Now this is just weird… SoJ has just released the television commercial for Sonic Team’s Chu Chu Rocket. Take a look at the commercial currently airing in Japan, downloadable below. A must-download for fans of quirky Japanese pop-culture, this one is a definite eye-grabber… Chu Chu Advert MPEG – 1.06 Megs (0:15) Source: Gamefan Online
In his latest cover for Gamefan, Archie Comics cover artist Patrick Spaziante lends his impressive anime stylings once again on Sonic, and newcomers Crash Bandicoot (on his motorcycle no less), and even that ever annoying little yellow-rat Pikachu. ^_^ We’ve decided to start archiving Mr. Spaziante’s Gamefan covers in our Image Downloads section. Check back […]
On the Sonic Fan Games HQ, Rlan, the webmaster, made a terrible discovery about one of the games that was up at his site- it may have had a virus. Sonic Y2K Extreme is the game, and an alert player caught it on his Virus Scan console. Rlan has re-uploaded the game, CIH free, at […]
During multiple speeches yesterday at the 9th Annual Toy and Interactive Entertainment Conference, Sega of America revealed a few interesting tidbits regarding the future of both their software line-up and their Online itinerary: Peter Moore revealed that the Dreamcast is currently slated to have over 160 titles available by the end of the year 2000, […]
The sales figures which have been mounting over the last few weeks are proof that the Dreamcast is a success in the United States. Mr. Moore, the Senior Vice President of Marketing at SOA stated recently that the public has already purchased exactly 750,862 units as of October 31. What does this mean? For Sega, […]
In the wake of the Archie Knuckles cancellation, Sonic fans all from all over have gotten together to create a petition to try and help save the book and convince Archie that cancelling it was indeed a mistake – especially after the release of Sonic Adventure, a guaranteed sales booster. Headed by True Red – […]
Knuckles: 20 Years later is probaly the most anticipated Archie Sonic comic of 2000 aside from Sonic #100 and for good reason – supposedly not only is Knuckles supposed to have a daughter “Lara-Su”, but this is considered to be the true sequel to the very first Super Special: Sonic: In Your Face – which […]
The Dreamcast has brought a lot of new experiences to the console community, one of those being a stable gaming network. Saturn and even Genesis attempted to link gamers on the internet, but our beloved 128-bit box has been the most successful incarnation yet. Some of the new additions to the on-line family from Sega […]
Once upon a time, the Fleetway comics were the best thing on the market the UK had Sonic wise as far as comics go. But it slowly became more and more depressing, sinking into an endless rut of reprints, one new story per issue, and sinking into a directional rut. Then came the corker as […]
From the “completely out of left field department”: Now available in stores is the DreamStation, a cool little Playstation -> Dreamcast joystick adaptor which enables you to use your Playstation Dual Shock controllers on the Dreamcast, all the Dreamcast force feedback vibration functions are supported. Almost too cool considering that from what I’ve heard – […]
Two new editorials have been submitted by Sonic fan Brian Sapinski! Both dealing with comics issues – one deals with the current development of Sally and just WHO she should have a relationship with and the other a question on why we can never really getany clear answers on the comics. Royalty Blues Run On […]
A new Sonic site has opened on the net – a collaboration of Zifei Wu, founder of Sonic HQ, current members Vector, Tristan (also the webmaster of The Super Sonic Zone), and Fishboy (also the webmaster of Sonic Sages), former HQer Knux Lee, and Neo Green Hill Zone founder and webmaster Green Gibbon! Also on […]
Well its time for our latest poll reviews! First of all let me take the time to thank everyone that responded to our email survey asking what the wanted to see in Sonic HQ. The number one response – LOADING TIMES. Its a hassle, an annoyance, and overall its not very nice. ^_^ Vector and […]
Last week we had LOTS of news – two new Sonic editorials, fan games, more on the Sonic toys, the Sonic 2K Download, Sonic Pocket Adventure for the NGPC, the Game Gear going belly up, Ken Penders on the comics lineup, the Sonic SatAM Petition and much much more. Click The October News Archive to […]
Two days ago, as one of our news bytes, we got a report saying that Sonikku, maintainer of the Sonic Robo Blast fan game had vanished, leaving AJ Freda to take over the project. Well it seems he hasn't quite slipped into limbo per an email that was sent to me a day ago: Hi, […]
Hi everyone! Just a note to inform you that today I took the liberty of restyling our editorials a bit. I converted our latest two editorials into html format so that in the future it would give them an overall better look and design similar to our current theme. Also included are new submission guidelines, […]
Sega of America continues to push special downloads and online events in lieu of true online gaming. The latest events include a new set of download-able game elements and online activities that will be accessible only through Sonic Adventure. The list of new interactive items includes the Sonic World rankings, where gamers from around the […]
Pocket IGN has just gotten word from Majesco that the plans to relaunch the Sega Game Gear handheld and select library of games has been pushed to sometime next year. The only reason given was that the company wants to restructure its strategy on rereleasing such a product to market. Majesco Sales still plans on […]
According to Gamefan Online, the release date for Sonic The Hedgehog Pocket has been officially confirmed for Japanese release! Two of the most highly-anticipated NGPC games have now been given Japanese release dates in the month of December. Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure will ship on the 16th (selling for around $36 US). This will be followed […]
Ken Penders' recently released A TON of information concerning the latest developments of the Sonic The Hedgehog comic after the Knuckles cancellation, along with bring up the old topic of just WHY he planned on killing Princess Sally at the end of “Endgame”: Future Knuckles Lineup – Okay, now for some good news. I wrapped up work on the […]
Hi everyone! I'm back from my week hiatus in Birmingham and ready to update! It's been a bit of a slow news week so I'll cover some smaller things that have happened recently: Sonic Internet News – Those of you wondering what was happening on the development of Sonic Robo Blast as far as fan […]
Apparently, Sonic Underground won't be on the Sci-Fi Channel for just this month. It will also be on at LEAST through November as well. In fact, Knuckles' first appearance in the show (“Friend Or Foe”) will be shown that month. Strangely enough, on the 29th of November, they show “Wedding Bell Blues” again, followed by […]
Sonique has sent this to Sonic HQ News concerning a petition to get the SatAM series back: At Sonic Stuff and Perfect Chaos and various other Sonic sites, there is a petition you can sign to get the SatAM back on the air. I know you are all thinking of how it won't work but the […]
Sonic the Fighters released in the US? Here is what Zifei had to say about this: First of all, Sonic the Fighters wasn't made the Sonic Team, it was made by AM2 (you know, the same people that made Virtua Fighter, Daytona…) for the Titan STV arcade board. As for a Saturn version, SoA is […]
