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Sonic Heroes Vocal CD

A CD containing the theme songs of the teams from the new upcoming game, as well as bonus tracks from Sonic DX. Released 2/4/2003 (Feb 4th). Spiff.

Source: Sonic Team

THQ has shown the North American box art of Sonic Battle; this may be just tentitive artwork, however.

Sonic Battle boxart

Source: THQ

According to THQ UK, Sonic Battle will be released on the 27th February '04.

On a fairly unrelated note, it appears that Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie (the Sonic Anime) will be re-released on DVD on the 15th December '03 (According to Amazon.co.uk, Play.com et al).

Source: THQ UK (Sonic Battle), Various online retailers (Sonic the Movie)

http://www.sonicanime.net/cgi-bin/yabb//YaBB.cgi?board=sonicx;action=display;num=1071025282

Episode 39: Chaotix Detective Agency

Looks like there will probably be a Sonic Heroes adaptation in Sonic X.

On Sonic Central it lists Sonic Battle for release on Janurary 6th 2004

Source: http://www.sega.com/sonic/

Recent rumors weather SatAM have been airing in Michigan have now been clarified. I contacted FOX33 and heres what they had to say.

"Richard,
Thanks for your email. Nice to know we've been noticed all the way out in California. The Sonic we air is Sonic Underground and just started airing on this station 12/8.
Thanks for asking.
Julia
WFQX/Station Operations"

Oh well, at least its Sonic so that somewhat cool.

ELSPA, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, and ComputerAndVideogames.com, the UK’s leading multi-format video games website, today published the results of a unique poll seeking to find the most popular 30 games of the last 30 years.

The top five games voted most popular by the public are: Sonic the Hedgehog, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pac-Man, Tomb Raider and Space Invaders.

Go to that link for more infos: http://www.elspa.com/about/pr/pr.asp?mode=view&t=1&id=389&ref=home

It has been announced today via the Associated Press that Sammy will buy a 22.4% stake in Sega, although the reasons behind this decision have not been explained.

Recent talks between the two companies over a merger fell through earlier in the year, as did talks with Namco. Now, Sammy will be required to spend $419 million on purchasing the 22.4% share of Sega.

Financial commentators are already expecting Sammy to launch a takeover bid once their share reaches the required 33%.

-- Andrew Burnes

Source: IGN Cube

New Screenshots of Sonic Heroes and a new preview @ Gamespot

To my suprise today while at the local Best Buy they have a stack of soming attraction DVD's that come free with any Music, Game, or Movie purchase. This DVD has trailer for all types of games and music and movies. Among them is a high quality DVD trailer for Sonic Heroes showing off all the teams and some gameplay. I can make a DVD RIP later.

Sonic battle is now avaliable in Japan.

http://www.sonicteam.com/sonic_battle/chara_chaos1.html

Seems Chaos in getting in on the action as well, and he also seems to have the ability to melt into a puddle of water. Who knows what other Sonic characters are going to be added next?

If you have digital cable network G4: TV for Gamers then on Thursday, December 11th you can catch a special dedicated to Sonic Team and Yuji Naka.

I didn't catch the times though. Check www.g4tv.com for local listings.

I was browsing TV Guide's website, and when I searched for Sonic the Hedgehog, I was shocked to find Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) airing at 7AM (EST) this coming Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on WFQX (for Dish Network users. Not sure exactly what channel it is)! I also found Sonic Underground is starting Monday, to air every day on WB at 8:30AM (EST)! Seems weird, the shows just popping up like that...

Additional notes: WFQX is Fox 33 in Michigan. No idea (yet) if SatAM is on anywhere else. Check for the DiC Entertainment block, which is on various stations--usually a WB or UPN station--to find out when SU comes on (if it does come on) in your area.

http://media.cube.ign.com/media/552/552385/vids_1.html

IGN has posted 13 new videos of Team Sonic in several levels, including a boss battle.

Sega's New Sonic Heroes Site

Sega.com has a new Sonic Heroes site up with videos, screenshots, wallpapers, and more detailed info on each team's characters and story. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to turn the music off while still playing the videos with sound.

Most of it (besides the wallpapers) we've seen before, but the site has a new theme song and some new character info, which are summarized in the link below.

NOTE: The Team Sonic movie is now mirrored on SHQ's Sonic Heroes page, so you can hear it without the background music interfering.

http://media.cube.ign.com/media/552/552385/vids_1.html

IGN has videos featuring Team Dark, Team Rose, and Team Chaotix, WITH their theme songs. (Note: The Team Chaotix video is listed under Team Rose and has the same filename; notice that Team Rose has more than 1 video at each resolution.) Click below to see the lyrics and some highlights.

Japan:
December 30th, 2003-PS2/GCN/XBOX

America:
January 5th, 2004-GCN
January 27th, 2004-PS2/XBOX

Australia:
Febuary 6th, 2004-PS2/GCN/XBOX*

Europe:
Febuary 20th, 2004-GCN/XBOX/PS2*

*We do not know if the Nintendo three-week deal is also in effect for anywhere outside America.