they work better as a separate continuity for the followin...

Someone from Sonic Team explained at one of those Sonic conventions that all the Manga characters were made by Sega specifically for the publication. That's why Amy later appeared in Sonic CD - she was a Sonic Team creation from the start. It's a bit like how Sonic Team designed that Sonic Shuffle f...

BlackSquirrel posted this on Sonic Retro:

https://youtu.be/-hoGyKI5J7k?t=261

It's a German video which includes a tour of Sega Japan. During the tour, several items of concept art are seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=TO-N2WHbnqU Trailer for the new game. It looks quite impressive, with Super Sonic, a new time attack mode and level editor. There's a new world hub which is a neat idea, but doesn't look that good, although I suppose the limits of the system would pr...

I'd make a separate spoiler thread, but I don't think anyone here is really going to discuss it. If you are, please use spoiler tags. If there's lots of spoiler content posted, I'll make a separate thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch ... se_switch/
^ Demo's out on Japanese Switch store.

Apparently it contains 3 levels which you can play for a whole 20 seconds. I hope that's just a marketing snafu and not because they have something to hide.

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/stat ... 9733315584

^ Sonic Forces art by Ohshima

http://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2017-10-23 ... nic-series

Shun Nakamura interview. He states that Sega were surprised by the response to a 2D Sonic game, and the future of the franchise will be impacted by the success of Mania.

Given Sega's relationship with 'fan' developers, it would be nice if they worked with Jon to make this official and had the game released on the same platforms as Mania. It would also be nice if Jon could work on the Saturn version as that had slightly better graphics, far superior special stages an...

For a while now, Jon Burton has posting prototypes of Sonic 3D on YouTube. He recently announced that he will be doing a new 'fanmade' Director's Cut of the game. The update will be distributed as a patch and will include: Control improvements Gameplay enhancements Super Sonic Save game mode Find ou...