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A portion of an ONM fan interview with Sega’s Takashi Iizuka… ONM: How long has Sonic The Hedgehog 4 been in development and how has the approach for designing a downloadable game differed from the way you design other Sonic games? TI: About a year including concept development. As this is a downloadable title, the data size [...]

More screens here Details from a Game Informer interview with Takashi Iizuka… - If your a fan of Tails and Knuckles, you should be pleased with Episode 2 - Ep. 1 is a prologue - spin dash, rolling attack, homing attack and a new move - “I wanted the user to enjoy an easy-to-play feeling by the attack sequence that [...]

Lots of news in the past day surrounding the new, upcoming Sonic game. The official Japanese site includes title screen music, but now you can grab a copy of it yourself. What do you think? Thanks to ToadT for the info!

Direct link here How many times have you watched the trailer thus far? Think you’ve picked out all there is to see? Hit up the link below and see if you’re as perceptive as you think!

Our Legendary hero returns! With the Death Egg finally destroyed, and Angel Island back in the sky, Sonic decides it’s time to take a break and heads off to explore a new territory on his own. However unbeknownst to Sonic, Eggman has also survived their last encounter, and has begun taking measures to rid himself [...]

While it's always been known that "Project Needlemouse," announced by Sega last September, was the codename for a new 2D, console Sonic the Hedgehog title -- and subsequently learned (much to our delight) that Sonic would be its only playable character -- we now know that the game will, in fact, be a direct sequel to 1994's Sonic & Knuckles on Sega Genesis. Not only that -- it'll be (wait for it) episodic. We also know that the officially titled Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 looks like a proper Sonic game -- i.e. there's hope for it yet. GameSpot, who has a first look at the blue bolt's new downloadable XBLA, PSN and WiiWare adventure, reports that "episode 1" will be available on all three platforms "this summer." Additionally, Sega confirmed to the site that the game will support online leaderboards and motion control on Wii and PS3 (SIXAXIS for the latter, sorry "Arc"). It looks great (check out the first screen), the idea sounds great -- we only hope the game turns out great. (The spiky little guy could use a break.) You can watch the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 after the break. What do you think?

While seeing the new concept art is great, the better part is having a listen to a few seconds of music from Project Needlemouse! Coming from SEGA’s blog… We highly suggest checking it out – after all, it includes the first sneak peak at a few seconds of music from Project Needlemouse! Oh, but don’t [...]

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Sega is either having a bit of fun with everyone's perception of the Sonic franchise ... or acting in line with it. The publisher posted the above image featuring a bunch of potential playable characters in the secretive downloadable Project Needlemouse, with the intention of crossing off one per day through Friday. In addition, Sega promises to cross more off in response to correct answers to Sonic trivia questions. The fact that Sega is prepared to cross off more than five characters suggests that very few of the characters will be left at the end, and many of the characters are inconsequential NPCs in other games anyway. Our guess? The publisher is playfully referring to the near-universal hatred of the extended Sonic cast, to contrast the surprise reveal that Needlemouse has only one playable character. And that character will be Froggy, the frog Big the Cat attempted to catch with a fishing pole in Sonic Adventure. Another guess can be seen after the break.