The first images of an unreleased Mega Drive Sonic spin-off called Treasure Tails have appeared online. These come directly from Craig Stitt who many may know as an artist on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic Spinball. Stitt himself pitched the game back in February 1993. The game was meant to be a forced-perspective platform/puzzle/adventure game featuring Tails as the main playable character. It supposedly never made it to a playable state and the images seen in this article come from a VHS tape that Stitt have put together in 1995.
In addition to this discovery, the first concept images of Boomer the Turtle have also appeared. This was a character Stitt designed for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as Sonic’s original sidekick before Tails was even conceived. The character was ultimately scrapped.
Also released is footage of another unreleased title that Craig Stitt pitched called Astropede. The game features a centipede protagonist that runs at high speeds through a stage that uses graphics from the then-unreleased Hidden Palace stage from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Stitt had hopes that the character could exist as a part of Sonic’s Universe. Check out the footage from SEGAbits below:
A fresh selection of updates have now gone live in the hardware and merchandise sections. See below for a full list of additions and direct links to each entry:
The first trailer for this year’s Sonic Amateur Games Expo is now available to view and in it we get previews for a number of games that will feature at the event. Check it out below:
The Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2020 also marks the 20th anniversary of the long-running Sonic fan game event. It will run for one week from September 5th 2020. If you would like your game featured than submissions are still being taken until August 21st. Click here for full details on how to submit your game.
Off the back of its box office success earlier this year, the voice of Sonic himself has confirmed the release date for the sequel to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which will now arrive on the 8th of April 2022.
The sequel was first revealed back in May, with confirmation that director Jeff Fowler is returning, with Pat Casey and Josh Miller also returning to write the script. Ben Schwartz effectively confirms his return as the voice of Sonic with this announcement. Jim Carrey has previously expressed his interest about returning as Dr. Robotnik but we have no official confirmation at this time.
The original Sonic the Hedgehog movie released back in February 2020 and is currently the 2nd highest grossing film of 2020 and the highest grossing video game adaptation of all time in North America.
A new batch of website updates have just gone live in both the Merchandise and Hardware sections. See below for the full list of additions with direct links to each entry:
A big selection of additions have now gone live in the various sub-sections of our website’s Merchandise sections. See below for the full list of additions:
A brand new Mega Drive & Mark III edition of Picross S for the Nintendo Switch has been revealed by the game’s developer Jupiter in a recent BitSummit video. This new version of the game features puzzles based on characters from various retro SEGA properties, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Alex Kidd, Phantasy Star and more.
The game will contain 4 modes: Picross, Mega Picross, Colour Picross and Clip Picross. The game is due to release worldwide this Autumn 2020 as a digital eShop title. You can watch the reveal trailer below:
A new selection of action figures, models and other miscellaneous items have been added to our Merchandise section. Click below to see the full list of additions with links to each entry:
A new selection of updates and additions have now been published in our Home Video section in the Merchandise section of the website. See below for the full list of updates:
The annual Race for Good charity livestream returns for another year as Pete “Titanscreed” Nethercote and Andrew “TheBritishAndy” Wilson tackle a variety of Sonic games over 2 days on June 19th and 20th 2020. The streaming will start each day at 8am BST/12am PDT/3am EDT.
Titanscreed and TheBritishAndy are once again raising money for Special Effect and donations can be made through their Tiltify page by clicking here. Alongside this usual donation drive, limited edition t-shirts have also been created with the profits from these also going to Special Effect. These can be purchased from Streamlabs and will only be available until July 5th 2020. In previous years the duo have raised over £800 for the charity and are aiming to go bigger this year.
Check out the Race for Good 2020 announcement trailer below and bookmark both Titanscreed and TheBritishAndy‘s Twitch pages if you’re interested in watching the lads duke it out across various Sonic titles on June 19th and 20th 2020.
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