Sonic HQ25 Years & Counting!

The mysterious Sega movie has been confirmed, and it ain't Sonic. Rather, it will be on Sega's "House of the Dead" series. Here's some facts from Dark Horizons.

House of the Dead: Mindfire Entertainment, the company behind "Free Enterprise" and "The Specials" has just inked a deal with Sega to do a feature based on its "The House of the Dead" arcade and video game. You may recall a while ago that Jesse Dylan was attached to possibly direct the project but then it had sinced fizzled with no word for almost a year on what had happened to it. Now with the very similar "Resident Evil" project finally moving out of development hell, so has this zombie computer game-turned-movie project. The film's producer Daniel Kletzky says "Unlike previous attempts to adapt video games, we intend for 'The House of the Dead' to be a very hip, cutting edge film with state-of-the-art special effects and a great, contemporary soundtrack that will satisfy fans of the game as well as all moviegoers who love supernatural thrillers". There's also a big Internet presence planned with footage from the set, streaming prequel sequence videos, and "other interactive features". Shooting is expected to begin in February with an aim to release it around Fall 2001. Thanks to 'Agent M'

Source: Dark Horizons

Japan gets all the cool stuff. ^__^

Sega of Japan’s 4X Memory Unit will be packed in with a "special edition" of Phantasy Star Online. Today we bring you news of Sonic Team including even more with the global online title. At Sega of Japan's retail conference in Tokyo today, Sonic Team's Yuji Naka revealed that Phantasy Star Online will come packed with a demo version of Sonic Adventure 2! O_O This extra will be in both the special edition and regular version of PSO, and will feature opening moments from the game as well as some movie files. Currently, Sega of America is unsure if the demo will be released stateside.

According to all the latest charts, Phantasy Star Online will be hitting the Japanese market on Dec. 21.

Samba De Amigo is now in stores! And both DC.IGN.COM and the newly brought back Gamefan.com have reviewed the game, and both have given the game a high 9.5/10 rating! check them out.

Gamefan Review

DreamcastIGN Review

Seems like the predicted draught of SA2 news hasn't actually happened. Computer & Video Games has several cool hi-res Sonic Adventure 2 shots, including some new ones. I recommend you take a peek.

Thanks a lot to Evil Blackfox on the forum for showing this...

Sega announces worldwide agreement with NexGen Software

Sega Dreamcast Game Consoles powered by NexGenIP TCP/IP suite, allows thousands of players to play together around the world

Sega Europe is pleased to announce the newly acquired license for NexGenIP, a complete embedded TCP/IP stack developed by French based company NexGen Software. This license will allow Dreamcast developers to access a Complete Networking Suite to design better online Games.

?Our objective was to offer our developers one of the most complete embedded TCP-IP stack which is perfectly tuned to exploit our optimised architecture?, said Serge Plagnol, Associate Director for Developers Technical Support at SEGA Europe. ?We worked closely with NexGen Software, to deliver arguably the best Internet based game software solution for a console available today? concluded Plagnol.

?The relationship established with SEGA gave us a deep understanding about the technical issues and we enjoyed working closely with them. While our TCP/IP stack is very carefully layered, we met the challenge to optimise some of our code in order to exploit the advanced Dreamcast architecture. The resulting port is probably the best one we have done, improving both the portability and performance? said Jean-Paul Medina, President at NexGen Software.

NexGenIP Open Embedded TCP/IP Suite is carefully designed to solve the most demanding requirements in terms of size, performances and portability. All dependencies are well isolated in the NexGenOS Interface Layer to support most of the popular Polling or Real Time Operating Systems.

Good evening friends, today, I have a PS2 Retailer Squeeze Play, One Million DCs sold in one year in Europe, and Indianpolis gets to enforce its law.

Sorry Don't E-mail me. AIM me, my name RATM182 Fitch. My e-mail does'nt work.

Hello I am AKA, some of you might remember me.. But most of you don't know me. But anyways I bet most of you are asking why is he posting on the news page and I bet this is gonna be taken down but I discovered something while cleaning my room. i found some nice Sonic Comics. And if you are willing to buy them please e-mail me at aka@gamersgateway.com. Here they are:
Issue 6, January
Issue 17, December
Issue 3, October
Issue 7, Febuary
Issue 4, November (missing cover)
Thank you! Please buy them! I need cash!

IGN Dreamcast has several brand spanking new pieces of Sonic Shuffle media, including a few (cool-as-hell) movies. Take a look.

For those who don't have a nearby Dennys or just don't want to GO there, can bid on Sonic and Knuckles here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=466783786 SONIC

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=466804163 KNUCKLES

(Can SOMEONE please erase the last article? I can't get in to edit the darn thing)

Sonic and Knuckles are at Denny's! They are 3.99 a piece, and are from SONIC UNDERGROUND. Sonic is wearing his medallion at that. They were discovered when Denny's played their TV ad.

Okay, I have YET to see this myself, because I was still asleep when my Mom and best friend found out that Denny's was advertising for Sonic and Knux plushies, and they were from Sonic Underground. I'll go more into detail as I investigate this news story.

Sonic The Hedgehog #93
Written by Karl Bollers
Art by James Fry
Inks By Andrew Pepoy.

Sonic returns to Knothole and finds himself in hot water because of the missing Sword of Acorns! Angered by the frosty reception, he hastily leaves with Tails, Rotor and Mina. Sonic blames himself and can't stop thinking about the sword. And Robotnik is also angry over the lost Sword of Acorns, terrified it will get in rebel hands and actually restore free will to those he's imprisoned. The facts don't stop Robotnik, however: he pretends to have the Sword in a nefarious plot to hoodwink the newly arrived Overlanders...

Now keep in mind - Thanks to Sega stepping in at a SERIOUS last minute, previews were changed and it was announced here that Sonic 92 is being forcibly made into the Sonic Shuffle preview. That issue was supposed to have the lead being the "The Wrath Of Khan" and a Knuckles backup. Whether that main story has been pushed out (which tied into this issue) or whether the Knuckles backup has been pushed out (which would make more sense considering the timeframe it was given to Archie by SEGA), we don't know yet. We'll try to let you know if we do. Peace out! :)