SEGAbits: SEGA is having a big sale on PSN (Tuesday June 22nd to Tuesday July 6th), XBLA (Thursday June 24th, one day only!) and iTunes (Wed June 23rd to Wed June 30th). The sale will have a ton of content up to get and some of it is great. Getting great stuff for cheap is great. check the full list of content that will be on sale..
Gaming Union writes Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most venerable characters in the video games industry, but recently many believe the quality of his games has suffered. Some have even called for Sega to discontinue the series, but many just wish things would return to how they were. Afterall, in the 16-bit era, Sonic was the king of his domain. Some believe that Sonic Team are taking a step in the right direction, including composer for the Sonic franchise, Bentley Jones
Kikizo writes: In the not-too-distant past, some pretty convincing claims were made by an alleged former member of Sonic Team staff that the once-adored Sega studio is losing its will to live. Sonic Team veteran Tetsu Katano says it's not true that staff inside the studio are becoming disillusioned, and that fresh talent keeps things bright.
DarkZero: A six-year old Norwegian kid called Christer wrote a letter to his King to help him change his name to Sonic X as he loved the cartoon so much. The cartoon is the latest travesty based on the now terrible Sonic games.
Sonic Unleashed has received a new add-on in the form of the Holoska Adventure Pack, now available for download. The 505 MB download adds 4 daytime and 2 nighttime levels and costs 250 MS points.
Retailer Amazon.com on Tues. price cut Sega Corp.'s Sonic Unleashed for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 and Nintendo Co.'s Wii to under $30 in a one-day sale. On Tue., Sonic Unleashed for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii held a sale price of $29.98.
VideoGamer.com writes: Have you ever wondered why Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim? No, neither had we - but that didn't stop us from stumbling across the answer during a brief-yet-bizarre interview with Yuji Naka.
Yuji Naka: The current Sonic games I've not really looked into and had the time to play, so I can't really comment on them that much. I know that it's in good hands with the Sonic Team at SEGA. Hmm...maybe he should play them.
The Official PlayStation Magazine(March 2009 Issue) is out, here's a list of scores from their magazine.
It's the money, stupid. And enough gamers buy crappy Sonic games for Sega not to care, according to an anonymous Sega employee. Boss Rush was an anonymous blog, currently deleted, run by someone who actually turned out to be Sonic Europe employee Ben Andac (who is no longer with the company).
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