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Sega’s Video Game Business Holds Strong Among Bleak Overall Financial Results





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Repeat sales (of games released in the previous quarters) were strong, especially outside of Japan. The performance of new free to play titles was also solid.
Sega expects the strong performance of its video game business to continue for the rest of the fiscal year, including both repeat sales and the free-to-play segment.

Article : https://twinfinite.net/2020/11/sega-financial-results-q2-2020/
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Catch Up at These Sonic Memes



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Whether you’re only familiar with the Sonic movie memes, or know of the memes from Sonic Boom, Sonic has plenty of meme material. 
Sonic is still one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, if for nothing else but Sonic memes.

Article : https://filmdaily.co/news/sonic-memes/
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GameGrin Game Giveaway - Win Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing



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We're giving one lucky follower the chance to win a Steam key for Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing!
The competition closes 4pm GMT 12th November 2020.

Article : https://www.gamegrin.com/news/gamegrin-game-giveaway-win-sonic-and-sega-all-stars-racing/

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Xbox Series X/S Launches Today
These Are 17 Sonic Games You Can Play Right Now




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The following games are all Sonic the Hedgehog (or Sonic-related) games that are currently playable on Xbox Series X or S as of Tuesday 10 November, 2020.
Microsoft and/or SEGA may add more titles to the Xbox Backwards Compatibility list in the future, and we’ll try to update this whenever that happens.

Article : https://www.sonicstadium.org/2020/11/xbox-series-x-s-launches-today-these-are-the-sonic-games-you-can-play-right-now/

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Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (3DS)
Emphasis on exploration balanced reasonably well with speedy platforming




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Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal is a mixed bag, but a far better game than Rise of Lyric.
I liked the exploration aspect, and nods to Tails Adventures, as well as the characters different abilities and the game playing more like a Sonic game than Rise of Lyric ever did.
I also liked the music and the fact that the game was much more in line with the TV series.

Article : http://segabits.com/blog/2014/12/11/review-sonic-boom-shattered-crystal-nintendo-3ds/
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Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (3DS)
A Big Improvement over Shattered Crystal




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Stages are far shorter than the sprawling 10+ minute treasure hunts that were in Shattered Crystal, this time taking anywhere from 2.5 to 6 minutes to complete depending on how much exploration you do.
While the level design is largely linear, there are diversions that lead to in-game items and circle back to the main path as well as alternate routes to the goal.

Article : http://segabits.com/blog/2016/10/06/review-sonic-boom-fire-ice-nintendo-3ds/

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Sonic Sequels, Then and Now



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There was a High Demand for the 2D Sonic Games
Interview with Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka




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In addition to the main 3D series, there was a high demand for the 2D action games such as the Sonic Advance series, so we revived the old Sonic as Classic Sonic for the 20th-anniversary title, Sonic Generations.
We initially thought that it would be a 20th Anniversary project only, however after that we had a strong demand for a new classic Sonic standalone title, that became 2017’s Sonic Mania.
We would like to take good care of these two very popular iterations of Sonic’s in the future.

Full interview : https://www.otaquest.com/interview-with-sonic-team-takashi-iizuka/

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Yakuza Producer, Daisuke Sato, wants to take on developing a Sonic the Hedgehog Game



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“It’s an IP that I haven’t come to before. In the sense that I want to try it,… well, Sonic.
After all, when you hear SEGA you think Sonic. I’d like to get involved once at least.
But for me, the so call Sonic, is well, if I were to do it, I wouldn’t do Sonic as it was.
I would like to make a completely different Sonic.” – Daisuke Sato

Source : http://segabits.com/blog/2020/11/14/yakuza-producer-daisuke-sato-wants-to-take-on-developing-a-sonic-the-hedgehog-game/

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Sega Reveals Many Never-Before-Seen Concept Arts
For The Sonic Adventure Games And Sonic Heroes




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Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel this weekend held an Extra Life charity livestream to help raise money to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network - a network of 170 non-profit children’s hospitals throughout the United States and Canada.
As part of this, there was a series of milestones throughout the stream, where viewers could unlock never-before-seen Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes concept art.

Source : https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/11/sega_reveals_never-before-seen_concept_art_for_the_sonic_adventure_games_and_sonic_heroes

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SEGA 60th Anniversary Autumn Great Thanksgiving Sale
Including Sonic Lost World (3DS) and Sonic Mania (Switch)








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SEGA Co., Ltd. is holding a "SEGA 60th Anniversary Autumn Great Thanksgiving Sale" for a limited time at a special price for some Nintendo Switch ™ / Nintendo 3DS titles on sale at the Japanese Nintendo eShop.
[Implementation period] Until 23:59 on November 23, 2020 (Monday)

Source : https://sega.jp/topics/201113_3/

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Happy 8th Anniversary Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed !!!



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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed had compelling replay value, really tight gameplay and (of course) an excellent soundtrack of remixed songs.
I had a blast playing it, and I wasn't sure how the developers at Sumo Digital could surpass the quality of this game in a future installment.
I suppose Sega felt the same way, since the Sega All-Stars series has been on hiatus ever since. 

Article : https://www.destructoid.com/stories/i-want-a-sonic-sega-all-stars-rhythm-action-game-607808.phtml

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November's "Sonic Station LIVE!" Will be Broadcast Live
from 20:00 on Wednesday, November 25th!



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Sonic Station Live! is a Japanese live broadcasting series that will provide recent news and updates related to the Sonic the Hedgehog series in 2020.
It is part of the Sonic 2020 project and was broadcasted every month.
This month's episode will be hosted by Kazuyuki Hoshino and Jun Senoue.

The last three months' "Sonic Station LIVE!" were featuring :
August 2020 : The home release of the Sonic movie
September 2020 : Sonic collaboration with Ninjala
October 2020 :  Sonic the Hedgehog Throwback Collection Vol.2.CD

Source : https://sega.jp/topics/201118_2/
Broadcast summaries : Sonic Fandom
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Happy US anniversary Sonic R !!!

 

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Sonic R skidded into shops across the US on this day in 1997!
SEGA Forever, SEGA’s nostalgic social media machine, has shared cool new art by Sonic The Comic’s Rich Elson depicting Sonic and his friends in the classic SEGA Saturn/PC game Sonic R.
Click the article link below to see the picture.

Source : http://segabits.com/blog/2020/11/18/sega-forever-commissions-new-sonic-r-art-by-sonic-the-comics-rich-elson/

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Sonic Adventure 3 :