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Amigo Dances His Way To Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Available Now!







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYCxoamNZE

The free Samba de Amigo Content Drop includes the following:

- Amigo as a playable character
  Special “Amigo (Classic)” Skin featuring Amigo’s signature sombrero
- Amigo’s vehicle
  the Locomotive de Amigo
- Special emotes and sounds
  “VAMOS A CARNAVAL” 2023 Version, (Final Lap)
  “Let’s find and ...

Article: https://segabits.com/blog/2026/09/08/amigo-dances-his-way-to-sonic-racing-crossworlds-today/

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Listen to newly added Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds tunes on the Jukebox~ 🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaSD9v72DU

Check them out in-game! ✨

🎶 Burning Hearts (Burning Rangers)
🎶 Kimishine (Feel the Magic XY/XX / Project Rub)
🎶 Looting the Louvre (Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure)
🎶 Space channel 5：Getting the truth (Space channel 5)

Plus more nostalgic, fan-favorite SEGA tracks!

Articles : https://segabits.com/blog/tag/sonic-racing-crossworlds/

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Likely version 2 given most North Americans can't comprehend there being another America, likely mistaking it for "Mexico".

Damn, hopefully this wasn't the case since I want Brazil as one of the stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

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Damn, hopefully this wasn't the case since I want Brazil as one of the stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

See how it goes until then, I suppose.

While I would still like a Dreamcast Race Controller for it, not like I'd have anywhere to put it.

With Sonic Team ignoring the Dreamcast-era of Sonic games, I'm hoping Crazy Taxi: World Tour and new Jet Set Radio will bring some love back for the Dreamcast.
While I am still holding out for Retro-Bit's Dreamcast Wireless Pro Controller, I still don't think that would be enough to get some hype back. But whenever I play Sega Renaissance games, or Sonic classic games with my Sega Saturn Pro Controller, I feel like I am "honouring" those games, if that makes any sense.

That's why I am looking forward to play CT:WT and JSR with a Dreamcast Pro Controller, as well as replay SA:DX and SA2B with it. (That and ReDream.)

(Virtua Fighter Crossroads being the exception. The first Virtua Fighter game I played was on the Sega Saturn and I want to play Crossroad with my Sega Saturn Pro Controller. That and fighting games prefer six-button controllers.)

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See how it goes until then, I suppose.

While I would still like a Dreamcast Race Controller for it, not like I'd have anywhere to put it.

With Sonic Team ignoring the Dreamcast-era of Sonic games, I'm hoping Crazy Taxi: World Tour and new Jet Set Radio will bring some love back for the Dreamcast.
While I am still holding out for Retro-Bit's Dreamcast Wireless Pro Controller, I still don't think that would be enough to get some hype back. But whenever I play Sega Renaissance games, or Sonic classic games with my Sega Saturn Pro Controller, I feel like I am "honouring" those games, if that makes any sense.

That's why I am looking forward to play CT:WT and JSR with a Dreamcast Pro Controller, as well as replay SA:DX and SA2B with it. (That and ReDream.)

(Virtua Fighter Crossroads being the exception. The first Virtua Fighter game I played was on the Sega Saturn and I want to play Crossroad with my Sega Saturn Pro Controller. That and fighting games prefer six-button controllers.)

That's some a dedication you have, honouring the franchises with how they first arrived.
I won't have the same resolve, I don't even plan to buy those games on day one anymore.
I'm still bitter over how fast Shinobi: Art of Vengeance went into the sale and I bought the game day one.

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UK software sales chart for the week ending August 29, 2026

01. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2
02. Star War: Zero Company
03. EA Sports FC 26
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09. FOOTBALL MANAGER 26
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27. SONIC RACING: CROSSWORLD
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39. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
40. Super Mario Odyssey

Article : https://nintendoeverything.com/uk-software-sales-chart-for-the-week-ending-august-29-2026-metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-2-elden-ring-tarnished-edition-debut/

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The Samba de Amigo Festival is live in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!
This event runs through 9/13 7:59 PM ET. 🏁

Join team Amigo, Amiga, or Linda and battle it out for the highest combined score!

Source: https://x.com/RaceCrossWorlds/status/2098202105890877855

[Mystic Monkey]

That's some a dedication you have, honouring the franchises with how they first arrived.
I won't have the same resolve, I don't even plan to buy those games on day one anymore.
I'm still bitter over how fast Shinobi: Art of Vengeance went into the sale and I bought the game day one.

I guess even FOMO can happen to games that are pre-purchased also.

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I guess even FOMO can happen to games that are pre-purchased also.

I actually wasn't FOMO with Shinobi AOV.
I was just browsing through eshop and somehow I click pre-order button of the game and paid, I don't remember why.
Unlike Sonic, the game didn't have limited edition, we can buy Shinobi AOV any time without fear of the game being SOLD OUT.
But for all these Sonic's big box limited edition that I have ...











yes, I admit, they were FOMO, I pre-ordered them right away after I saw them in marketplace.

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What a gamescom! 💙 | SEGA at gamescom 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNNdCEy_Og4

SEGA: "From stepping into the world of Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven, to getting behind the wheel in Crazy Taxi: World Tour, battling through Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 and surviving Alien: Isolation 2, we had an incredible week in Cologne.
We also had plenty more to play, from Sonic Pico Park and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds to Metaphor: ReFantazio and Total War: WARHAMMER III - Lords of the End Times.

Take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the show floor, including the games, the booth, the cosplayers and, most importantly, the fans who came to see us.
Thanks to everyone who visited us at gamescom 2026. See you next time!"

🎮 Discover more: https://www.sega.com/

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Netflix and SEGA Announce Crazy Taxi Movie, Stranger Than Heaven Film, and a New Animated Sonic Series

The partnership includes a new animated Sonic the Hedgehog series for upper preschoolers, blending high-voltage comedy with emotional depth, produced by Sonic movie veterans. A live-action Crazy Taxi comedy movie is in the works from the Naked Gun reboot writers, promising hilariously crazy vibes. Rounding out the slate is a badass action drama film adaptation of Stranger Than Heaven, set in early 20th-century Japan about a foreigner's yakuza rise. Sega's Toru Nakahara and Netflix's Brandon Riegg highlighted the projects' appeal to fans through cute-cool characters and familiar worlds, building on past hits like Sonic Prime ...

Article : https://variety.com/2026/film/news/crazy-taxi-movie-netflix-sega-sonic-stranger-than-heaven-1236861148/

[Mystic Monkey]

I actually wasn't FOMO with Shinobi AOV.
I was just browsing through eshop and somehow I click pre-order button of the game and paid, I don't remember why.
Unlike Sonic, the game didn't have limited edition, we can buy Shinobi AOV any time without fear of the game being SOLD OUT.
But for all these Sonic's big box limited edition that I have ...











yes, I admit, they were FOMO, I pre-ordered them right away after I saw them in marketplace.

So, a bit of buyers remorse when you could've gotten it cheaper? Happens now and again.

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So, a bit of buyers remorse when you could've gotten it cheaper? Happens now and again.

Yeah. I'm usually a physical games guy so when I went windowshopping to gameshop and saw physical version of Shinobi AOV lying on the shelves, I'd be like why the hell I purchased the game digitally before. I usually only bought digitally for the price (cheap because of sale) or if the game's released digital only like SEGA Ages games on Switch.

[Mystic Monkey]

Yeah. I'm usually a physical games guy so when I went windowshopping to gameshop and saw physical version of Shinobi AOV lying on the shelves, I'd be like why the hell I purchased the game digitally before. I usually only bought digitally for the price (cheap because of sale) or if the game's released digital only like SEGA Ages games on Switch.

Did you not know Shinobi AoV will have a physical release?

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Did you not know Shinobi AoV will have a physical release?

Sadly I knew, that's why I kinda regret it. While America doesn't get standard physical version (there's only Limited Run Games version) and Europe got that strange "physical but without cartridge/CD" box ...



Japan and Asia got a standard physical version of Shinobi AoV with cartridge/CD.